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He's temptin' his customers with silver-set turquoise necklaces, and abalone cuff links, and moonstone sets, and such; doin' it dainty and airy, and incidentally displayin' a job of manicurin' that's the last word in fingernail decoration. Such smooth, highbrow conversation goes with it too! "Oh, yes, Madam," I overhears him gurgle. "Quite so, I assuah you.
"Branch Mollusca," Conseil said, "class Acephala, order Testacea." "Correct, my scholarly Conseil. Now then, those Testacea capable of producing pearls include rainbow abalone, turbo snails, giant clams, and saltwater scallops briefly, all those that secrete mother-of-pearl, in other words, that blue, azure, violet, or white substance lining the insides of their valves."
You deserve that I should let you eat your fists by way of table-board; but I'm no such dirt as you. When our men left the schooner they brought off with them a good share of our provisions. I'll leave them here for you and there's plenty of turtle and abalone to be had for the catching.
Then Jim Hazard had a new verse, and one of the girls, and the Iron Man with the basilisk eyes of greenish-gray, whom Saxon recognized from Hall's description. To her it seemed he had the face of a priest. "Oh! some like ham and some like lamb And some like macaroni; But bring me in a pail of gin And a tub of abalone.
"Oh! some drink rain and some champagne Or brandy by the pony; But I will try a little rye With a dash of abalone. "Some live on hope and some on dope And some on alimony. But our tom-cat, he lives on fat And tender abalone."
Kelp's no good and iodine's useful that's all I know. Diver's goin' over and comin' this way," he added, with sudden animation. "Watch close, now, and maybe you'll see him pick up an abalone shell, and look up and make faces. It's right remarkable how long some o' them divers can stay under the water. Look sharp!" Clancy and Hill looked sharp, but they couldn't see anything of the diver.
I can eat raw fish and ask no questions; and in a bird restaurant, Sunday for luncheon, I ate raw chicken wrapped in seaweed; abalone is my middle name, and some of the shell fish we eat is probably devil fish.
Some of the boys are searching in the sea up to their waists hard work when one considers how tough the abalone is, and how tasteless. "May 14th.
It is conjectured that the abalone perhaps exhausts the air under the shell, and so causes the shell to cling more tightly to the rock than ever, through atmospheric pressure. It is very difficult to take an abalone from its rocky home, unless the creature is surprised. Timoteo, however, was acquainted with abalones, and made good use of his weapon.
A bed heavily draped with coarse curtains stands in one corner, and under a cracked glass giving forth a freckled and bilious reflection stands the deal toilet-table. A tin pan does duty for bowl, a delightful old clay carafe holds the water, and an abalone shell contains a bit of yellow laundry soap.
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