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Well, you won't get the secrets of the dye trade out of ME. He went away, and everyone felt snubbed and uncomfortable. And all the time the long, narrow eyes of the Egyptian were watching, watching. They felt as though he was watching them through the darkness, when they lay down to sleep on a pile of cloaks. Next morning the baskets were drawn up full of what looked like whelk shells.
It will live quite well in a glass tank of sea-water; someone who kept many interesting fish says of this Blenny: "Our little Butterfly Blenny was not often to be seen. It was using an old whelk shell for a nursery. In this broken old shell the dainty fish was able to hide, and was so nervous that we seldom saw it.
The Whelk, however, is a clever burglar; he knows how to make a way into the hardest of shelly houses. His front part we might call it a nose will stretch out to a fine point; and it contains a rasping tongue even harder than that of the Periwinkle. He sets to work. Moving the rasp up and down, he drills a neat round hole in the shell of the animal he is attacking.
It was a narrow passage which one might span with arms outstretched, and paved without a causeway for it was built when there were no vehicles in Orkney and crooked as the inside of a whelk shell, suggesting starlight smuggling and romantic meetings.
Bill took his 'ands out of 'is pockets when he saw 'im and came toward 'im. "It's no good to-night, mate," he ses; and to Ginger's great surprise shook 'ands with 'im. "No good?" ses Ginger, staring. "No," ses Bill; "he's in the little back-parlour, like a whelk in 'is shell; but we'll 'ave 'im sooner or later." "Him? Who?" ses Ginger, more puzzled than ever.
This however was not sufficient, and Vaughan, who had much scientific knowledge, invented a mixture composed of lime made of whelk shells and a hard white stone burned in a kiln, slaked with fresh water and tempered with tortoise-oil, with which she was payed over.
The whelk and his cousins know how to bore a hole in the shell, and suck out the helpless Oyster. Then there are certain sponges, with the strange habit of making holes in shells, and living in and on them. Sometimes the Oysters are stifled in their "beds" by other Oysters settling and growing over them. Thick masses of Mussels may cling to them and suffocate them.
It had evidently lived in the sea of the Red Crag, where it had been exposed to rough usage, and sustained injuries like those which the reversed whelk, Trophon antiquum, so characteristic of the same formation, often exhibits. Additional proofs, however, have lately been obtained by Mr.
Then you may see locusts pressed and pickled in barrels; the poorer inhabitants are very fond of this diet, and have converted the curse of the cultivator into a favourite delicacy. As for weights, the stall-holders would appear to have none but stones, whelk shells, and potsherds, which must be hard to regulate.
"He mentioned the case of one slaveholder, whom he had seen lay his slaves on a large log, which he kept for the purpose, strip them, tie them with the face downward, then have a kettle of hot water brought take the paddle, made of hard wood, and perforated with holes, dip it into the hot water and strike before every blow dipping it into the water every hole at every blow would raise a 'whelk. This was the usual punishment fur running away.
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