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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.
"`That's right that's friendly now! exclaimed the skipper, as if greatly relieved. `Give us your flipper, my lad; and seizing Peterkin's hand, he wrung it affectionately. `Now, here is the key of the outhouse; do it as quickly as you can, and don't let any one see you. It's in a good cause, you know, but the results might be terrible if discovered.
"Mohammed," exclaimed Molloy, becoming suddenly impressed with the generous nature of the Arab's action, "I don't know as you're a descendant o' the Prophet, but I do know that you're a brick. Give us your flipper before we part!" With a grave expression of kindliness and humour the chief shook hands with the seaman.
'Ah! my boy, trust to this I say, trust to this. I saw him extend his short flipper of an arm for a gesture that took in the forest, the creek, the mud, the river, seemed to beckon with a dishonoring flourish before the sunlit face of the land a treacherous appeal to the lurking death, to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart.
The next was the sudden appearance of the beans-and-oil-man himself. "Why, I do believe it's it's Moses," exclaimed Molloy, as his old comrade entered the prison. "Give us your flipper. Man alive! but I'm right glad to see you. We thought you was let's have a look at your neck. No; nothing there. I knowed as that interpreter was a liar. But what brings you here, lad?
Pat," he added, mocking Phil's brogue, and holding out his hand, "you're a man after my own heart; give me your flipper, and let us swear eternal friendship over this precious goblet." Of course Phil cheerfully complied, and the friendship thus auspiciously begun afterwards became strong and lasting. So it is all through the course of life.
"Try try to hit a vital vital spot," panted Barney, as the strain lessened once more. "Behind front flipper in the eye." Again the water foamed. Again the rifle cracked. More blood! Another plunge, and again the strain seemed redoubled. "I can't hold much longer," Barney gasped.
I remember one of the gang gets Phil to one side after a talk like this and whispers to him, laughing like fun. Phil says to him: "My dear boy, I've been to thousands of these things" waving his flipper scornful around the premises "and upon honor they've all been alike. Now that I've discovered something positively original, let me enjoy myself.
As soon as the meat was cured, the boys started for the coast in their canoe. On the way they stopped at the nursery and found Baby almost glad to see them, and when Ned put half a banana in his mouth, the little manatee seemed really grateful. Ned even thought that when he pressed the baby's flipper good-bye, the pressure was returned, at least that is what he told Dick.
But one day, when Briton tried to lift it up by the tail, it struck him a slap with its flipper that could be heard from stem to stern. "Take that," Flossy seemed to say, "and leave my tail alone!"
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