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Updated: May 2, 2025
A monster wave and its consequences The boat lost and found Peterkin's terrible accident Supplies of food for a voyage in the boat We visit Penguin Island, and are amazed beyond measure Account of the penguins. One day, not long after our little boat was finished, we were sitting on the rocks at Spouting Cliff, and talking of an excursion which we intended to make to Penguin Island the next day.
And, in truth, Peterkin's remark seemed to me to be correct; for, at the distance from which we saw them, they appeared to be an army of soldiers. There they stood, rank and file, in lines and in squares, marching and countermarching, with blue coats and white trousers.
Peterkin's wedding-dress; the skirts the little boys used to wear before they put on jackets and trousers. All day Mrs. Peterkin worked over the trunk, putting away the old things, putting in the new. She packed up all the clothes she could think of, both summer and winter ones, because you never can tell what sort of weather you will have.
What if the records of The Garden, You, and I should turn into a real book, an humble shadow of "Six of Spades" of jovial memory! Is it possible that I am about to be seized with Agamemnon Peterkin's ambition to write a book to make the world wise? Alas, poor Agamemnon!
Just at that moment I was attracted by the sight of a very small parrot, which Jack afterwards told me was called a paroquet. It was seated on a twig that overhung Peterkin's head, and I was speedily lost in admiration of its bright-green plumage, which was mingled with other gay colours.
Scarcely had the sun shot its first ray across the bosom of the broad Pacific when Jack sprang to his feet, and hallooing in Peterkin's ear to awaken him, ran down the beach to take his customary dip in the sea. We did not, as was our wont, bathe that morning in our Water Garden, but in order to save time, refreshed ourselves in the shallow water just opposite the bower.
"I do, too," said Clara. "Peterkin's fun, of course. But I can't do the things for a boy that I could for a girl." "I'd rather have boys," Chiquita said; "they're less trouble." "Would you rather have boys or girls, Julia?" Lulu asked. "Girls!" said Julia decisively. "A big family of girls." "Then," Lulu began, and a question trembled in her bright eyes and on her curved lips.
More excuses on my part only led to a painful result. I hurt Peterkin's feelings. 'I'm down in the world, he said, 'and I'm not fit company for you and your friends. I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of inviting you! He turned away with the tears in his eyes. What could I do?"
'He will sweat some, if he is, for Jerrie is twice as heavy as Peterkin's daughter; and at the very idea Tom laughed out loud, thinking that he should greatly prefer to have Jerrie's strength and weight in his arms to his light, slim, little girl, who neither spoke nor moved until he laughed, and then there came in smothered tones from the region of his vest: 'Oh, Tom, how can you laugh?
The lady from Philadelphia, who had been allowed to come without costume, considered for a moment. She looked through the windows to the seething mass now crowding the entrance hall. The Hindu snake-charmers gambolled about her. "We will receive as the Peterkin family!" she exclaimed. She inquired for a cap of Mrs. Peterkin's, with a purple satin bow, such as she had worn that very morning.
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