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thought that they were fish, porpoises, sharks, turtles, 

 but they are not. They are your brethren, with just 

 as good a right to be in that water as you have to 

 be in this universe ; with just as good a right to dive 

 for sixpence as you have to dig for it. 



" Trow away, Mistuh ; me dive. You trow sixpence, 

 Mistuh; you see me dive. Trow away, Mistuh; trow 

 away ! Yah, yah, yah ! Ha, ha, ha ! " O see his 

 teeth ! Who would begrudge a hundred pounds for 

 such a set of teeth as that ? " Trow away, Mistuh ; 

 you see me dive. Trow away ! Yah, yah, yah ! 

 Ha, ha, ha!" 



Now, my dear sir, you have been taught that 

 " throwing money into the sea," is simply to waste it 

 altogether, so that it does no one any good. Try it 

 now, and see how some of your old notions are dissi- 

 pated. You need not be very particular about toss- 

 ing it quite close to him. Fifty or sixty feet from 

 him or even more, so long as he can see where it 

 strikes the water. Some one threw a sixpence right 

 into the midst of a group of them, and four of them, 

 reached it about the same time. They seized each 

 other under the water, and we could see them in a 

 regular quartette fight, heels uppermost, beneath the 

 surface. When they came up the smallest one of the 

 lot was crying. Whether he shed tears before he got 



