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caught hold of them he dived with them into the deep, took them to his cold hall, and there imprisoned the two unhappy souls each under a narrow jar.

For many years afterwards a dark, deep pool was to be seen on the spot where the shepherdess Dorothy's hut once stood, and the people living near would tell travellers the story of the unhappy mother and of her son Yanechek.