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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 yoursmoking at all, if it will give you pleasure. Its a bad habit I ve got, an I m too old to break myselfof it, said Capn Bill. Then he felt in the big pockets of hiscoat and took out a pipe and a bag of tobacco. After he hadcarefully filled his pipe, rejoicing in the fact that the tobaccowas not at all wet, he took out his match box and struck alight. The match burned brightly and soon the sailor waspuffing the smoke from his pipe in great contentment. Thesmoke ascended through the water in the shape of bubbles andTrot wondered what anyone who happened to be floatingupon the surface of the ocean would think to see smoke com-ing from the water. Well, I find I can smoke, all right, remarked CapnBill; but it bothers me to understand why. It is because of the air space existing between the waterand everything you have about you, explained Merla. Butnow, if you will come this way, I will take you to visit someof our neighbors. They passed over the carpet of sea flowers, the gorgeous 68
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Chapter Six blossoms swaying on their stems as the motion of the peoplein the water above them disturbed their repose, and presentlythe three entered the dense shrubbery surrounding the pal-aces. They had not proceeded far when they came to a clear-ing among the bushes, and here Merla paused. Trot and Capn Bill paused, too, for floating in the clearwater was a group of beautiful shapes that the child thoughtlooked like molds of wine jelly. They were round as a din-ner plate, soft and transparent, but tinted in such lovely huesthat no artists brush has ever been able to imitate them.Some were deep sapphire blue; others rose pink; still others adelicate topaz color. They seemed to have neither heads, eyesnor ears, yet it was easy to see they were alive and able tofloat in any direction they wished to go. In shape they re-sembled inverted flowerpots, with the upper edges fluted, andfrom the centers floated what seemed to be bouquets offlowers. How pretty! exclaimed Trot, enraptured by th

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