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And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them.

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‘I am sure I am,’ answered the shark, ‘and I will swim as quickly as I can,’ and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water.

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Nor did the inhabitants of Waterfall Gully escape the hostile bullet, for before noon two members (Private F.T. Mitchell was the first) were hit when they left the shelter of the valley to proceed to a well (kuyu) on the adjacent beach.

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But it was not so easy to hit the shark's mouth as he supposed, even when the creature had turned on his back, and the first kuyu only struck one of his teeth and rolled into the water.

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I can, 'and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

'I am sure I am,' answered the shark, 'and I will swim as quickly as I can,' and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

'Well, I don't like salt myself,' said the monkey; 'so if you will open your mouth I will throw this beautiful juicy kuyu into it,' and, as he spoke, he pulled one off the branch just over his head.

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And the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

'Send me another, please,' and the monkey grew tired of picking the kuyu long before the shark was tired of eating them.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878

But it was not so easy to hit the shark's mouth as he supposed, even when the creature had turned on his back, and the first kuyu only struck one of his teeth and rolled into the water.

The Lilac Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878