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As his hand closed over hers in good-by I saw, what he could not, that she had half a notion to kiss it. I told her so when he was gone, and kissed hers for him. "I don't care," she said, dreamily, as it lingered in mine, "I'm glad I mended his coat for him that time." The Taxidermist One day a hummingbird got caught in a cobweb in our greenhouse.
Turan thought that he noted an appreciable start of surprise on the part of the taxidermist, but if the old man noticed anything his next words did not reveal it. "Come with I-Gos," he said to Turan, "I have materials in the next room that I would have you fetch hither. Remain here, woman, we shall be gone but a moment."
After eight hours of killing work, wet to the skin and almost frozen, we crossed the first dangerous swamp and reached the summit of the mountain. Then the cart, with our most valuable possessions, plunged off the road on a sharp descent and crashed into the forest below. Chen and I escaped death by a miracle and the other Chinese taxidermist, who was safe and sound, promptly had hysterics.
Here crawled an alligator on a slab of granitic rock; an alligator that is to say, the despair of the taxidermist for you can make nothing out of an alligator; alive and not in motion he looks stuffed, stuffed, he looks just the same.
The structure of man and the lower animals, down to the number of their ribs, seemed no proper topic for light talk at an evening party. It made Aunt Euphemia gasp. Anatomy was Lou's hobby. She was an excellent and practical taxidermist, thanks to her father. And she had learned to name the bones of the human frame along with her multiplication table.
Our little boy saw the embodied joy fall, a joy no longer, seized it, and clasping it too tightly, brought it to me dead. He cried so over the loss that I promised to have the body stuffed. This is how I came to know Manouvrier, the Taxidermist in St. Peter Street. I passed his place twice before I found it. The front shop was very small, dingily clean and scornfully unmercantile.
Chances are he's a pretty fine amateur taxidermist those birds have all been secured by himself and mounted in the bargain that when he drops out of sight around Miami it's to come over here to do some hunting in the swamps and the Everglades, eager to run across some rare bird that he needs to make his collection complete."
Keith's face was serious and Blake's perfectly grave. "I don't know that I argued the matter out. To tell the truth, I undertook the thing on impulse." "So it seems. You considered it necessary to make friends with the French-Canadian taxidermist?" "Not necessary, perhaps." Blake appeared to reflect.
In the hall, the widow, knowing naught of this, met me with wet eyes crying, "Ah! ah! de 'ouse of de orphelin' is juz blaze' up h-all over h-at once!" and hushed in amazement as the procession entered the gate. P.T.B. Manouvrier, Taxidermist! When the fire was out the owner of that sign went back to his shop and to his work, and his wife sat by him sewing as before.
The California Academy of Sciences has in its museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, a collection of very fine animal habitat groups, among which are deer, antelope, mountain sheep, cougars, and brown bear. While an elk group was being installed, it happened that the taxidermist, Mr. Paul Fair, said to me that the next and final setting would be one of grizzly bears.
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