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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Out in the rivulet dwelt eels, and the eel-mother said to her daughters, when they begged to be allowed to go a little way alone up the stream. 'Do not go far, lest the horrible eel-spearer should come, and take you all away.
He was hungry again, but for him there could be no more food yet, and he turned with the same immutable and dumbly dogged air that characterized so many of his actions, and made off down the "sea-bank." Once he hid vanished utterly would better express it to avoid the passage of an eel-spearer, an inhabitant of the estuary almost as amphibious and mysterious as himself.
"But they went very far, and of eight daughters only three returned to their mother, and these came wailing, 'We only went a short way from the door, when the terrible eel-spearer came and killed our five sisters. 'They will come back again, said the eel-mother. 'No, said the daughters, 'for he skinned them, cut them in pieces, and fried them. 'They will come again, repeated the mother.
'Don't go too far, said their mother; 'the ugly eel-spearer might come and snap you all up. But they went too far, and of eight daughters only three came back to the mother, and these wept and said, 'We only went a little way out, and the ugly eel-spearer came immediately and stabbed five of our sisters to death. 'They'll come back again, said the mother eel.
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