‘Look! Look!’ cried Alice. ‘It is a fish, a fish out there in the water. It is a whale, I know it is, a big blue whale.’
Sally and Andy followed Alice’s pointing finger. There on the surface of the waves they could plainly see a number of objects, red and blue, that seemed to be swimming toward them at a rapid rate.
‘They look like people’s heads,’ said Sally.
‘Perhaps they are mermaids,’ murmured Andy.
‘I think that first blue one is a whale,’ insisted Alice.
Now all the fishermen were so excited that they dropped their rods and rose to their feet.
Sally waved her arms and called, ‘Father! Father!’
Andy and Alice could think of nothing better to do, so they, too, waved their arms and shouted, ‘Father! Father!’ as loud as ever they could.
Father heard. He folded his paper, and came slowly over the rocks toward the excited little group.
Yes, Father, too, saw the red and blue objects bounding along, dancing lightly over the waves, and, with the children, wondered what they were.