1 "But I know men club them," I persisted.
2 "We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship.
3 I can do what other men have done, and I know that other men have clubbed seals.
4 I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.
5 The club dropped from her hand as though it had suddenly stung her, and at the same moment my heart surged with a great joy.
6 It is unfortunate we haven't plenty of ammunition, but I think, anyway, that they suffer less from being clubbed than from being all shot up.
7 Shouting, making threatening gestures with my club, and even prodding the lazy ones, I quickly cut out a score of the young bachelors from their companions.
8 It was only a foot and a half long, and in my superb ignorance I never dreamed that the club used ashore when raiding the rookeries measured four to five feet.
9 But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club.
10 "I know men club them," I said, trying to reassure myself, and gazing doubtfully at a large bull, not thirty feet away, upreared on his fore-flippers and regarding me intently.