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1. Mermaid Takes Son (continued)

   

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   and she told him to go to another place in the sea and he'd get another fish and he did and it happened alright again and they had another son but he got uneasy again for another son and he went down to the sea so he pulled her out again but she says "when this child comes to the age of 21 will you give it to me" "I will" he says and it happened alright and he had the three sons and he always used to take two of them out to hunt but the last son he wouldn't bring him at all. When he was coming up to the age of a man the son wanted to know what was the reason his father did not bring him out to hunt the same as the other two sons so she said she did not know but that she would ask him so she asked him and

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   • James Coleman