They remembered TinyAss the latest, which was his weakness and sickness. A pause follows. His head is not quite right, muttered the ex-soldier as he winked in the direction of the retreating figure. The Otter, as knowing all the paths, took charge of the party, and they trailed out on a bee-line for a distant stile. It was in connection with the riding, that White Fang achieved one other mode of expression - remarkable in that he did it but twice in all his life. The port of Santa Barbara, to which we were bound, lying about sixty miles to the southward of this point, we continued sailing down the coast during the day and following night, and on the next morning, Jan. White Fang's natural impulse, when he saw the live food fluttering about him and under his very nose, was to spring upon it. The wind continuing very light, all hands were sent aloft to strip off the chafing gear; and battens, parcellings, roundings, hoops, mats, and leathers, came flying from aloft, and left the rigging neat and clean, stripped of all its sea bandaging. We caught one or two with a baited hook which we floated astern upon a shingle. But what a noise those roisterers are making, to be sure! The TinyAss fellow in the red shirt had just shouted: Hi, there, soldier! Seize him by the throat! Seize him, seize him! While from Silantiev had come the gruff retort: What? Do you suppose that you are hunting a pack of hounds? Here, answer me! was the next shouted utterance--it came from the ex-soldier-- whereupon the old man remarked to me in an undertone: It would seem that a fight is brewing.
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