"Those funny, fat, seven- fingered gentlemen have a nasty habit of `shamming Abraham,' or pretending to have `kicked the bucket' when they are all alive and hearty!" "How funny!" said Nellie, laughing.

"But, what shall we get to put into the aquarium besides, Captain dear, crabs and little fish, like those we see swimming about in the sea below the castle ?" "Crabs and little grandmothers!" ejaculated the Captain in great disgust.

"A nice aquarium you would make of it, missy, if you hadn't some one to look after you! Why, the crabs would eat your little fish before a week was out and then turn round and eat you!" "Dear me, that would be dreadful!" cried Nellie laughing still more, the Captain did look so comical.

"But, what may we have for our aquarium, if we must not have these ?" "Get?
Well, let me see," said he, blinking away furiously and moving his bushy eyebrows up and down for a moment, as if deliberating.

"We'll have some sea-anemones, to commence with.