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Heavens! that a beautiful girl as it is said everywhere Miss M'Loughlin is, and until now proverbially correct in her conduct and deportment should admit such a misshapen kraken as this into her apartment, and at night, too!
"One sunny day they went out hand in hand from our castle to play, as was their wont, among the rocks and caves that are at the south of our island. Never since then have they returned, and some said that the water kelpie had taken them and carried them away to his crystal home under the sea. Others whispered that the kraken or some other monster of the deep had devoured them.
The miserable pitch-fork, the longitudinal rake we speak now in a hay-making sense has contrived to oust half a dozen of the handsomest and best-looking fellows in the parish. How he has done this is a mystery to his acquaintances; but it is none to us we know him. The kraken has a tongue dripping with honey one that would smooth a newly-picked millstone.
"It was but a vulgar and laborious industry, O maiden. I have found a means of gaining much wealth for myself without fatigue. But tell me who thou art?" "I am called Orberosia," answered the young girl. "Why art thou so far away from thy dwelling and in the night?" "Kraken, it was not without the will of Heaven." "What meanest thou, Orberosia?"
The next day in the grease-laden atmosphere of the cavern, Kraken plaited a deformed skeleton out of osier rods and covered it with bristling, scaly, and filthy skins.
But the hero seized her by the garments that floated behind, her, and addressed her in these words: "Damsel, tell me thy name, thy family and thy country." But Orberosia kept looking at Kraken with alarm. "Is it you, I see, sir," she asked him, trembling, "or is it not rather your troubled spirit?"
"But learn, O Mael, that I have had a revelation that as a reward for their deliverance, the Penguin people will pay to the knight Kraken an annual tribute of three hundred fowls, twelve sheep, two oxen, three pigs, one thousand eight hundred bushels of corn, and vegetables according to their season; and that, moreover, the children who will come out of the dragon's belly will be given and committed to the said Kraken to serve him and obey him in all things.
The chroniclers of the Middle Ages had also spoken of the gigantic cuttlefish that on more than one occasion had, with its serpentine arms, snatched men from the decks of the ships. The Scandinavian navigators, who had never encountered it in their fjords, nicknamed it the kraken, exaggerating its proportions and even converting it into a fabulous being.
They had liked leaving Plymouth and being at sea again; they wished that they need not be reminded of another debarkation by the energy of the crane in hoisting the Cherbourg baggage from the hold. They approved of the picturesqueness of three French vessels of war that passed, dragging their kraken shapes low through the level water.
And the dragon will come out of the rocks and I will put my girdle round his neck and lead him like an obedient dog." "Ought you not to be accompanied by a courageous and pious man who will kill the dragon?" asked Mael. "It will be as thou sayest, venerable father. I shall deliver the monster to Kraken, who will stay him with his flashing sword.
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