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Friendly to all, he reserved his love for Steward alone, though he was not above many an undignified romp with the fox-terriers. "The most playful-minded dog, without being silly, I ever saw," was Dag Daughtry's verdict to the Shortlands planter, to whom he had just sold one of his turtle-shell combs. "You see, some dogs never get over the play-idea, an' they're never good for anything else.
The musician proverbially both plays upon and is a lyre. This instrument, as is well known, was first made out of a vacant turtle-shell, by Mercury, the god of gymnastic exercises and of theft, that is to say, of technic, and of plagiarism. Mercury was nimble with his affections also; among his progeny was the great god Pan, who is frequently reported, and commonly believed, to be dead.
"Yes, yes that is to bring you luck ver' much luck!" She snatched it off and hung it around my neck, pushing the turtle-shell down under my collar out of sight. "That is love-token!" she whispered. "Now she love you immediate'! Now you 'ave ver' much luck!" The last part of her prophecy was true. The luck seemed to change.
Filling my turtle-shell with these I took it 'neath my arm again and went on, following the curve of the reef, clambering over these slimy rocks, and found it no small labour what with my burden and the heat of the sun; but I persevered, seeking some fragment of our boat or the stores wherewith she had been so well laden. Yet, and search how I might, found nought to reward me.
"I am too large," said Simon; "that craft will sink if I step in." In an instant the little man whirled round and hit him three tremendous raps over the head with his cudgel, shouting, or rather squeaking, "Smaller! smaller! smaller!" The blows made Simon's head ring, but when he recovered himself, he found that the turtle-shell boat appeared a great deal larger than before.
For the following three or four months, the brig cruised among the other islands of the Western Carolines, buying copra and turtle-shell in considerable quantities; for the much-maligned "Bully," despite his moral obliquity of vision in his commercial dealings with the merchants of Tahiti and other Polynesian ports, yet possessed the confidence of the wild Caroline Islanders to a remarkable degree.
Here is our breakfast, 'tis the best I can find." And she showed me a few poor shellfish. "Give me the turtle-shell!" says I. "Indeed I can bear it very easily, Martin. And you so white and haggard your wound is troubling you. Come, let me bathe it " "Give me the turtle-shell!" "No, Martin, be wise and let us " "Will you gainsay me d'ye defy me?" "O Martin, no, but you are so weak " "Weak!
It was not that he was wearied of the monotony of his existence on Nukufetau that had led Harry to bid his wife and two children farewell, but because that he had heard rumours of the richness in pearl-shell and turtle-shell of the far distant isles of the Pelew Group, and desired to go there and satisfy himself as to the truth of these sailors' tales; for he was a steady, honest man, although he had run away from his ship, a Sydney sandal-wooding vessel; and during his fifteen years' residence on Nukufetau he had made many thousands of dollars by selling coconut oil to the Sydney trading ships, and provisions to the American whalers.
"Why then, it shall wait with your spoon, first should come necessities." "As what?" "Dear Heaven, they be so many!" says she with rueful laugh. "For one thing, a cooking-pot, Martin." "There is our turtle-shell!" says I. "Why, 'tis very well, Martin, for a turtle-shell, but clumsy a little. I would have a pan with handles if you could contrive. And then plates would be a good thing."
Our poor turtle-shell is all perished with the fire. Martin, if you could but contrive me a pan with handles! I have found plenty of clay along the river bank yonder."
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