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"Something like the octopus you just saw, only much larger and of a bright scarlet color, striped with black," answered the Queen. "They are very fierce and terrible creatures and nearly as much dreaded by the inhabitants of the ocean as is Zog, and nearly as powerful as King Anko himself." "Zog! Who is Zog?" questioned the girl. "I haven't heard of him before now."
Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody." "Why don't you kill yourself?" asked Trot. "I've tried that and failed," he answered. "Only one being in the world has power to destroy me, and that is King Anko, the sea serpent." "Then you'd better let him do it," advised the little girl. "No. Much as I long to die, I cannot allow King Anko the pleasure of killing me.
"But before you go," said King Anko, "I will give you a rare treat. It is one you will remember as long as you live. You shall see every inch of the mightiest sea serpent in the world, all at one time!" As he spoke, the purple and gold cloth was lifted by unseen hands and disappeared from view.
"Just now you are living in the ocean," declared Anko, "and as long as you live here, you must obey my commands." "What are your commands?" inquired the child. "Ah, that's the point I was coming to," returned the King with his comical smile. "The ocean is a beautiful place, and we who belong here love it dearly.
He has always been my worst enemy, and it would be such a joy to him to kill me that I really cannot allow him. Indeed, I have always hoped to kill Anko. I have now been three thousand six hundred and forty-two years, eleven months and nine days figuring out a plan to destroy old Anko, and as yet I have not discovered a way." "I'd give it up, if I were you," advised Trot.
"Pretty fair," said Cap'n Bill. "How's yourself?" "Oh, I'm very well, thank you," answered Anko. "I never remember to have had a pain but three times in my life. The last time was when Julius Sneezer was on earth." "You mean Julius Caesar," said Trot, correcting him. "No, I mean Julius Sneezer," insisted the Sea Serpent. "That was his real name Sneezer.
"What was it?" asked Trot. "It was a stomach ache," replied the King with a sigh. "What made it?" she inquired. "Just my carelessness," said Anko. "I'd been away to foreign parts, seeing how the earth people were getting along.
" 19th " Inkyo " 412-453 " 20th " Anko " 454-456 " 21st " Yuryaku " 457-479 THE prehistoric era may be said to terminate with the accession of Richu. Thenceforth the lives and reigns of successive sovereigns cease to extend to incredible lengths, and though the chronology adopted by the writers of the Nihongi may not yet be implicitly accepted, its general accuracy is not open to dispute.
Perhaps they don't know we're friends of Anko." "The king insists on certain formalities when anyone visits him," was Aquareine's reply. "It is right that his dignity should be maintained." They followed their winged conductors to one of the upper openings, and as they entered it Aquareine said in a clear voice, "May the glory and power of the ocean king continue forever!"
Out of one of these holes, which it just fitted, stretched the long, brown body of the sea serpent. Trot, being astonished at this sight, asked, "Didn't you take all of you when you went to the cavern, Anko?" "Nearly all, my dear," was the reply, accompanied by a cheerful smile, for Anko was proud of his great length. "But not quite all.
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