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chest, and the buckle burst, and it got up and hobbled 
away with the belt still round its legs ; it actually hobbled 
with dignity. Then we all sat on it again without any 
ceremony, for we were angry — the penguin remained 
calmly dignified — and fastened him up with some fathoms 
of whale-line that happened to be in the boat, lashed him 
from his bill to his toes all the way down, with marline 
hitches, like a roll of beef, and carried him to the boat 
and dropped him in the line-chest. There he freed one 
flipper just to show what he could do if he tried, but made 
no other effort to escape. On deck the penguin preserved 
his sphinx-like dignity under very novel and trying cir- 
cumstances. All the men stood round him, and marvelled 
at his strange, bulky form ; but he did not take the least 
notice and there was a strange, far-away look in his little 
black eye, as if he saw right back to the days when these 
white shores were clad with the verdure of the tropics and 
there were no glaciers on the black rocks. Fanny, the ship's 
dog, tried to have a game with it — a most absurd idea ! 
She danced round the penguin, bounced against it, and 
vainly tried to tumble it over. At first the penguin merely 
kept the dog off with its flippers, hitting round-arm blows 
with them so quickly that the movements were scarcely 
visible, and puzzled Fanny as to what the game was; then 
Fanny came too close, and the emperor's pencil-like beak 
went out with a flash and strength that would have punched 
holes in a steel plate, and off went Fanny in no end of a 
hurry, and never came near again, but walked round and 
round the deck as far away as the bulwarks would allow her, 
It was thought the penguin would be in our way on 
