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ADVENTURES
IN
Shadow-Land.
CONTAINING
Eva’s Adventures in Shadow-Land.
By MARY D. NAUMAN.
AND
The Merman and The Figure-Head.
By CLARA F. GUERNSEY.
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1874.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Lippincott’s Press,
Philadelphia.
THE MERMAN
AND
THE FIGURE-HEAD.
CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I.
- PAGE
- The Sea-Nymph 7
- CHAPTER II.
- The Sea Kingdom 28
- CHAPTER III.
- The Figure-head 52
- CHAPTER IV.
- The Bewitched Lover 74
- CHAPTER V.
- The Sea-Nymphs 90
- CHAPTER VI.
- Lucy Peabody’s Dream 103
THE MERMAN
AND
THE FIGURE-HEAD.
CHAPTER I.
THE SEA-NYMPH.
“I may be wrong, but I think it a pity
For a movable doll to be made so pretty.”
Doll Poems.
“I shall call her the Sea-nymph,” saidMaster Isaac Torrey.
“Umph!” said his clerk, IchabodSterns, looking over his spectacles at his master.
“And why not The Sea-nymph, pray?” demandedMaster Torrey. “Why, I say, should Inot call my fine new brig The Sea-nymph if itpleases my fancy?”
“Fancy!” said Ichabod Sterns, putting hishead on one side. “Fancy! Umph!”
Now this was most exasperating conduct onIchabod’s part, and as such Master Torrey feltit.
“Yes, if it pleases my fancy,” he repeated, defiantly.“What right have you, Ichabod Sterns,to object to that, I should like to know? If Ichose to name her after the whole choir of all thenymphs that ever swam in the sea—Panope andMelite, Arethusa, Leucothea, Thetis, Cymodoce—whathave y