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They squeak and gurgle out an unintelligible protest, then cosily settle their heads again beneath the sheltering wing, and sleep the slumber of the dreamless. A sharp sudden plump, or a lazy surging sound, accompanied by a wheezy blowing sort of hiss, tells us that a seelun is disporting himself; or that a fat old 'porpus' is bearing his clumsy bulk through the rushing current.

I never see any genmln more sick than he was; HE'D BEEN SMOAKIN SEAGARS along with Blewitt. I said nothink, in course, tho I'd often heard him xpress his horrow of backo, and knew very well he would as soon swallow pizon as smoke. But he wasn't a chap to do a thing without a reason: if he'd been smoakin, I warrant he had smoked to some porpus. I didn't hear the convysation betwean 'em; but Mr.

The coachman peeped back at his only passenger, touched the nigh leader with the most delicate hint of a whipcord, and said confidentially to the off wheel, "What a sleepy old porpus that is in there!" An actor in the scenes of that wild night when the Monitor went down craves permission to relate the story of her last cruise. Her work is now over.

But I had the best of the game after all! though I did lose my two rings. Confounded old cheating son of a porpus! It was doing the world a good turn, and Glenwarlock a better to Look you! what are you listening there for! Ha! ha! ha! I say, now would you hang a man, laird I mean, when you could get no good out of it not a ha'p'orth for yourself or your family?"

'Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think, said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy's torch. 'I wish he'd give 'em a squeeze and wake 'em, observed the long one. 'Knock again, will you, if you please, cried Mrs. Dowler from the chair. 'Knock two or three times, if you please.

The water constantly passing through them serves to refresh and keep them round and healthy. Here we come to a perfect thicket of sponges, and see the fishes playing "tag" all around and about them. There! that sly little fish, like a salt water pickerel, nipped the tail of that great clumsy porpoise porpus so hard, I heard the big fish grunt. The teeth of a pickerel are fearfully long and sharp.

"Now, then, catch hold of the line as I draw it in." "Yah! Why yow make as much on it as if it weer one o' they long studggins, or a big porpus pig," growled Dave, laughing, as Dick secured the line. "Haul him in." "I say! 'Tisn't a very big one, Tom; but he's strong," said Dick, pulling the captive to the side, for his companion to gaff and lift into the boat. "Why, it's a perch!"

"I never would sell dem; I svore I never vood, on porpus to be revenged on dat Stobbs." "What! your wound has never been HEALED, eh?" "Vat do you mean vid your bootless errands, and your soling and healing?

At the end of three months the crew complained of scurvy, and could not move about the decks. At the end of the fourth month, they had all died except the chief harpooner, a fat porpus of an Englishman, and myself.

I saw a porpoise porpus my enormous cousin, all of fifteen feet long, crowd in midst a multitude of swift little swimmers, as if he meant to make them help in spinning him through the water faster than he could go by himself.