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THE SEA-SERPENT. 
ened half to death ; he drives them before him in 
mighty shoals ; they flee till they ’re fairly out of 
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breath ; when they see his eyes that blaze like 
coals, they wish for the shore, or the fisher¬ 
man’s hook, or anything else they dreaded be¬ 
fore, and cast at the serpent a piteous look, 
that might touch the heart of Agassiz. But he 
only takes, from a school of a thousand fishes, 
for the school at Cambridge, some two or three, 
and preserves them safe in fine glass dishes ; 
some day next week, if you please, we ’ll go to 
Cambridge, where I have sometimes been, and 
see those fishes set in a row, and converse with 
those grave and learned men, who wield so well 
the glittering steel, chase savage foes from gloomy 
dens, and make the world most truly feel the 
might, the power of good steel — pens ! 
IX. 
C£ Not so with the serpent. He eats up some 
twenty-five dozen of sharks for dinner, and after 
that on a man would sup, or seize a boat and 
