"WOULDN'T OUR MAMS GIVE US FITS IF THEY CAUGHT US SWIMMIN'?" Second Ditto.

All that this Water-devil gets to eat is what happens to come swimmin' or sailin' along where he can reach it, and it doesn't matter to him whether it's a shark, or a porpoise, or a shipful of people, and when he takes a grab of anything, that thing never gets away.' "About this time there were five or six men on their knees saying their prayers, such as they were, and a good many others looked as if they were just about to drop.