I felt a sob of laughter beginning somewhere about my waist-belt, and yet my heart ached with fear for Dennis.

Oh, if only His Magnificence would move a little quicker, and let us have it over! There's a fish at Bermuda that is known as the toad-fish (so Alfonso told me), and when you tickle it it blows itself out after the manner of the frog who tried to be as big as an ox.

It becomes as round as a football, and if you throw it on the water it floats.

If you touch it it sounds (according to Alfonso) "all same as a banjo." It will live some time out of water; and if it shows any signs of subsiding, another tickle will blow it out again.

"Too muchee tickle him burst," said Alfonso.