[Illustration: “He gazed at the wooden creature with all his heart in his eyes.” Page 62.] ADVENTURES IN Shadow-Land. CONTAINING Eva’s Adventures in Shadow-Land. By MARY D. NAUMAN. AND The Merman and The Figure-Head. By CLARA F. GUERNSEY. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS._ PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1874. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Lippincott’s Press, Philadelphia. THE MERMAN AND THE FIGURE-HEAD. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE The Sea-Nymph 7 CHAPTER II. The Sea Kingdom 28 CHAPTER III. The Figure-head 52 CHAPTER IV. The Bewitched Lover 74 CHAPTER V. The Sea-Nymphs 90 CHAPTER VI. Lucy Peabody’s Dream 103 THE MERMAN AND THE FIGURE-HEAD. CHAPTER I. _THE SEA-NYMPH._ “I may be wrong, but I think it a pity For a movable doll to be made so pretty.” _Doll Poems._ “I shall call her the Sea-nymph,” said Master Isaac Torrey. “Umph!” said his clerk, Ichabod Sterns, looking over his spectacles at his master. “And why not The Sea-nymph, pray?” demanded Master Torrey. “Why, I say, should I not call my fine new brig The Sea-nymph if it pleases my fancy?” “Fancy!” said Ichabod Sterns, putting his head on one side. “Fancy! Umph!” Now this was most exasperating conduct on Ichabod’s part, and as such Master Torrey felt it.