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...they replied, "because we live in the open air. We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits. We chew peyote,3 and on feasts we drink pinole.4 No one of our tribe would eat the meat of any creature that fed upon another creature. Reverence lends wings to the legs. Only thus can a man be happy...
...walk beneath the trees with the girl friend almost as well as Grange. Of course he has played around with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee is, will he or she please let me know? I'm tired...
...rational, hygienic Mosaic dietary laws are catalogued in Deuteronomy 14, which specifies that the flesh of only cloven-footed beats that chew their cud may be eaten-cattle, deer, etc. Cloven-footed hares and swine do not chew their cuds and are interdicted...
...custom as well as the privilege of a drama uplift organization like the Repertory is to bite off larger pieces than it can chew. "John The Baptist," adapted by Frances Jewett from the "Johanues" of Hermann Sudermann, turned out to be quite a mouthful and was mangled with more or less success. The theme is worthy of the effort and one can admire the courage if not the discretion of the Repertory players in attempting it. The result to be truthful, was hard to digest...
...tender as lamb chops, but taste flat. Frog legs are like the white part of chicken, would be appetizing save for the dead look of the bones. Rat flesh is like that of tame rabbits. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste. They are tough to chew. Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over...