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040 - The Cormorant and the Bat · Manx Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty nine of Manx Fairy Tales. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Dharko. Manx Fairy Tales by Sophia Morrison, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine, The Cormorant and the Bat. There was a
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  Speaker 1: time in the olden days when the cormorant and the
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  Speaker 1: bat took council together to do something for the poor,
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  Speaker 1: as they had compassion on them, and they went into
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  Speaker 1: the glens gathering wool to make clothing for them. When
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  Speaker 1: they had a quantity gathered, they took a boat and
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  Speaker 1: put out to sea. It happened as they were sailing
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  Speaker 1: that a storm came on and the waves were breaking
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  Speaker 1: over the vessel insomuch that the poor bat had to
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  Speaker 1: leap from place to place to escape the water, and
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  Speaker 1: in the darkness he was cast out of the boat,
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  Speaker 1: clinging to an oar. At daybreak, he was near the
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  Speaker 1: shore and flew on too dry land. A sea gull
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  Speaker 1: standing near by inquired, oh, little batvox, what's their doing
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  Speaker 1: on thee that thou art? All of a thriddle of
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  Speaker 1: Thrimblin like this. When he heard the bat's story, he said,
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  Speaker 1: as sure as can be, if he will happen on thee,
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  Speaker 1: he will take thy life. They had given each other
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  Speaker 1: a promise that one would not leave the other until
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  Speaker 1: they had completed their task. The bat was so frightened
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  Speaker 1: that he hid himself in an old ruin until the
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  Speaker 1: darkness came on, and from that time until now he
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  Speaker 1: will only venture out under covering of the night. The
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  Speaker 1: cormorant held on to the boat until she filled with
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  Speaker 1: water and sank to the bottom of the sea. At
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  Speaker 1: last he flew to a rock, and there sat for
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  Speaker 1: hours together, day after day, looking out for the bat.
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  Speaker 1: At other times he would go for a season into
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  Speaker 1: the glens. And in this way they continue from that
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  Speaker 1: storm to the present time. The one hides himself and
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  Speaker 1: the other seeks him. End of chapter thirty nine, The
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  Speaker 1: Cormorant and the Bat. Recording by Dharko No