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"Another fin to port!" hailed Budge; and the Barracouta sheered off in quest of a second prize. For the first few minutes, though Percy rowed his prettiest, he could not hold his own with the moving barrel. Each glance over his shoulder showed that it was farther away. He bent stoutly to his oars. The sloop was heading in the opposite direction, and the distance between them widened rapidly.
If I run away, I am disgraced; and I know that sooner or later I must meet him, for my thumb tells me so." "When will he be here?" said she. "To-morrow, about two o'clock," replied Fin, with a groan. "Well, my bully, don't be cast down," said Oonagh; "depend on me, and maybe I'll bring you better out of this scrape than ever you could bring yourself, by your rule o' thumb."
Instantly he swam with all his might toward the reefs, shivering as he went. When he drew himself up on the slippery rocks he did not see the formidable fin. He was quite willing to utter devout thanks aloud. It might not have been a shark, but it made him remember they were to be expected in those waters.
Of all fish, eels are probably the most interesting, as the least is known of them. This fish attains a length of from 5 ft. to 6 ft., and has a smooth, scaleless body of a dark color, on which large light-yellow spots appear, which give the fish a very peculiar appearance. The pectoral fin is missing, but it has the dorsal and anal fins, which it uses with great ability.
"'Zactly what I said, sir. `Maggie, says I, `that young feller seemed to be quite independent of fin or tail, for he came right off in the teeth o' wind and tide " "That's not what I mean either, Captain," interrupted the old gentleman, with slight impatience. "It's his independent spirit I refer to." "Oh! I ax your pardon, sir." "Well, now, listen, and don't interrupt me.
They saw also dolphins and bonitoes swimming near them, and occasionally caught sight of a large shark, with its black fin just above the water. Now and then a bonito came so near to the raft, that had they possessed a harpoon they could easily have caught it.
But in any case it would not have been an easy matter. Extraordinary, stiff-backed, thin figure all fin black, the observed of all, while walking hand-in-hand with the girl; apparently shy, but and here Fyne came very near showing something like insight probably nursing under a diffident manner a considerable amount of secret arrogance.
His impulse is as genuine and spontaneous as if the substance upon which it is exercised were not the acme of the exotic, and already arranged with the most elaborate conventionality. Nothing indeed could be more opposed to the elementary crudity of impressionism than his distinction and refinement, which may be said to be carried to a really fin de siècle degree.
Fin! your long story has nearly famished me," said the padre, as the laugh subsided; "and there you sit now with the jug at your elbow this half-hour; I never thought you would forget our old friend Martin Hanegan's aunt." "Here's to her health," said Fin; "and your reverence will get us the chant."
Finucane, that this practical joke of your was contrived for my benefit, and for the purpose of holding me up to the ridicule of your confounded acquaintances." "Nothing of the kind, upon my conscience," said Fin, drying his eyes, and endeavouring to look sorry and sentimental.
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