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These had their heads armed with stout strong spines; but in spite of this peculiarity, they proved under Snowball's manipulation to be very palatable, and Mr Lathrope, "for one," as he himself said, regretted that the carpenter had not caught more; he "guessed" he would have "gone for 'em!"
"If that's your best dog," quoth John, "why, I'll be bound that our Snowball would beat him with one of his legs tied up. Talk of running such a cur as that against Snowball! Why there's Phoebe's pet Venus, Snowball's great grandam, who was twelve years old last May, and has not seen a hare these three seasons, shall give him the go-by in the first hundred yards. Go and fetch Venus, Daniel!
It only checked the rapidity of his descent; and in the end he would have gone down into the sea, and shortly after into the stomachs of, perhaps, half a score of sharks, but for the opportune interference of the ex-man-o'-war's-man; who, just in the nick of time, at the very moment when Snowball's toes were within six inches of the water's edge, caught hold of the cord and arrested his farther descent.
The light grew and grew, and the brownie came a different brownie indeed from the one he had pictured with the daintiest-shaped hands and feet coming out of the midst of rags, and with no hair except roughly parted curls over the face of a cherub for the combing of Snowball's mane and tail had taught Gibbie to use the same comb upon his own thatch.
At all events, Snowball's plan was suited to the circumstances in which its contriver was placed; and perhaps it was the only one which the circumstances would have allowed. Unlike other inventors, the Coromantee proclaimed the plan of his invention as soon as he had conceived it. "Wha' for?" he asked, as the idea shaped itself in his skull, "wha' for we trouble 'bout a pot fo' burn de oil?"
The conduct of the Coromantee in thus relinquishing the rudder and springing overboard into the sea was inexplicable, at least, to little William it seemed so for the time. What could be Snowball's object in taking to the water? The sailor's strength was sufficient to sustain both himself and the little girl.
"And now, I kalkerlate, it's time for grub," said the American when the tent was finished and the ladies' comfort provided for Captain Dinks, still in his cot, being ensconced in a warm corner "I hope that blessed darkey has got something good, for I feel powerful holler, I dew!" He need not, however, have been in any doubt as to Snowball's capacity.
It was this peculiar manoeuvre on the part of the fish, won after repeated by their shooting back to the starboard, and again returning to larboard, that had elicited from Snowball the assertion, so confidently put forward, that there was no fear of their leaving the Catamaran so long as they were going in that fashion. Of those upon the raft, Ben Brace alone comprehended Snowball's meaning.
But there were not too many for Snowball's present purpose; and, after paddling first to one and then another, he secured each in turn, and lashed them to his raft, in such fashion, that the great hogsheads, sitting higher in the water than the timbers of the raft, formed a sort of parapet around it.
You are both very good to me," smiled Grace, "and I'm so glad to see you this morning." "We thought you would be," returned Anna May calmly. "We brought Snowball's puppy to show you. We named him this morning for a perfectly splendid person that we know. You know him, too. The puppy's name is Thomas." "That's Mr. Gray's real name, isn't it?" put in Elizabeth anxiously.
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