on "slime stone battlements" in GR

[Mark Kohut]

	* The Popular science monthly - Google Books Result
1885
Each stone as it is brought to the top is first of all covered with mortar. ... 
round and round with its mandibles until the whole is covered with slime. ...books.google.com/books?id=TmMsAAAAYAAJ
	* Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern - Google Books Result
Charles Dudley Warner - 1897
Each stone as it is brought to the top is first of all covered with mortar. ... 
round and round with its mandibles until the whole is covered with slime. ...
 
 
Charles Dudley Warner co-wrote The Gilded Age with Mark Twain...
 
Another bit of adhesive memory verbal genius from TRP, in my still-growing opinion.