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None of them arrested my attention. They talked in shrill tones as they took off their cloaks and boas, and laughed as they bustled about probably at the fact that there were so many of them! Etienne was a boy of fifteen, tall and plump, with a sharp face, deep-set bluish eyes, and very large hands and feet for his age. Likewise he was awkward, and had a nervous, unpleasing voice.
Their bodies were like sealskin jackets on a very stout person; their heads were like sealskin muffs; their legs were like sealskin boas; and their hands and feet were like sealskin tobacco pouches. And their faces were like seals' faces, inasmuch as they, too, were covered with sealskin. "Thank you so much for telling us," said George. "Good evening.
It would be interesting to conduct experiments, on the lines of those of Professor Boas already mentioned, with the object of discovering in what degree the same capacity for amassing protective pigment declares itself in children of European parentage born in the tropics or transplanted thither during infancy.
He suggested this to the captains who uttered a grunt. "Very likely," he said. "They do creep about in that way after the monkeys. 'Tis their nature to. This is the sort of country for those gentlemen, both the dry ones and the wet ones." "I don't understand you," said Brace. "Oh, you mean the boas and the anacondas." "That's right, squire, and I daresay we shall see some tidy big ones.
The largest grow to a length of thirty feet and upwards; but boas ordinarily do not attain more than twenty feet in length. The boa scytale, or spotted boa, is of a greyish colour, marked with round spots, and scarcely inferior in size to the former. There is another species the ringed boa, or boa cenchris which, though growing to a considerable size, does not attain that of the former species.
At her feet a toy black Pomeranian lay coiled on the torn bodice of a red dress; and all the room was in disorder, with an indiscriminate litter of hats, gloves, French novels, feather boas, slippers, and fallen blouses or skirts. The lady of the roses went to the mirror over the untidy mantel piece, and looked at herself, as she answered. "No luck at roulette or trente.
The feather boas, whose ends fluttered in the wind, curled tenderly about slender throats, and on the reddish heads bobbed little round hats, smooth and shining as the tall head-gear of a German postillion. The young woman cast a wistful glance after those happy folk, and pressed more firmly the arm of her suffering husband. Other groups followed. It was not difficult to overtake this pair.
There was no need for Dick to ask himself, or his friend, what was the nature of this monstrous, indistinctly seen shape that upreared itself out of the canoe and poised its head within a foot of his face, its two eyes flashing baleful green fires into his as its long forked tongue flickered angrily in and out of its slightly opened jaws; he knew it at once for one of the enormous boas that dispute the sovereignty of the South American forest with the puma, and the black jaguar, that most rare and ferocious of all the cat tribe.
Frazer, J.G. The Golden Bough: Part I, The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings. 2 vols. Macmillan. London, 1911. First published in Anthropological Essays presented to E.B. Tylor in honour of his 75th birthday. Oct. 2, 1907. 416 pp. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1907. Sumner, W.G. Folkways. 692 pp. Ginn & Co. Boston, 1907. Boas, Franz. The Mind of Primitive Man. 294 pp. Macmillan.
And, by the way, wasn't there something about a case of stealing muffs and boas lately?" "Yes, and we got hold of that thief too, the day before yesterday," replied Mr Sharp. "I felt sure, from the way in which the theft was committed, that it must be one of our own men, and so it turned out. He had cut open a bale and taken out several muffs and boas of first-rate sable.
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