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What red reptiles, to be sure! and they was actually devourin' my poor old bay horse. What cannibals!" In the course of an hour the cavern had resumed its former appearance of comfort. The ruddy glare of the fire fell warmly on the rocky walls and on the curling smoke, which found egress through the hole near the roof that let in light during the day.
He's very intelligible, Master Keith is, and so is his father before him. Hain't you ever heard of folks devourin' books? Well, they do it. Of course I don't mean literaryly, but metaphysically." "Oh, land o' love, Susan Betts!" cried Mrs. McGuire, throwing up both hands and turning away scornfully. "Of course, when you get to talkin' like that, NOBODY can say anything to you!
But it's too much like feedin' on live folks and devourin' widdah's substance, to lay yourself out in the eatin' way, when a fellah's as hungry as the chap that said a turkey was too much for one 'n' not enough for two. I can't help lookin' at the old woman. Corned-beef-days she's tolerable calm. Roastin'-days she worries some, 'n' keeps a sharp eye on the chap that carves.
"Son, this pore innocent Coyote takes in Dan's fictions like so much spring water; he believes 'em utter. But the wonder is to see how he changes. He don't say nothin', but his-eyes sort o' sparks up an' his face gets as gray as his ha'r. It's now that Doc Peets comes along. "'Yere is this devourin' scoundrel now, says Texas Thompson, p'intin' to Peets.
Sheehan had gone to the door, but he paused on the threshold, and wiped his forehead again. "And I don't want to break any," he said, "but if ever the time should come when I couldn't help it" he lowered his voice to a hoarse but piercing whisper "that will be the devourin' angel's day fer Martin Pike!"
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