Produced by Brendan Lane, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: "SAMMY".] HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND BY EMILY PARET ATWATER Author of "Tommy's Adventures," etc. _TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE "GREEN SHELL"_ _For much of the Natural History part of this little volume the author is indebted to M. C. Cooke's "Toilers of the Sea," and Dr. G. Hartwig's "Denizens of the Deep." She has thought it desirable to mingle some fiction with the facts, but trusts that the "Gentle Reader" will easily distinguish the one from the other._ CONTENTS HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND I. HOW SAMMY WENT OUT TO SEE THE WORLD II. HOW SAMMY ESCAPED FROM THE SHARK AND MADE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF THE HERMIT-CRAB III. THE STAR-FISH, THE UNSOCIABLE OYSTERS AND THE PILOT IV. ON TO CORAL-LAND V. IN CORAL-LAND List of Illustrations "SAMMY" HERMIT-CRAB HERMIT-CRAB IN SHELL CALLING CRAB STAR-FISH Meteor proved very friendly indeed HAMMERHEADED SHARK A Terribly Fierce Monster is the Hammerheaded Shark SWORD-FISH The Enemy the Pilot-Fish Dreaded Most of All REMORA The Remora Has a Wonderful Flat Apparatus on its Head TORPEDO-FISH One of the Pilot-Fish's Favorite Yarns was about the Torpedo-Fish SEA-DEVIL The Treacherous Sea-Devil and an Unwary Fish FLYING-FISH One of the School of Flying-Fish which Sammy Met GLOBE-FISH A Curious Inhabitant of Coral-Land PORCUPINE-FISH Another Curious Inhabitant of Coral-Land A COLONY OF SEA-ANEMONES A SCENE IN CORAL-LAND, SHOWING STAR-SHAPED FLOWERS OF CORAL, AND OCTOPUS SEA-SNAIL NAUTILUS COCKLE, SHOWING FOOT RAZOR-SHELL HOW SAMMY WENT TO CORAL-LAND "Well, children," said grandma, "which shall it be, fairy stories, stories about giants, or 'really truly,' stories?" They had been spending a month at the seashore, grandma, Bob and Eleanor. Little Bob had been very ill in the spring, and when hot weather came the doctor ordered sea air and sea bathing to bring back color to the pale cheeks, and strength to the thin little body. But Bob's father was a poor country parson and there seemed no way to fill the doctor's prescription. At this juncture grandma, like the charming fairy godmother that she was, appeared on the scene. She knew a quiet spot (one of the few still in existence), where there were no big hotels, no board-walks, and no merry-go-rounds. It was the very place where she wanted to go to get rid of her rheumatism; Bob and Eleanor should go with her, and their father and mother could follow later when the parson's vacation came.