"Are you quite certain about it, mon garçon?" said Desmond, eagerly grasping his gun. "Did you really?"
"Tenez, m'sieur!" replied the lad. "There! there! Did you see it?"
A YACHT CHASING A SCHOOL OF DOLPHINS.
From a Photograph.
Sure enough, a black object had just shot out of the water, disappearing again so quickly that I almost thought I had made a mistake. Not so my friend. He had seen enough to convince him that the dolphin was coming towards us at full speed, and accordingly got his gun ready, meanwhile giving me some rapid hints about the best way of shooting.
"Now, don't aim at the head," he told me. "Never at the head, whatever you do."
"What a queer idea!" said I. "Wouldn't a bullet through its head stop it dead?"
HAULING A DOLPHIN INTO THE YACHT'S DINGHY.