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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Oh, I know," I cried, "it's going to fish after those ridiculous little terrapins, and they're such horrid things to take off the hook." "Guess again." "Birds? An eagle?" "No; guess again, nearly right; something as lays eggs " "A turtle?" Morgan shook his head. "Not an alligator, is it?" He wrinkled up his face in a hearty laugh. "Alligator it is, sir. I found a nest yesterday."
Assisted by the Parisian, we made trial of the esculents peculiar to the country gombo soup, sweet potatoes, terrapins, and canvas-backs with much solemnity and satisfaction, agreeing, that fame had spoken truth for once, in extolling the two last-named delicacies.
Pigs' feet, after being boiled, are very nice stewed as terrapins, make the gravy with butter and water, they are nourishing food for delicate persons. Vessels for salting meat should be cleaned well after the meat is hung up, and set on boards in the cellar, if they do not smell sweet, they should be washed and soaked before meat is packed in them again.
'But light yore pipe, and set down on that rock, and you'll see in a minute why I preferred to corner the gatling market. "Well, I set down and lit up, and Jimmy done likewise, about ten feet away. "'I've come back a long ways to talk to one of you boys, and I've shore hung around this road some few hours waitin' for some of you terrapins to come along.
With pain and difficulty, lessened by self-forgetfulness, she pushed the scow and the body to the foot of the tree, and, feeling around its old roots for further support, the red-eyed terrapins arose and swam around her, disturbed in their possessions; but she feared no reptiles any more, since Death, the mighty crocodile, had eaten the babe that she had nursed but this morning.
The doctor, however, on arriving at the spot, examined his hurts and comforted him by the assurance that there was not much the matter, and that if he didn't think about it he could go on as well as the rest of us. We soon again overtook the terrapins, when the men who were armed with spears ran them in under the creatures' necks and quickly killed them.
They were, moreover, great horse-racers and cock-fighters, mighty wrestlers and jumpers, and enormous consumers of hoe-cake and bacon. They lay claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cock-tail, stone-fence, and sherry-cobbler, and to have discovered the gastronomical merits of terrapins, soft crabs, and canvas-back ducks.
All unconscious of his treason Louis took me into the pantry and triumphantly showed me three jars bearing the Augustine label and the Philadelphia express tags! On another occasion a friend of The Major's, passing The Brunswick and observing some diamond-back shells in the window said, "Major, have you any real live terrapins?" "Live!" cried The Frenchman.
He was annoyed and pained by the conduct of the boys who were in the habit of catching terrapins and putting coals of fire on their backs. "He would chide us," says Grigsby, "tell us it was wrong, and would write against it."
One does not want to eat one's terrapins off a romantic moonlight nor one's clams off a harrowing sunset.
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