THE MER-PEOPLE
Far out in the wide sea, where the water is as blue as the loveliest cornflower, as clear as the purest crystal, land as deep as many church steeples > placed one upon another, the merI people live.
Below this sea there" is not only sand.but also trees and plants. The trees are so light that they sway to and,fro with the slightest motion of the water. ■ The fish glide among the branches I like birds in the air.
I In the deepest parts there is a pal[ace which has walls of coral and high, pointed windows and a roof of mussel shells, which open and shut. The shells contain glittering pearls, any of which would be the most precious ornament in the diadem of a king of the upper world. I GWEN FURNISS. I City.
"TMt SEA SERPENT." The Sea Serpent nodded his head as he sat
on the sand, And thought of the past and sighed. "I'm very pretty," he said at last, "This scaly skin of mine, . Baked here in the sun, It glitters and shines, There's red and blues among the hues." And a starfish by sought to. sigh. Such a sigh it was— That I leave you to guess what-It thought. , "FLANNEL FLOWER."
Island Bay.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 20
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