"You did," insisted Jabber.

"I say I didn't!"

"I say you did!"

* * * * *

"Well, well," said grandma, as she paused to gather up her fancy work,
"everybody knows that a family quarrel is the worst kind of quarrel.
But in this case the dispute had a speedy ending, for the two brothers
fiercely attacked each other, and right there and then they fought a
terrible duel, which only ended with the death of both combatants, for
each died pierced through the body with his brother's sword.

"So perished the two dreaded sentinels of Coral-Land, and Sammy was at
his journey's end."




CHAPTER V

IN CORAL-LAND


Oh! do you know
Where the sea-flowers blow,
Down deep in the ocean's bed?
Where the shy plants hide