In search of the lost sea 1

 In search of the lost sea

 

A boy's little sea

(*to be continued)

 

One day in the little sea appears  a whale, called Mulchi by the villagers,

after a very long absence. The sea is delighted at the unexpected

visitor, which it has forgotten. The sea is really happy to meet the whale

which appears after a long  absence.  Then this time the appearance

and disappearance of the exotic whale comes to be not a usual accident

to the little sea, as the accident provides a momentum for the little sea

for the first time to have a big curiosity beyond the horizon 

out of the narrow  inland sea. Probably  there will be  a reason for it . 

 

The little sea it has  thought it natural  to lead its living

within the boundary of the inland sea, repeating  its routine tide 

of ebb and flow . Then Mulchi gets it to realize in asudden

there are other seas beyond the horizon ,wondering

how wider and deep the open sea not far from itself  is!

 

you know that the little sea has a unique temper ,free and untamable .

Usually it makes friends with humans and fpets, in particular dogs.

However it loses its reason. 2 monthes before the boy was surprised 

that  it runs mad and wild at the time of Saraho typoon,

resutling in the heavy destruction of his house and the missing of

his dog, Badug. 

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The boy  has never seen  Mulchis before .However, he know  that

the giant whales making a rare visit to the little sea are are on

friendly terms with human beings, in particular, boys in his years,

because the hut keeper told about Mulchi, boasting that he

had a rare thrilling experience of swimming with the whales

in the little sea near the Dotsum island. The boy remembers him

saying that  he was frightened out of his wits to see

an unexpected giant figure ,with its head out of the surfaces,

approaching him. But he emphasized, he remembers too,

that the whale was amiable and liked to play with human beings.

 

Since then, the little sea comes to undergo a delicate change.

In a way, it often gives its ears at tide of ebbing toward  Dotsum

island, through which Mulchi playing with it passed out out of sight 

and gazes with strong  curiosity, beyond the island ,to the remote 

open sea. In that sense, it is natural for the little sea to have

a yearning of traveling far and wide beyond the horizon 

to the open sea where the exotic whale was sure to come

from and disappear . Now the little sea begins to make itself a promise

that in the near future  it will risk making a travel far and wide,

 which it never experienced before,

 

However, the boy is unware of such a exquisite change in the little sea's  

inside. His greatest concern is to catch the crab fish called Sok, 

living, beneath the surface of the bottom at the tide of ebbing, 

in the little sea , These days he has frequently stood on the yard

of his house facing the little sea showing its bottom, He knows that

the next day the good-for-nothings who like him are scheduled

to go catching  the crabfish. The hut keeper informed the boy of it .

So he is busy to prepare instruments for it :a weeding hoe,  

stems of smutted barley, a bamboo basket, and a lump of Doenzang,

Korean traditional soybean paste. etc. 

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