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who I 11111 ('he contiuued. t mi~lat have made an intelligent ~He:>:::, bnt he didn't g i\·c the opportunity, foll•J\\·ing hi::- c·hnl-
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.\ ml the11 he told me many tllin;:ts about tishc:; and fishing,
abont fn irics-hcca usc he "·as a real, li\·c fairy-nlJout the
t11:111Y lnuds he had seen, and many, many other thi11gs about
\Yhi~hrm<>nino-towriteabook-somedaY. Hetoldme t" b •
he 'n1::; following- that brook to the sen, \\·here Xeptnne had imited him to take his vacatinn and play \,·ith the mermaids!
It's hccn a long time since I saw '')Ir. Fisherman's Luck,''
and since then I haYe mo,ed to.a. big city where there at·c no
brooks and no place to tish, and '·some day" has nc,·er come
and I did not write the book, and the only story he told me
that I remember is a ,·ery sad one abont a liltle boat. I am
~'oino- to tell it to yon as ncai· as I can in the same quaint
~-ayin whicl1 he r~conntedit to mv astonished cars: •v
''There is a brooklet much like this one, yet smaller, some- where in the world, that leads to a most heantifnl lake in a verY funnY countrY. The country is called the Land of the Sk~1les, n1~d the la.kc the Sc