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"Him flaid shark come back, catchum chop-chop." "Stand by here with a couple of cutting-in spades," cried Moran, "and fend off if you see any shark; now, then, are you ready, mate?" Wilbur took his determination in both hands, threw off his coat and sandals, and went over the stern rail. "Put your ear to the water," called Moran from above; "sometimes you can hear their flukes."
"I tink you catchum someting, smellum pretty big," said Hoang, his ferret glance twinkling about the schooner. "I catchum nothing nothing but plenty bad stink," said Moran. "No, you don't!" she exclaimed, putting herself in Hoang's way as he made for the cabin. The other beach-combers came crowding up; Wilbur even thought he saw one of them loosening his hatchet in his belt.
The clock on the mantel chimed clearly the hour, then the quarter and the half. Wing Sam came to protest aggreivedly that "him glub catchum cold you no wait!" Nan was severe with Wing Sam and his suggestion so unwontedly severe that Wing Sam returned to the kitchen muttering darkly.
I had taken two good fish, and was moving slowly by the mouth of the bay, Simmo at the paddle, when a suspicious movement on the shore attracted my attention. I passed the line to Simmo, the better to use my glasses, and was scanning the alders sharply, when a cry of wonder came from the Indian. "O bah cosh, see! das second time I catchum, Koskomenos."
"Plenty happen HIM! I catchum fella, crawl up fum cave, knockum out, callum policemans." "Good boy! You rate a new suit for that. You can tell the tailor to make it as loud as you like!" Nothing could have pleased the simple giant more, for he loved to dress up in gaudy clothes, a trait left over from his savage life before the young inventor had brought him to America.
But the Indians made no sign, and Pomp went on "Injum ebberywhere now. Can't run away." "But we must," I whispered. "Catchum gain, dreckerly. Dis here tree. Mass' George go up fuss." "Up the tree!" I faltered.
"You're right on the job!" exclaimed Tom, climbing stiffly from the cabin. "How is everything?" "All thing good!" declared the giant, grinning to see the young inventor back. "Catchum skystone?" "We caught it, all right. You might tote this sample of it over to the lab." Tom handed his servant the segment he had chiseled from the main mass.
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