. The adventures of Peter Peterkin . et high into the air! Up, up, like a bubble at the topof a mighty geyser, it rose with the stream of the whales foun-tain. For the wink of an eye, it seemed to hang there—thendown it came again—down with a spatter and splash into thetrough of the sea I Peterkin could stand it no longer. He screamed aloud—with such a scream as the whale had never heard. It was ascream to make every fish in the sea shudder along its fins. Oh, dear me I sighed the whale, I have made an been hurting somebodys feelings, I fear. I should havebeen very glad to make a bre
. The adventures of Peter Peterkin . et high into the air! Up, up, like a bubble at the topof a mighty geyser, it rose with the stream of the whales foun-tain. For the wink of an eye, it seemed to hang there—thendown it came again—down with a spatter and splash into thetrough of the sea I Peterkin could stand it no longer. He screamed aloud—with such a scream as the whale had never heard. It was ascream to make every fish in the sea shudder along its fins. Oh, dear me I sighed the whale, I have made an been hurting somebodys feelings, I fear. I should havebeen very glad to make a breakfast of that little man and hisyellow bubble, if only he hadnt minded and had acted cheer-fully about it. But now, since hes so cross and cranky, Ishall punish him by going away and never looking at himagain. So there! Which was just what the big whale did. And it nevercould understand why the little man clapped his hands andlaughed with delight when he saw it dwindle away into thewaves of the distance. IV PETERKINS APPETITE. N OW all this while poor Pe-terkin had not had a sin-gle bit to eat. Not a dry biscuiteven. And as for a whole meal,why—that was out of the ques-tion. For wasnt his stove drear-ily cold? And the eggs in hisbasket all crushed by the manyfalls his Pumperkin had taken?And he was hungry. Sowould you be, if you had gone so long without a meal—andPeterkin, for all he lived in a pumpkin, was not so far dif-ferent from you. He sat and listened to the slap of the wavesupon the bottom of his round yellow boat and rubbed hisempty stomach mournfully. 25 26 THE ADVENTURES OF PETERKIN Suddenly, the Pumperkin gave a lurch and a fling up-ward. Then again and again! Oh, what was it now? An-other whale? Peterkin rushed up his ladder, and . . oh,it was land! Yes, directly ahead of him, the waves were combing intoa high, frothy surf thundering down upon a stretch of yel-low sands. Behind that, he could see tall trees spreadingtheir broad palm leaves in tufts of br
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