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"I'm not so stubborn as all that," he said. "It's mighty good of you, all the same." "Don't say a word," said the Captain. "Give us your satchel. Now your flipper! There you are! Git dap, Dan'l!" Daniel accepted the Captain's command in a tolerant spirit.
Matkah taught him to follow the cod and the halibut along the under-sea banks and wrench the rockling out of his hole among the weeds; how to skirt the wrecks lying a hundred fathoms below water and dart like a rifle bullet in at one porthole and out at another as the fishes ran; how to dance on the top of the waves when the lightning was racing all over the sky, and wave his flipper politely to the stumpy-tailed Albatross and the Man-of-war Hawk as they went down the wind; how to jump three or four feet clear of the water like a dolphin, flippers close to the side and tail curved; to leave the flying fish alone because they are all bony; to take the shoulder-piece out of a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row-boat.
Awatok obeyed, and gave it a thrust under the left flipper that seemed to reach its heart, for it fell back into the water and struggled violently. At the same moment Davie Summers mounted to the top of a hummock, part of which overhung the pool, and launched a harpoon down upon its back.
Lilith, catching the satirical twinkle in the other's eyes in the starlight, did not know which way to turn to control an overmastering impulse to laugh uninterruptedly for about five minutes, the cruel part of it being that the interrupter was Swaynston himself. The latter, a pursy individual, was holding out an arm somewhat in the attitude of a seal's flipper; but Lilith did not take it.
"I'll certify to that, Ned. You boys have made good, although nobody ever doubted it, anyway, for the fisherman was only having a little fun with you." The manatee was so tractable that Captain Hull swam back for the skiff, while Ned loosened his hold on the flipper of the creature. Suddenly a cascade of water half-filled the power-boat, drenched every one in it, and the manatee disappeared.
They are capital mimics the very parrots or magpies of the genus Man. "I say, Jack, bear a hand there now," exclaimed one, repeating the words after a sailor who had just spoken. "What! do you speak English, old fellow? Give us your flipper then," said Knowles, thinking he had found a civilised man in that distant region. "What! do you speak English, old fellow?
A common seal lives in the sea, and when it does wriggle up on the beach of an iceberg there is nothing to hear, I suppose, or perhaps when it wants to listen it raises a flipper to its ear. I never saw one doing so, but we do not see everything that happens in the world.
If I have said it once, I have said it a hundred times: 'The Sea Monster, I have said, 'the Sea Monster is the helpful sort. Mention the words Staunch Friend, I have said, 'and immediately the Sea Monster comes to mind." The Phoenix reached up one wing and began to pat the Sea Monster's flipper. Ah we need a bit of money." "Oh," said the Sea Monster. Its whiskers sagged.
Ned failed to grasp the creature's nose with his right hand, but caught the manatee by the flipper with his left and clung to it, although tossed off of the back of the animal. But Dick was in the river a second after his companion and was clutching the right flipper of the manatee with one hand and reaching for its nose with the other.
No offence meant. Gib us your flipper, old boy!" Grasping the guide's hand, the negro shook it warmly, and at the same time vowed that he would be most "awrful careful," and that he would bring Rafaravavy to his feet, dead or alive, though he should have to fight the whole town single-handed to effect his object. It was a Thursday evening when they stood thus conversing.
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