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Updated: May 26, 2025
The floor of the large room, covered with fur rugs and huge buffalo- skins, was made of pounded clay, and the feet of many years had hardened it to almost stone-like solidity. Saddles, lariats, rifles, high boots, and all the trappings and harness belonging to a cowboy's outfit littered the place, and stretched out on the robes and furs, in easy, careless attitudes, lay some half-dozen men.
The crab naturally did not see why he should give up his prize for a hard stone-like seed, and would not consent to the monkey's proposition. Then the cunning monkey began to persuade the crab, saying: "How unwise you are not to think of the future!
Thus wishing to preserve the entire seed, he enclosed it in a stone-like casing, inserting joints, and using in the formation of them the power of the other or diverse as an intermediate nature, that they might have motion and flexure.
Only a pair of expert eyes would have been able to discover them, heaped together, each one huddled in a crack of the rocks, voluntarily raising his smooth skin into stone-like protuberances and ridges.
Its sudden appearance, the utter absence of any discoverable cause, the twinges of agonizing pain that shoot out from it in all directions, its stone-like hardness in the soft, elastic flesh of the body, the ruthless way in which it eats into and destroys every organ and tissue that come in its way, make this impression, not merely of personality, but of positive malevolence, almost unescapable.
She preceded him into the adjoining chamber; as he entered it after her he paused almost intimidated, despite his long medical and surgical experience, by the stone-like figure of man that lay before him.
And he did not smile or change, only his face seemed to become more stone-like. And he only looked at me, into my eyes, with the long, pale, steady, inscrutable look of a goat, I can only repeat, something stone-like. 'Why, I said, 'don't you marry? Man doesn't live alone. 'I don't marry, he said to me, in his emphatic, deliberate, cold fashion, 'because I've seen too much. Ho visto troppo.
It went in soft, brown, and muddy; it has come out hard, red, and stone-like. The first potter ruminated and wondered. He didn't fully realise, no doubt, what he had actually done; but he knew he had invented a means by which you could put a calabash upon a fire and keep it there without burning or bursting. That, after all, was at least something. In one sense, yes; but not in another.
No sooner was this task done than, as if the beavers had been notified of its coming, the real cold came. In one night the pond froze to a depth of several inches; and over the roof of the House in the Water was a casing of armour hard as stone. The frost continued for several days, till the stone-like roof was a good foot in thickness, as was the ice over the surface of the pond.
But her smile could befuddle him no more. He took off his hat, with a certain cold elegance of grace. His face still wore that chiseled appearance of stone-like hardness. "Oh!" she cried, in her irrepressible happiness of heart. "You're home! You're safe! I'm glad!" It was nothing, her cry that he was safe. She had worried only for the desert's customary perils, but this he could not know.
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