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THE FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN.

The next thing that happened to them was in a narrow part of the sea, which was so entirely full of fishes that the boat

could go no further; so they remained there about six weeks, till they had eaten nearly all the fishes, which were Soles, and all ready-cooked and covered with shrimp sauce, so that there was no trouble whatever. And as the few fishes that remained uneaten complained of the cold, as well as of the