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Title: The sea fairies
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 Neill, John R. (John Rea), ill
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Publisher: Chicago : Reilly & Britton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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d, withmuch dignity: Come, fellow aristocrats; let us go. Never mind; we re going ourselves, announced Merla,and followed by her guests the pretty mermaid swam away. I ve heard tell of codfish aristocercy, said Capn Bill;but I never knowed zacly what it meant afore. They jus made me mad, with all their airs, observedTrot; so I gave em a piece of my mind. You surely did, mate, said the sailor; but I aint surethey understand what they re like when they re salted anhung up in the pantry. Folks generly gets stuck-up causethey dont know theirselves like other folks knows em. We are near Crabville now, declared Merla. Shallwe visit the crabs and see what they are doing*? Yes, lets, replied Trot. The crabs are lots of fun.I ve often caught them among the rocks on the shore andlaughed at the way they act. Was nt it funny at dinnertime to see the way they slid around with the plates? Those were not crabs, but lobsters and crawfish, re-marked the mermaid. They are very intelligent creatures, 78
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he Sea Fairies and by making them serve us we save ourselves much house-hold work. Of course, they are awkward and provoke ussometimes; but no servants are perfect, it is said, so we getalong with ours as well as we can. They re all right, protested the child, even if they didtip things over once in a while. But it is easy to work in asea palace, I m sure, because there s no dusting or sweepingto be done. Or scrubbin, added Capn Bill. The crabs, said Merla, are second cousins to the lob-sters, although much smaller in size. There are many families—or varieties—of crabs, and so many of them live in oneplace near here that we call it Crabville. I think you willenjoy seeing these little creatures in their native haunts. They now approached a kelp bed, the straight, thin stemsof the kelp running far upward to the surface of the water.Here and there upon the stalks were leaves, but Trot thoughtthe growing kelp looked much like sticks of macaroni, exceptthey were a rich, red-brown color

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