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120 Chit-Chat by Puck.
The red corals were covered with black earth,
mighty forests clustered on his crown, and glorious
valleys and meadows divided the forests ; the woods
were replete with animal life, and man had chosen
the lower valleys to build his dwellings in; every-
thing was blooming and pulsing with life, and nature
smiled with eloquent signs upon Neptune, who
expressed his joy, for he had never seen anything
like it before, and he could not turn his eyes away
from this picture which he thought so beautiful to
behold.
When Neptune had looked at it as he thought
for a little while—though in reality it was nearly
three years—he discovered with dismay that the
beautiful picture disappeared, and at last nothing
more remained than naked cliffs, and whitening
bones entangled in seaweed.
Then he became sorrowful in mind, and began
lamenting: “ That picture was the most beautiful I
ever beheld! Why was I not permitted to retain
it?”
He called together his whole court, and all the
toilers of the seas, and commanded them to erect a
column that should reach to the surface of the seas ;
and he gave his own throne as a foundation.
The structure was soon completed, and the God
of the Seas placed uppermost his crown, after first
having adorned it with grains of gold and diamonds.
Once in a thousand years Neptune is allowed to
raise his head above the surface of the seas to look
at the sun as he sinks in immensity; but he had
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