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From a tribe of cannibals whom he saw eating human flesh, Pretorius courteously asked and got the recipe: soak the body in hot water, scrape off the skin, stuff with plantains, cover with leaves and roast over night in a bed of coals. The lucky hunter who had made the kill "was entitled to the fingers and toes, which he cut off and ate raw." Pretorius once gave a tribe of pygmies a goat; they set to it by slicing tidbits from the live animal...
Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
Hapless Dudley took another dive on the diamond, and Leverett was so much the gain for it. A pair of commuters was all Dudley could scrape up in the way of ballplayers, but they weren't enough to make the game interesting. Leverett won by forfeit...
...assuming that safety grows with numbers rather than with discretion, the Yard-bound crowds forget about cars in the hope that cars will forget about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely miss indentation. And every so often, of course, a man is knocked down...
Britannia now at the crossroads stands. Shall she pinch and scrape on a widow...