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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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begin with. I ve allus heard tell that mermaidsis dangerous, an no one as met em ever lived to tell the tale.Eh, Trot? Thats what you said, Capn Bill. So, I guess were done for, one way r nother; an itdont matter much which. But Trots a good child, anmighty young an tender. It dont seem like her time hascome to die. I d like to have her sent safe home to her mother.So I ve got this ere propersition to make, Zog: If your magiccould make me die twice, or even three times fer good meas-ure, why you go ahead an do it an I wont complain. AllI ask is fer you to send this little girl safe back to dry landagain. Dont you do it, Zog! cried Trot, indignantly, andturning to Capn Bill she added: I m not goin to leave youdown here in all this mess, Capn, and dont you think it. Ifone of us gets out of the muddle we re in, we 11 both get out;so dont you make any bargains with Zog to die twice. Zog listened to this conversation very carefully. The dying does not amount to much, he said; it is the 146
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Chapter Thirteen thinking about it that hurts you mortals most. I ve watchedmany a shipwreck at sea, and the people would howl andscream for hours before the ship broke up. Their terror wasvery enjoyable. But when the end came they all drownedas peacefully as if they were going to sleep, so it did ntamuse me at all. I m not worrying, said Trot. Ner me, said Capn Bill. You 11 find we can takewhat comes jes as easy as anybody. I do not expect to get much fun from you poor mortals,said Zog, carelessly. You are merely a side show to mycircus—a sort of dessert to my feast of vengeance. Whenthe time comes I can find a hundred ways to kill you. Mymost interesting prisoners are these pretty mermaids, whoclaim that none of their race has ever yet died, or been de-stroyed. The first mermaid ever created is living yet—andI am told she is none other than Queen Aquareine. So I havea pretty problem before me, to invent some way to destroythe mermaids, or put them out of existence. And it will r

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