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The Water-Fairy pushed him to the top of the water and patted him on his back until he was all right once more, then she said: "I will make it possible for you to stay down under the water and breathe and talk just like a fish and then you will never choke again."
The water was so deep and it raced along so swiftly that Pinkie Whiskers was very much frightened, but suddenly a beautiful, soft voice whispered in his ear: "Do not be afraid. I am the Water-Fairy and I will help you because my dear friend, the Tree-Fairy asked me to do so. She told me all about how you saved her."
He skipped from skjaeke to skjaeke of the wheel, and did many things which Sveggum could set down only to luck whatever that is; and some said that Sveggum's luck was a Wheel-troll, a Water-fairy, with a brown coat and a white beard, one that lived on land or in water, as he pleased.
Pinkie Whiskers took out of his pocket his white handkerchief and waved it around and around his head. "Ship ahoy! ship ahoy!" he shouted. "It will do you no good to signal the ship," said the Water-Fairy. "It would never stop to take a rat on board. Oh, dear no! You will have to get on the ship without anyone seeing you." Pinkie Whiskers did not wait to hear any more.
Pinkie Whiskers ate and ate, then he told them all about the good Water-Fairy, who was a friend of the Tree-Fairy and how she had asked the Water-Fairy to help him. Winkle, Twinkle and Billy Jay were so amazed by Pinkie Whiskers' story that they stood and stared at him with big eyes.
Pinkie Whiskers smiled his thanks and the Water-Fairy made some passes and, sure enough, he could breathe, talk and swim under water just like a fish. "Look! look!" cried the Water-Fairy. "There is a ship in the distance and it is headed this way." Sure enough, a beautiful, big, white ship was coming down the river. It was coming so fast now they could see men moving about on her.
There a girl meets a frog which is painfully bloated, and kicks it unfeelingly aside, with the words: "May you never be delivered till I am midwife to you!" Now the frog was a water-fairy dwelling in a lake, into which the girl soon after was conveyed and compelled to become the fairy's midwife.
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