Show MURDER OF THE SEALIS SEAL SEALIS IS STEALTHY ACT The ice echoes no footfalls so the of tho the seal is s a stealthy stealth act Yes it seems like murder cl On the pan lies a alon alone Up Vp to it hurries one of tho the hunters Lifting his bat above aboc his hie head he measures the distance then swin swinging in downward the iron iron- shod iron hod point he hc strikes the skull of the tho seal such a blow that it is crushed in as IS if of pasteboard To Tossing siu aside tho the Latan bat Lat batand batand an and whipping out the knife while whilo tho the creature is still quivering qui 1 with a swift undercut and two or si side e strokes the keen ken blade blado has severed tho the hide an and tho the lavers la layers of fat fat- beneath so O thoy they can bo Lo rolled into a pelt the hi hide e hold holding u the fat in its fol folds a. a The Tho n next is ia with its par par- I Their hi hide bide e is coarser but hut worth having so the tho gunner under takes tokes a l quick I aim lod lodges a charge c of shot in iu in tho the head heal of tho the growling mate mato just at the base of the brain bruin Here the skull is is thinnest One of the batters stands guard over r I the the blow holo hole blow to prevent th the mother from escaping while another bats the tho I cub Then Theil tho the female who would desert I I her bel offspring ng to save stive her own life is clubbed on the head A few strokes of I the knives and m three more bloo bloody y carcasses carcasses car car- I casses crimson the ice The pelt of the first teal seal is piled with the tho other three in a pan The lla flag flag- flagman I man mail sticks a lIn ling hag b by its ita Hi side Q and tho the I hunters hurr hurry onward lea in leaving tho the pelts to be bo towed back to tho the ship when the hunt is en ended ed Thus the slaughter continues hour after after af af- af I ter hour until ni nightfall only ends tho I stroke of the tho bat lIat and thrust of the I knife If I-f it began Leg at daybreak th the field may be he strewn with thousands of dead seals for if the tho pan of ice ice is iH thronged with them as is is sometimes the case a hundred men will kill hill ten times the their l' l number in a day clay since yince most of tho the seals are harps wh which h seldom try to protect their young youn and finel are slain without attempting attempting at at- tempting to defend themselves |