Tatlow The Sailor - Part Thirty by J.M.Okano

     Saskia was afraid.  Coming towards her in the sea was a large red creature with claws, antennae, and a sectioned tail.  What was that? she wondered.  Of course it was a lobster.  But Saskia had been so busy playing piano and suchlike, that she hadn't learned such things, a phenomenon which sometimes occurs to even very talented people like the rest of us.  It grabbed her toes.
     "Stop!"  she said.  The lobster let go and Saskia breathed in.  Perhaps they could be friends after all.
     She saw a flying fish and wanted to fly too.  When the fish came to rest, she sat on its back and said, "Go!"
     Up the fish flew into the air above the waves and down again into the sea!
     Saskia swam to the shore and rested on the sand.  Suddenly she started to feel tickling sensations.
     "Stop it now please!"  she said to the sand fleas.

TO BE CONTINUED