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fast enough to follow and catch a trout — a 

 long, deep dive tires him, and he must rest 

 7{ukiaeem ff^ before another. If you are chasing him, 

 ^*»V^ -^ln^~ shout and wave your hat the moment he 

 appears, and paddle hard the way his bill 

 points as he dives again. The next time he 

 comes up you are nearer to him. Send him 

 down again quick, and after him. The next 

 time he is frightened to see the canoe so 

 close, and dives deep, which tires him the 

 more. So his disappearances become shorter 

 and more confused; you follow him more 

 surely because you can see him plainly now 

 as he goes down. Suddenly he bursts out 

 of water beside you, scattering the spray into 

 your canoe. Once he came up under my 

 paddle, and I plucked a feather from his 

 back before he got away. 



This last appearance always scares him 

 out of his wits, and you get what you have 

 been working hard for — a sight of Huk- 

 weem getting under way. Away he goes in 

 a smother of spray, beating the water with his 

 wings, kicking hard to lift himself up; and 

 so for a hundred yards, leaving a wake like 



