stop ! ' she cried , hardly knowing what she said . ` If that man is hanged there is not a soul in the kingdom but shall die also . ' And running up to where the fisher 's son was standing , she took him by the hand , saying , ` Father , this is no robber or murderer , but the victor in the three races , and he loosed the spells that were laid upon me . ' Then , without waiting for a reply , she conducted him into the palace , and he bathed in a marble bath , and all the dirt that the fairies had put upon him disappeared like magic , and when he had dressed himself in the fine garments the princess had sent to him , he looked a match for any king 's daughter in Erin . He went down into the great hall where she was awaiting him , and they had much to tell each other but little time to tell it in , for the king her father , and the princes who were visiting him , and all the people of the kingdom were still in their places expecting her return . ` How did you find me out ? ' she whispered as they went down the passage . ` The birds in the box told me , ' answered he , but he could say no more , as they stepped out into the open space that was crowded with people . There the princes stopped . ' O kings ! ' she said , turning towards them , ` if one of you were killed to-day , the rest would fly ; but this man put his trust in me , and had his head cut off three times . Because he has done this , I will marry him rather than one of you , who have come hither to wed me , for many kings here sought to free me from the spells , but none could do it save Ian the fisher 's son . ' From ` Popular Tales of the West Highlands . ' A Fish Story Perhaps you think that fishes were always fishes , and never lived anywhere except in the water , but if you went to Australia and talked to the black people in the sandy desert in the centre of the country , you would learn something quite different . They would tell you that long , long ago you would have met fishes on the land , wandering from place to place , and hunting all sorts of animals , and if you consider how fishes are made , you will understand how difficult this must have been and how clever they were to do it . Indeed , so clever were they that they might have been hunting still if a terrible thing had not happened . One day the whole fish tribe came back very tired from a hunting expedition , and looked about for a nice , cool spot in which to pitch their camp . It was very hot , and they thought that they could not find a more comfortable place than under the branches of a large tree which grew by the bank of a river . So they made their fire to cook some food , right on the edge of a steep bank , which had a deep pool of water lying beneath it at the bottom .
While the food was cooking they all stretched themselves lazily out under the tree , and were just dropping off XXXXX sleep when a big black cloud which they had never noticed spread over the sun , and heavy drops of rain began to fall , so that the fire was almost put out , and that , you know , is a very serious thing in savage countries where they have no matches , for it is very hard to light it again .
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