Lord Dolphin

BY HARRIET A. CHEEVER
AUTHOR OF
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF BILLY TRILL, MADAME ANGORA, MOTHER BUNNY, ETC.
Illustrated by
DIANTHA W. HORNE
1903
LORD DOLPHIN INTRODUCES HIMSELF
Now who ever heard of a fish's sitting up and telling his own story!
Oh, you needn't laugh, you young Folks, perhaps you will find that I can make out very well, considering.
Of course I have been among Folks, else I could never use your language or know anything about you and your ways.
A message is not received direct from the depths of the sea very often, and especially from one of the natural natives. And then, there are very few fishes that ever have an experience like mine, and travel from one continent to another, going both by sea and by land.
You surely will open your eyes pretty widely at that, and wonder how a fish could go anywhere by land. Have patience and you shall hear all about it by and by.