"How did it die?" Sophia yelled. She was angry.
"Of unrequited love," her grandmother explained. "He sang and scolded all night for his scolder hen and then came along and stole her away, so he put his head under the water and floated away."
"That's not true," Sophia screamed. She started to cry. "Long-tails can't drown. Tell it right!"
So Grandmother told her he had simply hit his head on a rock. He was singing and scolding so hard that he didn't look where he was going, and so it happened, right when he was happier than he'd ever been before.
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