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...nderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that immortal line “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Lewis Carroll was the nom de plume of Charles Dodgson (1832-1890) an Anglican clergyman, photographer, a...

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...wo stories in the inimitable Philip Dick style. What is a Wub? A 400 pound slovenly, fat, ungainly, drooling animal that looks like a cross between a walrus and an enormous hog? Well, yes that is pretty much what he looks like and for 50 cents, a good bargain no matter how he tastes. The hungry spaceship crew expect to find out. Of course the Wub may not entirely agree but...

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...7 A dance with Siberian girls............................................. 531 Walrus hunters in the Arctic.............................................. ...d by vast fields of ice, on which he perceived great numbers of sea-horses, or walruses, many of which the crew killed, and their flesh, though not ge... ...s, even near the coast, and fish were to be had for the trouble of taking. The walrus, however, at the time of Nordenskiold's visit, was almost extinc... ... and the hospitality of the Chukchies prompted them to treat their visitors to walrus meat, reindeer steak, seal fat, blubber, with a soup made from v...

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...Carson’s whiskers and stroked them slowly as Carson’s eyes widened. “Wa... walrus?” “What did she say?” Carson mumbled. “Nothing. When she is u... ...urtains behind her as she left. Morgan sighed and lay her head against the walrus’s vest. It was as if the candle flames had crept inside her to m...

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...at least be a small ecosystem of fish and seaweed for food, and societies of walruses, seals, and penguins which she could watch and record their soci... ...e case she shouldn't have been happier. So the envisaged Antarctic seals and walruses were really myriad Mexicans wallowing languishingly in another ...

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... He connives, conspires; all he cares about is exploitation! He and his walrus-brained thugs just left Kuan-ti to lie there like shark vomit!" "E...

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...over it after the carcass was eaten. You can make a kayak out of one, or two walrus skeletons and their skins. These rib-skin first-boats; explain ...

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...is rounded black beard, beginning close up under them, reminded Una of the walrus in ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter.’ ‘Don’t he justabout know?’ he sai... ...acquainted,’ the man answered with a smile that made them forget all about walruses. 166 Rewards and Fairies ‘This is Simon Cheyneys,’ Puck began, an...

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... flying over head— There were no birds to fly. The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; ... ...ops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,” the Walrus said, “That they could get it clear?” “I... ...arroll 28 “O Oysters, come and walk with us!” The Walrus did beseech. “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, ... ...the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore. The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, ... ...tood And waited in a row. “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “T o talk of many things: Of shoes... ... They thanked him much for that. “A loaf of bread,” the Walrus said, “Is what we chiefly need: Pepper a... ...be A dismal thing to do!” “The night is fine,” the Walrus said “Do you admire the view? “It was so... ... I’ve had to ask you twice!” “It seems a shame,” the Walrus said, “To play them such a trick, After ... ... “The butter’s spread too thick!” “I weep for you,” the Walrus said. “I deeply sympathize.” With sobs a...

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...sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. CHAPTER 15 Chowder I T WA S QUITE LATE in the evening ... ...owever contracted, that definition is the result of expanded meditation. A walrus spouts much 136 Moby Dick like a whale, but the walrus is not a fis... ... had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long c... ..., and crossing the ivory arm (like two sword-fish blades) cried out in his walrus way, “Aye, aye, hearty! let us shake bones together!—an arm and a le...

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...sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales. Chapter 15 Chowder I t was quite late in the evening ... ...However contracted, that definition is the result of expanded meditation. A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is... ... had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus. All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long c... ...g, and crossing the ivory arm (like two sword fish blades) cried out in his walrus way, “Aye, aye, hearty! let us shake bones together! — an arm and a ...

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... adorned with a bunch of tintinnabulating baubles. The melon puffed like a walrus; the pumpkin advanced on turnips, im- properly called legs. A true p...

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...cked. Then one of the women cut off a great lump of raw something—was it a walrus, with that round head and big tusks?—and held it up to her; and when...

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...ar, after England took the vice- roy of the Indies; so it was with the old Walrus, Flint’s old ship, as I’ve seen amuck with the red blood and fit to ... ...men. They was ashore nigh on a week, and us standing off and on in the old Walrus. One fine day up went the signal, and here come Flint by himself in ... ...wn around. On one of these boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name Walrus—the name of Flint’s ship. All was clear to probation. The Cache had ...

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...ssed the better part of a day pre- paring, on the back of a legal envelope, an inventory of its contents, which I exactly followed; and the name of ‘F...

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...d she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopota mus, but then she remembered how small she was now, ...

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... and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, ...

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...a mere thread, such as we sometimes hear issu- ing from the mouth of these walruses; on the contrary, it was a strong voice, but stifled, an idea of w...

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...een-year-old Kotuko sitting on the sleeping- bench, making a button out of walrus ivory. “Name him for me,” said Kotuko, with a grin. “I shall need hi... ...e field. From a little distance you might have taken the lumps for seal or walrus, over- turned sleighs or men on a hunting expedition, or even the gr...

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...Raising his noble head, He stretched his brown hand and said, “Behold this walrus tooth.” By Jove, what chaps those must have been, to go sailing all ...

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...e numbers and awful distances may move us to laughter or tears (was it the Walrus or the Car- penter, in the poem, who “wept to see such quantities of...

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...e numbers and awful distances may move us to laughter or tears (was it the Walrus or the Carpenter, in the poem, who “wept to see such quantities of s...

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...d and crippled; I should be labelled, and put on ex- hibition in the museum at the Hague between the blood- stained doublet of William the Taciturn an...

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...eded the sail for the boat, and the tarpaulin had begun to leak. “Winters used walrus skins on his hut,” I said. “There are the seals,” she suggested....

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...e plank’s in—too late—we’re off.” With that, the huge boat, with a mighty, walrus wallow, rolled away from the shore, resuming her course. “How vexati...

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...r coats and mufflers tied over caps they were a strange company, bears and walruses talking. Jack Elder lighted the shavings waiting in the belly of a...

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...ay. So far, owing to great care on my part, they think of God as a kind of walrus; but now that my back’s turned—Ridley,” she demanded, swinging round...

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...at Tweedledum with great solemn eyes, and not noticing Alice’s question. ‘”The Walrus and the Carpenter” is the longest,’ Tweedledum replied, giving h... ...was in the sky: No birds were flying over head — There were no birds to fly. The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like any... ...If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose, ” the Walrus said, “That they could get it clear?” “I doubt it, ” said the Ca... ...the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear. “O Oysters, come and walk with us!” The Walrus did beseech. “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny ... ... more — All hopping through the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore. The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, And then they rested o... ...nd all the little Oysters stood And waited in a row. “The time has come, ” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealin... ...!” said the Carpenter. They thanked him much for that. “A loaf of bread, ” the Walrus said, “Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are ve... ...r such kindness, that would be A dismal thing to do!” “The night is fine, ” the Walrus said “Do you admire the view? Tweedledum and Tweedledee 39 “It ... ... were not quite so deaf — I’ve had to ask you twice!” “It seems a shame, ” the Walrus said, “To play them such a trick, After we’ve brought them out s...

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...nd the men kicked those aside with their heavy boots made of the skin of a walrus’s throat, and then Kerick said, “Let go!” and then the men clubbed t... ...ou seem to have a fondness for talking to your bet- ters—suppose you go to Walrus Islet and talk to Sea Vitch. He may know something. Don’t flounce of... ...lf an hour, twitching all over, as seals will. Then he headed straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from ... ...rtheast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls’ nests, where the walrus herded by themselves. He landed close to old Sea Vitch—the big, ugly... ... to old Sea Vitch—the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as... ...oise. “Hah! Ho! Hmph! What’s that?” said Sea Vitch, and he struck the next walrus a blow with his tusks and 79 waked him up, and the next struck the ... ...in told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet. All the population was yelling and screaming “Clam- eater! St... ...th his mustache. “Who in the Deep Sea are these people?” They were like no walrus, sea lion, seal, bear, whale, shark, fish, squid, or scallop that Ko... ...he Burgo- master gull had screamed to him when he was a little yearling at Walrus Islet, and he tumbled backward in the water, for he knew that he had...

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...g about, only half asleep, and dreamt that I was being chased by a hideous walrus. Olaf (who meanwhile has come up the steps from the garden): Have yo... ...eanwhile has come up the steps from the garden): Have you been chased by a walrus, uncle? Hilmar: I dreamt it, you duffer! Do you mean to say you are ...

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... 6 as she must.” Beowulf 14 1 The nicor, says Bugge, is a hippopotamus; a walrus, says ten Brink. But that water goblin who covers the space from O...

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... as he rowed. “Make the captain lose a passenger! If one listened to those walruses we’ d have nothing to do but embark and disembark ‘em. He’s afraid...

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... Helgoland, To King Alfred, the lover of truth, Brought a snow-white walrus-tooth, Which he held in his brown right hand.’ ‘But—but—this I kn...

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...ave a hearth stone; Lives of seal are free and merry, Merry is the life of walrus, Feeding on incautious salmon, Daily eating perch and whiting; Whiti... ...e dead upon the waters, On the streams of T uonela, Let him there become a walrus, Or a seal, or whale, or porpoise.” Lemminkainen’s mother does not C...

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...bor done, they rest standing, they are too tired, Afar on arctic ice the she walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around, The hawk sailing where ... ...ing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes, The leaden eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea leopard, and the sting ray, Passions th...

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...f the exercise upon him was speedily visible. He puffed and snorted like a walrus, drops trick- led down his purple face, while my lovely mischief of ...