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Jean's shots did not reach nor frighten the beast. All the hogs now had caught a scent and went ambling toward their leader. Esther and her companion passed swiftly out of sight behind a corral. Loud and piercingly, with some awful note, rang out their screams. The hogs appeared frightened. The leader lifted his long snout, looked, and turned away. The others had halted.
It has the head of a lizard, the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of an alligator, enormous eyes, whose membrane is strengthened by a bony frame, the vertebrae of fishes, sternum and shoulder-bones like those of the lizard, and the fins of a whale. Bayle calls it the whale of the saurians. Another may have been the Cheirotherium.
This seemed to be as good an explanation as any, and was probably the way it had happened. Anyhow there was the little alligator in the pencil box inside Bunny's desk. The scaly creature had crawled in and then out, and when Bunny went up to recite the little creature had thrust its snout out beneath the partly raised lid. It was this that Sadie West had seen and thought was a mouse.
So, having closed the door and strewn some crumbs on the steps of the altar, he placed himself in front of the hole with a stick. After a long while a pink snout appeared, and then whole mouse crept out. He struck it lightly with his stick and stood stunned at the sight of the little, lifeless body. A drop of blood stained the floor.
Put me down, ye omadhaun, or I'll poke ye in the snout!" he shouted to his bearer who only boomed gently, and stared at the handmaiden, plainly for further instructions. "But, Larry dear!" Lakla was plainly distressed "it will hurt you to walk; and I don't want you to hurt, Larry darlin'!" "Holy shade of St.
Krafft put his hand to the side of his mouth. "She gave him three thousand marks." On all sides the exclamations flew. "Oh, gee-henna!" "Golly for her!" Again Krafft leaned forward with a maudlin laugh. "JAWOHL but on what condition?" "Heinz, you ferret out things like a pig's snout," said Furst with an exaggerated, tipsy disgust. "What, the old louse made conditions, did she?" "Is she jealous?"
It was all of fifteen feet from his snout to the tip of his tail. The skin was dead black on top and mottled irregularly on the belly. As we sat sharpening the points of our spears on the rock, preparatory to skinning him, Desiree stood regarding the fish with unqualified approval. She turned to us: "Well, I'd rather eat that than those other nasty things."
And, incidentally, the python which George had slain at the Blue Basin had been most scientifically skinned and the skin cured, stuffed with dry grass, stitched up, and the head joined to it again by an Indian whose services the young captain had contrived to secure; and when the Nonsuch sailed out of the Gulf of Paria on the eventful Saturday which saw the actual beginning of her great adventure, the skin measuring thirty-four feet eight and a half inches from snout to tail gracefully, if somewhat gruesomely, adorned the forward bulkhead of her state cabin.
There cannot, therefore, be the slightest doubt that this also is the pathway of a glacier which once ran into Lake Tahoe. After coming down its steep rocky bed, this glacier precipitated itself over the cliff, scooped out the lake at its foot, and then ran on until it bathed its snout in the waters of Lake Tahoe, and probably formed icebergs there.
The result was astounding. The crocodile had aimed, true to a hair you bet, he being a croc. to grab the king's son's hindlegs, and pull him under. He had not reckoned on the turn, and the turn did it. His snout struck hindlegs, which were not where they ought, by his calculations, to have been, but were four or five inches away to one side.
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