Water Maple

I _must_ go, I must see him, and in five minutes I was pushing my boat from its cove under the water-maple. ❋ Various (N/A)

And then, before he had time to answer, I fled in an agony of bashfulness to my refuge under the water-maple behind the house. ❋ Various (N/A)

They all left the train together at the little blue-painted Frankfort station, Trantham turning off at the first crossroads to go where the round dome of the old capitol showed above the water-maple trees, and Dugmore clanking straight ahead, with a string of negroes and boys and the sheriff following along behind him. ❋ Unknown (1910)

But here in the Water Gap it was not without some of its accustomed brightness of tints -- the sugar-maple with its golden leaves, and the water-maple with its foliage of scarlet, contrasted with the intense green of the hemlock-fir, the pine, the rosebay-laurel, and the mountain-laurel, which here grow in the same thicket, while the ground below was carpeted with humbler evergreens, the aromatic wintergreen, and the trailing arbutus. ❋ William Cullen Bryant (1836)

"Little girls must learn to be useful," was the phrase that greeted my unwilling ears fifty times a day, which pursued me through my daily round of dish-washings, floor-sweepings, bed-making and potato-peeling, to overtake me at last in the very moment when I hoped to reap the reward of my diligence in a free afternoon by the river-side in the crotch of the water-maple that hung over the stream, clutching me and fastening me down to the hated square of patchwork, which bore, in the spots of red that defaced its white purity in following the line of my stitches, the marks of the wounds that my awkward hands inflicted on themselves with their tiny weapon. ❋ Various (N/A)

Man, the maple water is [really] [going] [this morning]! ❋ Wapus270 (2014)