Page 198 - Adventures in shadow-land

"Y es, to those who approached them rashly,

but they were kind to those who worshiped them
with reverence and offered them the gifts they

loved,”
“ Waal, theywa’n't very peculiar in that. The

most of women is capable of being coaxed if you
only go to work the right way. I don’t know how
it might have been with gals in the sea, but it ain't

best to be too dreadful diffident with the land kind
always/’ returned Job, with a sly smile. “ But

about this figure of oum. I suppose it ought to
have some kind of a light gown on, and hadn’t

they— them nimps?— got no emblem, nor nothing
of that sort, like Neptune’s trident? I’m going to

make a Neptune for a ship Peleg Brag's got. Her
name was The Ann ElLza. But the young woman

she was named for, she up. and married Jonathan
Whitbeck, so Peleg, he’s goat to call his ship The

Neptune now. It’s the only way he can think of
to take it out on Ann Eliza, and I don’t expect
that’ll kill her-; but didn’t these nimps have noth­

ing about them to show what they were ?’ *•
** Sometimes seaweeds, or coral and shells.

Sometimes they Held a silver vase.”
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