![]() Sharpen your teeth and polish your skins this night, for in the morning we go to battle with men. “Soldier- fish!” said the king, “your help is needed. They crowded round his palace in their smooth grey coats, which in those days were one and all alike. I will teach them to obey.”įrom his palace he sent a summons to all fighting fish, big and little, to come to his aid. “They dare to laugh at me and doubt my power! ” he cried. The gull returned with the insulting message. Tell your Sea-king that the husband stays with us as long as we desire it. “The Sea-king! Who obeys him?” laughed the villagers. “It is the great Sea-king who sends the word. “Restore the husband to the wife, ” she called from the wall surrounding the village. ![]() “Go to the village near by, ” he said, “and tell the people to restore the husband to the wife. She was doubtful of the Sea-king”s power on land. “Go quietly home and await events.” The wife went home, not much comforted. “I will send a message to the village may be your husband will soon return to you, ” he said. She told her tale with such heartbroken sobs that the Sea-king”s pity rose on her behalf. He would have come, but his friends laughed at him for yielding, so I return alone and sorrowful. I have been to the village to beg him to come back to me. ![]() Why we quarelled I hardly know, for indeed we love one another. “I weep because I have lost my husband, ” she replied. The woman stopped, looked into the water and saw the fish, and guessed that he must be the king. A woman walked along the beach, wailing loudly. He changed himself into a fish and swam to the shore to look. The Sea-king in his palace under the water heard the sound of bitter weeping on the shore. ![]()
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