Show A A A A AA jk A AA A A A A A little visible charm in captured mermaid ahat the belief in mermaids should have survived all theae years Is ex but there Is another curious side to the matter that eich successive mermaid seen through the centuries beems to have been uglier alian its predecessor of alila there can be no doubt if one contrasts the description of the maid of the ancient greeks with those of more fcc nt times in an account of a mermaid cap aured off alie coast of fatal a writer describes it as having screamed like a woman when caught and goes on to state that it had seven ribs on each side lungs adnes and a heart about tle tl e size of an ox heart according to the writer the mermaid was 11 feet long had a huge tall instead of legs tacked a tongue and teeth but had a heavy chin hat note ces an a kind of hair eliat grew in tufts not a very prepossessing mermaid I 1 it Is more alian probable tint pound monster was a dugong though once a lind dweller li now an inhabitant of the sea and un responsible or many ol 01 the mermaid legends |