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Title: The great sea horse
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, Isabel, 1876-1948
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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like a grin-ning dwarf. He saw me, too, I believe, forhe seemed to make faces at me. He woreyellow oilskins, and he had on a necklace andnose-ring of fish bones. Indeed, the schoonerseemed alive with naughty little imps. Somewere tying knots in the ropes, others weretearing holes in the sails, while a few werepoking lazy sailors in the ribs and pesteringthose who were playing checkers or dancing. I was feeding the sea-gulls at the time;my face was wet with spray from the thunder-ing waves which were breaking round me,and the sea-gulls circled about, chatteringand chuckling as they skimmed here andthere. Then I ran to the bath-house andslipped on my bathing suit and went out intothe waves. While I was splashing and jump-ing, a big breaker caught me, and as it sweptover me I went under the white foam, downinto the clear green water beneath. I amsure it all happened, because I lost my dried 186 THE BOLD SEA DWARFS I saw something on the bowsprit that looked like agrinning dwarf Page 186
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THE BOLD SEA DWARFS starfish to-day, which Old Sailor Jack gaveme to keep me from being afraid of the ocean.He says all sailors children always wear them,and he calls them St. Gilders flowers. Maybe it was because you disobeyedmother ; but go on, dear. Well, while I was under the water, I feltmyself being drawn quickly out to sea. Iopened my eyes, and there, to my horror, wereseveral ugly little dwarfs like those on theship, and they were dragging and pulling mealong. * Dont make any fuss, theres a good girl,said one of them in a squeaky little voice. Youre such a jolly little girl that we want youto come and play with us. We have long hadan eye on you. Did you see me on the bow-sprit of the schooner this morning? Yourhair was as yellow in the sunshine as thegolden sand, and your eyes as blue as theangel fish. By and by we stopped in front ofa huge wreck, continued Polly, breathlessly, and the dwarfs told me that it was theirworkshop. I could watch the little imps crawl 187 THE BOLD S

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