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Suddenly
one
big
old
bird
,
that
had
been
sitting
on
a
point
very
near
to
us
,
gazing
in
mute
astonishment
,
became
alarmed
,
and
scuttling
down
the
rocks
,
plumped
or
fell
,
rather
than
ran
,
into
the
sea
.
It
dived
in
a
moment
,
and
,
a
few
seconds
afterwards
,
came
out
of
the
water
far
ahead
with
such
a
spring
,
and
such
a
dive
back
into
the
sea
again
,
that
we
could
scarcely
believe
it
was
not
a
fish
that
had
leaped
in
sport
.
"
That
beats
everything
!
"
said
Peterkin
,
rubbing
his
nose
,
and
screwing
up
his
face
with
an
expression
of
exasperated
amazement
.
"
I
've
heard
of
a
thing
being
neither
fish
,
flesh
,
nor
fowl
;
but
I
never
did
expect
to
live
to
see
a
brute
that
was
all
three
together
--
at
once
--
in
one
!
But
look
there
!
"
he
continued
,
pointing
with
a
look
of
resignation
to
the
shore
--
"
look
there
!
there
's
no
end
to
it
.
What
has
that
brute
got
under
its
tail
?
"
We
turned
to
look
in
the
direction
pointed
out
,
and
there
saw
a
penguin
walking
slowly
and
very
sedately
along
the
shore
with
an
egg
under
its
tail
.
There
were
several
others
,
we
observed
,
burdened
in
the
same
way
;
and
we
found
afterwards
that
these
were
a
species
of
penguin
that
always
carried
their
eggs
so
.
Indeed
,
they
had
a
most
convenient
cavity
for
the
purpose
,
just
between
the
tail
and
the
legs
.
We
were
very
much
impressed
with
the
regularity
and
order
of
this
colony
.
The
island
seemed
to
be
apportioned
out
into
squares
,
of
which
each
penguin
possessed
one
,
and
sat
in
stiff
solemnity
in
the
middle
of
it
,
or
took
a
slow
march
up
and
down
the
spaces
between
.
Some
were
hatching
their
eggs
,
but
others
were
feeding
their
young
ones
in
a
manner
that
caused
us
to
laugh
not
a
little
.
The
mother
stood
on
a
mound
or
raised
rock
,
while
the
young
one
stood
patiently
below
her
on
the
ground
.
Suddenly
the
mother
raised
her
head
and
uttered
a
series
of
the
most
discordant
cackling
sounds
.
"
She
's
going
to
choke
,
"
cried
Peterkin
.
But
this
was
not
the
case
,
although
,
I
confess
,
she
looked
like
it
.
In
a
few
seconds
she
put
down
her
head
and
opened
her
mouth
,
into
which
the
young
one
thrust
its
beak
and
seemed
to
suck
something
from
her
throat
.
Then
the
cackling
was
renewed
,
the
sucking
continued
,
and
so
the
operation
of
feeding
was
carried
on
till
the
young
one
was
satisfied
;
but
what
she
fed
her
little
one
with
we
could
not
tell
.
"
Now
,
just
look
yonder
!
"
said
Peterkin
in
an
excited
tone
.
"
If
that
is
n't
the
most
abominable
piece
of
maternal
deception
I
ever
saw
!
That
rascally
old
lady
penguin
has
just
pitched
her
young
one
into
the
sea
,
and
there
's
another
about
to
follow
her
example
.
"
This
indeed
seemed
to
be
the
case
,
for
on
the
top
of
a
steep
rock
close
to
the
edge
of
the
sea
we
observed
an
old
penguin
endeavouring
to
entice
her
young
one
into
the
water
;
but
the
young
one
seemed
very
unwilling
to
go
,
and
notwithstanding
the
enticements
of
its
mother
,
moved
very
slowly
towards
her
.
At
last
she
went
gently
behind
the
young
bird
and
pushed
it
a
little
towards
the
water
,
but
with
great
tenderness
,
as
much
as
to
say
,
"
Do
n't
be
afraid
,
darling
;
I
wo
n't
hurt
you
,
my
pet
!
"
But
no
sooner
did
she
get
it
to
the
edge
of
the
rock
,
where
it
stood
looking
pensively
down
at
the
sea
,
than
she
gave
it
a
sudden
and
violent
push
,
sending
it
headlong
down
the
slope
into
the
water
,
where
its
mother
left
it
to
scramble
ashore
as
it
best
could
.
We
observed
many
of
them
employed
in
doing
this
,
and
we
came
to
the
conclusion
that
this
is
the
way
in
which
old
penguins
teach
their
children
to
swim
.
Scarcely
had
we
finished
making
our
remarks
on
this
,
when
we
were
startled
by
about
a
dozen
of
the
old
birds
hopping
in
the
most
clumsy
and
ludicrous
manner
towards
the
sea
.
The
beach
here
was
a
sloping
rock
,
and
when
they
came
to
it
some
of
them
succeeded
in
hopping
down
in
safety
,
but
others
lost
their
balance
and
rolled
and
scrambled
down
the
slope
in
the
most
helpless
manner
.
The
instant
they
reached
the
water
,
however
,
they
seemed
to
be
in
their
proper
element
.
They
dived
,
and
bounded
out
of
it
and
into
it
again
with
the
utmost
agility
;
and
so
,
diving
and
bounding
and
sputtering
--
for
they
could
not
fly
--
they
went
rapidly
out
to
sea
.
