26 How Sammy Went to Coral-Land 
entirely uninterested in the doings of her 
youthful relatives. It was a matter of 
creed with her. But in spite of this fact 
she was very fussy over the young fish, 
and gave them a great deal of what 
Sammy considered tiresome advice. 
“ There is safety in numbers,” was her 
favorite saying. “ When you want to go 
on a journey wait until your companions 
are ready, and go in a school. Dreadful 
things always happen to young fish if 
they start out by themselves, they get 
eaten by sharks, or caught by those awful 
two-legged monsters on land, and the 
devil-fish is always on the lookout for 
them.” 
“ But,” Sammy would protest, “ you 
have always said that some of the most 
terrible experiences you ever had came 
when you were with a lot of others. 
That time you were nearly speared going 
