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!

You, Chicken, your task, as you know, is to pick off slugs, your full number before evening being thirty-two.

"When I meet up with him, I'll sure enough fill him full o' slugs," he concluded savagely.

"He gave me two big slugs of brandy to drink," said Stevens, continuing his tale, "and it affected me no more than so much water.

'Nay, but my shot are over small; if thou hast a slug or two, I would take them.'

And, truly, as I did think, if there did be one such place, there were like to be many; and mayhaps the slugs came forth from those caverns, where, as I did conceive there was naught save an eternal dripping of waters and the foul growth of things in all parts.

One day he took a heavy slug Of something rather hot; He took that something from a jug, And shortly he was not.

If you desire to walk along with me while I destroy these slugs, I will listen to what you say.

muttered Pierpont, worried over the possibility of having wasted a slug of the real thing on an unreal police officer.

He described to her how newts, during the breeding season, live in the water, subsisting upon tadpoles, insect larvae, and crustaceans; how, later, they make their way to the land and eat slugs and worms; and how the newly born newt has three pairs of long, plumlike, external gills.