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skins, and who, on recovering their sensibility, 

 also assumed the form of fairies, and lamented in 

 the most mournful strains, wildly accompanied by 

 the storm, the loss of their sea dresses, which would 

 prevent them from ever again enjoying their 

 native azure atmosphere, or meeting in their coral 

 mansions, which lay below the deep waters of 

 the Atlantic. Their chief lamentations were for 

 Ollavitimus, son of Groga, who having been 

 stripped of his seal-skin would be for ever parted 

 from his comrades, and condemned to perpetual 

 exile in the upper world. Their song was sud- 

 denly interrupted on perceiving one of their 

 enemies near to and anxiously observing them, 

 his limbs shivering with cold, and appearing in 

 the utmost despair. Groga immediately con- 

 ceived the idea of rendering the perilous situation 

 of the poor fellow subservient to the recovery of 

 her son \ she addressed him with mildness, re- 

 gretted the misfortune which had placed him 

 there, sympathized with him on his hopeless situ- 

 ation, and at length proposed to carry him safe 

 on her back across the sea to the shore of Papa 

 Stour, on condition of receiving the skin of Olla- 

 vitimus in return for her service. The bargain 

 was immediately struck, to the no small joy of 

 the poor fellow, Groga instantly clad herself in 



