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 her home among the shades of the deep seas and came to dwell with her husband in the land of daylight. Her eyes grew weary of the bright sunlight and her beauty faded. Her husband watched her with sad eyes, but he did not know what to do to help her. "O, if night would only come," she moaned as she tossed about wearily on her couch. "Here it is always day, but in my father's kingdom there are many shadows. O, for a little of the darkness of night!" Her husband listened to her moanings. "What is night?" he asked her. "Tell me about it and perhaps I can get a little of it for you." "Night," said the daughter of the, "is the name we give to the heavy shadows which darken my father's