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Title: The great sea horse
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, Isabel, 1876-1948
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ove all he loved his freedom. I must see more of the world, said theyoung Sea Horse one day, and ventured upa river. The grass along its banks looked soinvitingly green by the setting sun that hewent on land to take a nibble. There he sawa man for the first time in all his life, andstood quite still to watch him. My horses are all in the barn, but per-haps this is one of our neighbors, thought theman; I will catch him, for he seems quitetame. So he took a bridle and put it on theSea Horse, who was too astonished to move.Then the man jumped on the creatures back;as he grasped the mane to mount, he realizedfor the first time that it was of sea-weed. Thiswas a new kind of horse! No sooner was heastride than the animal made a leap straightin the air, snorted, took the bit in his teeth,and started for the river. The stream wasdeep and the horse began to swim with aswinging movement like a camels walk. 6 THE GREAT SEA HORSE He loved to roll in the yellow sand by the light of the moon Page 6
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THE GREAT SEA HORSE I shall be drowned! Help! Help!screamed the rnan, as he fell off, but the riversprites took him safely to land. That was fun! neighed the Sea Horse, ashe felt himself free again and shook off thebridle. He went farther up the river until he cameto a mill. I will play a jolly prank on themiller, he said to himself. So he kicked thewheel and broke it into flinders, so that themiller was obliged to take the machinery topieces to find out what was wrong; while hewas at work, he swore so much that his littlefriends the river sprites heard him. That big Sea Horse has no business here,said the river sprites, he has ruined the wheeland made our friend the miller very angry;with that they drew a fishermans net acrossthe river to entangle the strange horse. Whenhe plunged and struggled and turned somer-saults, they thought that he was surely caught.But he was not, for he was so strong that hetore a hole in the net and escaped through it.With a great splash and a neigh of fre

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