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Updated: May 16, 2025
Phoca vitulina has as excellent power of reason as any other kind of seal brain power, acquired, no doubt, from a continual fish diet. Tommy doesn't feel aggrieved at the slight put upon him, however, and has a proper notion of his own importance. Watch him rise from a mere floating patch slowly, solemnly, and portentously, to take a look round.
Toby is a willing worker; he would gladly have the performance twice as long, while as to an eight hours' day ! The seals in the next pond, Tommy and Jenny, are insulted with the epithet of "common" seals; but Tommy and Jenny are really very respectable, and if a seal do happen to be born only Phoca vitulina, he can't really help it, and doesn't deserve humiliation so long as he behaves himself.
M'Intyre, waiting, however, till the door was shut, then gave way to the natural impatience of his temper. "My uncle is the best man in the world, and in his way the kindest; but rather than hear any more about that cursed phoca, as he is pleased to call it, I would exchange for the West Indies, and never see his face again."
Gosse sets forth so well with pen and pencil, are not as attractive as the sea-nymphs themselves would be; and who would not, like Menelaus, take the grey old man of the sea himself asleep upon the rocks, rather than one of his seal-herd, probably too with the same result as the world-famous combat in the Antiquary, between Hector and Phoca?
He perceived the sandy shore was dotted with multitudes of dark objects. Ere long, these objects were seen to be in motion, and, pointing them out to Helen, with a smile, he said: "Beware, Miss Rolleston, yonder are your bugbears and in some force, too. Those dark masses, moving upon the hillocks of sand, or rolling on the surf, are sea-lions the phoca leonina, or lion-seal."
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