![]() ![]() ![]() But oh, they sighed, didn’t they wish they had received such an invitation? The Uncorker decided that he would have to go to the assigned place at the assigned time to explain to the sender that he had been unable to deliver the message, …and you can guess the rest. One day, a bottle held a party invitation, but for whom? He went around to the people in his tiny village, asking if they had sent the invitation, but no one had. ![]() Perhaps “he felt loneliness as sharp as fish scales.” After he had done this for a long, long time, he became sad that the messages were never for him. He would take his little boat and fish out the bottle, and then deliver the message to the proper recipient. He spent his days peering out over the water, looking for the glint of glass- a possible bottle with a message inside. The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles lived alone, except for his cat and his cow, in a tall house on the very edge of the sea. ![]()
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