great Atlantic Ocean, and one day Jack said to me:

"Now then, me hearty, we're making a bee-line for New York City, and
it's a big tub they'll be giving you at the fine park, I'm thinking."

So I knew I was to take the place of the crocodile, and be made a show
of.

I tried to make the best of things. Folks amused me by standing near
the tank and talking about affairs. The band played delightfully. Salt
water was freshly supplied me every day or two. I learned that my fare
was much greater than any other voyager's on board, that is, it cost
more to carry me.

But think of a passenger that would have been perfectly thankful to have
been thrown overboard! I was that same fellow.

After about ten days, which seemed like a year to me, there was great
excitement all around. Such a running and tramping, such a waving of
hats and handkerchiefs. Ah! we were landing. Roland came to my side and
exclaimed:

"Good-by, Dolly, old boy! I may see you sometime in your new quarters."
Little Amy lisped a hurried, "By, by, Dolly, good Fishy!" and after an
hour or two, all the passengers had left the boat except the man who
owned me and myself.

Nor was I moved until the next day. Then I was made to swim into a
smaller tank, not much longer than I am, in which I could not have
lived, it seemed to me, a single day.

[Illustration: "I WAS GIVEN MY FIRST RIDE ON LAND"]

But I was next boosted, tank and all, on to a great dray, drawn by
creatures called "horses." Sailors joked, drivers laughed, a crowd
peered at me with eyes full of wonder, and I was given my first ride
_on land_, yet in what to me was a mere puddle of water.

Ah, how new and strange! The jolting and the bouncing, the noise, the
whistles, the voices, rattling of heavy wagons, booming of cars overhead
and along the ground, strange calls and ringing of bells, the whole
mixed racket nearly stunning me, for my hearing is very acute and sharp.
I cannot tell you how distracting it all was to a poor, pent-up fish. I
felt like anything but a "lord" then.

And what was this unknown matter floating into my squeezed-up basin?
Dust! Something I had never seen before, and--I didn't like it!

The sea for me, first, last, and forever!

At the park I must say things were fine, and could they only have been
more natural, I should have had considerable fun. I found that a Dolphin
on land, although kept in a small square pond, was indeed quite a
curiosity, both to young Folks a