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Granser
’
s
eyes
burned
with
greediness
as
a
large
crab
was
handed
to
him
.
It
was
a
shell
with
legs
and
all
complete
,
but
the
meat
had
long
since
departed
.
With
shaky
fingers
and
babblings
of
anticipation
,
the
old
man
broke
off
a
leg
and
found
it
filled
with
emptiness
.
“
The
crabs
,
Hoo
-
Hoo
?
”
he
wailed
.
“
The
crabs
?
”
"
The
crabs
?
"
“
I
was
fooling
Granser
.
They
ain
’
t
no
crabs
!
I
never
found
one
.
”
They
ai
n't
no
crabs
!
I
never
found
one
.
"
The
boys
were
overwhelmed
with
delight
at
sight
of
the
tears
of
senile
disappointment
that
dribbled
down
the
old
man
’
s
cheeks
.
Then
,
unnoticed
,
Hoo
-
Hoo
replaced
the
empty
shell
with
a
fresh
-
cooked
crab
.
Already
dismembered
,
from
the
cracked
legs
the
white
meat
sent
forth
a
small
cloud
of
savory
steam
.
This
attracted
the
old
man
’
s
nostrils
,
and
he
looked
down
in
amazement
.
The
change
of
his
mood
to
one
of
joy
was
immediate
.
He
snuffled
and
muttered
and
mumbled
,
making
almost
a
croon
of
delight
,
as
he
began
to
eat
.
Of
this
the
boys
took
little
notice
,
for
it
was
an
accustomed
spectacle
.
Nor
did
they
notice
his
occasional
exclamations
and
utterances
of
phrases
which
meant
nothing
to
them
,
as
,
for
instance
,
when
he
smacked
his
lips
and
champed
his
gums
while
muttering
:
"
Mayonnaise
!
Just
think
--
mayonnaise
!
And
it
's
sixty
years
since
the
last
was
ever
made
!
Two
generations
and
never
a
smell
of
it
!
Why
,
in
those
days
it
was
served
in
every
restaurant
with
crab
.
"
When
he
could
eat
no
more
,
the
old
man
sighed
,
wiped
his
hands
on
his
naked
legs
,
and
gazed
out
over
the
sea
.
With
the
content
of
a
full
stomach
,
he
waxed
reminiscent
.
“
To
think
of
it
!
I
’
ve
seen
this
beach
alive
with
men
,
women
,
and
children
on
a
pleasant
Sunday
.
And
there
weren
’
t
any
bears
to
eat
them
up
,
either
.
And
right
up
there
on
the
cliff
was
a
big
restaurant
where
you
could
get
anything
you
wanted
to
eat
.
Four
million
people
lived
in
San
Francisco
then
.
And
now
,
in
the
whole
city
and
county
there
aren
’
t
forty
all
told
.
And
out
there
on
the
sea
were
ships
and
ships
always
to
be
seen
,
going
in
for
the
Golden
Gate
or
coming
out
.
And
airships
in
the
air
—
dirigibles
and
flying
machines
.
They
could
travel
two
hundred
miles
an
hour
.
The
mail
contracts
with
the
New
York
and
San
Francisco
Limited
demanded
that
for
the
minimum
.
There
was
a
chap
,
a
Frenchman
,
I
forget
his
name
,
who
succeeded
in
making
three
hundred
;
but
the
thing
was
risky
,
too
risky
for
conservative
persons
.
But
he
was
on
the
right
clew
,
and
he
would
have
managed
it
if
it
hadn
’
t
been
for
the
Great
Plague
.
When
I
was
a
boy
,
there
were
men
alive
who
remembered
the
coming
of
the
first
aeroplanes
,
and
now
I
have
lived
to
see
the
last
of
them
,
and
that
sixty
years
ago
.
”
The
old
man
babbled
on
,
unheeded
by
the
boys
,
who
were
long
accustomed
to
his
garrulousness
,
and
whose
vocabularies
,
besides
,
lacked
the
greater
portion
of
the
words
he
used
.
It
was
noticeable
that
in
these
rambling
soliloquies
his
English
seemed
to
recrudesce
into
better
construction
and
phraseology
.
But
when
he
talked
directly
with
the
boys
it
lapsed
,
largely
,
into
their
own
uncouth
and
simpler
forms
.
