I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn.

And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge.

I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
"We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship.

"I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them." "They are so pretty," she objected.

"I cannot bear to think of it being done.