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who shared the same tank with him, contented 

 himself with slipping through and through 

 the water in his tank as if he had been 'oiled, 

 taking a peep once in a while to see how mat- 

 ters were progressing; while the sea lions, 

 looking occasionally at their master with their 

 lion-like faces — which are supposed to have 

 given them their name — would turn on one 

 another savagely, biting at each other in a 

 vicious manner and screaming in their hoarse 

 voices until they would receive a few smart 

 taps from their master with a long stick, when 

 they would dive down under the water out of 

 the way, and then come up and do the same 

 thing all over again. 



But Toby wasted no time at all. His right 

 flipper just rested over the top of the water 

 tank, and every minute he would flap it up 

 and down as he did when beating the drum 

 in his performance. And, of course, every 

 time he did this, he splashed the water 

 all over everything and everybody. It 

 was a most exciting scene and a very noisy 

 one. 



