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  • As to the fate of the spawning fish, after the eggs and milt have been voided, and their duty is done, the salmon begin to float downstream tail foremost.

  • The fertilization of such spawn must be accidental, but as the milt and the eggs sink or drift together the number that come into fertilizing contact is no doubt considerable.

  • They are bisexual, discharging both eggs and milt into the water to become fertilized by accidental contact.

  • Well, Milt Dale was hidden in the loft of that cabin where you met Anson.

  • Thet was white of Milt to stick up fer poor old Al," declared Lem's brother.

  • We'll have turkey to-night, if Milt gets to camp in time.

  • Into his ear just then rang Helen's voice: "Milt Dale, you are no Indian.

  • This bounteous repast surprised and delighted the girls; when they had once tasted the roast wild turkey, then Milt Dale had occasion to blush at their encomiums.

  • Air you goin' to live like an Injun all your days, Milt Dale?

  • Milt Dale, if any one ever corrals you it'll be Mormons.

  • Shore Milt never knowed what it was to be lonesome," said Roy, as if thinking aloud.

  • An' by takin' to the mountains Milt can hide his tracks.

  • Milt Dale answered that question to Beasley's discredit; and many strange matters pertaining to sheep and herders, always a mystery to the little village of Pine, now became as clear as daylight.

  • I tell you--Milt Dale can do anythin' he wants to do in the woods.

  • Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch.

  • If Tom doesn't come back pretty soon I'll marry Milt Dale," retorted Bo, tauntingly.

  • This artificial fertilization is usually accomplished by first squeezing out the ripe eggs from a female into a pan of water; in a similar manner the milt or sperm cells are obtained, and poured over the eggs.

  • The eggs and milt are then deposited, and the old fish die, leaving the eggs to be hatched out later by the heat of the sun's rays.

  • I'll keep a fire going and if Milt needs more than me, I'll call.

  • I thought the three of us might make it, taking turns carrying Milt on our backs.

  • I'm going to find some method of getting Milt to let me finish the trip with him.

  • Milt knows what's up, and has told his mother by this time.

  • It'll make Ed Blackler squirm t' see Betsey come in on Milt Jennings' arm," said Bill to Shephard after Milton went out.

  • Not necessarily serious trouble," he hastened to assure as Phil and Milt looked their concern, "but I want to guard against it getting any worse.

  • Arriving at Ashby, Phil and Milt parked their car on a side street and were surprised to find a crowd waiting to get seats.

  • Something in the way Speed said this caused Phil and Milt to glance up suspiciously.

  • And, while Speed no longer reported to the training table, it was observed by a spying Phil and Milt that he ate abundantly but wisely.

  • Phil and Milt stiffened with a sense of their responsibility.

  • Phil and Milt were the first wild-eyed rooters to reach Medford's star halfback as other supporters swarmed on the field with one idea in mind--to tear down the goal posts.

  • Phil Doran and Milt Gleeson were as rabid Medford supporters as could be found in college.

  • Medford's football star dashed forward but Milt fumbled the flashlight in handing it over and by the time Speed got hold of it the interurban was whizzing past.

  • With Phil and Milt delivered to him, post haste, Coach Brock took them privately aside and showed them the note.

  • There was truth in what Phil and Milt had said about him.

  • Phil asked Milt as the two were on the way to the athletic director's office.

  • Coach sure knows his psychology," Milt said to Phil as they were crossing the campus the day before the game.

  • Milt and I took Speed over to see the Rockne picture at Ashby and .

  • Anderson's opinion of Milt Cupples was smothered in a violent chorus of automobile horns.

  • Thank heavens, I just remembered that Milt Cupples borrowed it last winter to--" "Borrowed my revolver?

  • It wasn't his father that took in the touring car on debt, like she said she was writing to you; it was Milt himself.

  • They didn't get any wire from her uncle about the touring car; it was her cousin Milt that jumped on the train and came down and fixed it all up for Milla to go on the trip, and everything.

  • After that time you jumped in the creek to save her she liked you better than any boy in town, and I guess if it wasn't for her cousin Milt up in Chicago she would of liked you the best anywhere.

  • The eggs, abandoned by the females to the mercy of the waves, are fecundated after being deposited by the milt of the males.

  • So soon as the exhausting secretions of the milt and roe take place the spent fish turn seaward to recruit.

  • It is about the month of April that they begin to be met with, but they are still small and without milt or roe.

  • If milt herrings are used, the milt should be moistened with a little vinegar and rubbed up into a paste, and this should be kept to pour over the salad just before the dressing is added.

  • A bent old lady peered over her spectacles at us, and allowed Milt wuz out tew the barn.

  • Turn up that a hundred yards or so and ask for Milt Noble at the first house you come to.

  • In the communication screen, somebody was yelling, "Give them another one for Milt Hennant!

  • They brought the body of Milt Hennant aboard, and Abe Samuels, swathed in bandages and immobilized by narcotic injections.

  • You can sit there and talk till this time to-morrow night, but you'll never convince me that the Honorable Milt isn't as straight as the best man who ever went into politics.

  • An' when I says the Honorable Milt has white wings folded acrost his back I says it sincere, believe me.

  • It's just one of those things a fellow bumps into now and then, and if Uncle Milt needed my help at all I wanted to know it, that's all.

  • I want to know where Uncle Milt stands in connection with this campaign-fund money, and I want to know what Podmore is trying to do.

  • According to him you're the sworn political enemy of Uncle Milt and have had a finger in the theft--theft, mind you!

  • Milt Waring and I grew up in the same town together--went to the same school, played both hookey and hockey together.

  • I didn't know Uncle Milt was in town even--not at the time.

  • Well, he would befriend the Honorable Milt and Ferguson and Nickleby and Alderson by removing this little piece of election evidence from the reach of their opponents.

  • The Honorable Milt was nobody's fool, he knew.

  • Milt said he wouldn't have anything to do with it.

  • If milt herring are used, pound the milt to a paste, moisten with vinegar, add to the salad.

  • He called him Milt, and he said he supposed now Milt was the most self-satisfied man in Massachusetts; he implied that there were better things than material success.

  • Besides, did any one ever succeed in hatching the ova of a fish which had not been allowed to come in contact with milt after exclusion?

  • If this is doubted, I would ask how it happens that in the autumn they have fluid milt in them?

  • One day when it was announced that Milt Sturgis, the fireman, was about to be promoted and get his engine, everybody wondered who would take his place, and how a new man would get along with old True Stump.

  • This is a favorable circumstance, since the milt of a single male is fully equal to the impregnation of the ova of many females.

  • The eggs are first expressed into tin pans, milt is pressed upon them, and after they are thoroughly mixed together, water is added.

  • On Winter Evenings Milt would don the Velvet Slippers and grill his Lower Extremities on the ornate Portico such as surrounds every high- priced Base-Burner.

  • On the third Afternoon, Milt suspended Fall Buying long enough to send his Family a Book of Views showing the Statue of Peter Cooper, the Aviary in Bronx Park, and Brooklyn Bridge by Moonlight.

  • Poindexter gave out that rousing old Stand-By which begins "Yield Not to Temptation," Milt and Henry arose from the Cushioned Seats and sang their fool Heads off.

  • When the Day of Days arrived, Milt and Henry would be seen at the Depot with congested Suit-Case and their Necks all newly shaven and powdered for the approaching Jubilee.

  • Milt said somebody had fed him a Steam Coie and put Mittens on him and unscrewed his Knee-Caps.

  • But--every Autumn, about the time the Frost is on the Stock Market and Wall Street is in the Shock, Milt and Henry would do a Skylark Ascension from the Home Nest and Wing away toward the rising Sun.

  • Very often a Mother would hurry her little Brood to the Front Window when Milt or Henry passed by, carrying under his arm a Package of Corn Flakes and the Report of the General Secretary in charge of Chinese Missionary Work.

  • These machines pump up the lacteal liquor, of which the spongy substance is full; and before the animal spawns, the whole milt is no more than a composition of these organic parts, which have absolutely pumped up the lacteal liquor.

  • But some time after, in the milt of another calmar, he found these organic parts completely formed; they seemed like spiral springs shut up in a kind of transparent case.

  • Can it be said, the active machines which Mr. Needham perceived in the milt of the calmar were animals?

  • Can it be said, that there remains a seminal matter in the milt for the production of the animals for the succeeding year, when even the milt does not remain?

  • A second class of beings, of the same kind, are the organized bodies found in the semen of all animals, and which, like those in the milt of a calmar, are rather natural machines than animals.

  • They rushed Milt to a doctor and patched him up.

  • Milt was driving spikes and missed one and hit his foot and the air was blue, and it looked like Indian Summer down that way.

  • Milt Adams, James Bennett and myself were delegated to wait on the old man Curtis and son to tell them to quit selling liquor to the Osage Indians.

  • We drew the carcass and Milt Adamson carried the deer in front of him to the tent.

  • Which likely he wouldn't have done if Milt hadn't been so headstrong an' wild.

  • Twice had the captain asked, in the presence of the members of the band, to be given the name of Milt's informant, and twice had Milt refused to answer.

  • I shouldn't think Milt would want to take a hand in that," muttered the Squire, reflectively.

  • Her first thought was one of thankfulness that Milt with his rash impetuous nature was not there to defy or enrage them, her second a regret at her own utter helplessness.

  • Milt in a sudden outburst of wrath as the full extent of his losses dawned upon him.

  • I have," answered Milt frankly and seriously.

  • It will be something like stirring up a den of wild-cats, not counting in Pat at all," Milt admitted.

  • That night in the privacy of her room, and under a promise of the deepest secrecy on Sophronia's part, Sally confided to her bosom friend the besetting fear that Milt had been wounded the night before.

  • They caught Milt Derr as he was gettin' on the cars at Grigg's Station, fifteen miles from here.

  • Nothing like," affirmed Sally emphatically, and then she and Milt both laughed.

  • Suppose it should be the pole of the New Pike gate, and Milt was chosen to do the cutting?

  • I scarcely think any attempt will be made to intimidate me" asserted Milt confidently.

  • Lex and Milt were the pilots of the two remaining machines of this, the third and last section of the bombing squadron of that night.

  • Buck was keenly concerned for he and Milt had been quite chummy.


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