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Had he not departed promptly, there would have been fried seal steak and roast seal heart for supper. A lumbering bear, that had evidently never seen a human being before, was not so fortunate. His pelt was added to the trophies of the expedition, and his meat was ground into rather tough hamburger. Finally the mechanics announced that the submarine was again in perfect condition.
The acrobatic beast, whether a man hits it or not inevitably bears down the hunter by his sheer weight, and as a man's bones are more brittle than a beast's, and he has no tough pelt to cover him withal, he will be infallibly crushed to pulp, while the bear takes the whole thing as a mere joke and ambles on further. But the whole affair did not last half as long as I take to tell it.
'You would not say so, if you had seen what I have, said Lanty, shuddering. 'The dogs! they cut off Madame's poor white fingers to get at her rings, and not with knives either, lest her blessed flesh should defile them, they said, and her poor face was an angel's all the time. Nay, nor that was not the worst. The villainous boys, what must they do but pelt the poor swollen bodies with stones!
And they began to tell one another that something would have to be done to put an end to Major Monkey's stone-throwing. But nobody could suggest any way to cure Major Monkey of his unpleasant habit. And at last Mr. Crow went to Aunt Polly Woodchuck and asked her if she couldn't give the Major an herb of some sort to eat, which would make him stop wanting to pelt every head he saw.
"Why, what happened?" asked Lady Winsleigh, smiling graciously upon him. "Anything extraordinary?" "Well, I don't know what you'd call extraordinary;" and Sir Francis Lennox yawned and examined the handle of his cane attentively. "I suppose if Helen of Troy came driving full pelt down the Row all of a sudden, there'd be some slight sensation!" "Dear me!" said Clara Winsleigh pettishly.
The pelt was worthless and was not taken. It was nearly noon when the kill was made, and Don Pierre insisted that we return to the ranch.
He's so poetic and all that, we're planning to go to the station to see him off and pelt him with flowers; and Dr. Patterson is going to fashion a white cat out of white carnations, with deep red ones for the black stripes, for the children to present." "Hurrah!" exclaimed Mary blithely, and went for the jelly.
I had thought first of driving up and down the Corso in a carriage, but did not care to be wholly smothered with confetti, especially as I had not the strength to pelt back. Nor could I afford to have the horses and carriage decorated. So I had a good seat in a first-floor balcony engaged for me, first row. At 3 o'clock I got up, dressed, and was carried down.
So good a housekeeper as Antonia will beat my pelt full often, and so be obliged to think on me." Afloat in his large personality as she always was in his presence, she yet tried to resist him. "The relic that you joke about, Mynheer Van Corlaer, I have done worse with; I have lost it." "Bronck's hand?" "Yes. It hath been stolen." "Why, I commend the taste of the thief!"
Sile Crane, trying hard to bring Stone home, made four fouls in succession, and then struck out. "Two men, cap," grinned Copley. "Old Stoney will expire at the second station. Here's the cowboy; take his pelt, hide, horns and hoofs."
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