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In cockle-shells of little ships what dangers did they not encounter from shipwreck on the sunken edges of coral ledges of the new and shallow seas, how many were those who were never heard of again; how many a little exploring bark with its adventurous crew have been sunk in Australia's seas, while those poor wretches who might, in times gone by, have landed upon the inhospitable shore would certainly have been killed by the wild and savage hordes of hostile aborigines, from whom there could be no escape!
When he coughed, it was boxes When he hopped about, it was of marmalade. letters of licence and protec- When he sobbed, it was water- tions. cresses. When he stepped back, it was When he yawned, it was potfuls sea cockle-shells. of pickled peas. When he slabbered, it was com- When he sighed, it was dried mon ovens. neats' tongues.
"Them also I know," said Mary eagerly, for she was glad her father should find her so well acquainted with the field flowers; "there is nothing prettier than the big white flowers of the cockle-shells. But tell me, papa, what have the flowers to do with your coming home?"
She laid it down when we came in, and got up and received us most graciously. Her companion, who was arranging cockle-shells on his black mantle, did not stir; he seemed to say, by glancing at his wife, that we must confine our attentions to her. He seemed a man of twenty-four or twenty-five years of age.
'But why are you all rigged out like this? asked the lady, looking at our cockle-shells and sandals and things. We told her. 'And how has he hurt his feet? she asked. And we told her that. She looked very kind. 'Poor little chap, she said. 'Where do you want to go? We told her that too. We had no concealments from this lady. 'Well, she said, 'I have to go on to what is its name?
'Do men gather grapes of thorns? If these are really the things that you are seeking after, in all your mistaken search oh! how mistaken is the search! Do men look for pearls in cockle-shells, or for gold in coal-pits; and why should you look for rest of heart, mind, conscience, spirit, anywhere and in anything short of God? 'What seek ye? the only answer is, 'We seek Thee!
He no care. He is afraid of not'ing. Some day he will die, oh, so vaire queeck! I know he will." Three times they circled about the Reindeer, running under her weather quarter and shouting in chorus, before they brought anybody on deck. Sail was then made at once, and together the two cockle-shells plunged away into the vastness of the Pacific.
We did not take Martha, because bull-dogs do not like walks. Remember this if you ever have one of those valuable animals. When we were all ready, with our big hats and cockle-shells, and our staves and our tape sandals, the pilgrims looked very nice. 'Only we haven't any scrips, Dora said. 'What is a scrip? 'I think it's something to read. A roll of parchment or something.
If, for example, in a mass of marble, taken from a quarry upon the top of the Alps or Andes , there shall be found one cockle-shell, or piece of coral, it must be concluded, that this bed of stone had been originally formed at the bottom of the sea, as much as another bed which is evidently composed almost altogether of cockle-shells and coral.
Some seventy pages of drawing-paper fifty-five of which are impressed each with a single sonnet in all the luxury of type, while the rest are decked out with vignettes of nymphs in clouds and bowers, and Cupids in rose-bushes and cockle-shells. And all these coxcombries are the appendages of, as it seems to us, as little intellect as the rings and brooches of the Exquisite in a modern novel.
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