Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 777
an Unicorns; and in pictures they gener-ally have a comb in one hand and a mirror in theother, as if they were always doing up theirlong hair—which never gets done up after all.but hangs down their backs. Sailors and fisher-men always believed in Mermaids—who were sup-posed to live in the sea, and… … MERMAIDS. to be very beautiful, and the fishermen of thoseearly times often declared that they had seen andtalked with Mermaids, who would invite them togo with them to their homes at the bottom of theocean. But those who went were always drownedof course. Their cousins, the Sirens, were more…
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