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"Just the place for a sea serpent, seems to me," said Cap'n Bill.
"I'm glad you admire it," said the King. "Perhaps I ought to tell you that from this
day you four belong to me."
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How's that?" asked the girl, surprised.
"It is a law of the ocean," declared Anko, "that whoever saves any living creature
from violent death owns that creature forever afterward, while life lasts. You will
realize how just this law is when you remember that had I not saved you from
Zog, you would now be dead. The law was suggested by Captain Kid Glove, when
he once visited me."
"Do you mean Captain Kidd?" asked Trot. "Because if you do--"
"Give him his full name," said Anko. "Captain Kid Glove was--"
"There's no glove to it," protested Trot. "I ought to know, 'cause I've read about
him."
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Didn't it say anything about a glove?" asked Anko.
Nothing at all. It jus' called him Cap'n Kidd," replied Trot.
She's right, ol' man," added Cap'n Bill.
Books," said the Sea Serpent, "are good enough as far as they go, but it seems to
me your earth books don't go far enough. Captain Kid Glove was a gentleman
pirate, a kid-glove pirate. To leave off the glove and call him just Kidd is very
disrespectful."
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Oh! You told me to remind you of that third pain," said the little girl.
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Which proves my friendship for you," returned the Sea Serpent, blinking his blue
eyes thoughtfully. "No one likes to be reminded of a pain, and that third pain
was--was--"
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What was it?" asked Trot.
It was a stomach ache," replied the King with a sigh.
What made it?" she inquired.
Just my carelessness," said Anko. "I'd been away to foreign parts, seeing how the
earth people were getting along. I found the Germans dancing the german and the
Dutch making dutch cheese and the Belgians combing their belgian hares and
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