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He has left the moose and the deer to the Indian hunter, and he has given the horse and the ox to a Pale-face. Each tribe hath its hunting-grounds, and its game. The Narragansetts know the taste of a clam, while the Mohawks eat the berries of the mountains.
Startin' on one o' them long legs o' his'n now," and the captain's eye rested on the sloop beating up Fisher's Island way. "And, Billy, 'fore ye go ashore, jump into the yawl and take a look at that snatch block on the spar buoy, that clam digger may want it 'fore night." This spar buoy lay a few hundred yards off the Whale's Snout.
This I burned in a clam shell till it was of a consistence like salve, which I applied to my feet and ankles and, by the divine blessing, within a week I could go about upon my heels with my staff; and through God's goodness we had provisions enough, so that we did not remove under ten or fifteen days.
He was satisfied that he was cooking it in the right fashion. Neptune lay down with his paws out, watching the process. Lord Reginald was too hungry to wait, and taking it off the spit he put it into a clam shell to serve as a dish, and began eagerly eating it.
"Give me sea-room here, give me sea-room," said the hero; "and jest wait till I git my spavins warmed up a little!" A wide, clear swath was cut from the billows that surrounded Captain Pharo. "Now then," said he, pulling his pipe from his pocket, and drawing a match in the usual informal way; "Poo! poo! hohum! strike up somethin' lively over there, Gurd. Give us 'The Wracker's Darter, by clam!"
"Sir Duncan Campbell," said Dalgetty, "I am doubtless at your discretionary disposal in this matter; not the less, I pray you to remember the blot which will fall upon your own escutcheon, if you do in any way suffer me, being a commissionate flag of truce, to be circumvented in this matter, whether CLAM, VI, VEL PRECARIO; I do not say by your assent to any wrong done to me, but even through absence of any due care on your part to prevent the same."
I didn't want to hear her make disparaging remarks about him, and she is such a flirt, she'd try to draw him out and he would shut up like a clam." "Well, I think," decided Silvia, "that the best way out of it is to write Rob to postpone his visit and I will write Beth to come direct to Hope Haven." "Yes," I agreed, "that will be fine.
What about Mr. Blackburn?" Graham interfered. "After all," he said thoughtfully. "I'm a lawyer, and it isn't fair, Robinson. It's only decent to tell him that anything he says may be used against him." "Keep your mouth shut," Robinson shouted. But Paredes smiled at Graham. "It's very good of you, but I agree with the district attorney. There's no point in being a clam now."
"At first he didn't want to be sociable. I asked him a civil question about a public matter, and he shut up like a clam. Now can you tell me, as man to man, why the deuce that hunk of beef is put to soak in that puddle, up at the head of the island?" Peter chuckled in the contemptuous manner of a practical man, without sympathy for speculative genius. "That's one of his chemical experiments.
When I ponder, he says, 'and remember how many times I've got up from the table and gone away leaving bones and potato peels and clam shells and lobster claws on the plate when I think, he says, 'of them old care-free, prodigal days, I could bust right out crying. "'Sh-h! I says, 'food has gone out of fashion the best people ain't eating any more. Put your mind on something else, I says.
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