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It was but a matter of endurance, he chuckled to himself. How could a woman outswim a man like him? It was just at the time when this thought came that Ab saw the Shell girl lift her head and turn it toward him and laugh laugh recklessly, almost in his very face, so close together were they now. And then she taught him something!
Bert's first impulse was to dive into the lake and seek to escape by swimming. But this he discarded at once. Fast as he was, he knew that the grizzly could outswim him. With a quick turn to the left, he plunged into the woods, running like a deer. The bear lost a second or two in trying to check his momentum. Then he turned also and went crashing through the underbrush in pursuit.
I saw all this as I turned round again; and with a feeling of cold horror upon me I swam on. The barque was now near her bows were not fifty yards distant, and the crocodile was still more than a hundred behind me. But I well knew that these amphibious monsters can far outswim a man. Through the water they make progress as an otter, and with like rapidity.
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