The Japanese fairy book . e tai; thatis why I could not come. Dont say another word ! cried out Ryn Jin angrily. Your illness is the punishment of the gods for stealing theMikotos hook. It is only too true! said the tai; the hook is still in mythroat, and all my efforts to get it out have been cant eat, and I can scarcely breathe, and each momentI feel that it will choke me, and sometimes it gives me greatpain. I had no intention of stealing the Mikotos hook. Iheedlessly snapped at the bait which I saw in the water, andthe hook came off and stuck in my throat. So I hope you willpardo
The Japanese fairy book . e tai; thatis why I could not come. Dont say another word ! cried out Ryn Jin angrily. Your illness is the punishment of the gods for stealing theMikotos hook. It is only too true! said the tai; the hook is still in mythroat, and all my efforts to get it out have been cant eat, and I can scarcely breathe, and each momentI feel that it will choke me, and sometimes it gives me greatpain. I had no intention of stealing the Mikotos hook. Iheedlessly snapped at the bait which I saw in the water, andthe hook came off and stuck in my throat. So I hope you willpardon me. The cuttlefish now came forward, and said to the King: What I said was right. You see the hook still sticks inthe tais throat. I hope to be able to pull it out in the 168 Japanese Fairy Book. presence of the Mikoto, and then we can return it to himsafely! O please make haste and pull it out! cried the tai, piti-fully, for he felt the pains in his throat coming on again ; I doso want to return the hook to the The Cuttlefish opened the Tais Mouth. All right, Tai San, said his friend the cuttlefish, and thenopening the tais mouth as wide as he could and putting oneof his feelers down the tais throat, he quickly and easily drewthe hook out of the sufferers large mouth. He then washed brought it to the King. The Happy Hunter and the Skilful Fisher. 169 Ryn Jin took the hook from his subject, and then respect-fully returned it to the Happy Hunter (the Mikoto or August-ness, the fishes called him), who was overjoyed at gettingback his hook. He thanked Ryn Jin many times, his facebeaming with gratitude, and said that he owed the happyending of his quest to the Sea Kings wise authority andkindness. Ryn Jin now desired to punish the tai, but the HappyHunter begged him not to do so ; since his lost hook was thushappily recovered he did not wish to make more trouble for thepoor tai. It was indeed the tai who had taken the hook, buthe had already suffered enough for hi
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