LORD DOLPHIN

LORD DOLPHIN

LORD DOLPHIN

CONTENTS

I. LORD DOLPHIN INTRODUCES HIMSELFII. UNDER THE WAVESIII. A CORAL GROVEIV. THE MERMAID'S CAVEV. MY GARDENSVI. MY TREASURE GROUNDSVII. WHAT I SAW ONE DAYVIII. MY STRANGE ADVENTUREIX. LORD DOLPHIN ON LANDX. HURRAH!

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. 'A Great Vessel Was Straining and Tugging. and I Could See Lights'

2. 'My Turn to Show a Wide Mouth Now'

3. 'White Faces Seemed to Rise and Ride atop of the Foaming Billows'

4. 'Off Tore the Fishes, Mad With Terror'

5. 'One Cute Little Nymph of a Girl Was Crazy to Get Near Me'

6. 'I Was Given My First Ride on Land'

LORD DOLPHIN: HIS STORY

CHAPTER I.

Now who ever heard of a fish's sitting up and telling his own story!

Oh, you needn't laugh, you young Folks, perhaps you will find that I canmake out very well, considering.

Of course I have been among "Folks," else I could never use yourlanguage or know anything about you and your ways.

A message is not received direct from the depths of the sea very often,and especially from one of the natural natives. And then, there are veryfew fishes that ever have an experience like mine, and travel from onecontinent to another, going both by sea and by land.

You surely will open your eyes pretty widely at that, and wonder how afish could go anywhere by land. Have patience and you shall hear allabout it by and by.

I was born deep down in the Mediterranean Sea. That long name is nostranger. You have seen it many a time in your geographies. But couldyou tell the meaning of it, I wonder? I...