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At any rate the director of the Great Trading Company, coming up in a steamer that resembled an enormous sardine box with a flat-roofed shed erected on it, found the station in good order, and Makola as usual quietly diligent. The director had the cross put up over the first agent's grave, and appointed Kayerts to the post. Carlier was told off as second in charge.
"Well, Paz, I am glad you can help me out of my difficulty," said Knops. "I really am puzzled what to do for Prince Leo's hunger. My breakfast is a wren's egg; for dinner, a sardine with a slice of mushroom is enough for four of us; for supper, a pickled mouse tongue. How long could you live on such fare, Leo?" "Not long, I fear." "So I supposed.
This is November, and the Rampagious the ship described on your paper left for Portsmouth in August. In July " I broke off hurriedly, lest I should tell my visitor too much. "It has taken our friend who put the paper in the sardine tin three months to find out details of her. I could have done better than that, Dawson." "That is just what the Admiral said, though he wouldn't explain why."
It was a kind of sardine or Boston Elevated effect, and by the time we reached Rouen, twenty-four hours later, we had kinks in our legs and corns on our elbows. Also we were hungry, having had nothing but bully beef and biscuits. We made "char", which is trench slang for tea, in the station, and after two hours moved up the line again, this time in real coaches.
'Next Time Ask the Barkeep Why He Doesn't Drink, and, 'Mighty Elephants Like Rum and Are Chained Slaves." "You'll find more moralizing on booze if you look farther. It's one of the subjects they talk most about." "'The Sardine is Dead: Therefore More Comfortable Than You, Mr. Straphanger," read Marrineal. "Go up in the rush-hour L any day and you'll hear that editorial with trimmings."
He lounged away and began applying his intellect to the dissection of a sardine. Julian turned round in his chair and again faced Valentine. But he did not go on eating the cutlet in aspic that lay upon his plate. He sat looking at Valentine, and at last said: "How horribly sudden!" "Yes," Valentine answered sympathetically. "He must have had a weak heart." "I dare say. I suppose so.
"You give Father one straight look between the eyes," suggested the sardine, now at his back, "sort of as if he was a lion, and I'd bet my bottom dollar, if I had one, he dasn't hand you the frosty mitt." "Who's Father?" the lion tamer threw over his shoulder Win had longed to ask the same question, but had not liked to betray herself as an amateur. "Oh, I forgot this was your first party!
About ten million eels are sold annually in Billingsgate market, but vastly greater numbers of the young fry, when but three or four inches long, are taken. Between 1861 and 1865 France imported from Norway, for use as bait in the Sardine fishery, cod-roes to the value of three million francs. Cutts, Report on Commerce in the Products of the Sea, 1872, p. 82.
"In the stomach," Tish replied tartly, and taking her revolver went back to the tent. All the next day Tish was quiet. She rode ahead, hardly noticing the scenery, with her head dropped on her chest. At luncheon she took a sardine sandwich and withdrew to a tree, underneath which she sat, a lonely and brooding figure.
In this bold exploration a courageous sardine sandwich played an important part and out of sheer gratitude Pee-wee, from that time forward, was ever partial to sardine sandwiches, regarding them with tender and grateful affection. He was standing near the apple tree holding the traffic sign like a pilgrim's banner beside him and, as has been told, eating a banana with the other hand.
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