Mr.Juxon said it was not like anything in the world.

Do listen, mamma! It is the most wonderful story you ever heard.

It was all covered with blue and green scales, and it rolled, and rolled, and rolled, and rolled, till at last it rolled up against the side of the ship with such a tremendous bump that Mr.Juxon fell right down on his back." "Yes dear," said Mrs.Goddard mechanically, as the child paused.
"You don't seem to mind at all!" cried Nellie, who felt that her efforts to amuse her mother were not properly appreciated.

"He fell right down on his back and hurt himself awfully." "That was very sad," said Mrs.Goddard.

"Did he catch the sea-serpent afterwards ?" "Catch the sea-serpent! Why mamma, don't you know that nobody has ever caught the sea-serpent?
Why, hardly anybody has ever seen him, even!" "Yes dear, but I thought Mr.Juxon--" "Of course, Mr.Juxon is the most wonderful man--but he could not catch the sea-serpent.