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word about her old playmate. Toward the end

of the evening she went out into the garden that
was all glittering with sea phosphorescence. She

swam up to Moby Dick and said it was warm
weather.

“ So it is, my dear,1’ said the whale, and look­
ing with admiration at the bridesmaid, who wore

white lace and emeralds,
“ You came from Gibraltar, didn’t you?” said

the mermaid, playing with her looking-glass, which
the sea ladies carry as ours do their fans.

“ Yes, where the bridegroom and I went to see

after that bewitched brother-in-law of his,” said
the whale, for he was vexed at the merman.
“ Do you think he is bewitched?" said the

bridesmaid.
The whale scratched his head, which is not vul­

gar in a whale.
“ I never thought of it before/' he said] “ but

now you speak of it I shouldn't wonder if it was

so.”
The bridesmaid whispered in the whale’s ear.
“ I wish you7d come with me to the old Witch

of the Sea,” she said. “ Won’t you, please?”