Seagrave; and
William and Juno may put things a little more to rights here."
Mr. Seagrave and Ready then walked down to the beach, and, after
surveying the reefs for some time, Ready said, "You see, Mr. Seagrave,
we do not want too much water for a turtle-pond, as, if it is too deep,
there is a difficulty in catching them when we want them: what we want
is a space of water surrounded by a low wall of stones, so that the
animals cannot escape, for they cannot climb up, although they can walk
on the shelving sand with their flippers. Now the reef here is high out
of the water, and the space within the reef and the beach is deep
enough, and the rocks on the beach nearly fill up that side and prevent
them crawling away by the shore. We have, therefore, little more to do
than to fill up the two other sides, and then our pond will be
complete."
"I see it will not be a long job either, if we can find loose rocks
enough," replied Mr. Seagrave.
"Almost all those which are on the beach are loose," replied Ready,
"and there are plenty close to us: some of them will be too heavy to
carry, but they can be brought here by the aid of handspikes and
crowbars.
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