Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
. combing it with one hand, while in the othershe holds a looking glass. Who would beA mermaid fair,Sinsjina; alone,Combing her hairUnder the sea? Tennyson — The Mermaid. Nearly all nations have folk-lore and fairytale accounts of mermaids, and sometimes ofmermen. Even the American Indians hadtheir… … however interesting they may be, but to ex-plain their natural history origin and basis. Sir James Emerson Tennent, writing of thedugong, says: Its head has a rude approach to the human outline,and the mother holds her infant in one flipper, arm-likeas does a human mother. If disturbed it…
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