Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Lippincott’s Press,
Philadelphia.

THE MERMAN
AND
THE FIGURE-HEAD.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE [The Sea-Nymph] 7 CHAPTER II. [The Sea Kingdom] 28 CHAPTER III. [The Figure-head] 52 CHAPTER IV. [The Bewitched Lover] 74 CHAPTER V. [The Sea-Nymphs] 90 CHAPTER VI. [Lucy Peabody’s Dream] 103

THE MERMAN
AND
THE FIGURE-HEAD.

CHAPTER I.
THE SEA-NYMPH.

“I may be wrong, but I think it a pity

For a movable doll to be made so pretty.”

Doll Poems.