The Nereid referred to was arrayed in pea green and spangles, with green tresses, which is very well known to be the correct costume of a mermaid of antiquity, copied from the latest Paris fashions.

The arrived man from that celestial part of the world, who is now so industriously engaged washing for us in New Jersey, and again, making our shoes in Massachusetts, and who proposes to be our dairymaid, our chambermaid, our barmaid, and, if BARNUM will go into the humbug business again, our mermaid, brought the queue on the back of his head when he crossed the Pacific Ocean, and landed on the coast of California.

YORK 1914 CONTENTS Chapter ITHE BOY FLIERS IION GUARD IIINOT CAUGHT NAPPING IVTHE STARTLING NEWS VTHE EXCITEMENT GROWS VIFIGURING IT ALL OUT VIITHE AIR SCOUTS VIIIJUST BELOW THE CLOUDS IXTHE PILOT OF THE MERMAID XHEARD OVER THE WIRE XICOMPARING NOTES

Why, yes, there was the little lake steamboat called the Mermaid, passing along the northern border of the lake, on the way between the town of Cranford, on the shore opposite Bloomsbury, and headed toward a small lumbering camp far up the left bank, possibly to deliver supplies, after which she would point her nose down toward the home town, which was of more importance than any other station on Lake Sunrise.

" CHAPTER IX THE PILOT OF THE MERMAID "So, it's Todd Pemberton, is it?"

Here, in a country parish, he lived discontentedly, longing for the joys of London and the Mermaid Tavern, his bachelor establishment consisting of an old housekeeper, a cat, a dog, a goose, a tame lamb, one hen,for which he thanked God in poetry because she laid an egg every day,and a pet pig that drank beer with Herrick out of a tankard.

While Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and their unequaled company of wits make merry at the Mermaid Tavern, there is already growing up on the same London street a poet who shall bring a new force into literature, who shall add to the Renaissance culture and love of beauty the tremendous moral earnestness of the Puritan.

Greene's best plays are in Mermaid Series.

E. The Philosophers of the nineteenth century have fortunately rediscovered the Mermaid in the north of Scotland!

The things 'seen done at "The Mermaid "' may some day be written in another place, where the Reader will know from the beginning what to expect, and not feel that he has been induced to buy a volume under false pretences.

But beautiful stories both, I may not tell of you here; though if the Reader and I ever spend together those hinted nights at the 'Mermaid,' I then may.

She had landed her East Indian cargo at Lisbon, and then proceeded to cruise for fourteen days on the look-out for an English convoy sailing in charge of H.M.S. Mermaid.

The weather is charming, and there is a mermaid to be seen in London.

"Anon his heart revives: her vespers done, Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant boddice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees: Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive

" Then at the "Mermaid," had he been invited As an illustrious brother of the quill, Would "C.K.S.," I wonder, have delighted To honour WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE as "Old Bill," And in the small uproarious hours A.M. Have been in turn acclaimed as "Bully CLEM"? Perchance; who knows?

By Titian The Fisherman and the Mermaid.

a dripping mermaid fair Sprang from the troubled main.

[Illustration: THE FISHERMAN AND THE MERMAID Georg Papperitz] THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG (1780)

"It was a glorious night,a night when one toss of a mermaid's hair, made visible above the waters, as she flew along the track I was pursuing, would have been worth a life of rowing against this incoming tide.

Mermaid and centaur.

John Erskine presents his views: the bishop and the mermaid.

Elizabeth Orton Jones (A); 12Sep67; R417466. Minnie the mermaid.

JONES, TOM. Minnie the mermaid, by Tom Jones & Elizabeth Orton Jones.

Fresh water mermaid.

Mrs. Jimmie screamed, and we all rushed down and fished her out of the boat dripping like a mermaid and thoroughly chilled.