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The Seafairies by L. Frank Baum with a beautiful fantasy story about a little girl named Mayre Griffiths, nicknamed Trot and her companion Cap'n Bill Weedles. Trot spends most of her days roaming the beaches,rowing and sailing along the coast near home with her companion Cap'n Bill Weedles. Trot wishes that she could see a mermaid one day; her wish is overheard and then the excited journey begins. How can I use this format? Log in to rate this item. You must be logged in to post a review.
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Address Address is required. I am told that some very learned people deny that mermaids or sea-serpents have ever inhabited the oceans, but it would be very difficult for them to prove such an assertion unless they had lived under the water as Trot and Cap'n Bill did in this story.
I hope my readers who have so long followed Dorothy's adventures in the Land of Oz will be interested in Trot's equally strange experiences. The ocean has always appealed to me as a veritable wonderland, and this story has been suggested to me many times by my young correspondents in their letters. They were seated on a bench built around a giant acacia tree that grew just at the edge of the bluff.
Below them rolled the blue waves of the great Pacific. A little way behind them was the house, a neat frame cottage painted white and surrounded by huge eucalyptus and pepper trees. Still farther behind that--a quarter of a mile distant but built upon a bend of the coast--was the village, overlooking a pretty bay.
Cap'n Bill and Trot came often to this tree to sit and watch the ocean below them.
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But ever since Cap'n Bill's accident, when he lost his leg, Charlie Griffiths had been the captain of the little schooner while his old master lived peacefully ashore with the Griffiths family. This was about the time Trot was born, and the old sailor became ;very fond of the baby girl. The mermaids live deep down, an' the poor mortals never come up again. The air was soft and warm and the sun turned the edges of the waves into sparkling diamonds.
Across the bay the last of the fisherboats was. The old man and the young girl stood on the bluff and watched all this with interest. Here was their world. So they found the winding path that led down the face of the. Trot never minded the steep path or the loose rocks at all, but Cap'n Bill's wooden leg was not so useful on a downgrade as on a level, and he had to be careful not to slip and take a tumble.
But by and by they reached the sands and walked to a spot just beneath the big acacia tree that grew on the bluff. Halfway to the top of the cliff hung suspended a little shed-like structure that sheltered Trot's. About as high up as Cap'n Bill could reach was an iron ring securely fastened to the cliff, and to this ring was tied a rope.
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The old sailor unfastened the knot and began paying out the rope, and the rowboat came out of its shed and glided slowly downward to the beach. It hung on a pair of davits and was lowered just as a boat is lowered from a ship's side. When it reached the sands, the sailor unhooked the ropes and pushed the. It was a pretty little craft, light and strong, and Cap'n Bill knew how to sail it or row it, as Trot might desire.
Then he seized the oars and began gently paddling. So he rowed around by the North Promontory, where the great caves were, and much as they were enjoying the ride, they soon began to feel the heat of the sun. And here's Smuggler's Cave, 'cause the smugglers used to hide things in it. Many of them opened just at the water's edge, and it was possible to row their boat far into their dusky depths.
Cave, and--oh, Cap'n Bill! Do you s'pose there were ever any giants in that cave? I just don't b'lieve it's big enough for a giant to get into. It's full o'water, an' the water's deep down to the very.
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I reckon they must have called it Giant's Cave 'cause it's so big, an' not 'cause any giant man lived there. We won't go very far, for when the tide turns we mightn't get out again. The black archway that marked its entrance seemed hardly big enough to admit the boat at first, but as they drew nearer, the opening became bigger. The sea was very calm here, for the headland shielded it from the breeze. But it was the sailor who had to duck, instead of the little girl.
Only for a moment, though. Just beyond the opening the cave was higher, and as the boat floated into the dim interior they found themselves on quite an extensive branch of the sea. For a time neither of them spoke and only the soft lapping of the water against the sides of the boat was heard. A beautiful sight met the eyes of the two adventurers and held them dumb with wonder and delight. It was not dark in this vast cave, yet the light seemed to come from underneath the water, which all around them glowed with an exquisite sapphire color.
Where the little waves crept up the sides of the rocks they shone like brilliant jewels, and every drop of spray seemed a gem fit to deck a queen.
Trot leaned her chin on her hands and her elbows on her lap and gazed. Cap'n Bill drew in the oars and let the boat drift where it would while he also sat silently admiring the scene. Slowly the little craft crept farther and farther into the dim interior of the vast cavern, while its two passengers feasted their eyes on the beauties constantly revealed. Both the old seaman and the little girl loved the ocean in all its various moods.
To them it was a constant companion and a genial comrade.