As with slow steps he went towards his hermitage he saw the little penguins of six and seven years of age tightening their waists with belts made of sea-weed and walking along the shore to see if anybody would follow them.
II.

THE FIRST CLOTHES (Continuation and End) The holy Mael felt a profound sadness that the first clothes put upon a daughter of Alca should have betrayed the penguin modesty instead of helping it.

He persisted, none the less, in his design of giving clothes to the inhabitants of the miraculous island.

Assembling them on the shore, he distributed to them the garments that the monks of Yvern had brought.

The male penguins received short tunics and breeches, the female penguins long robes.