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find your friend’s brother, you must go West to-
ward the coast”

“ Take a bee line,” said the Salem witch.

“ I don't know what that is/' said the mermaid,
who didn't know what a bee was.
**• As the crow flies/’ said the Salem witch.

“ Crow?" said the mermaid, perplexed.
*f As the mackerel swims/' said the sea witch,

** Oh, I see," said the mermaid, f*Thank you
very much. Pray keep the stones. Good-night;”

and she turned to Moby Dick. “ You’ll go with
me?”

ft To be sure/' said the whale. “ That's rather
a dangerous coast for me,” he thought to himself

(t But never mind; if they come after me I can
sink a whaler as easy as nothing* I’ll go with her.

She reminds me of a whaless I used to go to school
w ith/' and Moby Dick looked at the little slim

mermaid in her bridesmaid’s dress, and heaved a
sigh about a quarter of an acre in extent. ** I’m

your whale,” he said, cheerfully; and away they
dashed at the rate of a hundred miles an hour.

Every one in the sea knew that the professor's