“Do you know, Ichabod,” said Job, “that Master Torrey and I just found the figure-head of the poor Sea-nymph, all shattered to bits on the rocks? The waves brought her all this way to smash her at last.” “I wish they had smashed her at first,” said Ichabod. “Why?” said Job, with a curious look. “Because,” said Ichabod, “she was an unlucky creature from the first. She was too much alive for a wooden image, and too wooden to be a live woman, much less a goddess.” _FINIS_ Transcriber’s Notes --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. --In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.) --Released the other part of this printed volume, Eva’s Adventures in Shadow-Land, as a separate Gutenberg edition, but retained the original combined title-page as a bibliographic record. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Merman and The Figure-Head, by Clara F. Guernsey