Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Natasha Farrant

Author:Natasha Farrant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Norton Young Readers
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

But Tica was stubborn, and perhaps a tiny bit spoiled. She was used to getting her way.

“If you don’t let me keep him,” she replied, “I will swim away with him, and though I know that he would never eat me, another crocodile probably would, and then you’ll be sorry.”

She glared at them. So did the crocodile. And who knows where the conversation would have ended, with angry villagers on one side and a fierce child on the other, and a chief torn between the two, if the cry hadn’t gone up from the river at that very moment?

“My baby, oh, my baby!”

Everyone ran to the jetty, to see Pepe and Lilia’s two-year-old daughter, Jacinta, swept away by the current, around the river bend, vanishing from sight.

The fishermen put out in their boats at once, but without hope. No matter how fast they paddled, or how well they rode the current, they were no match for the river, and a small child even less so. Jacinta would drown, and her body would be eaten by wild animals. It was what happened when you lived by the water. If it wasn’t the current, it was snakes or crocodiles, and there was nothing to be done about it. The children wailed in this terrible knowledge. Their parents pulled them closer. Lilia rocked backward and forward on the sand. And then . . .

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