Of course Prince Lorenzo and his mother rejoiced to know that once more they would live in their former home, and lost no time in starting out on the journey.
“Your Star of Hope has brought you through tribulations into peace and happiness,” said his mother, “and all wrongs are righted, but if it had become dulled by selfishness and vengeance, my son, we still might be in the darkness of despair.”
THE DOLPHIN’S BRIDE
One day there came through the woods that bordered on a big ocean a poor little beggar girl named Nitta.
Nitta was crying; she was hungry and she did not know where to go, for her aunt, who had a daughter of her own, did not want to support Nitta and had turned her out-of-doors that very day.
“I am too poor to support you,” said the hard-hearted aunt. “You must take care of yourself.”
Nitta’s father and mother were dead and there seemed to be no place for her but the woods, so she wandered along until she came to the ocean, and there she sat down to cry out her grief.
While she was crying a big dolphin poked his head out of the water. “What are you crying for, little girl?” he asked.
Nitta was so surprised to hear the dolphin speak that she stopped crying at once. “I am crying because I have no home,” she replied.