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there’s one. of. them tossed right out of the. boat!
She is lost! No, she’s not! she’s in shallow water,
and has got upon her feet. Capital!. And now the
other has jumped on shore; silly thing, she does not
see her friend, and is going the wrong way.”

Dem. “Well, my man, now that you have seen
_ them safe on shore, perhaps you wouldn't mind going
on with your work; you are my servant, not theirs.
Come with me.”

Scep. “Very good, master, I am coming.”

And the two went off to fetch whet was wanted
for repairing the house.

While they were thus employed, one of the two
shipwrecked girls came along. She was in a terrible
state. of distress, poor creature, for she had lost
everything she had in the world except what she
stood up in, and she believed that her friend had
been drowned.

“Dear! dear!” she cried, wringing her hands.
“Why am I so dreadfully unlucky? I am sure that
I have always tried to be a good girl. I loved my
dear father while I had one, and I used to go regu-
larly to the temples; and yet, if I had been the
wickedest girl in the world, I could not have been
worse off. No food, no shelter, nothing left but
what I have on; and my dear Ampelisca drowned!
I could have borne it if she had been with me.”

And she sat down and cried as if her heart would
break. So overwhelmed was she with distress that