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Updated: May 6, 2025
It was bright sunshine, with a perfectly cloudless sky inside, but outside the Antelope plunged into the midst of a dense and heavy fog. Tom's Devices. Rising superior to Circumstances. Roast Clams. Baked Lobster. Boiled Mussels. Boiled Shrimps. Roast Eggs. Dandelions. Ditto, with Eggs. Roast Dulse. Strawberries. Pilot-bread. Strawberry Cordial. Meanwhile another day had passed away on Ile Haute.
"This is good soup," said Gesnip. "I am glad I worked hard before the water came up. But, Payuchi, didn't you and Nopal get any clams?" "Yes," said her brother, making a face; he had dipped down where the stones were hottest and the soup thickest, and had taken a mouthful that burned him.
"When any one of you fellows can get $4,000 for a season's work you can talk; until you do, you can keep your mouths shut as tight as Long Island clams." "Who got it?" "The Honorable Parker Ridgway, R.A., P.Q., and I don't know but X.Y.Z.," roared Waller. "I'd like to know how?" asked Watson, reaching over Fred's arm for the bottle of turpentine. "That's what he did," snapped out Waller.
With no pretense of ornamental decoration, the room held an air of homely comfort. "Come in here and lay off your things," Mrs. Howe beamed on her. "If I'd 'a' known you were livin' so close, we'd have been acquainted a week ago; though I ain't got rightly settled here myself. My land, these men are such clams.
But it took a shock of such violence to make James realize that clams, guppies, worms, fleas, cats, dogs, and the great whales reproduced their kind; intellect, education and mature competence under law had nothing to do with the process whatsoever.
The settlers were dispersed in every direction: three had that very morning gone to live among the Indians; many were roaming the woods and shore in search of food; one poor fellow going to dig clams on the previous day had stuck fast in the mud by reason of weakness, and though the Indians stood upon the shore watching him with shouts of derisive laughter, not one put out a hand to help him, and he perished miserably at the flow of the tide.
All along the stretch of tide-flats passengers from the California were wading ashore. The women were being carried pickaback and screamed when their helpers stumbled. It was a comical sight, for several men already had tripped and fallen, and were a mass of mud. A number of men and boys were digging in the mud for clams.
Only five, includin' Old Hickory and Mr. Robert. And of the other three there was two that it would have been foolish to ask. Close-mouthed as sea clams after being shipped to Kansas City. The third was Oggie Kendall, a club friend of Mr. Robert's, who'd been dragged down from luncheon to make up a quorum. "Oggie might have chattered something through sheer carelessness," says Mr. Robert.
"'Well, Missus, sais I, 'dem clams do mind me ob chickens. Now, Missus, will you skuse me if I git you the receipt Miss Phillis and I ab cyphered out, how to presarve chickens? "'Yes, she said, 'I will. Let me hear it. Dat is sumthen new. "'Well, Missus, you know how you and I is robbed by our niggars like so many minks.
They dug for Little-Neck clams in the mud by the Pond, they discussed the cranberry bog and the war and the daily catch of the traps; they interrupted their sage discourse to whoop at a mackerel gull that flapped above them; they prowled along the inlet to the Outside, and like officials they viewed a passing pogie-boat.
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