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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Why, dey look as tame as elingfants in de Zoo," protested the colored man, as he gazed at the penguins, who in turn gazed back at him with their beady black eyes. "Yes, and ordinarily they are, but in the breeding season they get savage if molested, although it is safe enough to walk among them." "Huh," grunted Rastus to himself; "dis yer perfusser am a fusser fer sho.
Don' you fink we could ketch one an' hev a fricassee, perfusser?" "I am only going in search of eggs and would, of course, like to catch a flea a penguin-flea, I mean," said the professor; "and I should not advise you to meddle with any of the creatures, Rastus."
"Oh, please, good Mistah Pencilguins, I didn't mean no harm," roared Rastus, who seemed to think the human-looking birds could understand him. "Go afta' de perfusser, it was him dat tole me youalls tasted lak chicking." "Stop that, you greedy black rascal," retorted the professor, laying about him with the egg-basket.
"Why did you go?" "Why, my dear sir," said the professor, regarding him with sorrowful egg-stained countenance; "in the interests of science, of course. We would not have been attacked at all if Rastus had not tried to catch a penguin. What for, I cannot imagine." "Why, perfusser, you done say dey tas' lak chickin," ruefully cried the black man. "Did I?" exclaimed the man of science.
Presently, however, he recalled himself from the first heat of his enthusiasm. "After all," he said, "we shall have plenty of time in which to explore this chamber, which seems to have been used as a council hall. Let us examine the remainder of this remarkable place." "You may well call it that, perfusser," grunted Pete. "It's remarkable fer the dust thet's in it, if nothing else.
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