cub-seal

Updated: May 26, 2025

Robin could run up and down every cliff in the neighbourhood like a monkey could lie on the waters, and sport amid the breakers, with the activity of a cub-seal dive like an otter; and, as nature generally makes up in some way or other for defects similar to those so conspicuous in the widow's son, she had gifted him with so sweet a voice, that the fishermen frequently rested on their oars beneath "Gull's Nest" crag, to listen to Robin's wild and mournful ballads, which full often mingled with the murmur of the small waves as they rippled on the strand.

Mrs. S. C. Hall - The Buccaneer: A Tale