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"Ah, Rastus," cried the professor, highly flattered; "if I can only catch the fur-bearing pollywog, then I shall, indeed, have some claim on fortune and fame, till then let us hunt penguin eggs." In the meantime the boys were busy examining the motor.
"Possibly, as you say, it would not be wise," agreed the professor; "never mind, perhaps I can catch a fur-bearing pollywog at the South Pole." He seemed quite cheered up at this reflection and smiled happily at the thought of achieving his dream. "What have you got there, Ben?" asked Billy, pointing to the queer-looking boxes and packages the boatswain was carrying.
"Wouldn't you rather find a Viking ship filled with gold and ivory, and frozen in the ice for hundreds of years, than an old fur-bearing pollywog?" demanded Billy. "I would not," rejoined the professor with much dignity; "the one is only of a passing interest to science and a curious public.
Smart has anything to say about it," said her son coolly. "If he " He paused, glaring. I looked him squarely in the eye. If he had possessed the acumen of a pollywog he would have seen that my Dutch was up. "One moment, Mr. Titus," I said, setting my jaw. "I have this to say about it. You are guests in my house. We are jointly interested in the effort to protect the Countess Tarnowsy.
The boys looked at the writing on their slips. They were all the same, and on each was inscribed: "The man who told me that the Patagonians were a friendly race is a traitor to science. I, Professor Simeon Sandburr, brand him a teller of untruths. For Professor Thomas Tapper, who told me about the fur-bearing pollywog of the South Polar seas, I have the warmest respect.
However, when a restriction was placed upon him as, for instance, when a strong clique of members of the new Pollywog Club refused to permit him, even as a spectator, to appear in the rooms of the organization the candor and gentleness with which he accepted the judgment disarmed many of his foes and made his friends more desperately partisan.
But the pollywogs were spry, and seemed to have learned to watch out. They seemed to Peter to spend all their time swimming and eating and growing. They grew so fast that it seemed to him that he could almost see them grow. And just imagine how surprised Peter was to discover one day that that very pollywog which he had seen lose his tail had grown a new one.
They are in the Congressional library. Then he contributed a prize-essay on it to the Smithsonian Institute, which has bound it up with my report on the Canadian Bull Frog. He is a very learned man." "But the South Polar pollywog is then only a theory?" "Well, yes so far," admitted the professor; "but it is reserved for me to gain the honor of positively proving the strange creature's existence."
The professor was in the lead, talking away at a great rate, his long legs opening and shutting like scissor blades. "Perhaps I may find a fur-bearing pollywog after all," he cried; "if you boys have found your ship surely it is reasonable to suppose that I can find my pollywog?"
Like the beloved Black Lake it had both an inlet and an outlet. As fast as one boy entered it another had to go home, so that conducting the Pollywog Patrol was like pouring water into a leaky pail. Pee-wee, with all his flaunted efficiency, could not be at both ends of this patrol at the same time.
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