he and Narcissa paddled and splashed with tucked-up garments and muddy bottoms, after the crudest of whittled boats, or made loblollies by treading and treading in one spot with the intense oblivion of alchemists.
{i} mud puddle, mudhole; brute, savage person; evergreen tree native to the southern United States that has very long and thin needles; type of thick gruel
An elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, ''Gordonia lasianthus, growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning
A pine (Pinus taeda) of the southeast United States, having needles in fascicles of three, oblong cones, and strong wood used as lumber and for paper pulp