canticles.

To commemorate this day on which Providence delivered the people from
a cruel scourge, processions were established in which the effigy of a
chained dragon was led about.

Kraken levied the tribute and became the richest and most powerful of
the Penguins. As a sign of his victory and so as to inspire a salutary
terror, he wore a dragon's crest upon his head and he had a habit of
saying to the people:

"Now that the monster is dead I am the dragon."

For many years Orberosia bestowed her favours upon neatherds and
shepherds, whom she thought equal to the gods. But when she was no
longer beautiful she consecrated herself to the Lord.

At her death she became the object of public veneration, and was
admitted into the calendar of the saints and adopted as the patron saint
of Penguinia.

Kraken left a son, who, like his father, wore a dragon's crest, and
he was for this reason surnamed Draco. He was the founder of the first
royal dynasty of the Penguins.