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Updated: June 15, 2025
Few of them had changed, but for the worse. Most of them were penniless, hungry and threadbare, but still the victims of the hopeless vice, and whenever fortune threw in their way a dollar, it went into the insatiable maw of the race-tracks.
In one second, with appalling swiftness, she disappeared, swallowed out of space and time within that awful maw one little corpuscle among a million through which the Life, now stalking the Desert wastes, moulded itself a troop-like Body. Sand took her. There followed emptiness a hush of unutterable silence, stillness, peace. Movement and sound instantly retired whence they came.
Its enormous maw, fed night and day with the car-boys' loads, gorged itself with gravel, and spat out the gold, grinding the rocks between its jaws, glutted, as it were, with the very entrails of the earth, and growling over its endless meal, like some savage animal, some legendary dragon, some fabulous beast, symbol of inordinate and monstrous gluttony.
You seem to forget that I've spent all the time I can remember in Hedgeville." "I do forget it, all the time. And do you know why? It's because you seem to know such an awful lot about other places and things you never saw there. I suppose they made you read books." "Made me! That was one of the things Maw Hoover used to get mad at me for doing.
"Here is a tree with low branches jump for that I will help you up!" returned the youth, and in a few seconds they were in the tree, a scrub oak, with the big bear underneath, eying them angrily, and speculating upon how he could bring them down within reach of his powerful embrace and his hungry maw. "He is going to climb up," came from Nellie's lips a few seconds later. She was right.
He was always good and the fire hurt him more than it did anyone else, though it was Maw Hoover and Jake who made all my trouble. I won't stay here and let them suffer for me any longer."
And they emerged staggering under the weight of their plunder, laden like ants with food for hungry mouths the insatiable maw of the people. The push was gathered under the veranda at the corner of Cardigan Street, smoking cigarettes and discussing the weightier matters of life horses and women. They were all young from eighteen to twenty-five for the larrikin never grows old.
He tried some words of comfort: "He's safe, anyhow, Maw 'member that! That's a whole lot too. Didn't always know that, times he was rollin' round so over here. You worried a whole lot about him, you know." But Maw didn't answer. She seldom spoke at all moved about as little as possible. When she had put out food for him and Tom she always went back to her corner and stared into the fire.
But still the god of destruction was unsatisfied, and his fiery maw opened for more victims. The unhappy young husband had succeeded in tearing up his clothes and knotting the strips together. A compassionate woman had given him a shawl, which he fastened to the bushes. On this he descended into that mouth of hell.
Then the mist shut down. When it lifted, the doom of the ship was written. It was moving slowly into the deadly maw of the loch. Again the mist shut down and, when again the wind swept it out, the ship had vanished. There was the open sea and the long swells and the murderous current boiling around the sharp points of the needles; but there was no ship nor any human soul of the crew.
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