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The jasper mentioned was in all probability the diamond, and is described in chapter 21:11 as a stone most precious, clear as crystal; while the sardine stone was a brilliant gem of a red hue. This description naturally suggests the vestments of a great monarch in a position of authority upon his throne.
No icy precipices need be scaled, no giddy gulfs explored, and the only danger which menaces the bold hunter in the mimic stalk, is that which menaces his shins in the broken soda-water bottles and sharp-edged sardine tins with which the summit of Apharwat is strewn."
The Deux Freres slowly edged alongside the old quay in her usual berth above the sardine boats. A board was thrown across from the rail to the quay, and the priest stepped ashore alone.
All right, then, if he comes and tries to get this island, he'll be trespassing, won't he? And so we'll start the Combination Scouts of America and we'll call ourselves the the the " "The Sardine Patrol," suggested Roly. "We'll call ourselves the Crab-apple Patrol," said Pee-wee, "because apples are on land and crabs are in the water. Will you?" "I see a sail on the horizon," said Roly.
Whereupon I tied several of the tiny hooks together with a bit of lead, and, casting that out, I waited till all was black around my line, then I jerked. I snagged one of the little fish and found him to be a beautiful, silvery, flat-sided shiner of unknown species to me. Every cast I made thereafter caught one of them. And they were as good to eat as a sardine and better than a mullet.
"Oh, it's all done," said Warble, "While you were taking her plood bressure, I cut off her ear " "What with?" "Oh, I had a boning knife and the sardine scissors. It's all right. And I've fixed her hair lovely in a big curly earmuff, so it will never show at all. Be quiet for a day or so, Polly, and then you'll be all right.
He'd poise himse'f on his toes, erect the horn on his nose, same as one of these yere rhinoceroses of holy writ, an' then the way Augustus hooks an' harasses that offensive sardine box about the camp is a lesson to folks. "'Where's this yere Augustus now? asks Dan Boggs, who's got all wropped up in the Colonel's narratifs.
She knew she would have nothing from the guard-house meal, for they probably had the same ration as she one piece of meat, two potatoes, and one sardine a man. After all, food was more important than sentiment, and she followed him out of the hut. "You won't get anything from those skinflints," said the American, "so we thought you'd better come and have some chips."
A stolid orderly, wearing white gloves, brought beer and some extraordinary nasty-looking sardine sandwiches which, on sampling, I realized to be made of "war bread." While the beer was being poured out I glanced round the room, bare and very simply furnished. Terrible chromo-lithographs of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince hung on the walls above a glass filled with war trophies.
To complete our discomfiture, the same eminent authority has also shown that the pilchard and the sardine, which we thought so unlike, are one and the same fish, called by different names according as he is caught off the Cornish coast or in Breton, Portuguese, or Mediterranean waters. Such aliases are by no means uncommon among his class.
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