? ? ? ? 'But the clubbing?' I suggested.
? ? ? ? 'Of course you will do that. I shall probably scream. I'll look away when-'
? ? ? ? 'The danger is most serious,' I laughed.
? ? ? ? 'I shall use my judgment when to look and when not to look,' she replied, with a grand air.
? ? ? ? The upshot of the affair was that she accompanied me next morning. I rowed into the adjoining cove and up to the edge of the beach. There were seals all about us in the water, and the bellowing thousands on the beach compelled us to shout at each other to make ourselves heard.
? ? ? ? 'I know men club them,' I said, trying to reassure myself, and gazing doubtfully at a large bull, not thirty feet away, upreared on his fore flippers and regarding me intently. 'But the question is, how do they club them?'
? ? ? ? 'Let us gather tundra grass and thatch the roof,' Maud said.
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