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Updated: June 5, 2025
We waited, for five minutes it seemed, hearing each other breathe, watching for the door to close; then Dave got out, very gingerly, and up on one end, and went to the door like a cat on wet bricks. 'You shot the bolt OUTSIDE the catch, I said, as he caught hold of the door like one grabs a craw-fish. 'I'll swear I didn't, said Dave.
The first thing she drew from the basket was an immense bunch of radishes; this was followed by a couple of dozens or more of oranges and lemons; then came a great earthen pan filled with slices of fried ling, half a Dutch cheese, a bottle of excellent olives, a plate of shrimps, and a large dish of craw-fish, with their appropriate sauce of capers, drowned in pepper-vinegar: three loaves of the whitest bread from Gandul completed the collation.
Graham intends to give those whom it concerns a piece of his mind when he is well. Wednesday, May 20. Graham was able to take service, but did not stay for school. He came for me after school, and we walked down to the shore and watched Mrs. Repetto catching craw-fish. She got her skirt and feet very wet in the process. I was amused the other night by Mr.
Upon the next table are the sea craw-fish and sea locusts; and upon the succeeding table the visitor will remark the destructive scorpion-lobster of India, the excavations of which seriously damage the roads of that part of the world; Shrimps in all their varieties; the delicate alima, with its pale thin shell; and the long king crab.
"What! he? he shift a trencher he hand a cup? No, you forget whom you speak of. Such an order were enough to make him fall on his own sword he is already on the borders of despair, because no craw-fish are to be had." "Alack-a day!" replied Ganlesse. "Heaven forbid I should add to such a calamity! To stable, then, and see we how our steeds eat their provender, while ours is getting ready."
Pinocchio, mortified at being mistaken for a craw-fish, said in an angry voice: "A craw-fish indeed! Do you take me for a craw-fish? what treatment! Let me tell you that I am a puppet." "A puppet?" replied the fisherman. "To tell the truth, a puppet is quite a new fish for me. All the better! I shall eat you with greater pleasure." "Eat me! but will you understand that I am not a fish?
One of the baits used by the fisherman is an animal called an Old Soldier, his size and form are somewhat like the craw-fish, with this difference, that his tail is covered with a tough membrane instead of a shell; and to obviate this defect, he seeks out the uninhabited shell of some dead fish, that is large enough to receive his tail, and carries it about with him as part of his clothing or armour.
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