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1. Mermaid Takes Son (continued)

   

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   and he told the sons all about it but the son did not wait for the time to come but he started off to seek his fortune and he went farther than I can know or you can tell til he came to a forest and he stopped in the forest all night and the next morning he got out and he travelled farther until he met a greyhound and a hawk and a deer and they fighting over an old horse and he carved the horse up with his knife and he gave the deer the body and he gave the hound the two quarters and he gave the hawk the remainder so and he going away the deer said to him "Pull 3 hairs out of my tail and you can be a deer anytime so the hound said the same and he could be a hound anytime and the hawk bid him pull

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   • James Coleman