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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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her. The Prince decided, however, to tease Nep-tune. First they stuffed his noisy trumpets— the crooked conch shells that are carriedby mermen to herald his arrival. This ratherannoyed Neptune, for he liked the pomp andshow which he considered his due. Thenthe fairies tickled his sea horses while he wasdriving one day, and they ran away andnearly capsized the chariot. Can this be the work of the pinkies ? hewondered. No doubt the son of the Kingis heading a campaign against me; they thinkthey can revenge themselves. Just then a crab nipped him, and a barnaclefastened itself to his back where he could notreach it. This is getting serious, said oldNeptune ; the friends of the pinkies are help-ing them to torment me. Never before have Isuffered such an indignity! But he was toobig a person to pay much attention to such un-pleasantnesses, and he went on just the samewith his accustomed duties. The fairy Prince 236 OLD MAN OF THE SEAS RANSOM First they stuffed his noisy trumpets Page 236
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THE »EW tfCBK PUBLIC LIBRARY OLD MAN OF THE SEAS RANSOM and his followers, finding they were makinglittle impression, soon tired and decided tochange their tactics. A troop of pinkies setout, captured the biggest starfish in the ocean,and dragged it to Neptune. Your Koyal Highness, please accept thisslight token of our esteem, smiled the Prince, and if you see fit to return our King, weshould be most gratefuL ButNeptune didnot see fit. I was not invited to the birthday fete inthe Garden of Florida, he grumbled, andwhen I punished the colony for the unseemlybehavior which I witnessed there as an unbid-den guest, your subjects played tricks uponme. I know well enough who stuffed mytrumpets! and his angry laugh made rippleson the surface of the water. So the Prince and the fairies went away dis-appointed. They held council and decided thatNeptune must be given another and betterpresent. They concluded that a purple sea ur-chin would be the most difficult thing for themto handle, and the

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