It'll be such a wear an' tear on your nerves.
Jes' take it easy an' let us live as long as we can." "Don't you care to die ?" asked the magician.
"It's a thing I never longed for," the sailor replied.

"You see, we had no business to go on a trip with the mermaids to begin with.
I've allus heard tell that mermaids is dangerous, an' no one as met 'em ever lived to tell the tale.

Eh, Trot ?" "That's what you said, Cap'n Bill." "So I guess we're done for, one way 'r 'nother, an' it don't matter much which.

But Trot's a good child, an' mighty young an' tender.

It don't seem like her time has come to die.