. The merman and the figure-head : a Christmas story . d certainly depend being toldto make himself invisible, which is a very difficultproblem, had made a mistake, used the wrongformula, and by accident transformed the wholeBoard of Examiners, who were not expecting anysuch thing, into cuttle-fishes. There was dread-ful confusion for a few minutes, for the studentcouldnt remember how to turn them back again,and as the spell could not be undone by any oneelse, the members of the board got all tangled uptogether, while the professor, in an awful temper,was trying to teach the young man the righ
. The merman and the figure-head : a Christmas story . d certainly depend being toldto make himself invisible, which is a very difficultproblem, had made a mistake, used the wrongformula, and by accident transformed the wholeBoard of Examiners, who were not expecting anysuch thing, into cuttle-fishes. There was dread-ful confusion for a few minutes, for the studentcouldnt remember how to turn them back again,and as the spell could not be undone by any oneelse, the members of the board got all tangled uptogether, while the professor, in an awful temper,was trying to teach the young man the right for-mula. But they were all undone at last, only there wasone immensely wealthy old merman who was neverquite sure in his mind that he had got back hisown proper curly fishs tail, and not that of someother gentleman, so that all the rest of his life hewas in a puzzle as to at least half his personal iden-tity. This incident so vexed him that he did notgive anything to the college funds, as he had fullyintended. This circumstance and a few other ac-. And by acckLiit transformed the whole board ui examiners ^. Page 40. The Sea Kingdom. 41 cidents had so annoyed the professor that insteadof going to the North Seas with his grandson heshut himself up in the house and began to write abook. The book was in opposition to a theoryput forth by a learned merman in the Baltic Seathat human beings were undeveloped professor, however, declared that they wereno such thing, but simply undeveloped began his first chapter by saying that, while hehad the highest respect for the Baltic mermansacquirements, intellect, penetration and generalinfallibility, he nevertheless felt himself obligedto declare that none but an idiot or a madmancould come to the conclusion of the learned manaforesaid. He (the professor) wished to lay downhis platform in the beginning, and state that hediffered from the opinions of the learned authoron this and all other conceivable point
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