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And now I am mending every day; but I am very sick and sad; and perhaps I shall never get home again to play with the owl-rays any more." "Oh!" cried Tom. "And you have seen water-babies? Have you seen any near here?" "Yes; they helped me again last night, or I should have been eaten by a great black porpoise." How vexatious! The water-babies close to him, and yet he could not find one.
"I come from the warm Carolinas, and the sand-banks fringed with pines; where the great owl-rays leap and flap, like giant bats, upon the tide. But I wandered north and north, upon the treacherous warm gulf stream, till I met with the cold icebergs, afloat in the mid-ocean. So I got tangled among the icebergs, and chilled with the frozen breath.
But the water babies helped me from among them, and set me free again. And now I am mending every day; but I am very sick and sad; and perhaps I shall never get home again to play with the owl-rays any more." "Oh!" cried Tom. "And you have seen water babies! Have you seen any near here?" "Yes; they helped me again last night, or I should have been eaten by a great black porpoise." How vexatious!
Sometimes it rolled helpless on its side; and then it dashed away glittering like white fire; and then it lay sick again and motionless. "Where do you come from?" asked Tom. "And why are YOU so sick and sad?" "I come from the warm Carolinas, and the sandbanks fringed with pines; where the great owl-rays leap and flap, like giant bats, upon the tide.
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