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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
fishes I used to feed here from the pier. One
of them brought me back the ring.’
" ’ Nonsense!’
" ’Yes, yesterday at dinner. I was just
sticking my fork into a piece of pike, rather
abstractedly, for I was thinking of you, you naughty boy,
when something chinked against the plate. I
looked and saw a ring—my ring—the ring you
gave me, embedded in the flesh of the fish, and
threaded on my fork. I thought for a moment
that it was a saucy trick of my brother; but I
knew the ring, I could tell it in an instant
among a thousand others. Fate, or let us call
it Providence, had ordained the pike to repay
its gratitude to me, by bringing me back the
ring I had prized so highly as an earnest of my
future happiness, before in peevishness I threw
it away. Please forgive me,’ she said, and
curtseyed so prettily, ’ since it seems my fate
to have you for a lord and master!’
" And they kissed, and laughed, and went
away, and all we little fishes went away too,
happy in their happiness, praising my mother
pike, whose self-sacrifice had brought about
such a blessing, as the re-union of two parted
lovers."
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