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The former, at Selden's approach, paused in the careful selection of a cigar from one of the silver boxes invitingly set out near the door. "Hallo, Selden, going too? You're an Epicurean like myself, I see: you don't want to see all those goddesses gobbling terrapin. Gad, what a show of good-looking women; but not one of 'em could touch that little cousin of mine.
Bring in the jug, you imp of darkness touch us the Monongahela, and a fresh tumbler for Mr. Forrester and, look you, one too for Col. Blundell, seeing he's demolished the other. Quick, you terrapin!" Cuffee recovered himself in an instant.
Rittenhouse Smith, who never spoke inconsiderately in matters of this grave nature, had agreed with her that barring, of course, some Providentially interposed calamity such as scorching the ducks or getting too much salt in the terrapin even Mr. Hutchinson Port would be unable to find a flaw in it.
The third service was made up of a loin of fresh pork, with apple-sauce, a kid smothered with onions, and a terrapin baked in the shell; and last of all, a prodigious sea-pie was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.
When she seed me, she gave a scream, popt her head onder the clothes, like a terrapin, and vanished well I vanished too. "'Ain't this too bad? sais I; 'I wish I could open a man's door, I'd lick him out of spite; I hope I may be shot if I don't, and I doubled up my fist, for I didn't like it a spec, and opened another door it was the housekeeper's.
Ten days later he invited us again, and this time Sam Ward himself could have found no fault with the terrapin. Next afternoon, when I knew The Major was asleep, I slipped back into the kitchen and said to Louis Garnier, the chef: "Is there any of that terrapin left over from last night?"
"But I'd rather be doing something!" protested Colin. "Perhaps," was the firm reply; "but not necessarily at Beaufort. Aside from the hatching of diamond-back terrapin, there's nothing going on there in which you could be of any service. Besides, you'll get 'stale' unless you have a vacation. 'All work and no play, you know."
Turtles will rise at any noise, and usually the fisherman only claps his hands, though each hunter has his own way of attracting the terrapin. One hunter whom I saw when I made the drawing uttered a queer guttural noise that seemed to rise from his boots. Whatever the noise, all turtles within hearing whether terrapin or "snapper" will put their heads above water.
Certain marine turtles have long-fringed appendages on the head and neck, which, waving about, serve a similar purpose. The edible terrapin has, in many places, become very rare; so that thousands of them are kept and bred in enclosed areas, or "crawls," as they are called. This species is noted for its curious disposition, and it is often captured by being attracted by some unusual sound.
By and by, in the neighborhood of the Terrapin Tower, I came upon a gentle daughter of the aborigines in fringed and beaded buckskin moccasins and leggins, seated on a bench with her pretty wares about her. She had just carved out a wooden chief that had a strong family resemblance to a clothes-pin, and was now boring a hole through his abdomen to put his bow through.
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