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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Hold on, Fleming," we shouted; "we will be up to you directly." "Fire! fire!" cried Fleming; "I can't keep the brute back much longer." At length Surley's attack seemed to produce more effect on the puma. For a moment he turned round to try to repel him.
Surley gets some, and we, who have been accustomed all our lives to it, would like to have it now." "Oh, oh, you hab some of Surley's den," answered Tom Congo, with a grin. "You are too kind to wish to make us eat scraps and bits," said Jerry; "we should just like a piece of beef or pork." Congo looked pleased; and though he would not promise to bring us any meat, we saw that he would.
The surface of the sea near at hand was covered with the parent birds, and the air was alive with them as they flew backward and forward to carry food to their young; but as, following old Surley's example, we did not attempt to molest their broods, they took no notice of us. The penguins were the most numerous, and appeared to be the original inhabitants of the spot.
"I like to see a fellow with some spirit in him, and I'll keep you out of harm if I can." "Thank you," said Jerry, making a dash after Surley's tail; "I thought you looked as if you were a kind chap, and that made me speak to you." Thus by degrees we made ourselves at home among the crew. Before the evening we were chasing each other about the rigging.
Being somewhat tired, therefore, we got into the boat, and drawing the sail over the after-part, we lay down in the stern-sheets and were soon fast asleep. We were both awoke by old Surley's bark, and jumping up, we saw Mr Brand with his other two companions running along the beach. We jumped out of the boat and hurried to meet them.
We climbed on, therefore, without any misgivings as to how we should find our way back again. I fastened my handkerchief through Surley's collar to keep him back. He was thus able also sometimes to help me up a steep place or a rock quicker than I could have got by myself. Jerry followed close behind me. The distance was, we found, greater than we expected to the next herd.
The men forward had a monkey, and we got hold of him, and made him ride upon Surley's back. Neither animal liked it at first, but by coaxing them we managed to reconcile them to each other.
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