A TURTLE TUItN. 213 



breathing hard. " We never could have stopped 

 her if you hadn't come up." 



Long John cut a slit in the turtle's flippers, 

 making them fast with rope yarn, and then the 

 party separated again. 



In the course of the night five large logger- 

 head turtles were caught, and by three o'clock 

 the young turtle-turners were well tired out. 



The next day their prisoners were placed in 

 the large boat and taken over to the fort, where 

 they were released in the turtle crawl. 



