"I don't like eels," she said.

"They are more mischievous than harmful," replied Merla, "but I do
not care much for them myself."

"No," added Cap'n Bill, "they ain't respec'ful."






THE ARISTOCRATIC CODFISH

CHAPTER 7





The three swam slowly along, quite enjoying the cool depths of the
water. Every little while they met with some strange creature--or
one that seemed strange to the earth people--for although Trot and
Cap'n Bill had seen many kinds of fish, after they had been caught
and pulled from the water, that was very different from meeting them
in their own element, "face to face," as Trot expressed it. Now that
the various fishes were swimming around free and unafraid in their
deep-sea home, they were quite different from the gasping, excited
creatures struggling at the end of a fishline or flopping from a