10 A Day with the Sea Urchins.

 

these Erinnys, who were not men at all by the way,
but women, are of all things most dreaded by Sea
Urchins. Most boys read the old Greek fairy stories,
and many girls too, for it is the fashion for girls to
learn Greek now-a-days, as I am told by Oxford and
Cambridge examiners. Now I think, and many wise
men and women agree with me, examiners notwith-
standing, that there are many things more important
than Greek for little girls to learn, but this is merely
a matter of opinion.

You all know that the Erinnys were a race who
spent their lives in tracking and bringing evil-doeérs to
justice, and that is why policemen are called Erinnys by
Sea Urchins to this day. They had been so frightened
on this occasion that they all fell off the rock round
which they had been peeping, and went heels over
head into the sea with such a splash that the police-
man lcoked back, and thought he saw something white
flourish in the air, and disappear into the sea, which
looked very like the legs of a small boy; and in point
of fact so it was, but he was tired and hot, and badly
wetted already, so he bethought himself that a boy in
the hand was worth two in the sea, and marched off his
prisoner with an added sternness, which struck terror
to the hearts of the Sea Urchins, who from. that day
to this have never dared to show an inch of their pretty
little white bodies out of their hiding-places; and, as