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Ponting waited a moment, and then began: "My mistress didn't seem inclined to go to bed at once, so I settled her down nicely and comfortably with her reading-lamp and a copy of The World newspaper. She found the papers very dull lately, poor old lady, for you see, ma'am, there was nothing in them but things about the war, and she didn't much care for that.
Ponting's burden, he ran forward and took a flying leap over the Baby's cot into his own bed. Mr. Ponting looked, if anything, a little graver. "I wouldn't do that, if I were you," he said. "Why not?" said Ranny over his blankets, snuggling comfortably. "Oh, I don't know," said Mr. Ponting, vaguely. In a day or two Ranny himself knew. His arrangements had carried him well on into October.
Henry Rennick was given control of the hydrographical survey work and deep-sea sounding. Two surgeons were lent by the Royal Navy for the study of bacteriology and parasitology in addition to their medical duties, and Mr. Herbert G. Ponting was chosen as camera artist and cinematographer to the Expedition.
I am determined to make some better show of our photographic work on the Southern trip than has yet been accomplished with Ponting as a teacher it should be easy. He is prepared to take any pains to ensure good results, not only with his own work but with that of others showing indeed what a very good chap he is.
The laying out of the fish trap was his action and the catches are his field of labour.... His bench with its array of microscopes, etc., is next the dark room in which Ponting spends the greater part of his life. I would describe him as sustained by artistic enthusiasm....
There has been quite a small landslide on the S. side of the Island; seven or eight blocks of rock, one or two tons in weight, have dropped on to the floe, an interesting instance of the possibility of transport by sea ice. Ponting has been out to the bergs photographing by flashlight.
In spite of our impatience we would not willingly have missed many of the beautiful scenes which our sojourn in the pack afforded us. Ponting and Wilson have been busy catching these effects, but no art can reproduce such colours as the deep blue of the icebergs. 'Scientifically we have been able to do something.
I think Priestley is the most seriously incapacitated by sea-sickness others who might be as bad have had some experience of the ship and her movement. Ponting cannot face meals but sticks to his work; on the way to Port Chalmers I am told that he posed several groups before the cinematograph, though obliged repeatedly to retire to the ship's side.
'I think I would like to be alone now, Howse, she says, 'just for a little while. And then, 'We must hope for better news in the morning. I asked her, 'Would you like me to send Ponting up to you, ma'am? But she shook her head: 'No, Howse, I would rather be by myself. I will ring when I require Ponting. I do not feel as if I should care to go to bed just yet, she says quite firmly.
I don't know, I'm sure, how I'm going to leave him; unless he can manage with Mabel and Mr. Ponting. She's a good girl, Mabel. And he's got a kind heart, Ranny, that young man." "D'you think I haven't?" "I wasn't meaning you, my dear. Come, I'm ready now." They went downstairs. Mrs. Ransome paused at the kitchen door to give some final directions to Mabel, the maid, and a message for Mr.
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