It dived in a moment, and, a few seconds afterwards, came out of the water far a-head, with such a spring, and such a dive back into the sea again, that we could scarcely believe it was not a fish that had leaped in sport.
"That beats everything," said Peterkin, rubbing his nose, and screwing up his face with an expression of exasperated amazement.

"I've heard of a thing being neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, but I never did expect to live to see a brute that was all three together,--at once--in one! But look there!" he continued, pointing with a look of resignation to the shore, "look there! there's no end to it.

What _has_ that brute got under its tail ?" We turned to look in the direction pointed out, and there saw a penguin walking slowly and very sedately along the shore with an egg under its tail.

There were several others, we observed, burdened in the same way; and we found afterwards that these were a species of penguins that always carried their eggs so.

Indeed, they had a most convenient cavity for the purpose, just between the tail and the legs.