It's the _thing_, and not its size, that horrifies me.

Once I jumped out of a boat into ten feet of water because my companion caught an eel on his line, and persisted in the argument that it was a fish.

Thank Heaven we don't have snakes up here.

I've seen only three or four in all my experience in the Northland." She laughed softly in spite of the uneasy thrill the night held for her.
"It is hard for me to imagine you being afraid," she said.

"And yet if you were afraid I know it would be of just some little thing like that.