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don't want me to stick a curly fish’s tail on your
figure-head ?,f
“ No, indeed. Make her full length, like the

most beautiful woman you know.’ '

“ Hev’ you any idee how them young women
used to dress, Master Torrey?” asked the wood-

carver. “ I ’d like to go as near the nature of the
crittcr as I could. I must say the notion takes my

fancy. It'll make kind of a variety, and itTs a
pretty sort of an idee to name a ship after a thing

that has its life out the sea.”
thought you’d think so," said Master Tor­

rey, gratified. “ Ichabod Sterns said it was a hea­
thenish name for a ship that was to sail out of

Salem.’ '
Well, you know Ichabod. He hain’t got

much notion of anything of that sort. But now
what’s your notion of these ’ere water women?

Kinder cold-blooded critters they must have been,
I’ m thinking," There was something in this last

remark which seemed to grate on Master Torrey’s
feelings, whatever they were.

w W hy so ?" he said, a little shortly,
“ Oh, because it's the natur* of all the things in