The divers themselves are not free from danger. Great sea-serpents or
sharks sometimes make it hot for them, but they are watchful, spry, and
being "Folks," with power to think and plan, can generally look out for
themselves and their safety.




CHAPTER VIII.


MY STRANGE ADVENTURE

Now come the most exciting and in some respects the hardest events of my
life thus far.

I have told of my great love of music, and have also said that the
Dolphin family is a very sociable one. Yes, and I could grow fond of
Folks, I know, if only they could live in the sea, or I could live on
the land. But as neither of these things can be, I must be content with
liking them at a distance.

One afternoon I was full of sport, and felt lively as a cricket. Oh,
yes, I know the small, frisky fellow you call a cricket, with his little
old black legs, and have heard him sing. So on this calm and lovely
afternoon I began leaping upward instead of forward, and all at once I
heard sounds of music floating across the upper sea. You can believe I
floundered alongside, and oh, such sweetness as trilled out into the
clear air!