Page 291 - Adventures in shadow-land

night Master Torreydid not avoid him, though he

only nodded without speaking in answer to job’s
"■■0o.od-eveniBgi’1 and then the two walked on in

silence.
“ That’s an odd-looking thing on the beach/1

said Job at last.
They went up to the dark mass Job had pointed

out. There on a heap of weed, thrown up by the
late storm, lay the wooden nymph, the paint almost

washed away, and there, with its arms tightly
* clasped about her neck, lay a strange creature,
half fish, half human*

“ As sure as the world, it's a merman I” said
Job; “ and there really are such critters, after all 1

Poor fellow! The human part of him was pretty
good-lookin’ when he was alive. See what a

dent he’s got in his head 1”
“ And this is the figure-head of The Sea-

nymph," said Master Torrey. “ Don't you know
it?’*

“ To be sure! Well, it does heat all ! What
shall we do with the merman? I’d kind of hate

to make a show of him. He's a sort of man, and
I ’spose he had his feelings anyhow. Look at the