Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 337
eir flippers, roaring and bellowing. Itbeing Selkirks custom at once to go to his look-out on the beach,he approached the seals with some uncertainty as to their temperin letting him pass through. He held his firelock ready to beatthem off with the butt in case they made at him, but he foundthem so… … the shore very thick for above half a mile of ground all aroundthe bay. It appeared this was the spot where it was their customto come each year and raise their young, and though seals beusually peaceable creatures, as there came to be many youngamong them, the old ones grew still more surly. Far…
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