Merman (The Wishing Chair)

The Merman is a character from Enid Blyton's book series The Wishing-Chair and the animated series, The Adventures of the Magic Wishing Chair. He appears in the story and episode of the same name, "The Disappearing Islands".

Biography
After having run-ins with several disappearing islands, Peter, Mollie and Jigs(Chinky in the books) are left stranded in the ocean, their wishing chair's wings too wet to fly. A Merman appears and offers to assist them. In the books, he agrees to help for a piece of silver which Chinky will pay upon returning home. In the cartoon the Merman is part of the Merwatch Rescue Force and he deals specifically with the Disappearing Islands.

He hops onto the chair and summons a school of flying fish and directs them like a coachman and his horses. He delivers the protagonists to an ordinary island, the home of the a friendly dragon who would dry the wishing chair's wings.