? ? ? ? 'Now, don't say that this is what you get for bringing a woman along,' she said. She smiled at me whimsically, gloriously, and I knew there was no need for forgiveness.
? ? ? ? I rowed a couple of hundred feet along the beach so as to recover my nerves, and then stepped ashore again.
? ? ? ? 'Do be cautious!' she called after me.
? ? ? ? I nodded my head and proceeded to make a flank attack on the nearest harem. All went until I aimed a blow at an outlying cow's head and fell short. She snorted and tried to scramble away. I ran in close and struck another blow, hitting the shoulder instead of the head.
? ? ? ? 'Look out!' I heard Maud scream.
? ? ? ? In my excitement I had not been taking notice of other things, and I looked up to see the lord of the harem charging down upon me. Again I fled to the boat, hotly pursued; but this time Maud made no suggestion of turning back.
? ? ? ? 'It would be better, I imagine, if you let harems alone and devoted your attention to lonely and inoffensive-looking seals,' was what she said.
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