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Thank you." Uncle William nodded. "Cur'us, ain't it? there's a lot in the way you see a thing." "There certainly is," said the painter. His brush moved in swift strokes across the canvas. "There certainly is. I've been studying that water for two hours. I never thought of lobsters." He laughed happily. Uncle William joined him, chuckling gently. "That's nateral enough," he said kindly.
"No doubt about the weather today, they will certainly come, so we must fly round and be ready for them," said Amy, as the sun woke her next morning. She spoke briskly, but in her secret soul she wished she had said nothing about Tuesday, for her interest like her cake was getting a little stale. "I can't get any lobsters, so you will have to do without salad today," said Mr.
'Tyrian purple was, I know. 'Out of lobsters? said Jane dreamily. 'They're red when they're boiled, and blue when they aren't. If you mixed live and dead lobsters you'd get Tyrian purple. 'I shouldn't like to mix anything with a live lobster, said Anthea, shuddering. 'Well, there aren't any other red and blue fish, said Jane; 'you'd have to. 'I'd rather not have the purple, said Anthea.
There are storks and birds, and beetles and butterflies, and crabs and lobsters, made so cunningly of shells, that only touch convinces you they are not alive. There are bees of shell, poised on flowers of the same material poised on wire in such a way that they seem to buzz if moved only with the tip of a feather.
When Meldon and Major Kent returned, lobsterless, after half an hour's absence, they found Mr. Simpkins sitting on a stone by himself with the wet hat still on his head. Miss King was a long way off, stumbling about among the stones at the water's edge. She may, perhaps, have been trying to catch lobsters. The voyage home was most unpleasant for every one except Meldon.
It has been so pleasant for William." The wind served us all the way home, and did not fall or let the sail slacken until we were close to the shore. We had a generous freight of lobsters in the boat, and new potatoes which William had put aboard, and what Mrs.
It was a sight surprising to behold. But perhaps you may have heard of Father Florence Conry, as pleasant a man as one would wish to drink with of a hot summer's day; and he had rhymed out all about the dancing fishes so neatly that it would be a thousand pities not to give you his verses; so here they are in English: The big seals in motion, Like waves of the ocean, Or gouty feet prancing, Came heading the gay fish, Crabs, lobsters, and cray-fish, Determined on dancing.
The girls did dissect crabs and lobsters, and even rabbits, last year, but they were dead long before they ever reached the zoölogy class." "Oh," said Jessica, somewhat reassured, "I'm glad to hear that, at any rate." "That makes three subjects," said Nora. "Now we want one more. Are any of you going to be over ambitious and take five?" "Not I," responded Grace and Jessica in chorus.
It was one of the few valuable things she had brought with her from her English home, and it was used only on great occasions. When these preparations were complete, she took the lobsters from the pot, poured the beans into a pewter dish, heaped the golden johnny-cake high upon a trencher, and, sending Dan to fetch Nancy, called the men to supper.
"And now the Sandhill with the sad tidings rings, And the tubs of the taties are left to take care; Fishwomen desert their crabs, lobsters, and lings, And each to the dead-house now runs like a hare; The glassmen, some naked, some clad, heard the news, And off they ran, smoking like hot mutton pies; Whilst Castle Garth tailors, like wild kangaroos, Came tail-on-end jumping to see my Lord 'Size.
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