But she was not sea-sick, and did not give herself up.
‘It is a good thing to be steeled against sea-sickness; here one has indeed an advantage over man! Now my qualms are over. The finer one is the more one can bear.’
‘Crack!’ said the egg-shell as a wagon-wheel went over it.
‘Oh! how it presses!’ said the Darning-needle. ‘I shall indeed be sea-sick now. I am breaking!’ But she did not break, although the wagon-wheel went over her; she lay there at full length, and there she may lie.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] You may buy them from Mr. Nutt, in the Strand.
[2] ‘Der Norlands Drache,’ from Esthnische Mährchen. Kreutzwald.
[3] Höllenmädchen.
[4] Andersen.
[5] ‘Prinz Krebs,’ from Griechische Mährchen. Schmidt.