Page 255 - Adventures in shadow-land

friend with all his might.
There was a dark stain
on the sea,
u Fm not going to fight you/1 said the other,
turning very pale, " for you are her brother, but I
think you’ll be very sorry for this some tim e;11
and he turned round and swam away as well as he
could.
Fortunately, after a little he met Moby Dick.
“ Hallo !” said the whale in a tone of concern.
“ What’s the matter?1'
“ Nothingmuch,” said the other, for he wouldn't
tell the story.
The whale suspected the truth. He sniffed and
wiped his eyes with his flipper, for he was a soft­
hearted monster.
“ Come with me,” said he; take you to a
surgeon.”
He carried the wounded merman to an old sea-
owl who lived in a cave under the rock of Gib­
raltar, The old sea-owl was sitting in his door
reading the newspaper when Moby Dick came rush­
ing toward him, supporting in his flipper the hurt
merman, who was too faint to swim.
“ This young gentleman has met with an acci­