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 adored; but she could only say, “I am dying, but happy since you are here.” Then her lips grew cold, and she lay in his arms silent for ever. Long hours he sat holding the corpse of the fair maiden, then rising with his burden he leapt into the sea, and using no effort to prolong a life which had become hateful to him, drifted down to the abode of Milu, the King of the Land of Shadows.





In ancient days there lived a prince named Tini, who was the lord of all the fishes in the ocean, and could compel them to perform any action he commanded. Near his home on Sacred Island he had large fish-ponds, in which the young ones were bred that were, when 