By: Robert W. Chambers

“It’s purring around the boat.”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“As wet as a sheet of india-rubber in a dissecting-room.”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“I want to ask you if you ever saw a man with gills like a fish?”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“What do you think of my auks — and my veracity?”

By: Robert W. Chambers

The next moment, however, I knew it could not be a man.

By: Robert W. Chambers

“Did you ever hear of the harbor-master?”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“I guess you’re the man in a hurry.”

By: Robert W. Chambers

“Who has seen a single specimen since?”