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No; and I ought not to have been born a mermaid, that I might always have been in water. A mermaid, indeed! What next will you call me? But no man, Mr. Caudle, says such things to his wife as you. However, as I've said before, it can't last long, that's one comfort. What do you say? "You're a brute, Mr. Caudle! No, you DIDN'T mean washing: I know what you mean.
"If we had our submarine we might also," interrupted Jack. "But the Mermaid isn't built to sail in that fashion." "Nor would the Porpoise have served us in this emergency," said the professor. "It would prove too heavy. But, nevertheless, I think I have a plan. Now, Mark, you are about to learn the secret of the storeroom.
"Whisper," said Jenkins, drawing his friend aside; "I am known here only as the Boy Chief of the 'Pigeon toes." "And I," said Bromley Chitterlings, proudly, "am known everywhere as the Pirate Prodigy the Boy Avenger of the Patagonian Coast." "But how came you here?" "Listen! My pirate brig, the 'Lively Mermaid, now lies at Meiggs's Wharf in San Francisco, disguised as a Mendocino lumber vessel.
The successive plantings of flowers keep the gardens in continuous bloom daffodils, tulips, pansies, begonias, dahlias, each in their turn. Festival Hall South Gardens and Mermaid Pool
"Very well," replied the Queen. "Let us turn in this direction, then." "You can say goodbye to Merla for us," continued Trot. "She was very nice to us, an' 'specially to Cap'n Bill." "So she was, mate," agreed the sailor, "an' a prettier lady I never knew, even if she is a mermaid, beggin' your pardon, ma'am." "Are we going anywhere near Zog's castle?" asked the girl.
By-and-by a diver came down, and the mermaid said, 'I'll give you a box of pearls if you can take it up, for she wanted to restore the poor things to life, and couldn't raise the heavy load herself. So the diver hoisted it up, and was much disappointed on opening it to find no pearls. He left it in a great lonely field, where it was found by a..."
On the 15th the convoy reached Oyster-pond Bay, and on the 16th anchored off Fort Island, in company with the Eagle, Nonsuch, Apollo, Mermaid, Unicorn, Ariel, Maidstone, Grampus, and Stromboli; and here their active operations began.
These are far more beautiful than the fairest of human beings, and sometimes a fisherman has seen a tender mermaid, and has listened to her song. Such wonderful creatures are called Undines, and one of these you see now before you! "We should be far superior to other beings for we consider ourselves human but for one defect.
Stories again are circulated in Sweden, among the peasantry, of persons who by cutting a branch from a habitation tree have been struck with death. Such a tree was the "klinta tall" in Westmanland, under which a mermaid was said to dwell. To this tree might occasionally be seen snow-white cattle driven up from the neighbouring lake across the meadows.
The London taverns were the clubs of London's literary men, and in Shakespeare's time the most famous houses were "The Mermaid" in Bread Street, "The Boar's Head" in Eastcheap, "The Devil" at Temple Bar, "The Falcon," "The Tabard," "The George," and some few others, situated on the south side of the river.
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