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Then she drops it back into the whitecaps, where, jumping to the top of my rock, I can see it occasionally struggling near the surface. Cheeeep! "try it now," she whistles. Pip, pip! "here goes!" cries the little one who failed before; and down he drops, souse! going clear under in his impatient hunger, forgetting precept and example and past experience.
She knows that the young pupils are growing discouraged, and that the time has come to hearten them. Chip, chip! "watch, I'll show you," she whistles Cheeeep! with a sharp up-slide at the end, which I soon grow to recognize as the signal to strike.
There were the fish again, in shallow water; and there too easy altogether! were two dead ones floating among the whitecaps. She wheeled away in a sharp turn, as if she had not seen anything, whistled her pupils up to her, and went on to other fishing grounds. Presently, above the next point, I heard their pipings and the sharp, up-sliding Cheeeep! which was the mother's signal to swoop.
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