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ful. It tasted a good deal to me like a fish 
that has been delayed in being cooked until 
it has passed from the sublime to the ridic¬ 
ulous. I think a dash of salt would have 
improved it—either a dash of salt, or a 
dash of nux vomica or fertilizer or some 
other little relish like that! 
I wish you could have seen the expres¬ 
sion on Ted’s face when he took' his first 
bite. His eyes bugged out like a beetle’s. 
He was looking me right in the face, but 
he wasn’t conscious I existed—his whole 
being was concentrated on the taste of that 
eel. He took a few gingerly chews, then 
he swallowed it, but the effort was so great 
that the tears came into his eyes and his 
adams-apple turned two summersaults! I 
bit my tongue nearly in two to keep from 
laffin’. Before taking the next bite he 
held his nose with one hand and carried a 
delicate morsel to his mouth with the other. 
It took him longer to worry this down. 
“Well,” says I, “how do you like it?” “I 
like it so well,” snarls Ted jumping up 
from the table and throwing his plate and 
his helping of eel in the general direction 
of the woodbox, “- I like it so well that 
before I’d eat another - bit of a- 
boiled eel I’d cheerfully lay me down and 
starve to death!” Then poor Ted began 
to get white around the gills and rushing 
out of camp leaned over the piazza rail and 
yielded up the two bites he had eaten. 
Every little while I could hear him groan 
and murmur a few choice passages of ro- 
fanity. Of course this performance on his 
part didn’t make my appetite any keener 
for more eel, but I didn’t propose to admit 
that to him. While he was absent I quietly 
dumped what was left on my plate into 
the stove and when he returned my platter 
After two bites of the eel Ted cheerfully 
welcomed death by slow starvation 
was clean. “How in the name of heaven,” 
says he, “you can eat that mess is a mys¬ 
tery to me.” “Oh, it’s fine,” says I, “and 
so nourishing.” “I’ll give you another help¬ 
ing,” says Ted picking up my plate. “No 
—never mind;” I yelps grabbing the plate 
-out of his hand; “I like boiled eel as well 
as anybody, but I hope I’m no boiled-eel 
hog.” 
Then I went to the spring on the pretext 
■of getting a pail of water and after I had 
eliminated what eel I had from my system 
I felt much better. 
That night after we had blown out the 
lamp and blundered into our bunks Ted 
says to me across the darkness, “Newt, wot 
did you do with the rest of that boiled eel 
—seems to me I can smell it?” “It’s your 
imagination,” says I, “because I hung it up 
back of the camp so the porcupines can’t 
get it.” “I hope to gawd they do get it 
and that it makes ’em as sick as it did 
me!” grits Ted. “Do you know,” says I, 
‘"wot we’re gonna have for breakfast?” 
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