Time enough to make verses on this rather awkward episode when we're safe in Boston.

Make a proposal for dinner, somebody.
Wade's starving." "What say for the sea-horse!" exclaimed Donovan.
"Yes; how about that walrus ?" Kit demanded.
"That sea-horse has got us into a fine scrape," muttered Wade.

"It would have been better if we had left him undisturbed on his island." "That's neither this nor there, now," said Kit.

"Question arises, Can we eat him?
Is it fit to eat?
Did ever anybody hear of their being eaten ?" "The Huskies eat them, I believe," said Raed.
"The Huskies! Well, I mean civilized folks; ship's crews ?" Nobody knew.
"The best way will be to try it for ourselves," remarked Donovan.

"But we don't know that we killed him yet.