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often administered assistance to ship-wrecked mariners; but venturing into the sea on this charitable mission during a violent equinoctial storm, he himself perished. As it is above thirty years since I heard this tradition of Parson Darby (for so I think he was called): it may now perhaps be forgotten.
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"Betrayed not then the little careless sheep."
Sometimes in thick weather the sheep feeding on the summit of the cliff, miss their footing, and are killed by the fall.
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"Or the dark porpoises."
Delphinus phocœna.
