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He grinned as he looked at the wicked little blue-steeled Savage. "I hope you ain't mistaken, Billy," he said, "for it 'll be the first excitement we've had in a year." None of his enthusiasm revealed itself in MacVeigh's face. "The Eskimo never fights until he's gone mad, Pelly," he said, "and you know what madmen are. I can't guess what they've got to fight over, unless they want our grub.
When the time comes for the grub to bury itself in the ground, there to undergo the transformation, it lays aside its mantle, with the object perhaps of easing itself when it descends from the top of the plant, or else with the object of taking a bath in that kindly sunlight whereof it has hitherto tasted so little under its moist coverlet.
A most unpleasant mixture seems inevitable. Picture the honey-eating grub floating on liquid provisions and fouling them at intervals with its excretions! The least movement of the hinder-part would cause the whole to amalgamate; and what a broth that would make for the delicate nursling! No, it cannot be; those dainty epicures must have some method of escaping these horrors.
Grub is our first and greatest necessity. Meanwhile, Peggy, Nell, and Eva will do what they can to make our camp comfortable: gather mussels and other shell-fish and see that the coxswain does not eat more than a fair share of victuals, and conducts himself in all respects like an obedient and trusted servant."
"You're certainly a jewel, little person," he drawled then. "How many more accomplishments have you got up your sleeve?" "Do you consider ordinary cooking an accomplishment?" she returned lightly. "I surely do," he replied, "when I remember what an awful mess I made of it on the start. I certainly did spoil a lot of good grub."
Who can conceive such a silly idea as that a prey really dead, a corpse preserved from putrefaction by an antiseptic, could contain what is perhaps the most delicate work of life, the development of the grub into the perfect insect? The truth must be driven into recalcitrant brains with great blows of the sledge-hammer. Let us once more employ this method.
"We've just had grub, but I'll see you get some. Then we'll talk," said MacNelly. "I've taken up temporary quarters here. Have a rustler job on hand. Now, when you've eaten, come right into the house." Duane was hungry, but he hurried through the ample supper that was set before him, urged on by curiosity and astonishment.
"'Delightful, says I, 'That stylish hotel grub may appeal to some; but for me, give me the husky table d'goat. "When we had succumbed to the beans I leads him out of the tarpaulin-steam under a lamp post and pulls out a daily paper with the amusement column folded out.
What should we say to a method of being suckled by the mere application of the mouth to a teatless breast? What we see here may be compared with that: without any outlet, the milk of the Chalicodoma grub passes into the stomach of the Anthrax' larva. Is it really an instance of endosmosis?
"The men won't stand for any more, and if we don't get ye landed pretty quick they may even change their minds about giving ye that much show. I'll put all yer stuff ashore with ye as well as cookin' utensils an' some old sails for tents, an' enough grub to last ye until ye can find fruit and game. "With yer guns for protection, ye ought to be able to live here easy enough until help comes.
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