A BANQUET UNDER WATER

CHAPTER 8





The palaces of the mermaids were all aglow with lights as they
approached them, and Trot was amazed at the sight.

"Where do the lamps come from?" she asked their guide wonderingly.

"They are not lamps, my dear," replied Merla, much amused at this
suggestion. "We use electric lights in our palaces and have done so
for thousands of years--long before the earth people knew of
electric lights."

"But where do you get 'em?" inquired Cap'n Bill, who was as much
astonished as the girl.

"From a transparent jellyfish which naturally emits a strong and
beautiful electric light," was the answer. "We have many hundreds of
them in our palaces, as you will presently see."

Their way was now lighted by small, phosphorescent creatures