[Penguin Island by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookPenguin Island BOOK II 62/63
But if you say anything else you will get nothing but cuffs and whippings.
Go!" Several Penguins, seeing the dragon disembowelled, rushed forward to cut him to pieces, some from a feeling of rage and vengeance, others to get the magic stone called dragonite, that is engendered in his head.
The mothers of the children who had come back to life ran to embrace their little ones.
But the holy Mael kept them back, saying that none of them were holy enough to approach a dragon without dying. And soon little Elo, and the five other children came towards the people and said: "We are the poor little children who were devoured by the dragon and we came out of his belly in our shirts." And all who heard them kissed them and said: "Blessed children, we will give you abundance of all that you can desire." And the crowd of people dispersed, full of joy, singing hymns and canticles. To commemorate this day on which Providence delivered the people from a cruel scourge, processions were established in which the effigy of a chained dragon was led about. Kraken levied the tribute and became the richest and most powerful of the Penguins.
As a sign of his victory and so as to inspire a salutary terror, he wore a dragon's crest upon his head and he had a habit of saying to the people: "Now that the monster is dead I am the dragon." For many years Orberosia bestowed her favours upon neatherds and shepherds, whom she thought equal to the gods.
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