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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER I
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There fall into our nets even worse monstrosities, and they sometimes turn out very tasty food.

It is not for us, our Lord's fishermen, to throw away a catch, merely because the fish have spines, or only one eye.

I saw once at Tyre an octopus, which had been caught by the local fishermen, and I was so frightened that I wanted to run away.

But they laughed at me.

A fisherman from Tiberias gave me some of it to eat, and I asked for more, it was so tasty.


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