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 became visible, and she went to awaken the children that they might have their morning meal of the fish which had been caught over night. But the little bed of fragrant grasses was empty and cold, although moist with the tears which the poor runaways had shed. The woman called to her husband in fear and sorrow, and together the two tracked the path taken by the children. They found the wet traces of the tears which had dripped down, but when they came to the little cup-markings in the rock there was no further sign of them to be found. The parents looked here and there in utter perplexity, till, glancing up at the sky, they saw their children shining brightly as twin stars! Father and mother leapt up heavenwards also, and started in chase of their offspring, but the children had got too far ahead to be overtaken, and the pursuers have never yet succeeded in overtaking the truants. All four are now bright stars and are known to the natives of the island as “The Inseparables.”