Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lion Jack: A Story of Perilous Adventures Among Wild Men and the Capturing of Wild Beasts; Showing How Menageries Are Made
Get them i' was the reply. Of course I will and I've sent out two steam-tugs and a fishing-smack to bring me in a good specimen of the sea-serpent. I hope to have him in first-rate training by the time the ship gets back. The sea-serpent needs a deal of edu cation - almost as much as a mermaid.
There's nothing like useful information; but when, at last, the list of names of those who were to go was actually made out and quietly made known from one man to another, the number of the happy was com paratively small for, of all that company, less than a dozen were selected for the hunt, the proprietor wise ly considering that this was quite as many as would be of any use.
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