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 and older ones.

I imagine that a quantity of coarse salt was thrown every little while
into the larger space now given me, else I could scarcely have lived.
But my keepers were attentive and kind, the young Folks threw me many
kinds of strange food, and "Bless my lights!" as Jack would say, what
kind of things do Folks live on!

Great quantities of little oblong balls, snapped out of a shell,
different from any kind of shell I had ever seen before, were thrown me
nearly every hour of the day. Oh, yes, they were called "peanuts."