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Tell them what the rules are and give them a square meal Now, Stubbins, we will go on to the aquariums. And first of all I must show you my big, glass, sea-water tank where I keep the shellfish." WELL, there were not many days after that, you may be sure, when I did not come to see my new friend. Indeed I was at his house practically all day and every day.
All of a sudden the Doctor looked up sharply at me, a wonderful smile of delighted understanding spreading over his face. "LONG ARROW!" he cried, "don't you see, Stubbins? Why, of course! Only a naturalist would think of doing a thing like this: giving his letter to a beetle not to a common beetle, but to the rarest of all, one that other naturalists would try to catch Well, well! Long Arrow!
"That dog's devotion to those children is more than I can understand. You should see Minnie! She's the most conceited little minx that ever walked. She squints too." PRESENTLY the Doctor looked up and saw us at the door. "Oh come in, Stubbins," said he, "did you wish to speak to me? Come in and take a chair." "Doctor," I said, "I want to be a naturalist like you when I grow up."
"The Doctor has come to cure my squirrel, Mother," said I. "He knows all about animals." "Oh, no," said the Doctor, "not all, Stubbins, not all about them by any means." "It is very kind of you to come so far to look after his pet," said my mother. "Tom is always bringing home strange creatures from the woods and the fields." "Is he?" said the Doctor.
I had to leave him at this moment to go and attend to some duties on the deck. But presently I heard him below shouting for me to come down again. "Stubbins," he cried as soon as he saw me "a most extraordinary thing Quite unbelievable I'm not sure whether I'm dreaming Can't believe my own senses. "Why, Doctor," I said, "what is it? What's the matter?"
"Wait till the fools know what I know just wait!" I entered the fo'cas'le, through the port doorway, and went across to my chest, and sat down. I felt angry and tired, and miserable. Quoin and Plummer were sitting close by, playing cards, and smoking. Stubbins lay in his bunk, watching them, and also smoking.
Captain Stubbins, getting up, furiously attacked poor Peter, as if he had tumbled against him intentionally, and, seizing a rope, began to belabour him severely. This excited Tom's and Desmond's indignation. "You've no business to treat the poor fellow in that way," exclaimed Tom; "and I'll not allow it!" "Who are you?" said the skipper.
They are only to be found in the deep parts of the sea; and as they don't swim very much, but just crawl along the floor of the ocean most of the time, they are very seldom taken in nets. I do wish I could find some way of going down to the bottom of the sea. I could learn a lot if I could only do that. But we are forgetting all about breakfast Have you had, breakfast yet, Stubbins?"
What's more, he didn't seem ter be talkin' down to us on deck what I could make hout. 'sides, what would he want ter go talkin' to ther Second about his pay-day?" He looked across to where I was sitting. Jock, who was smoking, quietly, on the chest next to me, took his pipe slowly out from between his teeth. "Ye're no far oot, Stubbins, I'm thinkin'. Ye're no far oot," he said, nodding his head.
"But " said the Old Man, and stopped. The Second Mate cut in. "I shall go up, for one, Sir," he said, quietly. Then he turned back to the crowd of us. "Tammy," he sung out. "Get a couple of lamps out of the lamp-locker." "i, i, Sir," Tammy replied, and ran off. "Now," said the Second Mate, addressing us. "I want a couple of men to jump aloft along with me and take a look for Stubbins."
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