"Whenever your light shined in here it scart the turtle, and it quit kickin'.

It's always trying to climb out of the pen and falling over on its back; and when it tips over near the wall and strikes with them flippers, it makes that sound.

If it ain't near the wall, of course it don't strike nothin' to make the sound.

And, of course, soon's it can turn itself back--which it can't sometimes for hours--it quits kickin' out." "And yez tuk me for thot thing and thot thing for me, and aitch av us knew nothing about it, and it wasn't ayther av us!" chuckled Barney.
"Just so!" said Merriwell.

"And right glad I am to understand it, and to know that you are living!" "And Oi niver wor gladder to see anybody in my loife! The soight av yez makes me well.