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I bore with me my bouquet, my basket of boxberries, some small cedar trees for transplanting, and half of the largest clam-shell the shores of Cape Cod had ever produced; this last a parting gift from Lovell Barlow. I was far from being troubled with the consciousness of anything quaint or bizarre in my appearance.
He stopped for a moment to pick some juicy fruit resembling limes, which grew on a tree in his path, on which Nep came back and gave another pull at his trousers, as if fearing that he was going to stop. On passing the fountain he found a large clam-shell, which had evidently been left there by some one.
From the surface of this stream thin smoky wreaths of vapor rise and are changed into crystals by the frosty air. But the waters of the spring gush forth as abundantly and musically now as they did in the hot days of last July, and the clam-shell with which you then drank is still in its place by the rock. The pure, melodious, beautiful spring makes its own environment, regardless of surroundings.
Mrs. Eaton had entered silently during the discussion, but of course had come, as every other woman had that afternoon, with views to be expressed upon the subject. "For my part," she said, as she stuck a decisive needle into the first clam-shell pattern, "I ain't so sure that all the advantage in this match is on Moses Pennel's part.
"'They are Professor Holroyd's boilers, I said, subduing a desire to beat Frisby with my telescope. 'Wait until Miss Holroyd sees this work. "'Don't she like yeller and red? he demanded, anxiously. "'You'll find out, said I. "Frisby gaped at his handiwork and then at his yellow dog. After a moment he mechanically spat on a clam-shell and requested Davy to 'sic' it.
"She sails about like a clam-shell in a puddle of Porty Reek m'lasses," remarked Cap'n Aaron Sproul, casting contemptuous eye into the swell of the dingy mainsail, and noting the crawl of the foam-wash under the counter of the Aurilla P. Dobson. But he could not infect Hiram Look with his dissatisfaction.
"Used to get a little bird, Harris and me, and roast it, and mother would give us a little apple-sauce in a clam-shell, and we would go off back the island and eat it. Harris was sent to school up to Perkins's; couldn't stay; run away, and borrowed a boat, and came home again; afraid of his father, and hid in the barn.
The very winds blew the Indian's cornfield into the meadow, and pointed out the way which he had not the skill to follow. He had no better implement with which to intrench himself in the land than a clam-shell. But the farmer is armed with plough and spade. In Literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness.
But all these would have been nothing without that delight of childhood taffy-candy; and upon a further investigation, we discovered a very ingenious pair of clam-shell scales, with holes bored for strings to pass through, and suspended from a stout stick which was kept in its place by being fastened to an upright piece of wood at each end the whole resting upon a very complete counter formed of old boxes.
Trimmer lives, or to any point where I can get a sight of the place, I'd be obliged." The two men stood in the kitchen and looked at each other. The face of Captain Eli was of the hue of a clam-shell. "Go with him, cap'n," he said in a hoarse whisper. "I can't do it." "To your house?" inquired the other. "Of course. Take him to my house. There ain't no other place where she is. Take him along."
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