Chapter XXXIV: “as soon
as my good Fairy saw me in danger of drowning, she quickly sent
an immense
shoal of fish around me; and then, taking me truly for a dead donkey,
began to eat me up. And what huge bites they took! (...) Some ate
my ears, some ate my muzzle, some my neck and mane, some the skin
of my legs, some the coat of my back; and among them there was
one little fish who was so amiable that he even went so far as
to eat my tail.”
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