Note 36 — VI.—Contes des Fées.
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They were obliged to cross over the sea, and there was no bridge to it there. The ox was finished when they were in the middle of the sea, and there was a great rock there. The eagle opens his mouth again, and, as there was no more beef, what does he do? As he was afraid of being left upon that rock, he cuts a morsel from the back of his own thighs, and puts it in his mouth.36 They arrive on the other side of the sea. The eagle leaves him there, saying to him,