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Miss Rutherford looked at Priscilla, who appeared undismayed at the prospect of swallowing worms. Then she looked at Frank. He was evidently doubtful. His faith in boiling did not save him from a certain shrinking from wormy soup. "Once we were out for a picnic," said Priscilla, "and when we'd finished tea we found a frog, dead, of course, in the bottom of the kettle.
But when a second stepped out close behind the first, Jerry realized that neither one was his friend, even before he noticed that both were carrying rifles. A pair of hunters, no doubt, Jerry surmised, although he wondered idly what they would be hunting at this season of the year. Rabbits were "wormy" and the law prohibited the shooting of almost everything else.
We had run up quite a bill at his grocery, and were willing to keep trading right along, but somehow he got wormy, and said that this thing had to stop. We told him we never traded with him because we wanted his goods, but just to give him the benefit of our society, and we pointed out to him the injury it would be to his business to have us quit trading at his store.
And as soon as the grateful Master Cockrell had made himself presentable, he was invited to sit down at table with the captain and enjoy a meal of porridge and crisp English bacon and fresh eggs from the ship's hen-coop in the long-boat and hot crumpets and marmalade. And this after the pinched ration of mouldy salt-horse and wormy hard-bread!
It is very ugly and wormy, and it is related, but without proof, that on one occasion Washington declined to sit down in it." Here are the last two missives I ever received from his dear, kind hand: 5 Hyde Park Place, London, W., Friday, January 14, 1870. The Conservatory is completed, and is a brilliant success; but an expensive one!
"The last of June isn't the best time in the year for open fires," suggested Peggy. "But I do think that to-night seems a little cooler. Perhaps we might have a fire and not swelter." "We could roast apples, couldn't we?" Amy cried. "And chestnuts. Only there aren't any chestnuts." "And just a few very wormy apples," added Ruth.
"No doubt of it," sneered the New Yorker, who was not a good specimen of his genus, and could not appreciate such a "good fellow," with his brown face and coarse clothes. "He don't like his nickname very well, and when he objected to it, years ago, the fellows began to call him 'Wormy. He couldn't stand that, and is satisfied now to be called 'Stumpy."
It was a day of discomfort and suffering long to be remembered. It chanced that the hard bread issued to our division was old and very wormy. It was, in some cases, difficult for a man to know whether his diet was to be considered principally animal or vegetable. Our General, Neill, sat with his staff munching some of these crackers of doubtful character, when he was handed one unusually animated.
Hicks, while his hand slipped carelessly to the stick of stove-wood, "if you force the issue, I will say that I've seen a good many wormy trout come out of the Yellowstone but that was the worst I ever met up with." Mr. Stott advanced belligerently. "And you dare boast of it!" "I'm not boasting I'm just telling you," replied Mr. Hicks, calmly.
This was that he should be given the "crimson shroud" and sea-tomb of his war-like ancestors, for the idea that his body might be touched by strange hands, shut in a close coffin, and laid in the earth to moulder away to wormy corruption, had been the one fantastic dread of the sturdy old pagan's life.
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