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"Fire?" she gasped. "A light behind his eyes? M'frien', are you tryin' to string me?" "What's his name?" "I dunno." "Ma'am," said Daniels, rising hastily. "Here's a dollar if you'll take me to him." "You don't need no guide," she replied. "Listen to that, will you?" And as he hearkened obediently Buck Daniels heard a strain of whistling, needle-sharp with distance. "That's him," nodded the woman.
There were tearing forceps of sixteen needle-sharp curved teeth; there were flexible spatulas; there were deep and shallow ladles with flexible edges; there were many other peculiarly curved instruments at whose uses the Terrestrials could no even guess; all having delicately fashioned handles to fit the long, slender fingers of the Nevians.
I wish to make your acquaintance," Thus commanded, the laughing but rebellious Diana allowed herself to be led to a corner of the over-illuminated drawing-room. "Well!" said Lady Niton, observing her "so you have come to settle in these parts?" Diana assented. "What made you choose Brookshire?" The question was enforced by a pair of needle-sharp eyes.
In place of the finely chipped and wickedly barbed flint points used for heavier game, these were tipped with needle-sharp, light bone heads. He had a string of four birds looped together by their feet within almost as many minutes. For the flocks rose in their first alarm only to settle again to feast.
Monsters of fury they were, stabbing and rending with needle-sharp claws and hooked beaks that clattered; tearing at eye and throat and flank until the poor fawn succumbed to the terrific attack. Then they fretted and quarrelled among themselves, grunting and bowing, and striking at one another with arched wings as they hopped around their victim.
Within a single second, he had graduated from a little friend of all the world, into a vigilant watchdog. With a snarl, he dropped the bag and whizzed forward at his assailant. Needle-sharp milk-teeth bared, head low, ruff abristle, friendly soft eyes as ferocious as a wolf's, he charged.
The boys pulled on their jungle boots. Knee-length and paper-thin, they were nonetheless unpenetrable even if the boys should step on one of the needle-sharp ground thorns. They waved a last good-by to their host, standing on the steps of the big house, and moved across the clearing to the edge of the jungle wall.
"No beaten trail," Barnes said reminiscently, "means where stunted willows emphasize by their starved and shivering appearance the nearness of the timber; where the snow-drifts, each with its little feather of drifting snow sheering from its crest, are heaped high; where the snow underfoot is unbroken; where under snow-filled skies a wind studded with needle-sharp ice crystals blows a perfect gale; where the lonely and frozen desolation is peopled only by the haunting shape of fear that next morning a wan and feeble sun may find you staggering still blindly on, hopelessly lost, or fallen beside a drift where the winter's snows must melt before your fate is known."
All that he first saw clearly, however, was a pair of eyes staring at him from behind the counter. They were not violet eyes. The girl who owned those twinkling, needle-sharp eyes was nothing like that girl he had been thinking of so much since his previous visit to Boston.
The lonely orphan became one of the family, following the doe as if she had been his own mother. Late one afternoon as the three were drinking from a clear forest stream, they were joined by a lordly buck, his antlers bristling like a thicket, each point needle-sharp. At once he took command of the little herd, showing them the best feeding grounds and protecting them from danger.
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