Page 194 - Adventures in shadow-land

rey, am I to have the making of the figure-head
for your new ship, and what is it to be ?'1

** That's just what I have come to see you about,
Job/1 said Master Torrey* t(l am going to call

her the Sea-nymph, and I want you to make the
most beautiful full-length figure of a sca-nymph
to stand on her bow and look across the water

when the brig goes sailing away into the South
Seas/'

w A sea-mmp/” said Job; “ and what sort of a
critter may that be?1'

“ Did you never hear of them ?"
“ Never as I know of. There's more fish in

the sea than ever come out of it. I expect these
nimps of yourn are some of the kind that never
come out.1'

“ You never were more mistaken in your life,
Job Chippit, They have been seen on the sur­

face of the sea over and over again. We know
almost all their names, and how could they have
names if they were not real beings ? Answer me

that 1”
“ Oh 1" said Job, standing back to take a gene-

ral survey of his wooden Flora, *' They're some