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new that this was not its neck but its body and that at last they were seeing what so many people have foolishly wanted to see—the great Sea Serpent.The folds of its gigantic tail could be seen far away, rising at intervals from the surface.And now its head was towering up higher than the mast.
Every man rushed to his weapon,but there was nothing to be done,the monster was out of reach.“Shoot !Shoot !”cried the Master Bowman,and several obeyed,but the arrows glanced off the Sea Serpent’s hide as if it was iron—plated.Then,for a dreadful minute,everyone was still,staring up at its eyes and mouth and wondering where it would pounce.
But it didn’t pounce.It shot its head forward across the ship on a level with the yard of the mast.Now its head was just beside the fightingtop.Still it stretched and stretched till its head was over the starboard bulwark.Then down it began to come—not onto the crowded deck but into the water,so that the whole ship was under an arch of serpent.A