THE WATER-BABY GIRL
'■' Somewhere in the dcop spas, lives a :water-baby girl named Pearl. She plays with every • mermaid from the Bay of Biscay to the Atlantic Ocean; and each morning and night she rides. the great sea-horses 'across tho tides of the world.
Her mother, who was onco a rainbow fairy, and still wears her manycolonred wedding dress, is known as Mother-of-Pearl, and her father is a sea gardener. t.
One day, as she was playing in her father's garden, she came to
the oyster-beds. "How dull their shells are!" said Pearl, and she opened one and saw the ugly grey face and beard of the oyster. A tear fell on the oyster's dark cheek, and she shut the shell up quickly. She went all round the oyster beds, searching for a pretty one and dropping tears inside their shells because they 'were so ugly. And people DID love oysters after that, for Pearl's tears froze and turned into precious stones, and ever since then people have found pearls in' oysters.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 7
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