When the outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen, who kept pouring them out their wine in cups of gold.
The housekeeper packed them up a provision of bread, wine, and sweet meats fit for the sons of princes.
"Dog-Tooth's dogs were stuffed with meat, and the men who lay in the sun and did no work were rolling in fat, and, at the same time, there were little children crying themselves to sleep with hunger biting them with every wail."
The Bug and I escaped, and I hid in the wildest places, and became a hunter of meat and went hungry no more.
The she-wolf, too, left her litter and went out in search of meat. In the first days after the birth of the cubs, One Eye had journeyed several times back to the Indian camp and robbed the rabbit snares; but, with the melting of the snow and the opening of the streams, the Indian camp had moved away, and that source of supply was closed to him.
His little body rounded out with the meat he now ate; but the food had come too late for her.
But I am naught but a poor butcher, selling this load of meat, perchance, for enough to pay my quarter's rent."
Here he took from his girdle a well-filled purse, and continued, "I would fain be a butcher, this day, and sell meat at Nottingham town.
But come, tell me for what price thou wilt sell me all of thy
meat and thy horse and cart."
Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions- a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other
meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any difference.
The village has gone away to hunt
meat. We be too old, our legs are not strong, nor can our backs carry the burdens of camp and trail.
They had hunted with success on the prairie, but, while busy drying buffalo
meat, were joined by a few panic - stricken Flatheads, who informed them that a powerful band of Blackfeet was at hand.
That he could, with relish, eat raw
meat that had been buried by himself weeks before, and enjoy small rodents and disgusting grubs, seems to us who have been always "civilized" a revolting fact; but had we learned in childhood to eat these things, and had we seen all those about us eat them, they would seem no more sickening to us now than do many of our greatest dainties, at which a savage African cannibal would look with repugnance and turn up his nose.
That night the black soldiers of the white man had had
meat a-plenty, and this little remnant of a once powerful tribe had slunk off into the gloomy jungle toward the unknown, and freedom.
Ingrained in Michael's heredity, from the very beginning of four- legged dogs on earth, was the DEFENCE OF THE
MEAT. He never reasoned it.
