Word: gobbet
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...Gobbet of Gelatine Makes Manifest the Life-Stream...
...Story. After the mysteries of a certain wedding, consummated over a moss-bed in the headwaters of a French river, an imperceptible gobbet of gelatine floated down the river into the sea. The gobbet sank, down, down into pelagic depths, attached itself to a rose-colored seaweed and swooned away...
...When the gobbet awoke, it had a skin. It could not swim, except ver- tically, like a puppy treading water, until its head grew heavy. Then it took on a tight, corrugated armor-corset. Blue flint chippings-teeth-hedged the emery-paper tongue. Filiform barbels, for probing mud, sprouted under the chin. By this time, the gobbet was recognizable as a fish, a young Sturgeon, Sturly...