"He's simply a hollow sphere, a globular bag about twice the size of a walnut, and as round as a base ball."
"Half transparent, is he? Red, shaded off into white? with water inside of him, and pimples, like pin-heads, all over him, and eyes and mouth right on his fair rotundity, making him look like a picture of the full moon made into a human face?" asked Jack eagerly.
"Yes, that's the pin-cushion fish."
"I thought so. That's my other one," said Jack.
"What do you mean?" asked Ned.
"Why, that's the other thing I had to show you, but couldn't find. I caught him with the cast net."
"And kept him to show to me?" asked Ned.
"Yes, but he disappeared."
"Of course he did. He spat himself away."
"How's that?"