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At that juncture a huge rusty tube was thrust past Regnar's head into the very face of the seal; a tremendous concussion threw him upon the ice, stunned and deafened; and the monster, rearing into the air, seemed to be fairly dashed to the ice, shivering with the tremor of death. "Are you hurt, George?" asked La Salle, breathless with haste and restrained emotion.
Guess blow him head off too," grumbled Peter, with a strange mixture of vexation, pleasure, and humor in his tone, for he loved Regnar, disliked to see men or boys cry, and knew that Regnar's misadventure was more unpleasant than dangerous. In a moment or so Regnar arose, holding his head with both hands, and an evident feeling of uncertainty as to his whereabouts. "Well, you call that gun Baby!
As they turned to go, Regnar's eye caught sight of a floe at the foot of the berg. "Are not those dead seals yonder?" said he. "It seems to me that I see piles of dead bodies, and skins hung on the pinnacles, and then yes, there is a flag on a pole." Hastily descending, the two friends ran at full speed to the floe. It proved to be as Regnar had said.
Whenever the flag went before them into battle, if they were to win the day the sacred raven would rouse itself and stretch its wings; but if defeat awaited them, the flag would hang round its staff and the bird remain motionless. This wonder had been proved in many a fight, so the wild pagans who fought under the standard of Regnar's children believed.
And Regnar was a real piece of flesh and blood, as King AElla and our Saxon forefathers found to their cost; his awful death-dirge, and the effect which it produced, are well known to historians. We cannot give up Regnar's trousers, for we suspect the key to the whole dragon-question is in the pocket of them.
Evidently she had met with a check, for as they gazed they heard the tinkle of the engine bell, and saw her iron-sheathed bow recede behind the fantastic outlines of the pinnacle. "Will she leave us?" asked Waring, with trembling lips. "They only back to run down that floe. See now." The next moment Regnar's prediction was verified.
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