"It's almost as good as a circus.

I don't think they would make me tired, but then I'm not a mermaid." The clown crabs had now formed a row in front of them.

"Mr.
Johnsing," asked one, "why is a mermaid like an automobile ?" "I don't know, Tommy Blimken," answered a big crab in the middle of the row.

"WHY do you think a mermaid is like an automobile ?" "Because they both get tired," said Tommy Blimken.

Then all the crabs laughed, and Tommy seemed to laugh louder than the rest.
"How do the crabs in the sea know anything 'bout automobiles ?" asked Trot.
"Why, Tommy Blimken and Harry Hustle were both captured once by humans and put in an aquarium," answered the mermaid.