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THE SEA-SERPENT. 
only come up say once in a while, to see what 5 s 
going on above. It 5 s enough to make a lobster 
smile, to hear you telling the maid you love 
there is any kind of danger here from any such 
fabulous fish as this ; I 5 ve sailed the sea for 
many a year, and never saw one. * Nor do I 
wish to see one ; for if such things be, they are 
dangerous beasts, most certainly. 55 
x. 
“Well, captain, 55 cried Hunt, “I was going 
to tell a little story of danger and fear, of what 
once some old North-traders befell ; I heard it 
when I was there in the year eighteen hundred 
and thirty-seven, and I tell you the c tale as 
5 t was told to me. 5 5 T was sworn to by witnesses 
ten or eleven, all men of undoubted veracity. 55 
All on deqk approached to hear the tale which 
Hunt began to relate ; some of the crew stood 
respectfully near, for they 5 d anchored there at 
the hour of eight ; the sails were furled, for the 
trip was through, so of course the men had 
nothing to do. 
