. The sea fairies . Chapter Fifteen You have been brought here to undergo the first trialof strength between us. None of the prisoners replied to this speech, so Zog turnedto one of his slaves and said: Rivivi, bring in the Yell-Maker. Rivivi was a big fellow, brown of skin, and with flashingblack eyes. He bowed to his master and left the room by. an archway covered with heavy draperies. The next momentthese curtains were violently pushed aside and a dreadful seacreature swam into the hall. It had a body much like thatof a crab, only more round and of a jet-black color. Its eyeswere bright yel
. The sea fairies . Chapter Fifteen You have been brought here to undergo the first trialof strength between us. None of the prisoners replied to this speech, so Zog turnedto one of his slaves and said: Rivivi, bring in the Yell-Maker. Rivivi was a big fellow, brown of skin, and with flashingblack eyes. He bowed to his master and left the room by. an archway covered with heavy draperies. The next momentthese curtains were violently pushed aside and a dreadful seacreature swam into the hall. It had a body much like thatof a crab, only more round and of a jet-black color. Its eyeswere bright yellow balls set on the ends of two horns thatstuck out of its head. They were cruel looking eyes, too, andseemed able to see every person in the room at the same legs of the Yell-Maker, however, were the mostcurious part of the creature. There were six of them, slender 173 The Sea Fairies and black as coal, and each extended twelve to fifteen feetfrom its body, when stretched out in a straight line. Theywere hinged in several places, so they could be folded up, orextended at will. At the ends of these thin legs were im-mense claws shaped like those of a lobster, and they were realnippers, of a most dangerous sort. The prisoners knew, as soon as they saw the awful claws,why the thing was called the Yell-Maker, and Trot gave alittle s
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