now that the hook was found the happy hunter had nothing to keep him in ryn gu, and he was anxious to get back to his own kingdom and to make peace with his angry brother, the skillful fisher; but the sea king, who had learnt to love him and would fain have kept him as a son, begged him not to go so soon, but to make the sea palace his home as long as ever he liked. while the happy hunter was still hesitating, the two lovely princesses, tayotama and tamayori, came, and with the sweetest of bows and voices joined with their father in pressing him to stay, so that without seeming ungracious he could not say them "nay,"