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So gentle are they in their operations, that sleepers frequently do not feel the puncture, which they make, it is supposed, with the sharp hooked nail of their thumb; and the unconscious victim knows nothing of the enemy who has been draining his blood until he awakens, faint and exhausted, in the morning.
Palus never slashed an adversary's thigh; in killing by a thigh wound he always delivered a lunge which left a small puncture, but invariably also left the femoral artery completely severed, so that the life-blood gushed out in a jet astonishingly violent, the victim collapsing and dying very quickly. Such a parade requires altogether transcendant powers of accuracy from eye and hand.
Neither bird nor animal showed any wound except a slightly discolored spot surrounding a skin puncture no larger than if made by a woman's hatpin the marks left by poisoned darts from the ten-foot blowguns. When the meat was cooked they offered portions to the whites, of whom Tim alone refused. "I'd as quick eat a rat killed with Paris green," he growled.
Tournefort seems inclined to this opinion; who says, that the figs in Provence and at Paris ripen sooner, if their buds be pricked with a straw dipped in olive-oil. Plumbs and pears punctured by some insects ripen sooner, and the part round the puncture is sweeter.
It has been my curse in life that I have dabbled at so many things that I can be made of smattering use in almost any circumstance. Our chauffeur discovered this three and one-half minutes after the occurrence of our first blow-out, when Aunt Sarah, taking pity upon his sweating and dust-grimed brow, told me off to help him patch the puncture.
"He says we steal children, to puncture their eyes for magic medicine!" Then, heaving his wide shoulders, "Oh, well!" he said wearily, "thanks, anyhow. Come see us, when we're not so busy? Good! Look out these fellows don't fly at you." Tired and befouled, Rudolph passed through into the torrid glare. The leper cut short his snarling oration.
Then it was that they got their first puncture; a worn tire cut through by a sharp fragment of rock so that they heard the air gush out windily. Terry jammed on her brakes. Steve jumped out and made hasty examination. "Looks like a man had gone after it with a hand-ax," he announced cheerfully. "Good thing you've got a spare." Terry flung down from her seat impatiently.
The recent discovery of M. Bataillon is this, viz. that you can make the frog's egg develop in a perfectly regular way and become a tadpole and then a young frog without the admission to it of a sperm-filament or of any substance derived from the male frog. The slight artificial puncture acts as does the natural puncture by the swimming sperm-filament, and is sufficient!
When the Lamb spoke, in a languid voice heavy with politeness, they heard well enough. "A puncture?" he was saying. "Can I not be of any assistance? If you could allow me ?" "You're very kind," said the lady, looking at the Lamb. She looked rather shy, but, as the boys put it, there didn't seem to be any nonsense about her.
Just lay our delay to a puncture or something of that sort. We won't be molested. The paper from the General is as good as a regiment of men. You had better believe that no one would dare hurt us, or even detain us while I have that to show them." "Well, be careful just the same," begged Evelyn. "I surely will," promised Warren. Everything went as smoothly as Warren had anticipated.
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