The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-01-25

The deep water. Never before had II
imagined the world to be so big. The
herrings went in great shoals, shin.
ing like mighty ribbon of silver
the mackerel followed after, and
looked even finer. There were fishes
there Of all fashions. and marked
with every possible color; jelly
like half-transparent flowers, borne
along by the currents. Great plants
grew up from the floor Of tho ocean
grass fathoms long, and palm-likC
trees, every loaftenanted by shining
shell-fish. ......
At last the little fish spicd a long
dark streak away down, and made its
way toward it, but it was neither
fish nor cable, it was the gun vale
OF a sunken vessel, which above and
below the deck was broken into by
the force of the sea. The little fish
swan into the cabin, where the pco-
pie who perished when the vessel
sank, were all washed away except
two; n young woman lay there
stretched out with her little child in
her arms. They seemed to be Sleep
ing. The little fish was quito fright
ened, or did not know that they never
again would waken. Sea-weed hung
like network of foliage over the
gunwale about the two beautiful
bodies of mother and babe. II was
so quiet, solitary the little fish scam
pered away as fast as 1t could, out
where the water was bright and
clear, and there were fishes to see. II
had not gone far before Ii met a
whale, fearfully big.
taDon't swallow mel" cried the lit
tic fish; 81 am not even to be tasted,
| am so small, and it is a great COM
fort to me to live.n
"What are you doing away down
here, where your kind never comc?n
asked the whale. ....
So then the little fish told about
the astonishing long ell, or whatever
that thing was, that had sunk down
from above and produced such a panic
amongst all the other creatures in
the sea. 4t
"Ho, hou said the whale, and he
drew in such rush Of water that he
was ready to make prodigious spout
when he came to the surface for a
breath. "Ho, no! so that was the
thing that tickled me on the back
when / was turning round thought
1t was ships mast, that ! could
break up into clothcs-pins. But it
was not here that it was; no, a great
deal further out lies the thing. pll
go with you and look for it, for have
nothing else to do" and 80 il swan
off, and the little fish behind it, not
too near, because there was a tearing
stream, as it were, in the wake OF the
whale.
They met shark and an old saw
fish; they, too, had heard Of the fam
Gus sea-eel, so long and so thin; they
had not seen it, but now they would.
"I'll 20 with you," said the shark,
who was on the same road; "if the
great sea-serpent is no thicker than a
cable, then / can bite through 1t In
one bite;" and he opened his mouth
and showed his six rows Of teeth-"I
can bite dents In a ships anchor, and,
certainly can bite Off the shank"
"There it ISL said the whale. "T
see him." He thought he saw bctter
than the others. "Seo how 1t rises,
how it bends, and bows and curves" "
But 1t was not the sea-serpent, but
an extraordinary great eel, ever so
many ellis long, that drew near.
"Why, l have seen him before!"
said the saw-flsh. "He never has
made a hullabaloo In the sea or fright
ened any big fish out Of his wits"
And so they talked to him Of the new
eel, and asked him If he would 90
with them on their voyage Of dis
covery.
"If the eel is longer than ] am"
said the sca-ecl, There will be some
thing disagreeable happening"
"Ay, that there WILL" said tho
others; "therc are enough OF us not
to tolerate him?" and 80 they shot
ahead But then there came right
in their way great monster, bigger
than all Of them put together it look
ed like floating island, that could
not stop itself. 1t was venerable
whale. Its head was grown over
with sea-weed, it's back covered with
barnacles, and such innumerable oys-
ters and mussels, that its black skin
w.a ,ltogether whitened
HCome with us old fellovu said
they. "Here is a new fish come, and
we WON'T stand 10
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