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Updated: June 25, 2025
All 'cept Joe, that is, which shows how people should never be rude, even to the humblest; for I'm sartin that if the skipper hadn't hurt his feelings the way he did we should now know as much about the sea-sarpint as we do about our own brothers." Matilda stood at the open door of a house attached to a wharf situated in that dreary district which bears the high-sounding name of "St. Katharine's."
"'It's a wonderful animal, ses the skipper, 'an' there's none of you now but has seen the sea-sarpint; but I forbid any man here to say a word about it when we get ashore. "'Why not, sir? ses the second mate. "'Becos you wouldn't be believed, said the skipper sternly. The comic papers 'ud make fun of it, and the respectable papers 'ud say it was seaweed or gulls.
I thought the skipper 'ud have killed him; but the second mate held him back, an', of course, when things quieted down a bit, an' we went to the side, we found the sea-sarpint had vanished. "We stayed there all that night, but it warn't no use. When day broke there wasn't the slightest trace of it, an' I think the men was as sorry to lose it as the officers.
Watkins tried to make me believe that he thought it a water moccasin snake. Old Mr. Shane said that it was a 'young sea-sarpint sure. Mr. Ficket, the blacksmith, begged it to take home for its skin, as he said for buskin-strings and flail-strings. So ends my day's fishing. "Went over to-day to see Watkins make bricks.
"No, sir; alive itself." "How can that be? Hail him again. Ask him what it is." The officer went out, and hailed the signalman at the mast-head. "What is it?" "Sea-sarpint, I think." This hail reached the captain's ears faintly. However, he waited quietly till the officer came in and reported it; then he burst out, "Absurd! there is no such creature in the universe. What do you say, Dr. Staines?
Here the Frenchman let down his trawl, and fished up, among other curiosities of the deep, the submarine cable! "Behold! fat is dis?" he exclaimed, with glaring eyes, uplifted brows, shoulders shrugged, hands spread out, and fingers expanded. "The sea-sarpint grow'd thin," suggested the Englishman. "Non; c'est seaveed veed de most 'strordinair in de vorld.
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