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1. Mermaid Takes Son (continued)

   

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   a feather out of her tail and he did so but he didn't go far until he said he wished he was a hawk and no sooner said than he was a hawk and he flew off to a big forest and he stopped on top of a tree in the big forest and he seen a light a long ways away so he flew to the light and he stayed on top of the house all the night until the next morning and the next morning he flew down about the house and flew in and one of the girls took him up and put him into a cage and she fed the hawk the whole time in the cage but begor in the latter end the hawk used to open the cage and get down and talk to the girl so this day he turned into a man and told the girl that he would get

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   • James Coleman