The three men now approached each other, took alternate bites of the sergeant's last plug of pigtail, and masticated amicably.

The skins of fruits, if beaten or masticated finely; may appear to be digested, because dissolved; but I have already endeavored to show that solution is not always digestion.

The result was a dozen vague surmises,only one of which seemed to be popular, and to suit the dyspeptic despondency of the party,a despondency born of hastily masticated fried pork and flapjacks.

Besides, the meat is much more readily masticated and acted upon by the digestive fluids.