I think it will be perfectly safe for you to swim out for a while, if you wish." "Who's Mummercubble ?" asked Trot as they passed out into deep water.
"He's the sea pig," replied Merla.

"I am glad he's asleep, for now we won't meet him." "Don't you like him ?" inquired Trot.
"Oh, he complains so bitterly of everything that he bores us," Merla answered.

"Mummercubble is never contented or happy for a single minute." "I've seen people like that," said Cap'n Bill with a nod of his head.

"An' they has a way of upsettin' the happiest folks they meet." "Look out!" suddenly cried the mermaid.

"Look out for your fingers! Here are the snapping eels." "Who?
Where ?" asked Trot anxiously.
And now they were in the midst of a cluster of wriggling, darting eels which sported all around them in the water with marvelous activity.