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We won't speak of the silo. I don't expect you to let me post that; but, if you will permit me to put a three-sheet on your hog pen back there, I shall be greatly obliged." Despite the farmer's protestations, Phil wrote out the order for the box, then scribbled a few lines to Mr. Sparling, which he enclosed in an envelope borrowed from the farmer.
Alligators lay here and there along the banks; and a wild hog plowed about in the matted water-hyacinths, unconcernedly seeking food, not alarmed by the alligators or the boat or by the fierce brown Mexican buzzards the killing variety which contemplated him from the dead cypress branches above. For two hours the Cormorant drove upstream without missing a stroke of her engines.
This contemptuous tranquillity on the part of an occupant of the house, in response to the butcher's indefatigable efforts to attract notice, so piqued the man of flesh that he determined to withdraw. "So," thought he, "there sits Old Maid Pyncheon's bloody brother, while I've been giving myself all this trouble! Why, if a hog hadn't more manners, I'd stick him!
From different parts of the tree, a wide variety of useful articles is made, plates, buckets, basins, and even a kettle in which water may be boiled. The huge clusters of seeds are excellent food for animals, and I have heard it said, though without proper confirmation, that "a royal palm will keep a hog."
A great deal of money would change hands, but it was intended, by all through whose fingers those heavy sums would pass, that as little of the money as possible should find its way to the owners of the soil. A public work is like a fat hog; between the slaughterers, the salesmen, the middlemen, and the consumers, little falls to the original holder of the hog.
These goods they conveyed aboard as being "fit for our Turn." The inhabitants had removed their gold and silver while the ship came to her anchor, "so that our booty here, besides provisions, was inconsiderable." They found the fat hog "very like our English pork," thereby illustrating the futility of travel; and so sailed away again "to seek greater matters."
"Why!" exclaimed the lady, "are you bound for Carcasonne House? So am I." "In that case," said Saterlee elegantly, "we'll go the whole hog together." "Quite so," said the lady primly. "You'd ought to make Carcasonne House by midnight," said the proprietor. "Put your feet up on that there stove." "Heavens!" exclaimed the lady. "And if we don't make it by midnight?" "We will by one or two o'clock."
"I shall never give my consent, Julia; one of those midshipmen you turn your nose up at is worth a dozen Hoggs." "Now, if we only knew the price of a hog in this country," observed Easy, "we should be able to calculate our exact value, Ned." "A hog, being an unclean animal, is not " "Hush," said Jack.
The operation of injecting blood taken from one person into the veins of another. Trichina Spiralis. A minute species of parasite, or worm, which infests the flesh of the hog: may be introduced into the human system by eating pork not thoroughly cooked. Name given to two projections on the upper extremities of the femur, which give attachment to the rotator muscles of the thigh. Trypsin.
Arrived at Hog Island, and equipped with their guns and fishing rods, the gentlemen dispersed in quest of game, some threading the mazes of the wood in pursuit of the various birds that frequent the vicinity, the others seeking these points of the island where the dense foliage affords a shade to the numerous delicately flavoured fish, which, luxuriating in the still deep water, seek relief from the heat of summer.
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