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The Sea Fairies (1911)

by L. Frank Baum
(#1 in Trot & Cap'n Bill)

Nobody, said Cap'n Bill solemnly, 'ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale.' 'Why not?' asked Trot, looking earnestly up into the old sailor's face. They were seated on a bench built around a giant acacia tree that grew just at the edge of the bluff. Below them rolled the blue waves of the great Pacific. A little way behind them was the house, a neat frame cottage painted white and surrounded by huge eucalyptus and pepper trees. Still farther behind that - a quarter of a mile distant but built upon a bend of the coast - was the village, overlooking a pretty bay.