102 How Sammy Went to Coral-Land 
part of his life in the Lagoon, was ac¬ 
knowledged as the great social leader of 
Coral-Land. 
The Sun-Fish presented Sammy to the 
Trunk-Fish, (so named from his curious 
shape), and the Trunk-Fish in turn in¬ 
troduced him to the Globe-Fish and the 
Porcupine-Fish, and they made him ac¬ 
quainted with the family of scarlet fish, 
and some handsome gold-fish. Two of 
the gold-fish, called respectively Gay and 
Gilt, were particularly friendly to Sammy, 
who soon found them much more enter¬ 
taining than the worthy, but somewhat 
prosy Pilot. 
So, as the days went on, our hero spent 
more and more of his time in the com¬ 
pany of his new friends, while the Pilot 
was content, now that his duty was done, 
to gossip with the Sun-Fish, or betake 
himself to some particularly good feeding 
