"Bigger 'n a barn . . . all made o' squirmin' ropes . . . hull thing sort o' shaped like a hen's egg bigger 'n anything, with dozens o' legs like hogsheads that haff shut up when they step . . . nothin' solid abaout it—all like jelly, an' made o' sep'rit wrigglin' ropes pushed clost together . . . great bulgin' eyes all over it . . . ten or twenty maouths or trunks a-stickin' aout all along the sides, big as stovepipes, an' all a-tossin' an' openin' an' shuttin' . . . all gray, with kinder blue or purple rings . . . an' Gawd in Heaven—that haff face on top! . . .