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Then, presently, after all the dangers that may be avoided in remaining at home, and supplied with such delights as clam fritters offer, she savorously remarked: "I hope I am not going to be sick." The charm of scented streets, the sedatives of shopping, the joy of lightsome fritters, these things, combined with the job, the unearned cheque and the fear of losing both, made her ghastly.
The next boy was posting up his ledger, figuring his morning's loss, as I discovered later on; and from this ungenial task he was readily diverted by the sight of a new face. "Say, Freshman," he said, "what's your name? What? Son of Big Head Dodd? What's your figure? Ten thousand? O, you're away up! What a soft-headed clam you must be to touch your books!"
"You are broiling a lobster?" he asked the P.T. blandly. "Steaming a clam," came the correction. "When he's done, I'll pound him to chowder." "Excellent. I came for a clam-bake," the tall man said. "You're early then, George," Stanton said. He didn't feel in the mood for light humor, and the appearance of Dr. Yoritomo did nothing to improve his humor.
Drop your clam down to the bottom, and it won't be half a minute before you feel something pull on it. Then you draw it up gently, steady as you know how. You mustn't jerk the crab loose. You'll get the knack of it in five minutes. It's all knack. There isn't any thing else so stupid as a crab." Ford watched carefully, and obeyed in silence the directions he had received.
I shall easily get a friend in this town, though I thought it better at one time to apply to a civilian; but I fear," he added, with a smile, "my friend Mr Clam will scarcely do." "I really dinna ken I positively don't know, as a body may say, how to proceed in this matter. In the first place, if your wife is over fond of Chatterton." "My wife, sir?"
Anything you say." Several hands made the dory ready. Into it they put three or four tubs or half casks in which was coiled hundreds of fathoms of stout line furnished with a strong hook every two or three feet. Each hook was baited with a fat salt clam, for the early catch of squid had been exhausted by the dory fishing. There was also a fresh tub of bait, buoys, and a lantern.
"My mama'll shut me up in the closet, but our mamas aren't bound to know 'bout it," this from Frances. "Come on, let's climb up." "I ain't neverpromise not to clam' no ladder but " Billy hesitated. "You-all 'bout the skeeriest folks they is," sneered Jimmy. "Mama'll whip me going and coming if she finds out 'bout it, but I ain't skeered. I dare anybody to dare me to clam' up."
They were kind enough to regard the presence of the "teacher" as indispensable to their complete enjoyment, while I was ready to congratulate myself that my society alone was the object desired, for though I brought my near-sighted vision to bear faithfully upon the sands, I never succeeded in capturing a clam.
First dere is de clam bake." "Well, I know that," sais I, "go on to the clam pie." "What is it?" said the doctor, "for I should like to know how they are prepared." "This," said I, "is the most approved mode. A cavity is dug in the earth, about eighteen inches deep, which is lined with round stones.
Noah was at Paulmouth depot as he always is of course when the clam train stops at five-thutty-five. He says he didn't see Cap'n Abe nor nobody that looked like him board that train yest'day mornin'." "Why, Betty!" Louise could only gasp. This house-that-Jack-built narrative quite took her breath away. "Besides," went on Betty; "there's more to it.
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