In time becoming wearied even of these congenial diversions and
tiring of the shop talk that has been going on, the second dentist
returns to his original prey and the party who has you in charge
tries a new experiment. He arms himself with a kind of an
automatic hammering machine, somewhat similar to the steam riveter
used in constructing steel office buildings, except that this one
is more compact and can deliver about eighty-five more blows to the
second. Thus equipped, he descends far below your high water mark
and engages in aquatic sports and pastimes for a considerable
period of time. It seems to you that you never saw a man who could
go down and stay down as long as this young man can. You begin to
feel that you misjudged his real vocation in life when you decided
that he ought to be a boiler maker. You know that he was intended
for pearl fishing. He's a natural born deep sea diver. He doesn't
even have to come up to breathe, but stays below, knee deep in your
tide wash, merrily knocking chunks off your lowermost coral reefs
with his little steam riveter and having a perfectly lovely time.
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