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After apologizing for our absence, which we attributed to illness, we broke the news as gently as possible that we were married. "Well," said William Henry Thomas, "so be I ... the lady's on board." "You old land-crab!" blazed Whinney. "Who married you?" "She did," he replied. "But who performed the ceremony?" asked Swank. "Me," answered William Henry.
Of bird-life there is a large representation, both native and migratory. Among them are some fifty species of "waders." In some parts of the island, the very unpleasant land-crab, about the size of a soup-plate, seems to exist in millions, although thousands is probably nearer the actual. The American soldiers made their acquaintance in large numbers at the time of the Santiago campaign.
Even a huge land-crab is furnished by nature with the means to open and feed on this most useful production. The ring-formed reef of the lagoon-island is surmounted in the greater part of its length by linear islets. On the northern or leeward side, there is an opening through which vessels can pass to the anchorage within.
In a small way, your land-crab is a most indefatigable resurrectionist. But there is retribution for their villany. They get eaten in their turn. Delicate feeding they are, doubtlessly; and there can be no matter of question, but that, at that memorable dinner a double banquet was going on, upon a most excellent principle of reciprocity.
"Think," he said; "I bring the fool two thousand miles and then not even able to begin on a land-crab. A fool!" The Nova Scotian cast an uninterested side glance at him, and said in English, which Salazar did not understand: "So you went there, after all? And now he's got you." I did not answer him. "I know all about you," he added. "It's more than I do about you," I said.
He that is fierce as a bull, and yet tender-hearted like a young child the greatest blasphemer on earth, and yet the most religious, or even the most superstitious, of men he is not to be tied down by the rules of æsthetics, like a land-crab. Only look at him standing by his gun, when broadside after broadside is pouring into the timbers of some sanguinary Yankee or blustering Frenchman.
A year later I was compelled to complain. "Charley," said I, "you are a wicked old fraud, a miserly skinflint, a miserable land-crab. Behold, your share for the year in all our partnership has been thousands of dollars. The head clerk has given me this paper. It says that during the year you have drawn just eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents." "Is there any owing me?" he asked anxiously.
He tells also about the Passenger Pigeon of America; of the Myriads which are found in various parts of the United States; of the Land-Crab and its Migrations, and of those of the Salmon and the Common Herring. "Uncle Thomas, I heard to-day of a swallow which for many years returned to the same window, and built its nest in the same corner.
"It is exactly like a fairy tale," said Ernest; "I had only to speak, and my wish was accomplished." "And here comes the magician," said I, as, after a shower of nuts, I saw a huge land-crab descending the tree quietly, and quite regardless of our presence. Jack boldly struck a blow at him, but missed, and the animal, opening its enormous claws, made up to its opponent, who fled in terror.
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