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monstrous fish les all about the shore! Let us shoot
Titan

So they shot at it and shot at it, and then they fell
upon it with their axes and began to cut it to pieces.
They cut and hacked at it till suddenly they heard
something calling to them from the middle of the
fish: “Ho! my brothers! hack fish if you like, but
hack not that fiesh which is full of Christian blood !”

They fell down to the ground for fright, and were
like dead men, but the prince’s younger son crept out
of the hole in the fish that the huntsmen had made,
went out upon the shore, and sat down. He sat down
there quite naked, for all his clothes had rotted and
dropped off inside the fish. Maybe he had been a
whole year in the whale without knowing it, and he
thought to himself: “ How shall I now manage to
live in the wide wide world ?”

Meanwhile the elder brother had become a great
nobleman. His father had died, and he was lord
over his whole inheritance. Then, as is the wont
of princes, he called together his senators and his
servants, and they counselled their young prince to
marry; so out he went to scek a bride, and a great
retinue followed after him. They went on and on till
they came to where a naked man was sitting. Then
the prince said to one of his servants: “Go and sec
what manner of man that is!”