(See also Bailey, H. C.; 6Feb62; R290522) The yellow slug.

" "We are in the wilds," said Ajax, "and it may surprise you to learn that not so very long ago the Spanish-Californians who owned most of the land kept thousands of pounds in gold slugs.

In the Gulf of Carpentaria we did not observe any other than the gray slug.

No one, no true Somali, that is, objected to a prod in the heart with a shovel-headed spear, a thwack in the head with a hammered slug, a sweep at the neck with a big swordbut to have a person sawing at your throat with weak and shaking hands is rotten....

They quit cold!" Sheffield, at his side, dropped to the sand, his heart drilled by a jagged slug.

Thus we each of us stared down upon a most unearthly sight; for the valley all beneath us was a-swarm with moving creatures, white and unwholesome in the moonlight, and their movements were somewhat like the movements of monstrous slugs, though the things themselves had no resemblance to such in their contours; but minded me of naked humans, very fleshy and crawling upon their stomachs; yet their movements lacked not a surprising rapidity.

The slugs in their attempt to reach the plant, find themselves immediately enveloped in the chaff, which prevents their moving, so that when he raised the glasses to give the plants air, he found hundreds of disabled slugs round the outside of the glasses, which he took away and destroyed.

" He expelled a deep breath, and for a space stood staring in silence at a passing slug.

I don't want, every time I hear a door bang, to think it is a ragged slug from an unseen gun-barrel.

The rest valued a chance to see the fight beyond the fear of random slugs of lead which might fly their way.

It would have seemed strange, had they not grown accustomed to the thought, to imagine that blind man, like a mole, or some slow slug, turning himself mysteriously in the bowels of that gray moundthat time-silvered "eye-sore.

It traveled so that the men could dodge it, but it was throwing oft slugs that you could neither see nor dodge, and it was a poor place to be!