nute more thewater, which had been fresh, turned salt all roundhim. And then there came a change over him. He IV A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 135 felt as strong, and light, and fresh, as if his veins hadrun champagne; and gave, he did not know why,three skips out of the water, a yard high, and… … him. The red buoy was in sight, dancing in the opensea; and to the buoy he would go, and to it he went.He passed great shoals of bass and mullet, leaping andrushing in after the shrimps, but be never heededthem, or they him ; and once he passed a great blackshining seal, who was coming in after the…
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