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.