The three sea-children had a happy life deep under the waves, watched over by their father, a Lord of the Sea, their gentle mermaid mother, and Billy Bones, the sailor who had followed her harp music down into the depths of the sea, and lived with the family ever after. They did their lessons, played with the little ones in the nursery cavern, listened to Billy's wonderful stories, made sand-castles on the ocean bed, swung in their sea-grass hammock,...