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Nothing could be more horrider or more disgustin' than you are, it seems to me." "Very good, very good indeed," declared the monster, lifting his lashes to flash his glowing eyes upon them. Then he turned toward Cap'n Bill. "Man-fish," he continued, "what do YOU think of me?" "Mighty little," the sailor replied.
It may have been curiosity, or the uncomfortable sense of being watched and followed by the man-fish, who neither harmed nor feared him, that brought Umquenawis at last to our camp to investigate. One day Noel was washing some clothes of mine in the lake when some subtle warning made him turn his head. There stood the big bull, half hidden by the dwarf spruces, watching him intently.
So when I darted upwards with a strong swirl that cut the waters apart for my passage, she thrust herself farther ahead, trying to drive me back, and said plainly by her actions: "Don't go aloft, my son, you will rush into danger; heed the warnings of your mother and stay where the waters are untroubled and safe." No, I was getting to be a smart man-fish, and must be allowed to go where I would.
The people were terribly frightened, and did not think to live till another sun, but the man-fish kept close to the boats, and bade them not be afraid, for nothing should hurt them. When morning came, nothing could be seen of the shore they had left.
In Goldsmith's veracious "History of Animated Nature" is a sprightly account of one Nicolas, who was called, if our memory be not at fault, the man-fish, and who was endowed by his Creator-the late Mr. Goldsmith aforesaid-with the power of conducting an active existence under the sea.
In an instant the boy Sacho appeared and bowed low before his dreadful master. "Take the mermaids and the child to the Rose Chamber," commanded Zog, "and take the old man-fish to the Peony Room." Sacho turned to obey. "Are the outer passages well guarded?" asked the monster. "Yes, as you have commanded," said the boy. "Then you may allow the prisoners to roam at will throughout the castle.
Kiskapocoke told the strange creature they wanted to eat and drink, and that he must supply them with what they required. "Very well," said the man-fish, and, disappearing in the depths of the water, he soon reappeared, bringing with him a bag of parched corn and a shell full of sweet water.
Upon the shore stood a great many strange people, but when they saw the strangers step upon the land and the man-fish, they fled to the woods like startled deer, and were no more seen. When the warriors were safely landed, the man-fish told them to let the canoe go; "for," said he, "you will never need it more."
For many moons the Shawanos travelled under the guidance of the man-goat, into whose hands the man-fish had put them, when he retraced his steps to the Great Lake. They came at length to the land which the Shawanos now occupy. They found it as the strange spirits had described it.
When they reached the fishing-place, they heard as before the voice shouting "Follow me, and see what I will show you." Presently the man-fish appeared, sitting on the water, with his legs folded under him, and his arms crossed on his breast, as they had usually seen him. There he sat, eying them attentively.
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