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Updated: May 10, 2025
"He wanders free beside the sea Where 'er the coast is stony; He flaps his wings and madly sings The plaintive abalone. "Some stick to biz, some flirt with Liz Down on the sands of Coney; But we, by hell, stay in Carmel, And whang the abalone." He paused with his mouth open and stone upraised. There was a rattle of wheels and a voice calling from above where the sacks of mussels had been carried.
Two bunches of feathers which had been placed to the east side of the rug pointing east were deposited in two corn husks, each husk containing bits of turquoise, black archaic beads, and abalone shell; corn pollen was sprinkled on these.
Telling father one night that I should go off in the morning to fish from the rocks, I went early to bed, and was up next day by sunrise. With a hook and line and half the length of an old lasso, I was off for the rocks near Moss Beach. As it was nearly low tide, I soon had a piece of abalone on my hook, and was fishing. No seals were in sight, but I kept a sharp lookout for them as I fished.
"It would kill me if you saw any place you liked better, and if you made up your mind that you wanted to sell out and live in New York." "No fear," said Nick. "No man ever left paradise unless he was driven out by flaming swords." "Then you won't be gone long?" she asked, playing with the abalone chowder on her plate.
The little girls drew near and stood quietly by, waiting to be spoken to. Presently the leading man, who was short, dark, and handsomely dressed in a suit of sealskin ornamented with abalone shell, turned to them. "Who are these little people?" he asked, in a kind voice.
They made no plans, but fished, gathered mussels and abalones, and climbed among the rocks as the moment moved them. The abalone meat they pounded religiously to a verse of doggerel improvised by Saxon. Billy prospered. Saxon had never seen him at so keen a pitch of health.
The children watched the process with great interest, Abalone in their shells, a dainty prized then as well as now, fish, yellowtail and bonito, filled to the brim the large baskets which the men slung to their backs, carrying them by means of a strap over the forehead.
You have grown rich at Santa Catalina. What will you buy?" "Buy me a wife, perhaps," was the reply. "I will give two strings for a good wife. Do you know any worth so much?" "No," said the girl, stoutly. "I don't know any worth two whole strings of abalone. You can get a good wife for much less."
"'Tain't every married women'd tackle a strange horse that way, especially if she'd never ben on one. An' I ain't forgot that you're goin' to have a saddle animal all to yourself some day a regular Joe dandy." The Abalone Eaters, in two rigs and on a number of horses, descended in force on Bierce's Cove. There were half a score of men and almost as many women.
The eagle plumes were laid to the east and near by them white corn and white shell; the blue feathers were laid to the south with blue corn and turquoise; the hawk feathers were laid to the west with yellow corn and abalone shell; and to the north were laid the whippoorwill feathers with black beads and corn of all the several colors.
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