How Sammy Went to Coral-Land
HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND BY EMILY PARET ATWATER Author of "Tommy's Adventures," etc. _TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE "GREEN SHELL"_ _For much of the Natural History part of this little volume the author is indebted to M. C. Cooke's "Toilers of the Sea," and Dr. G. Hartwig's "Denizens of the Deep." She has thought it desirable to mingle some fiction with the facts, but trusts that the "Gentle Reader" will easily distinguish the one from the other._ CONTENTS HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND
'I shall go to another water,' said "Time-not-come," and away he went.
'Why should we leave unless obliged?' asked "Quick-at-peril." 'When the
thing befalls I shall do the best I can--
'Who deals with bad dilemmas well, is wise.
The merchant's wife, with womanly device,
Kissed--and denied the kiss--under his eyes.'
'How was that?' asked the other fish. Quick-at-peril related:--
THE STORY OF THE UNABASHED WIFE
"There was a trader in Vikrama-poora, who had a very beautiful wife, and
her name was Jewel-bright. The lady was as unfaithful as she was fair,
and had chosen for her last lover one of the household servants. Ah!
womankind!--
'Sex, that tires of being true,
Base and new is brave to you!
Like the jungle-cows ye range,
Changing food for sake of change.'
Now it befell one day that as Jewel-bright was bestowing a kiss on the
HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND BY EMILY PARET ATWATER Author of "Tommy's Adventures," etc. _TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE "GREEN SHELL"_ _For much of the Natural History part of this little volume the author is indebted to M. C. Cooke's "Toilers of the Sea," and Dr. G. Hartwig's "Denizens of the Deep." She has thought it desirable to mingle some fiction with the facts, but trusts that the "Gentle Reader" will easily distinguish the one from the other._ CONTENTS HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND