The Mermaid of Druid Lake: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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Mermaids are not always found in the sparkling waters of the deep blue sea. Sometimes you find them inland: in lakes, streams, and even in swimming pools. The Mermaid of Druid Lake is about such an inland dwelling water nymph who coaxes two gentlemen into taking her for a joyride around the park. Sweet, humorous, and delightfully Edwardian this 1906 classic tale will delight lovers of the merfolk and folklore alike.
Charles Weathers Bump
Charles Weathers Bump is the author of The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories, originally published in 1906. While very little is known about him, though there have long been rumors that this is a pseudonym for a well-known author of the day.
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The Mermaid of Druid Lake - Charles Weathers Bump
The Mermaid of Druid Lake
Charles Weathers Bump
Varla Ventura
Magical Creatures
A Weiser Books Collection
This ebook edition first published in 2011 by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.
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Excerpted from The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories by Charles Weathers Bump. Baltimore, MD: Nunn & Company, 1906.
eISBN: 978-1-61940-000-9
Cover design by Jim Warner
Cover photograph © Vilena
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Contents
Under the Sea
Chapter
Calling All Friends of Magical Creatures
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Under the Sea
When I was a child there was a period of time when my family lived like gypsies. My parents had sold their city house and were looking for a piece of property, far off the beaten path in the foothills of Northern California. Before they settled on an exact piece of land we set up camp at a riverside campground—the four of us (my parents and my sister and I) lived in a beat up old trailer. My sister and I spent most days playing in the creek that flowed into the river, and swimming in the river, and reading on the sandy shores. It was around this