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Then he reflected that this gigantic jewel was only in outline, that it would not really be complete until it had been incrusted with rare stones. From a Japanese collection he chose a design representing a cluster of flowers emanating spindle-like, from a slender stalk.
Our little Julia rewarded our action of the night previous by taking us out by Mt Desert Rock at a rattling pace Monday morning, bowing very sharply and very often to the spindle-like tower on the rock, as she met the Bay of Fundy chop, and at the same time administered a very effective emetic to all but five or six of the Bowdoin boys aboard.
Its spindle-like body formed a fleshy mass that might weigh 4,000 to 5,000 lb.; the, varying colour changing with great rapidity, according to the irritation of the animal, passed successively from livid grey to reddish brown. What irritated this mollusc? No doubt the presence of the Nautilus, more formidable than itself, and on which its suckers or its jaws had no hold.
The King of the Cannibal Islands was draped in a buffalo robe, with a gilt paper crown adorning his head, and a very suggestive mutton-bone in his hand. Poor little Herman Amdursky was selected for the Living Skeleton, because of the spindle-like character of his nethermost limbs.
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