24 How Sammy Went to Coral-Land 
Aunt Sheen was a big fish, the oldest 
and largest, not only in her own pool, 
but in all the salmon stream. In her 
youth she had been a great traveler and 
seen many wonderful sights, and was re¬ 
garded with awe and admiration by the 
younger fish. But she had grown fat 
and lazy with age, arid was now content 
to spend the remainder of her days in 
this quiet stream which hid itself among 
the northern pines a good many miles 
from the sea. 
It was a pleasant place, with deep, still 
pools here and there in the shade, nice, 
slippery mossy rocks to hide under, and 
sunlit shallows where the water rippled 
over the white pebbles, or leaped music¬ 
ally down a tiny waterfall. 
Such merry times as Sammy and his 
companions had chasing each other up 
and down the stream, leaping the water- 
