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Title: Lord Dolphin

Author: Harriet A. Cheever

Release Date: February 12, 2004 [EBook #11055]

Language: English

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LORD DOLPHIN

[Illustration: "A GREAT VESSEL WAS STRAINING AND TUGGING. AND I COULD
SEE LIGHTS"]

LORD DOLPHIN

BY

HARRIET A. CHEEVER

AUTHOR OF "THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF BILLY TRILL," "MADAME ANGORA,"
"MOTHER BUNNY," ETC.

Illustrated by

DIANTHA W. HORNE

LORD DOLPHIN

1903

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. LORD DOLPHIN INTRODUCES HIMSELF

II. UNDER THE WAVES

III. A CORAL GROVE

IV. THE MERMAID'S CAVE

V. MY GARDENS

VI. MY TREASURE GROUNDS

VII. WHAT I SAW ONE DAY

VIII. MY STRANGE ADVENTURE

IX. LORD DOLPHIN ON LAND

X. HURRAH!

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"A GREAT VESSEL WAS STRAINING AND TUGGING, AND I COULD SEE LIGHTS"

"MY TURN TO SHOW A WIDE MOUTH NOW"

"WHITE FACES SEEMED TO RISE AND RIDE ATOP OF THE FOAMING BILLOWS"

"OFF TORE THE FISHES, MAD WITH TERROR"

"ONE CUTE LITTLE NYMPH OF A GIRL WAS CRAZY TO GET NEAR ME"

"I WAS GIVEN MY FIRST RIDE ON LAND"

LORD DOLPHIN: HIS STORY

* * * * *

CHAPTER I.

LORD DOLPHIN INTRODUCES HIMSELF

Now who ever heard of a fish's sitting up and telling his own story!

Oh, you needn't laugh, you young Folks, perhaps you will find that I can
make out very well, considering.

Of course I have been among "Folks," else I could never use your
language or know anything about you and your ways.

A message is not received direct from the depths of the sea very often,
and especially from one of the natural natives. And then, there are very
few fishes that ever have an experience like mine, and travel from one
continent to another, going both by sea and by land.

You surely will open your eyes pretty widely at that, and wonder how a
fish could go anywhere by land. Have patience and you shall hear a