Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 287
p. Wait untilhe brings back his explosive. Meantime, /will lay my plan be-fore you, said an electric eel, with a bow andwriggle, when the porpoise had disappeared. Assome of you know, nature has provided me with agalvanic battery. I propose to test it in razingyonder edifice to its very foundation.… … THE SHARK TRIES. The hearers looked askance at the eel, for hewas an odd fish, with queer manners and slipperyways, and they never thoroughly understood him. i88o.] THE CORAL CASTLE. 787 Why hesitate to avail yourselves of this scientificmethod ? added the eel, with another wriggle. It is true, I…
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