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Mr. Poole, our worthy consul, introduced me at the castle, and in the course of his remarks asserted that the sea-serpent was a Yankee. Most royally was the crew of the Spray entertained by the governor.
Before the boy left for Santa Catalina that evening he found his name in all the afternoon papers as being one of the men who had "caught the sea-serpent."
The price of admission was one rin each to children, and finally they chose the conjurer's booth, and saw him spout fire from his mouth, swallow a long sword, and finally exhibit a sea-serpent, which appeared to be made of seal-skins tacked together. When they left the show they came all at once on one of the great delights of a Japanese fair.
Well, all I can say is," returned the little man, gazing fixedly in the grave comrade's face, "that I saw the great sea-serpent with my own eyes!" "No! did you?" exclaimed the group, drawing their heads closer together with looks of expectancy. "Ay, that did I, mates; but you mustn't expect wild descriptions about monsters with bulls' horns and asses' tails from me.
"Well," said the doctor gravely, "I for a long time have been of opinion that the reports that reach us from time to time about the sea-serpent must have some truth in them, though they have doubtless been greatly exaggerated." "Don't hear of many reports now, sir," said Captain Chubb. "We sea-going people have been laughed at too much."
Anon she dances in mad glee, and next her arms are solemnly stretched upward in grotesque similitude to one in prayer. When she is hungry, she will, one by one, take off those weedy trophies from her back and feed upon them. Why do you start? That is not a sea-serpent winding from under the arch, but only an innocent Eel. Yet innocent and tiny though it be, there is something frightful about it.
From time to time he turns up afresh, with his own wonted perennial vigour, on paper at least, in company with the great sea-serpent, the big gooseberry, the shower of frogs, the two-headed calf, and all the other common objects of the country or the seaside in the silly season.
I will only remark, in general, that the traveller who can find, in any part of the world, an American Consul not disabled from all service by ill-health, want of means, ignorance of foreign languages, or unpleasant relations with the representatives of foreign powers, that traveller, we say, should go in search of the sea-serpent, and the passage of the North Pole, for he has proved himself able to find what, to every one but him, is undiscoverable.
"Well, it do seem likely," said Tom; "but I never could swallow the sea-serpent." "No, my lad, more likely to swallow you," said the sailor drily. "But come now," said Tom drily. "Did you ever come across the great sea-serpent?" "A mate o' mine," said the sailor, "told me he once saw out Newfoundland way part of a great cuttle-fish that had been washed ashore after a storm.
An expression of mingled surprise and terror had come to her pretty, but rather weak face; and without acknowledging his half-salute, she had caught up a little child from the deck behind her, and turning into the saloon door, hurried to the library, where she sank into a chair beside a military-looking gentleman, who glanced up from a book and remarked: "Seen the sea-serpent, Myra, or the Flying Dutchman?
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