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Through the Fire.

“I am sure he is very nice-looking. Would you like me to fetch you a little fish? I dare say you’re very hungry, and I can catch you some in a moment if you like it.”

Jack had not time to refuse before an older seal turned to him and said,—

“I am in want of a servant, if that’s what you are come for, and as you are a nice tidy-looking person, I don’t mind trying you; only I am very particular about my ice being bright, and the water all round it being kept clean.”

They were all crowding round him, when the wind-fairy came up, and with one puff sent them all into the water again.

“See,” he said, taking Jack up again, “I have sent on the ball before us, and it will keep you nice and warm.”

Jack looked in front of him and saw a great ball of light, which the wind-fairy blew along as he went, and which sent out a soft warmth.

“How did you manage to carry it?” he asked of the fairy.

“It was quite a little thing when Princess Pyra gave it to me,” he answered, “no bigger than a spark of light, and I have blown it up to

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