. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. * What have you found to amuse you ? I in-quired. Ah, John I How did you know we werehere ? I want you to see this mermaid, and. SIW fe^^j f^^* MUSEUM. 171 tell me what you think of it. Are there anynear where you live ? As she said this, shesmiled so incredulously, that I had half a mindto tell her I had often seen them combing tlieirgreen locks on the rocks by our shores. But sheso easily believed all I said, that I could not de-ceive her. This uncouth monster seems to please youbetter than the pictures ! I said. No; I was only wondering how the peopleco
. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. * What have you found to amuse you ? I in-quired. Ah, John I How did you know we werehere ? I want you to see this mermaid, and. SIW fe^^j f^^* MUSEUM. 171 tell me what you think of it. Are there anynear where you live ? As she said this, shesmiled so incredulously, that I had half a mindto tell her I had often seen them combing tlieirgreen locks on the rocks by our shores. But sheso easily believed all I said, that I could not de-ceive her. This uncouth monster seems to please youbetter than the pictures ! I said. No; I was only wondering how the peoplecould be made to believe in such a is something pleasant to me in the ideaof a beautiful mermaid singing on the sea. Butthis dispels all the lovely illusion. The storyof Undine, and the little mermaid of Hans An-dersen, who only had a soul after being lovedby a mortal, were very fascinating to me. Any one that you loved would have a soul,Jeanie, I said. It must be a heart of stone thatdid not love our Jeanie. Why, yes, I should never care for a kitten,or any other soulless animal, she answered,sweetly. I wanted to tell her, she would make any oneha
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