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 in the water and dispersed in chase of the fair robbers, who upon discovering their hunters immediately rushed towards the fountain. The girl was the first to reach the spring, and diving headlong was at once entangled in the net; the male fairy found the net somewhat displaced by the struggles of his luckless sister, and getting past the impediment, was seen no more. With cries of triumph and loud rejoicings the villagers bore their lovely captive off to the abodes of men.

She soon grew accustomed to the ways of mortals, except that she could only live on raw fruits and would not on any occasion partake of cooked food. She was reconciled to her lot, and, being wooed by a famous and gallant chief named Ati, married him, and they were very happy together. She bore her husband an infant son whose skin was as dazzling white as his mother’s, but on this child being born she requested Ati to kill her, as that was the custom in Fairy Land. Ati refused, and told her how much better was the human fashion of allowing a mother to live that she might cherish and protect her offspring. The fairy wife was then filled with sorrow for the fate of the poor mothers in the spirit land she had left, and she entreated Ati that she might be allowed to go back again and teach them the more wise and merciful