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025 - The Battle of the Birds · Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty four of Celtic Falk and Fairy Tales. This
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Jacobs, section twenty four The Bottle of the Birds.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you a story about the wren. There
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  Speaker 1: was once a farmer who was seeking a servant, and
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  Speaker 1: the wren met him and said, what are you seeking?
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  Speaker 1: I am seeking a servant, said the farmer to the wren.
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  Speaker 1: Will you take me? Said the wren, You you poor creature?
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  Speaker 1: What good would you do? Try me, said the wren.
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  Speaker 1: So he engaged him, and the first work he set
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  Speaker 1: him to do was threshing in the barn. The wren threshed.
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  Speaker 1: What did he thresh with? Why? A flail, to be sure,
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  Speaker 1: and he knocked off one grain. A mouse came out
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  Speaker 1: and cheats that. I'll trouble you. Not to do that again,
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  Speaker 1: said the wren. He struck again, and he struck off
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  Speaker 1: two grains. Out came the mouse and chats them. So
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  Speaker 1: they arranged the contest to see who was strongest, and
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  Speaker 1: the wren brings his twelve birds, and the mouse her tribe.
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  Speaker 1: You have your tribe with you, said the wren, as
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  Speaker 1: well as yourself, said the mouse. And she struck out
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  Speaker 1: her leg proudly, but the rain broke it with his flail,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a pitched bottle. On a set day,
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  Speaker 1: when every creature and bird was gathering to battle, the
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  Speaker 1: son of the King of Tythertown said that he would
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  Speaker 1: go to see the battle, and that he would bring
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  Speaker 1: sure word home to his father, the king, who would
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  Speaker 1: be king of the creatures this year. The battle was
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  Speaker 1: over before he arrived, all but one fight between a
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  Speaker 1: great black raven and a snake. The snake was twined
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  Speaker 1: about the raven snack, and the raven held the snake's
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  Speaker 1: throat in his beak, and it seemed as if the
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  Speaker 1: snake would get the vicar over the raven. When the
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  Speaker 1: king's son saw this, he helped the raven and with
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  Speaker 1: one blow takes the head of the snake. When the
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  Speaker 1: raven had taken breath and saw that the snake was dead,
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  Speaker 1: he said, for thy kindness to me this day, I
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  Speaker 1: will give thee a sight. Come up now on the
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  Speaker 1: root of my two wings. The king's son put his
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  Speaker 1: hands about the raven before his wings, and before he stopped,
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  Speaker 1: he took him over nine bands and nine glands and
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  Speaker 1: nine mountain moors. Now said the raven, see you that
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  Speaker 1: house yonder, Go now to it. It is a sister
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  Speaker 1: of mine that makes her dwelling in it. And I
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  Speaker 1: will go bail that you are welcome. And if she
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  Speaker 1: asks you where you are the butt of the birds,
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  Speaker 1: say you were. And if she asks did you see
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  Speaker 1: any one like me? Say you did. But be sure
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  Speaker 1: that you meet me to morrow morning. Here in this place.
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  Speaker 1: The king's son got good and rit good treatment that
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  Speaker 1: night night, meat of each, meat, drink of each, drink,
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  Speaker 1: warm water to his feet, and a soft bed for
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  Speaker 1: his limbs. On the next day the raven gave him
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  Speaker 1: the same sight over six bans and six gleans and
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  Speaker 1: six mountain mores. They saw a bothy far off, but
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  Speaker 1: though far off, they were soon there. He got good
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  Speaker 1: treatment this night as before, plenty of meat and drink,
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  Speaker 1: and warm water to his feet, and a soft bed
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  Speaker 1: to his limbs. And on the next day it was
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  Speaker 1: the same thing over three bends and three cleans, and
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  Speaker 1: three mountain moors on the third morning, instead of seeing
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  Speaker 1: the raven as at the other times, who should meet
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  Speaker 1: him but the handsomest lad he ever saw, with gold
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  Speaker 1: rings in his hair and a bundle in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: The king's son asked this lad if he had seen
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  Speaker 1: a big black raven. Said the lad to him, you
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  Speaker 1: will never see the raven again, for I am that raven.
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  Speaker 1: I was put under spells by a budge. It it
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  Speaker 1: was meeting you that loosed me, and for that you
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  Speaker 1: shall get this bundle. Now, said the lad. You must
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  Speaker 1: turn back on the self same steps and lie a
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  Speaker 1: night in each house as before, But you must not
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  Speaker 1: lose the bundle which I gave ye till in the
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  Speaker 1: place where you would most wish to dwell. The king's
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  Speaker 1: son turned his back to the lad and his face
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  Speaker 1: to his father's house, and he got lodging from the
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  Speaker 1: raven sisters just as he got it when going forward.
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  Speaker 1: When he was nearing his father's house, he was going
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  Speaker 1: through a clothes wood. It seemed to him that the
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  Speaker 1: bundle was growing heavy, and he thought he would look
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  Speaker 1: what was in it. When he loosed the bundle, he
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  Speaker 1: was astonished. In a twinkling, he says the very grandest
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  Speaker 1: place he ever saw, a great castle, and an orchard
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  Speaker 1: about the castle, in which was every kind of fruit
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  Speaker 1: and herb. He stood full of wonder and regret for
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  Speaker 1: having loosed the bundle, for it was not in his
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  Speaker 1: power to put it back again, And he would have
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  Speaker 1: wished this pretty place to be in the pretty little
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  Speaker 1: green hollow that was opposite his father's house. But he
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  Speaker 1: looked up and saw a great giant coming towards him.
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  Speaker 1: Bad's the plate where you have built the house, king's son,
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  Speaker 1: says the giant. Yes, but it is not here. I
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  Speaker 1: would wish it to be, though it happens to be
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  Speaker 1: here by bishup, says the king's son. What's the reward
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  Speaker 1: for putting it back in the bundle as it was before?
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  Speaker 1: What's the reward you would ask, says the king's son.
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  Speaker 1: That you will give me the first son you have
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  Speaker 1: when he is seven years of age, says the giant.
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  Speaker 1: If I have a son, you shall have him, said
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  Speaker 1: the king's son. In a twinkling. The giant put each garden,
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  Speaker 1: an orchard and castle in the bundle as they were before. Now,
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  Speaker 1: said the giant, take your own road, and I will
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  Speaker 1: take mine. But mind your promise, and if you forget,
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  Speaker 1: I will remember. The king's son took to the road,
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  Speaker 1: and at the end of a few days he reached
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  Speaker 1: the place he was fondest off. He loosed the bundle,
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  Speaker 1: and the castle was just as it was before. And
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  Speaker 1: when he opened the castle door he sees the handsome
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  Speaker 1: mist maiden he ever cast ie upon advance. King's son said,
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  Speaker 1: the pretty maid, everything is in order for you, if
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  Speaker 1: you will marry me this very day. It's i that
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  Speaker 1: I am willing, said the king's son, and on the
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  Speaker 1: same day they married. But at the end of a
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  Speaker 1: day in seven years, who should be seen coming to
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  Speaker 1: the castle but the giant. The king's son was reminded
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  Speaker 1: of his promise to the giant. Until now he had
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  Speaker 1: not told his promise to the queen. Leave the matter
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  Speaker 1: between me and the giant, says the queen. Turn out
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  Speaker 1: your son, says the giant. Mind your promise. You shall
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  Speaker 1: have him, says the king, when his mother puts him
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  Speaker 1: in order for his journey. The queen dressed up the
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  Speaker 1: cook's son, and she gave him to the giant by
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  Speaker 1: the hand. The giant went away with him, but he
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  Speaker 1: had not gone far when he put a rod in
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  Speaker 1: the hand of the little lady. The giant asked him,
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  Speaker 1: if thy father had that rod, what would he do
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  Speaker 1: with it? If my father had that, he would bat
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  Speaker 1: the dogs and the cat so that they shouldn't go
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  Speaker 1: near the king's met said the little laddie. Thou Art,
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  Speaker 1: the cook's son, said the giant. He catches him by
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  Speaker 1: the two small uncles and knocks him against the stone
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  Speaker 1: that was beside him. The giant turned back to the
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  Speaker 1: castle in rage and madness, and he said that if
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  Speaker 1: they did not send out the king's son to him,
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  Speaker 1: the highest stone of the castle would be the lowest.
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  Speaker 1: Said the Queen to the King. We'll try it. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: the butler's son is of the same age as our son.
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  Speaker 1: She dressed up the butler's son, and she gives him
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  Speaker 1: to the giant by the hand. The giant had not
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  Speaker 1: gone far when he put the rod in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: If thy father had that rod, said the giant, what
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  Speaker 1: would he do with it? He would bit the dogs
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  Speaker 1: and the cat when they would be coming near the
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  Speaker 1: king's bottles and glasses. Thou Art, the son of the butler,
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  Speaker 1: says the giant, and dashed his brains out too. The
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  Speaker 1: giant returned in a very great rage and anger. The
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  Speaker 1: earth shook under the soles of his feet, and the
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  Speaker 1: castle shook, and all that was in it ahd here
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  Speaker 1: with thy son, says the giant. Or in a twinkling,
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  Speaker 1: the stone that is highest in the dwelling will be
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  Speaker 1: the lowest. So they had to give the king's son
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  Speaker 1: to the giant. When they were gone a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from the earth, the giant showed him the rod that
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  Speaker 1: was in his hand and said, what would thy father
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  Speaker 1: do with his rod if he had it? The king's
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  Speaker 1: son said, my father has a braver rod than that,
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  Speaker 1: And the giant asked him where is thy father when
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  Speaker 1: he has that brave rod? And the king's son said,
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  Speaker 1: he will be sitting in his kingly chair. Then the
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  Speaker 1: giant understood that he had the right one. The giant
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  Speaker 1: took him to his own house, and he reared him
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  Speaker 1: as his own son. On a day of days, when
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  Speaker 1: the giant was from home, the lad heard the sweetest
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  Speaker 1: music he ever heard in a room at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the giant's house. At a glance, he saw the
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  Speaker 1: finest face he had ever seen. She beckoned to him
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  Speaker 1: to come a bit nearer to her, and she said
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  Speaker 1: her name was all burn Mary. But she told him
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  Speaker 1: to go this time, but to be sure to be
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  Speaker 1: the same place about that dead midnight. And as he
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  Speaker 1: promised he did. The giant's daughter was at his side
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  Speaker 1: in a twinkling, and she said, to morrow you will
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  Speaker 1: get the choice of my two sisters to marry. But
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  Speaker 1: say that you will not take either but me. My
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  Speaker 1: father wants me to marry the son of the King
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  Speaker 1: of the Green City, but I don't like him. On
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  Speaker 1: the morrow, the giant took out his three daughters, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, now, son of the King of Tittertown, thou
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  Speaker 1: hast not lost by living with me so long. Thou
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  Speaker 1: wilt get to wife one of the two oldest of
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  Speaker 1: my daughters, and with her leave to go home with
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  Speaker 1: her the day after the wedding. If you will give
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  Speaker 1: me this pretty little one, said the king's son. I
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  Speaker 1: will take you at your word. The giant's rath kindled,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, before thou get'st here, thou must do
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  Speaker 1: the three things that I ask thee to do. Say on,
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  Speaker 1: says the king's son. The giant took him to the buyer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: says the giant, a hunt and cuttle at stabled here,
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  Speaker 1: and it has not been cleansed for seven years. I
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  Speaker 1: am going from home to day, and if this buyer
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  Speaker 1: is not cleaned before night comes so clean that a
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  Speaker 1: golden apple will run from end to end of it.
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  Speaker 1: Not only thou shalt not get my daughter, but his
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  Speaker 1: only drink of thy fresh, goodly beautiful blood that will
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  Speaker 1: quench my thirst. This night he begins cleaning the buyer,
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  Speaker 1: but he might just as well keep baling the great ocean.
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  Speaker 1: After midday, when sweat was blinding him, a giant's youngest
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  Speaker 1: daughter came where he was, and she said to him,
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  Speaker 1: you are being punished King's son. I am that, says
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  Speaker 1: the king's son. Come over, says Auber merry and lay
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  Speaker 1: down your weariness. I will do that, says he. There
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  Speaker 1: is but death awaiting me at any rate. He sat
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  Speaker 1: down near her. He was so tired that he fell
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  Speaker 1: asleep beside her. When here wore the giant's daughter was
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  Speaker 1: not to be seen, but the byre was so well
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  Speaker 1: cleaned that a golden apple would run from end to
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  Speaker 1: end of it and raise no stain. In Come the giant,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, hast thou cleaned the byre King's son,
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  Speaker 1: I have cleant it, says he. Somebody cleaned it, says
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  Speaker 1: the Giant. You did not clean it at all events,
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  Speaker 1: said the king's son. Well well, says the giant. Since
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  Speaker 1: thou worst so active to day, thou wilt get you
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  Speaker 1: this time to morrow to touch this byre. With birds
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  Speaker 1: down from birds with no two feathers of one collar.
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  Speaker 1: The king's son was on foot before the sun. He
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  Speaker 1: caught up his bow and his quiver of arrows to
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  Speaker 1: kill the birds. He took to the moors. But if
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  Speaker 1: he did, the birds were not so wachy to take.
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  Speaker 1: He was running after them till the sweat was blinding him.
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  Speaker 1: About mid day, who should come but auburn Merry. You
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  Speaker 1: are exhausting yourself, King's son, says she. I am said
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  Speaker 1: he there fell, but these two blackbirds, and both of
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  Speaker 1: one collar. Come mauverin lay down your wariness on this
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  Speaker 1: pretty hillock, says the giant's daughter. It's I am willing,
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  Speaker 1: said he. He thought she would aid him this time too,
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  Speaker 1: and he sat down near her. And he was not
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  Speaker 1: long there till he fell asleep. When he awoke, au
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  Speaker 1: buthen Merry was gone. He thought he would go back
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  Speaker 1: to the house, and he sees the buyer touched with feathers.
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  Speaker 1: When the giant came home, he said, hast thou touched
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  Speaker 1: the buyer? King's son, I touched it, says he. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: touched it, says the giant. You did not touch it,
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  Speaker 1: says the king's son. Yes, yes, says the giant. Now,
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  Speaker 1: says the giant. There is a fir tree beside that
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  Speaker 1: lock down there, and there is a magpie's nest in
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  Speaker 1: its Stop the eggs thou wilt find in the nest.
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  Speaker 1: I must have them for my first meal. Not one
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  Speaker 1: must be burst or broken, and there are five in
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  Speaker 1: the nest. Early in the morning, the king's son went
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  Speaker 1: where the tree was, and that tree was not hard
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  Speaker 1: to heat upon its much was not in. The whole
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  Speaker 1: wood from the foot to the first branch was five
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet. The king's son was going all round the tree.
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  Speaker 1: She came, who was always bringing help to him. You
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  Speaker 1: are losing the skin of your hands and feet. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: I am, says he. I am, no sooner up than down.
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  Speaker 1: This is no time for stopping, says the giant. Daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Now you must kill me, strip the flesh from my bones.
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  Speaker 1: Take all those bones apart, and use them as steps
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  Speaker 1: for climbing the tree. When you are climbing the tree,
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  Speaker 1: they will stick to the glass as if they had
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  Speaker 1: grown out of it. But when you are coming down
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  Speaker 1: and you have put your foot on each one, they
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  Speaker 1: will drop into your hand when you touch them. Be
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  Speaker 1: sure and stand on each bone, leave none untouched. If
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  Speaker 1: you do, it will stay behind. Put all my flesh
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  Speaker 1: into this clean cloth by the side of the spring,
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  Speaker 1: at the roots of the tree. When you come to
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  Speaker 1: the earth, arrange my bones together, put the flesh over them,
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle it with water from the sprink, and I shall
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  Speaker 1: be alive before you. But don't forget a bone of
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  Speaker 1: me on the tree. How could I kill you, asked
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  Speaker 1: the king's son, after what you have done for me.
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  Speaker 1: If you want, obey you, and I are done for
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  Speaker 1: said Auburn Mary. You must climb the tree or we
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  Speaker 1: are lost. And to climb the tree, you must do
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  Speaker 1: as I say. The king's son obeyed. He killed Auburn Mary,
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  Speaker 1: cut the flesh from her body, and unjoined the bones,
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  Speaker 1: as she had told him. As he went up, the
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  Speaker 1: king's son put the bones of Auburn Mary's body against
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  Speaker 1: the side of the tree, using them as steps, till
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  Speaker 1: he came under the nest and stood on the last bone.
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  Speaker 1: Then he took the eggs, and, coming down, put his
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  Speaker 1: foot in every bone, then took it with him till
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  Speaker 1: he came to the last bone, which was so near
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  Speaker 1: the ground that he failed to touch it with his foot.
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  Speaker 1: He now placed all the bones of auburn mary in
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  Speaker 1: order again at the side of the spring, put the
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  Speaker 1: flesh on them, sprinkled it with water from the spring.
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  Speaker 1: She rose up before him and said, didn't I tell
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  Speaker 1: you not to leave a bone of my body without
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  Speaker 1: stepping on it. Now I am lame for life. You
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  Speaker 1: left my little finger on the tree without touching it,
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  Speaker 1: and I have but nine fingers. Now, says she, Go
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  Speaker 1: home with the eggs quickly, and you will get me
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  Speaker 1: to marry to night. If you can know me, I
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  Speaker 1: and my two sisters will be arrayed in the same
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  Speaker 1: garments and made like each other. But look at me
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  Speaker 1: when my father says, go to thy wife, King's son,
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  Speaker 1: and you will see a hand without a little finger.
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  Speaker 1: He gave the eggs to the giant. Yes, yes, said
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  Speaker 1: the giant, be making ready for your marriage. Then indeed
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  Speaker 1: there was a wedding. And it was a wedding giants
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, and the son of the King of the
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  Speaker 1: Green City was in the midst of them. They were married,
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  Speaker 1: and the dancing began. That was a dance. The giant's
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  Speaker 1: house was shaking from top to bottom. But bedtime came.
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  Speaker 1: The giant said, it is time for thee to go
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  Speaker 1: to rest, son of the King of Tethertown, choose thy
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  Speaker 1: bride to take with thee. From amidst those, she put
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  Speaker 1: out the hand all of which the little finger was,
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  Speaker 1: and he caught her by the hand. Thou hast tamed
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  Speaker 1: well this time too. But there is no knowing, But
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  Speaker 1: we may meet thee another way, said the giant. But
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  Speaker 1: to rest they went. Now, says she sleep not, or
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  Speaker 1: else you are a dead man. We must fly quick quick,
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  Speaker 1: or for certain my father will kill you. Out they went,
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  Speaker 1: and on the blue gray filly in the stable they mounted.
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  Speaker 1: Stop awhile, says she, and I will play a trick
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  Speaker 1: to the old hero. She jumped in and cut an
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  Speaker 1: apple into nine chairs. And she put two shares in
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  Speaker 1: the head of the bed, and two shares in the
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  Speaker 1: foot of the bed, and two chairs at the door.
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  Speaker 1: Of the kitchen, and two chairs at the big door,
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  Speaker 1: and one outside the house. The giant are walk and cold.
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  Speaker 1: I you sleep not yet, said the applet was at
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  Speaker 1: the head of the bed. At the end of a
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  Speaker 1: while he called again, Not yet, said the applet was
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  Speaker 1: at the foot of the bed. A while after this
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  Speaker 1: he called again. Are you asleep? Not yet, said the apple.
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  Speaker 1: At the kitchen door. The giant called again. The applet
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  Speaker 1: was at the big door. Answered. You are now going
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  Speaker 1: far from me, says the giant. Not yet, says the
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  Speaker 1: outlet was outside the house. You are flying, says the giant.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: The giant jumped on his feet, and to the bed
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  Speaker 1: he went, and it was cold empty. My own daughter's
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  Speaker 1: tricks are trying me, said the giant. He is after them,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: says he. At the mouth of the day, the giant's
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  Speaker 1: daughter said that her father's breath was burning her back.
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  Speaker 1: Put your hand quick, said she. In the ear of
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  Speaker 1: the gray filly, and whatever you find in it, throw
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  Speaker 1: it behind us. There is a twig of slow tree,
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  Speaker 1: said he, Throw it behind us, said she. No. Sooner
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  Speaker 1: did he that than there were twenty miles of blackthorn wood,
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  Speaker 1: so thick that scarce a whizzle could go through it.
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  Speaker 1: The giant came headlong, and there he is fleecing his
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  Speaker 1: head and neck in the thorns. My own daughter's tricks
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  Speaker 1: are here as before, said the giant. But if I
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  Speaker 1: had my own big axe and wood knife here I
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  Speaker 1: would not be long making a way through this. He
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  Speaker 1: went home for the big axe and the wood knife.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he was not long on his journey. And
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: here was the boy behind the big axe. He was
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: not long making a way through the blackthorn. I will
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  Speaker 1: leave the axe and the wood knife here till I return,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: says he. If you leave em, leave em, said a
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  Speaker 1: hood that was in a tree. Well stillum, stillum. If
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you will do that, says the giant, and must take
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: them home. He returned home and left them at the house.
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  Speaker 1: At the heat of day, the giant's daughter felt her
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: father's breath burning her back. Put your finger in the
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  Speaker 1: philly's ear and throw behind whatever you find in it.
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  Speaker 1: He got a splendor of grais stone, and in a
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  Speaker 1: twinkling there were twenty miles by breathon hide of great
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  Speaker 1: gray rock behind them. The giant came full pelt, but
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: past the rock he could not go. The tricks of
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  Speaker 1: my own daughter are the hardest things that ever met me,
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  Speaker 1: says the giant. But if I had my liver and
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  Speaker 1: my mighty mottock, I would not belong in making my
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: way through the rock. Also, there was no help for
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: it but to turn the chase for them, And he
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: was the boy to split the stones. He was not
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: long in making a road through the rock. I will
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: leave the tools here and I will return no more.
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  Speaker 1: If you leave em, live em, says the hoodie. We
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: will steal em. Still em. Do that if you will,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: There is no time to go back. At the time
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: of breaking the watch, the giant's daughter said that she
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: felt her father's breath burning her back. Look in the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Philasia King's son, or else we are lost. He did so.
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  Speaker 1: It was a blodder of water that was in her ear.
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  Speaker 1: This time he threw it behind him, and there was
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a fresh water lock twenty miles in length and breadth
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: behind them. The giant came on, but with the speed
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he had on him, he was in the middle of
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the loch, and he went under, and he rose no more.
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  Speaker 1: On the next day, the young companions were come in
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  Speaker 1: sight of his father's house. Now, says she my father
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  Speaker 1: is drowned, and he want troubles any more. But before
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: we go farther says she go you to your father's
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  Speaker 1: house and tell that you have the likes of me.
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  Speaker 1: But let neither man nor creature kiss you, for if
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you do, you will not remember that you have ever
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: seen me. Every one he met gave him welcome and luck,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: But as Mishap was to be, an old greyhound was indoors,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and she knew him and jumped up to his mouth.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And after that he did not remember the giant's daughter.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: She was sitting at the well side as he left her,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: but the king's son was not coming. In the mouth
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: of night, she climbed up into a tree of oak
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  Speaker 1: that was beside the well, and she lay in the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: fork of that tree all night. A shoemaker had a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: house near the well, and about midday on the morrow,
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  Speaker 1: the shoemaker asked his wife to go for a drink
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  Speaker 1: for him out of the well. When the shoemaker's wife
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: reached the well, and when she saw the shadow of
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: her that was in the tree, thinking it was her
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: own shadow. And she never thought till now that she
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: was so handsome. She gave a cust to the dish
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that was in her hand, and it was broken on
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the ground, and she took herself to the house without
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: vessel or water. Where is the water? Wife, said the shoemaker,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you shumbling, contemptible old carl without grace. I have stayed
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: too long your water and wood thrall. I think why
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: that you have turned crazy? Go you daughter quickly and
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: fetch a drink for your father. His daughter went and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: in the same way. So it happened to her. She
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: never thought till now that she was so lovable, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: she took herself home up with the drink, said her father,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: You home spun sure car? Do ye think I am
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: fit to be a thrall? The poor shoemaker thought that
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: they had taken a turn in their understandings, and he
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: went himself to the well. He saw the shadow of
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the maiden in the well, and he looked up to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the tree, and he sees the finest woman he ever saw.
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  Speaker 1: Your city is wavering, but your face is fair, said
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  Speaker 1: the shoemaker. Come down, for there is need of you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: for a short while at my house. The shoemaker understood
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that this was the shadow that had driven his people mad.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: The shoemaker took her to his house, and he said
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that he had but a poor bothy, but that she
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: should get a share of all that was in it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: One day, the shoemaker had shoes ready for on that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: very day the king's son was to be married. The
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: shoemaker was going to the castle with the shoes of
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the young people, and the girl said to the shoemaker,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I would like to get a sight of the king's
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: son before he marries. Come with me, says the shoemaker.
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  Speaker 1: I am well acquainted with the servants of the castle,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and I'll get sight of the King's son and all
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the company. And when the gentle saw the pretty woman
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that was here, they took her to the wedding room,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and they filled for her a glass of wine. When
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: she was going to drink what was in it, a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: flame went up out of the glass, and a golden
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: pigeon and a silver pigeon sprang out of it. They
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: were flying about when three grains of barley fell on
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the floor. The silver pigeon sprang and ate that up,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: said the golden pigeon to him, If you remembered when
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I cleared the bayer. You would not eat that without
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: giving me a share. Again, there fell three other grains
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of barley, and the silver pigeon sprang and ate that up.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: As before, If you remembered when I touched the buyer,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you would not eat that without giving me my share,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: says the golden pigeon. Three other grains fall, and the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: silver pigeon sprang and ate that up. If you remembered
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: when I hurried the magpie's nest, you would not eat
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that without giving me my share, says the golden pigeon.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I lost my little finger bringing it down, and I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: wanted still. The King's son minded, and he knew who
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it was that was before him, Well, said the King's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: son to the guests of the feast, when it was
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a little younger than I am. Now I lost the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: key of a casket that I had. I had a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: new key made, but after it was brought to me,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I found the old one. Now I'll leave it to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: any one here to tell me what I am to do.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Which of the keys should I keep? My advice to you,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: said one of the guests, is to keep the old key,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: for it fits the lock better, and you're more used
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: to it. Then the king's son stood up and said,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I thank you for a wise advice and an honest word.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: This is my bride, the daughter of the giant who
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: saved my life at the risk of her own. I'll
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: have her and no other woman. So the king's son
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: married Auber and merry, and the wedding lost it long,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and all were happy. But all I got was butter
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: on a live coal, pour it in a basket, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: paper shoes for my feet. And they sent me for
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: water to the stream, and the paper shoes came to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: an end. End of Section twenty four