SEAL

Yet Sea Catch never chased a beaten seal, for that was against the Rules of the Beach.

Kotuko went out, day after day, with a light hunting-sleigh and six or seven of the strongest dogs, looking till his eyes ached for some patch of clear ice where a seal might perhaps have scratched a breathing-hole.

Seal would burst into the room with a letter which needed explanation in her hand.

But he heard nothing, and so, judging from the impression of the seal and the lid, he thought there must be something precious inside.

Her Ladyship was called away into the next room to the dog, before she could seal the envelope."

To add to the delay he was to be paid for his cargo in seal skins.

If I give up the public vindication of my innocence, in my own lifetime--if I leave the seal of the letter unbroken--do you say, as Mr.

May I never shoot a seal again if that ain't a woman!"

The pages of my poor friend's Journal are waiting for you at my house-- sealed up, with your name on the wrapper.

What do I care to know of your Glister and your sealed orders!"

Since Tom's harassed conscience had managed to drive him to the lawyer's house by night and wring a dread tale from lips that had been sealed with the dismalest and most formidable of oaths, Huck's confidence in the human race was well-nigh obliterated.

Those rocky islands the ship had passed were the resort of great numbers of seals, and some young seals that had lost their dams, or some dams that had lost their cubs, must have risen nigh the ship and kept company with her, crying and sobbing with their human sort of wail.