His clothes were rags, and his naked feet like the flippers of seals.

Of all the feet that I have looked at I know only one more utterly ridiculous than the twisted flipper on which the sea-lion props his great bulk in front, and that is the forked fly-flap which extends from the hinder parts of the same.

" [Illustration: OR PERHAPS WHEN IT WANTS TO LISTEN IT RAISES A FLIPPER TO ITS EAR.]

They gave these a wide berth, for should they grow friendly and mix their great flippers with the sub's propeller, trouble would follow.