In a field adjoining the palace I saw an object that looked like a post driven into the ground, and capped with a large-sized clam-shell.

But deprive a Fat man of his little clam-bake, and it would be full as pleasant as settin' down onto a Hornet's nest, when the Hornet family were all to home.

You begin your clam broth (such an "exquit" soup, as Ermyntrude would call it), and the lady next you says she has been "just crazy" to meet you, and heaps of nice things that make you pleased with yourself and ready to enjoy your food.

Things had gone on now for some three years, and I'd about lived in my books,I'd tried to teach Faith some, but she wouldn't go any farther than newspaper stories,when one day Dan took her and me to sail, and we were to have had a clam-chowder on the Point, if the squall hadn't come.

The two clam diggers watched him curiously, but made no attempt to go to his assistance.

If they would only stick to their legitimate business of clam-digging, or something of that sort, we should appreciate them, and their obituary notice would be a thing to love, because 'twould be short.

" "In which state," said he laffin', "it would be exceedin'ly clam-etous.

"There is an idiotic moon-calf here with a clam head, which must be just like what you used to be.

Another cargo of clams has gone to that born whence no clam returns, onless you ram your finger down your throte, or take an Emetick.

" "Wall," said I, "if the Sea has many such runs on her clam-banks as this, she will have to put on her shutters soon, and go into lickerdation.