Fig. 27. Coffee.
"Is it the real coffee?"
"It is the genuine article. I have searched for it from time to time. Let us go over and see the tree. We must cultivate its acquaintance."
They responded with alacrity. They were now going to have coffee. The tree was fully twenty feet high, and the branches extended out horizontally from all sides.
"Earlier in the season these nuts, as George called them, looked like cherries."
"But where is the coffee?"
"Inside the berry. Each berry contains two seeds. You know how the coffee berry looks. Let us open one of them. See, it is smaller than the ordinary berries, as you know them, but the kind we know are cultivated, which makes them larger, and fuller in appearance. These will make fine coffee, however, and I think we shall have to divide our load with the guavas."
"Where did coffee originally come from? Is it found in many places throughout the world?"