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Feathers, mother-of-pearl buttons, puffin bills, abalone, dentalum and other shells, silver pieces, and deer toes, are among their favorite articles of adornment. Manners and Customs.
"Perhaps that is why it is called Avalon?" his companion said; "abalone, Avalon it's not improbable, though I never heard such a derivation before; the Vale of Avalon in Pennsylvania is supposed to have been the prime factor in giving the name.
The roofs are for the most part of earthen tiles, imburnt with strong prismatic colors, and shining like the inner surfaces of abalone shells. The domes are white, green, red, and yellow, and each church has a number of gilded or striped cupolas, rising irregularly from the roofs, shaped like bunches of globular cactus, such as one sees on the hill-sides of San Diego.
Next Sunday the Tribe of Abalone Eaters will descend upon you here in Bierce's Cove, and you will be able to see the rites, the writers and writeresses, down even to the Iron Man with the basilisk eyes, vulgarly known as the King of the Sacerdotal Lizards." "Will Jim Hazard come?" Billy called, as Hall disappeared into the thicket. "He will certainly come.
Under ordinary circumstances the abalone is tough and unpalatable, but after the deft manipulation of Herbert they are tender and make a fine dish, either fried, as chowder or a la Newberg. In addition to abalone's the Hof Brau makes a specialty of little Oregon crawfish.
Come around sometime and I'll pick it out for you on the piano." "Where are you going?" asked Bob in his turn. "Los Angeles, on business." "On business? or just buying abalone shells?" "It takes a millionaire or an Iowa farmer to be a tourist," replied Baker. "What are you doing?" "Supporting an extravagant wife, I tell Mrs. Baker. You want to get down that way. The town's a marvel.
"No, sir, that gang under the banana tree are either waiting there to sandbag the next tourist and sell him some real estate before he comes to, or else they're figuring on uprooting said piffling shrub and putting up an office building. Which part of the country are you going to?" "Near White Oaks," said Bob. "No abalone shells for yours, eh?" remarked Baker cryptically. He glanced at Welton.
The stone came down with a thump on the white meat, and thereafter arose and fell in a sort of tom-tom accompaniment to the poet's song: "Oh! some folks boast of quail on toast, Because they think it's tony; But I'm content to owe my rent And live on abalone. "Oh! Mission Point's a friendly joint Where every crab's a crony, And true and kind you'll ever find The clinging abalone.
"It makes me think of an abalone shell," Colin remarked thoughtfully, "before the outside is polished; the bay looks just like the glow of the shell inside and the sand-hills resemble the rough outside of the shell, with barnacles growing on it."
More timidly the women, their eyes fixed wistfully upon the gaudy red and yellow cloth, approached the strangers, offering in their turn bits of abalone shell polished to iridescent beauty.
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