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  The wife of a rich man, fell sick, and when she felt that
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  her ann drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said,
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  always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and
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  watch over you. Soon afterwards she shut her eyes and died, and was
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  buried in the garden. And the little girl went every day to her grave
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  and wept, and was always good and kind to all about her. And
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  the snow fell and spread a beautiful white covering over the grave. But by
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  the time the spring came and the sun had melted it away, her father
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  had married another wife. This new wife had two daughters of her own that
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  she brought home with her. They were fair in face, but foul at
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  heart. And it was now a sorry time for the poor little girl.
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  What does the good for nothing want in the parlor, said they, They
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  who eat bread should first earn it away with the kitchen maid. Then they
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  took away her fine clothes and gave her an old gray frock to put on,
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  and laughed at her and turned her into the kitchen. There she was
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  forced to do hard work, to rise early before daylight, to bring the
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  water to make the fire, to cook, and to wash Besides that,
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  the sisters plagued her in all sorts of ways and laughed at her in the
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  evening. When she was tired, she had no bed to lie down on,
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  but was made to lie by the hearth among the ashes, And as
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  this, of course made her always dusty and dirty, they called her Ashputtel.
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  It happened once that the father was going to the fair and asked his
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  wife's daughters what he should bring them. Fine clothes, said the first,
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  pearls and diamonds, cried the second. Now child, said he to his
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  own daughter, what will you have? The first twig, dear father,
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  that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards, said
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  she. Then he bought for the first two the fine clothes and pearls and
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  diamonds they had asked for, And on his way home, as he rode
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  through a green copse, a hazel twig brushed against him and almost pushed off
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  his hat. So he broke it off and brought it away, And when
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  he got home he gave it to his daughter. Then she took it and
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  went to her mother's grave and planted it there, and cried so much that
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  it was watered with her tears, and there it grew and became a fine
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  tree. Three times every day she went to it and cried, And soon
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  a little bird came and built its nest upon the tree, and talked with
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  her, and watched over her, and brought her whatever she wished. For.
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  Now it happened that the king of that land held a feast which to
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  last three days, and out of those who came to it, his son
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  was to choose a bride for himself. Ashputtel's two sisters were asked to come.
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  So they called her up and said, now comb our hair, brush
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  our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to
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  dance at the king's feast. Then she did as she was told, but
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  when all was done, she could not help crying, for she thought to
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  herself she should so have liked to have gone with them to the ball.
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  And at last she begged her mother very hard to let her go. You,
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  Ashpottol, said she, you, who have nothing to wear, no
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  clothes at all, and who cannot even dance, you want to go to
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  the ball. And when she kept on begging, she said, at last
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  to get rid of her, I will throw this dishful of peas into the
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  ash heap, and if in two hours time you have picked them all out,
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  you shall go to the feast too. Then she threw the peas down
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  into the ashes. But the little maiden ran out of the back door into
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  the garden and cried out, hither hither through the sky turtle doves and linnets
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  fly, blackbird thrush, and chaffinch gay. Hither hither haste away, one
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  and all come help me quick, haste, ye haste yee, pick pick
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  pick. Then first came two white doves flying in at the kitchen window.
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  Next came two turtle doves. But after them came all the little birds under
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  heaven, chirping and fluttering in, and they flew down into the ashes.
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  And the little doves stooped their heads down and set to work. Pick,
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  pick, pick, And then the others began to pick, pick, pick,
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  and among them all they soon picked out all the good grain and put
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  it into a dish, but left the ashes long before the end of the
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  hour. The work was quite done, and all flew out again at the
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  windows. Then Ashputtel brought the dish to her mother, overjoyed at the thought
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  that now she could go to the ball. But the mother said, no,
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  no, you wench, you have no clothes and cannot dance. You
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  shall not go. And when Ashputtel begged very hard to go, she said,
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  if you can in one hour's time pick two of these dishes of peas
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  out of the ashes, you shall go too. And thus she thought she
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  should at least get rid of her. So she shook two dishes of peas
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  into the ashes. But the little maiden went out into the garden at the
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  back of the house and cried out, as before, hither, hither through
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  the sky, turtle doves and linnets, fly, blackbird, thrush, and
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  chase finch gay, hither hither, haste away, one and all come help
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  me quick, haste, ye haste yee. Pick pick pick. Then first
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  came two white doves in at the kitchen window. Next came two turtle doves,
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  and after them came all the little birds under heaven, chirping and hopping
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  about, and they flew down into the ashes. And the little doves put
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  their heads down and set to work. Pick pick pick, And then the
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  others began pick pick, pick, and they put all the good grain into
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  the dishes, and left all the ashes. Before half an hour's time all
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  was done, and out they flew again. And then Ashputtel took the dishes
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  to her mother, rejoicing to think that she should now go to the ball.
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  But her mother said, it is all of no use. You cannot
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  go. You have no clothes and cannot dance, and you would only put
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  us to shore. And off she went with her two daughters to the ball.
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  Now, when all were gone, and nobody left at home, Ashputtel
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  went sorrowfully and sat down under the hazel tree and cried out, shake,
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  shake, hazel tree, gold and silver over me. Then her friend the
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  bird flew out of the tree and brought a gold and silver dress for her,
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  and slippers of spangled silk, and she put them on and followed her
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  sisters to the feast. But they did not know her, and thought it
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  must be some strange princess. She looked so fine and beautiful in her rich
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  clothes, and they never once thought of Ashputtel, taking it for granted that
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  she was safe at home in the dirt. The king's son soon came up
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  to her and took her by the hand and danced with her and no one
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  else, and he never left her hand. And when anyone else came to
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  ask her to dance, he said, this lady is dancing with me.
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  Thus they danced till a late hour of the night, and then she wanted
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  to go home, and the king's son said, I shall go and take
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  care of you to your home, for he wanted to see where the beautiful
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  maiden lived. But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards
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  home. And as the prince followed her, she jumped up into the pigeon
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  house and shut the door. And then he waited till her father came home
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  and told him that the unknown maiden who had been at the feast had hid
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  herself in the pigeon house. But when they had broken opened the door,
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  they found no one within. And as they came back into the house,
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  Ashputtel was lying as she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes,
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  and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney. For she had
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  run as quickly as she could through the pigeon house and onto the hazel tree,
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  and had there taken off her beautiful cloth and put them beneath a tree
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  that the bird might carry them away, and had lain down again amid the
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  ashes in her little gray frock. The next day, when the feast was
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  again held and her father, mother, and sisters were gone, Ashputtel went
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  to the hazel tree and said, shake, shake, hazel tree, gold
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  and silver over me. When the bird came and brought a still finer dress
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  than the one she had worn the day before, And when she came in
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  it to the ball, everyone wondered at her beauty. But the king's son,
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  who was waiting for her, took her by the hand and danced with
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  her. And when anyone asked her to dance, he said, as before,
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  this lady is dancing with me. When night came, she wanted to
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  go home, and the king's son followed her as before, that he might
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  see into what house she went, But she sprang away from him all at
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  once into the garden behind her father's house. In this garden stood a fine,
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  large pear tree full of ripe fruit, and Ashputtel, not knowing where
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  to hide herself, jumped up into it without being seen. Then the king's
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  son lost sight of her and could not find out where she was gone,
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  and waited till her father came home, and said to him the unknown lady
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  who danced with me has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung
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  into the pear tree. The father thought to himself, can it be Ashputtel.
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  So he had an axe brought, and they cut down the tree,
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  but found no one upon it. And when they came back into the kitchen,
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  there lay Ashputtel among the ashes, for she had slipped down on the
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  other side of the tree. And carried her beautiful clothes back to the bird
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  at the hazel tree, and then put on her little gray frock. The
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  third day, when her father and mother and sisters were gone, she went
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  again into the garden and said, shake, shake, hazel tree, gold
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  and silver over me. Then her kind friend the bird brought a dress still
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  finer than the former one, and slippers which were all of gold, so
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  that when she came to the feast, no one knew what to say,
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  for wonder at her beauty. And the King's son danced with nobody but her,
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  and when any one else asked her to dance, he said, this
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  lady is my partner, sir. When night came, she wanted to go
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  home, and the King's son would go with her, and said to himself,
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  I will not lose her this time. But however, she again slipped
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  away from him, though in such a hurry that she dropped her left golden
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  slipper upon the stairs. The prince took the shoe and went the next day
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  to the King his father, and said, I will take for my wife
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  the lady that this golden slipper fits. Then both the sisters were overjoyed to
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  hear it, for they had beautiful feet and had no doubt that they could
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  wear the golden slipper. The eldest went first into the room where the slipper
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  was and wanted to try it on, and the mother stood by. But
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  her great toe could not go into it, and the shoe was altogether much
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  too small for her. Then the mother gave her a knife and said,
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  never mind, cut it off. When you are queen, you will not
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  care about toes. You will not want to walk. So the silly girl
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  cut off her great toe and thus squeezed on the shoe and went to the
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  king's son. Then he took her for his bride and set her beside him
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  on his horse, and rode away with her homewards. But on their way
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  home they had to pass by the hazel tree that Ashputtel had planted, and
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  on the branch sat a little dove, singing back again, back again,
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  looked to the shoe. The shoe is too small and not made for you.
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  Prince Prince, look again for thy bride, for she's not the true
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  one that sits by thy side. Then the prince got down and looked at
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  her foot, and he saw, by the blood that streamed from it,
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  what a trick she had played him. So he turned his horse round and
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  brought the false bride back to her home, and said, this is not
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  the right bride. Let the other sister try and put on the slipper.
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  Then she went into the room and got her foot into the shoe, all
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  but the heel, which was too large, but her mother squeezed it in
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  till the blood came, and took her to the king's son, and he
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  set her as his bride by his side on his horse, and rode away
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  with her. But when they came to the hazel tree, the little dove
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  sat there still and sang back again, back again, Look to the shoe.
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  The shoe is too small and not made for you. Prince Prince,
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  look again for thy bride, for she's not the true one that sits by
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  thy side. Then he looked down and saw that the blood streamed so much
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  from the shoe that her white stockings were quite red. So he turned his
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  horse and brought her also back again. This is not the true bride,
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  said he to the father. Have you no other daughters? No, said
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  he, there is only a little dirty Ashputtel here the shot of my first
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  wife. I am sure she cannot be the bride. The prince told him
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  to send her, but the mother said, no, no, she is
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  much too dirty. She will not dare to show herself. However, the
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  Prince would have her come, and she first washed her face and hands,
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  and then went in and curtsied to him, and he reached her the golden
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  slipper. Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot and put on
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  the golden slipper, and it fitted her as if it had been made for
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  her. And when he drew near and looked at her face, he knew
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  her and said, this is the right bride. But the mother and both
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  the sisters were frightened and turned pale with anger as he took Ashputtel on his
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  horse and rode away with her. And when they came to the hazel tree,
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  the white dove sang home home. Look at the shoe, Princess.
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  The shoe was made for you, prince. Prince, take on thy bride,
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  for she is the true one who sits by thy side. And when
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  the dove had done its song, it came flying and perched upon her right
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  shoulder, and so went home with her and of Ashputtel. A king and
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  queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where
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  there were in them those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty
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  of money, had plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good
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  things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day.
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  But though they had been married many years, they had no children,
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  and this grieved them very much. Indeed, But one day, as the
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  queen was walking by the side of the river at the bottom of the garden,
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  she saw a poor little fish that had thrown itself out of the water
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  and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank. Then the queen took pity
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  on the little fish and threw it back again into the water, And before
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  it swam away, it lifted his head out of the water and said,
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  I know what your wishes, and it shall be fulfilled. In return for
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  your kindness to me, You will soon have a daughter. What the little
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  fish had foretold soon came to pass, and the queen had a little girl,
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  so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on her for joy,
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  and said he would hold a great feast and make mary and show the
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  child to all the land. So he asked his kinsmen and nobles, and
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  friends and neighbors. But the queen said, I will have the fairies also,
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  that they might be kind and good to our little daughter. Now there
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  were thirteen fairies in the kingdom, but as the king and queen had only
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  twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they were forced to leave
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  one of the fairies without asking her. So twelve fairies came, each with
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  a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on
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  her feet, and a long white wand in her hand. And after the
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  feast was over, they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best
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  gifts to the little princess. One gave her goodness, another beauty, another
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  riches, and so on till she had all that was good in the world,
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  just as eleven of them had done blessing her. A great noise was
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  heard in the courtyard, and word was brought that the thirteenth fairy was come
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  with a black cap on her head, and black shoes on her feet,
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  and a broomstick in her hand. And presently up she came into the dining
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  hall. Now, as she had not been asked to the feast, she
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  was very angry and scolded the King and Queen very much, and set to
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  work to take her revenge. So she cried out, the King's daughter shall
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  in her fifteenth year be wounded by a spindle and fall down dead. Then
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  the twelveth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet given her gifts,
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  came forward and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she
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  would soften its mischief so her if it was, that the King's daughter,
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  when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall
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  asleep for a hundred years. However, the king hoped still to save his
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  dear child altogether from a threatened evil, so he ordered that all the spindles
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  in the kingdom should be brought up and burnt, But all the gifts of
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  the first eleven fairies were in the meantime fulfilled. For the princess was so
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  beautiful and well behaved, and good and wise that everyone who knew her loved
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  her. It happened that on the very day she was fifteen years old,
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  the King and Queen were not at home, and she was left alone in
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  the palace. So she roved about by herself and looked at all the rooms
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  and chambers, till at last she came to an old tower, to which
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  there was a narrow staircase ending with a little door. In the door was
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  a golden key, and and she turned it, the door sprang open,
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  and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily. Why how now,
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  good mother, said the princess. What are you doing there spinning? Said
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  the old lady, and nodded her head, humming a tune while bus went
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  the wheel. How prettily that little thing turns round, said the princess.
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  Then took the spindle and began to try and spin. But scarcely had she
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  touched it before the fairy's prophecy was fulfilled. The spindle wounded her, and
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  she fell down lifeless on the ground. However, she was not dead,
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  but had only fallen into a deep sleep. And the King and the Queen,
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  who had just come home, and all their court fell asleep too.
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  Then the horse has slept in the stables, and the dogs in the court,
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  the pigeons on the house top, and the very flies slept upon the
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  walls. Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing and went to sleep.
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  The jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose
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  upon it for the king's dinner, stood still. And the cook, who
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  was at that moment pulling the kitchen boy by the hair to give him a
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  box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go,
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  and both fell asleep. The butler, who was slyly tasting the ale,
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  fell asleep with the jug at his lips. And thus everything stood still and
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  slept soundly. A large hedge of thorns soon grew around the palace, and
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  every year it became higher and thicker, till at last the old palace was
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  surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof for the chimneys could be
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  seen. But they went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping
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  briar rose for so the king's daughter was called, so that from time to
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  time several kings sons came and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
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  Miss However, none of them could ever do, for the thorns and
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  bushes laid hold of them, as it were, with hands, and there
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  they stuck fast and died wretchedly. After many many years, there came a
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  king's son into the land, and an old man told him the story of
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  the thicket of thorns, and how a beautiful palace stood behind it, and
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  how a wonderful princess called briar Rose lay in it asleep with all her court.
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  He told too that he had heard from his grandfather that many many princes
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  had come and had tried to break through the thicket, but that they had
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  all stuck fast in it and died. Then the young prince said, all
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  this shall not frighten me. I will go and see this. Briar Rose
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  the old man and tried to hinder him, but he was bent upon going.
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  Now that very day, the hundred years were ended, and as the
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  prince came to the thicket, he saw nothing but beautiful flowering shrubs, through
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  which he went with ease and they shut in after him, as thick as
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  ever. Then he came at last to the palace, and there in the
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  court lay the dogs asleep, and the horses were standing in the stables,
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  and on the roof sat the pigeons fast asleep with their heads under their wings.
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  And when he came into the palace, the flies were sleeping on the
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  walls. The spit was standing still, the butler had the jug of ale
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  at his lips, going to drink a draft. The maid sat with a
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  fowl in her lap, ready to be plucked, and the cook in the
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  kitchen was still holding up her hand as if she was going to beat the
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  boy. Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that
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  he could hear every breath he drew, till at last he came to the
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  old tower and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was,
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  And there she lay fast asleep on a couch by the window. She
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  looked so beautiful that he could not take his eyes off her. So he
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  stooped down and gave her a kiss. But the moment he kissed her,
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  she opened her eyes and awoke and smiled upon him, and they went out
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  together and soon the King and Queen also awoke, and all the court and
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  gazed on each other with great wonder. And the horses shook themselves, and
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  the dogs jumped up and barked. The pigeons took their heads from under their
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  wings and looked about, and flew into the fields. The flies on the
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  walls buzzed again. The fire in the kitchen blazed up. Brown went the
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  jack, and round went the spit with the goose for the king's dinner.
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  Upon it, the butler finished his draft of ail, the maid went on
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  plucking the fowl, and the cook gave the boy the box on his ear.
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  And then the Prince and briar Rose were married when the wedding feast was
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  given, and they lived happily together all their lives long. And of briar
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  Rose, a certain cat had made the acquaintance of a mouse, and had
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  said so much to her about the great love and friendship she felt for her
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  that at length the mouse agreed that they should live and keep house together.
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  But we must make a provision for winter, or else we shall suffer from
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  hunger, said the cat. And you, little mouse, cannot venture everywhere,
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  or you will be caught in a trap. Some day, the good
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  advice was followed and a pot of fat was bought, but they did not
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  know where to put it at length. After much consideration, the cat said,
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  I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the
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  church, for no one dares take anything away from there. We will set
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  it beneath the altar and not touch it until we are really in need of
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  it. So the pot was placed in safety. But it was not long
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  before the cat had a great yearning for it and said to the mouse,
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  I want to tell you something, little mouse. My cousin has brought a
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  little son into the world and has asked me to be the godmother. He
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  is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font
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  at the christening. Let me go out today, and you look after the
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  house by yourself. Yes, yes, answered the mouse. By all means,
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  go and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
• 26:56
  I should like a drop of sweet red christening wine myself. All this,
• 27:02
  however, was untrue. The cat had no cousin and had not been
• 27:06
  asked to be godmother. She went straight to the church, stole to the
• 27:11
  pot of fats, began to lick it, and licked the top of the
• 27:15
  fat off. Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town,
• 27:18
  looked out for opportunities, and then stretched herself in the sun and licked her
• 27:23
  lips whenever she thought of the pot of fat. And not until it was
• 27:27
  evening did she return home. Well here you are again, said the mouse.
• 27:34
  No doubt you have had a merry day. All went off well,
• 27:41
  answered the cat. What name did they give the child? Top off?
• 27:47
  Said the cat, quite coolly. Top off, cried the mouse. That
• 27:52
  is a very odd and uncommon name. Isn't a usual one in your family?
• 27:59
  What does it matter? Said the cat. It is no worse than
• 28:02
  crumb stealer, as your god children are called. Before long, the cat
• 28:07
  was seized by another fit of yearning. She said to the mouse, you
• 28:12
  must do me a favor, and once more manage the house for a day
• 28:17
  alone. I am again asked to be a godmother. And as the child
• 28:22
  has a right ring round its neck, I cannot refuse. The good mouse
• 28:27
  consented, But the cat crept behind the town walls to the church and devoured
• 28:33
  half the part of fat. Nothing ever, seems as good as what one
• 28:37
  keeps to oneself, said she, and was quite satisfied with her day's work
• 28:44
  when she went home. The mouse inquired, and what was the child christened?
• 28:49
  A? Half done? Answered the cat half done. What are you
• 28:56
  saying? I never heard the name in my life anything, it is not
• 29:00
  in the calendar. The cat's mouth soon began to water for some more licking.
• 29:07
  Oh, good things go in threes, said she. I am asked
• 29:11
  to stand godmother again. The child is quite black, only it has white
• 29:18
  paws. But with that exception, it has not a single white hair on
• 29:22
  its whole body. This only happens once every few years. You will let
• 29:29
  me go, won't you? Top off? Half done, answered the mouse.
• 29:34
  They are such odd names. They make me very thoughtful. You sit
• 29:41
  at home, said the cat, in your dark gray fur coat and long
• 29:45
  tail, and are filled with fancies. That's because you do not go out
• 29:51
  in the daytime. During the cat's absence, the mouse cleaned the house and
• 29:56
  put it in order, But the greedy cat in tire emptied the part of
• 30:00
  fat. When everything is eaten up, one has some peace, she said
• 30:07
  to herself, And well filled and fat, she did not return home till
• 30:11
  night. The mouse at once asked what name had been given to the third
• 30:17
  child. It will not please you more than the others, said the cat.
• 30:22
  He is called all gone, All gone, cried the mouse. That
• 30:30
  is the most suspicious name of all. I have never seen it in print.
• 30:36
  All gone? What can that mean? And she shook her head,
• 30:41
  curled herself up, and lay down to sleep. From this time forth no
• 30:47
  one invited the cat to be godmother. But when the winter had come and
• 30:51
  there was no longer anything to be found outside, the mouse thought of their
• 30:56
  provision and said, come, cats, we will go to our pot of
• 31:00
  fat, which we have stored up for ourselves. We shall enjoy that.
• 31:04
  Yes, answered the cat, you will enjoy it as much as you would
• 31:08
  enjoy sticking that dainty tongue of yours out of the window. They set out
• 31:15
  on their way, But when they arrived the potter fat certainly was still in
• 31:19
  its place, but it was empty. Alas said the mouse, Now I
• 31:26
  see what has happened. Now it comes to light. You are a true
• 31:32
  friend. You have devoured all when you were standing Godmother. First top off,
• 31:38
  then half done? Then will you hold your tongue? Cried the cat.
• 31:44
  One word more, and I will eat you too, All gone was
• 31:49
  already on the poor mouse's lips. Scarcely had she spoken it before the cat
• 31:55
  sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down verily. That is
• 32:02
  the way of the world, end of cat and mouse in partnership. There
• 32:12
  was once a king whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and was
• 32:16
  so beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face
• 32:21
  of the earth. But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt
• 32:25
  that her end drew near, she called the king to her and said,
• 32:30
  promise me that you will never marry again unless you meet with a wife who
• 32:36
  is as beautiful as I am, and who has golden hair like mine.
• 32:42
  Then, when the king, and his grief, promised all she asked,
• 32:45
  she shut her eyes and died. But the king was not to be comforted,
• 32:51
  and for a long time never thought of taking another wife. At last,
• 32:55
  however, his wise men said, this will not do. The King
• 33:00
  must marry again, that we may have a queen. So messengers were sent
• 33:06
  far and wide to seek for a bride as beautiful as the late queen.
• 33:10
  But there was no princess in the world so beautiful, And if there had
• 33:15
  been still there was not one to be found who had golden hair. So
• 33:20
  the messengers came home and had had all their trouble for nothing. Now the
• 33:25
  king had a daughter who was just as beautiful as her mother and had the
• 33:30
  same golden hair. And when she was grown up, the king looked at
• 33:34
  her and saw that she was just like this late queen. Then he said
• 33:38
  to his courtiers, may I not marry my daughter? She is the very
• 33:43
  image of my dead wife. Unless I have her, I shall not find
• 33:47
  any bride upon the whole earth. And you say there must be a queen.
• 33:52
  When the courtiers heard this, they were shocked and said, Heaven forbid
• 33:57
  that a father should marry his daughter. Out of so great a sin,
• 34:01
  no good can come. And his daughter was also shocked, but hope the
• 34:06
  king would soon give up such thoughts. So she said to him. For
• 34:10
  I marry any one, I must have three dresses. One must be of
• 34:15
  gold like the sun, another must be of shining silver like the moon,
• 34:20
  and a third must be dazzling as the stars. Besides this, I want
• 34:24
  a mantle of a thousand different kinds of fur put together, to which every
• 34:30
  beast in the kingdom must give a part of his skin, and thus she
• 34:35
  thought he would think of the matter no more. But the King made the
• 34:38
  most skillful workman in his kingdom weave the three dresses, one golden like the
• 34:44
  sun, another silvery like the moon, and a third sparkling like the stars.
• 34:50
  And his hunters were told to hunt out all the beasts in his kingdom,
• 34:53
  and to take the finest fur out of their skins. And thus a
• 34:58
  mantle of a thousand f he was made. When all were ready, the
• 35:04
  king sent them to her. But she got up in the night when all
• 35:07
  were asleep, and took three of her trinkets, a golden ring, a
• 35:10
  golden necklace, and a golden brooch, and packed the three dresses of the
• 35:15
  Sun, the Moon, and the stars up in a nutshell, and wrapped
• 35:20
  herself up in the mantle made of all sorts of fur, and besmeared her
• 35:23
  face and hands with soot. Then she threw herself upon Heaven for help in
• 35:30
  her need, and went away, and journeyed on the whole night, till
• 35:34
  at last she came to a large wood. As she was very tired,
• 35:37
  she sat herself down in the hollow of a tree, and soon fell asleep,
• 35:43
  And there she slept on till it was midday. Now, as the
• 35:47
  king to whom the wood belonged, was hunting in it, his dogs came
• 35:52
  to the tree and began to sniff about, and run round and round and
• 35:55
  bark. Look sharp, said the king to the huntsman, and see what
• 36:00
  sort of game lies there. And the huntsmen went up to the tree,
• 36:05
  and when they came back again, said, in the hollow tree there lies
• 36:08
  a most wonderful beast, such as we never saw before. Its skin seems
• 36:15
  to be of a thousand kinds of fur. But there it lies fast asleep.
• 36:21
  See, said the king, if you can catch it alive, and
• 36:23
  we will take it with us. So the huntsman took it up, and
• 36:28
  the maiden awoke and was greatly frightened, and said, I am a poor
• 36:32
  child that has neither father nor mother left. Have pity on me, and
• 36:37
  take me with you. Then they said, yes, miss Katskin, you
• 36:43
  will do for the kitchen. You can sweep up the ashes, do things
• 36:45
  of that sort. So they put her into the coach and took her home
• 36:50
  to the king's palace. Then they showed her a little corner under the staircase,
• 36:54
  when no light of day ever peeped in and said, Catskin, you
• 37:00
  may lie and sleep there. And she was sent into the kitchen and made
• 37:05
  to fetch wood and water, and to blow the fire, pluck the poultry,
• 37:08
  pick the herbs, shift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
• 37:15
  Thus Caatskin lived for a long time, very sorrowfully. Ah pretty princess,
• 37:22
  thought she, what will now become of thee But it happened one day
• 37:28
  that a feast was to be held in the king's castle. So she said
• 37:31
  to the cook, may I go up a little while and see what is
• 37:35
  going on. I will take care and stand behind the door. And the
• 37:39
  cook said, yes, you may go, but be back again in half
• 37:44
  an hour's time to rake up the ashes. Then she took her little lamp
• 37:49
  and went into her cabin and took off the first skin, and washed the
• 37:52
  soot from off her face and hands, so that her beauty shone forth like
• 37:57
  the sun from behind the clouds. She next opened her nutshell and brought out
• 38:02
  of it the dress that shone like the sun. And so went to the
• 38:07
  feast. Every One made way for her, for nobody knew her, and
• 38:12
  they thought she could be no less than a king's daughter. But the King
• 38:15
  came up to her and held out his hand and danced with her, and
• 38:20
  he thought in his heart I never saw any one half so beautiful. When
• 38:24
  the dance was at an end, she curtsied, and when the King looked
• 38:29
  round for her, she was gone. No one knew whither. The guards
• 38:34
  that stood at the castle gate were called in, but they had seen no
• 38:37
  one. The truth was that she had run into her little cabin, pulled
• 38:42
  off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the firskin cloak,
• 38:45
  and with cat's skin again. When she went into the kitchen to her
• 38:50
  work and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, let that alone
• 38:53
  to the morning and heat the king's soup. I should like to run up
• 38:58
  now and give a peep, but take care you don't let a hare fall
• 39:01
  into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again. As
• 39:06
  soon as the cook went away, Catskin heted the king's soup and toasted a
• 39:10
  slice of bread first, as nicely as ever she could. And when it
• 39:15
  was ready, she went and looked in the cabin for her little golden ring
• 39:20
  and put it into the dish in which the soup was. When the dance
• 39:24
  was over, the King ordered his soup to be brought in, and it
• 39:28
  pleased him so well that he thought he had never tasted any so good before.
• 39:34
  At the bottom he saw a gold ring lying, and as he could
• 39:37
  not make out how it got there, he ordered the cook to be sent
• 39:40
  for. The cook was frightened when he heard the order, and said to
• 39:45
  Katskin, you must have let a hare fall into the soup. If it
• 39:50
  be so, you will have a good beating. Then he went before the
• 39:55
  king and he asked him who had cooked the soup. Ay did, answered
• 40:00
  the cook. But the king said that is not true. It was better
• 40:05
  done than you could do it. Then he answered, to tell you the
• 40:09
  truth, I did not cook it, but Catskin did. Then let Catskin
• 40:15
  come up, said the king. And when she came, he said to
• 40:19
  her, who are you? I am a poor child, said she that
• 40:24
  has lost both father and mother. How came you in my palace? Asked
• 40:30
  he. I am good for nothing, said she, but to be a
• 40:35
  scullion girl, and to have boots and shoes thrown at my head. But
• 40:39
  how did you get the ring that was in the soup, asked the king.
• 40:44
  Then she would not own that she knew anything about the ring, so
• 40:47
  the king sent her away again about her business. After a time, there
• 40:52
  was another feast, and Catskin asked the cook to let her go up and
• 40:57
  see it as before. Yes, said he, but come again in half
• 41:00
  an hour and cook the king the soup that he liked so much. Then
• 41:06
  she ran to her little cabin, washed herself quickly, and took her dress
• 41:09
  out, which was silvery as the moon, and put it on. And
• 41:14
  when she went in looking like a king's daughter, the king went up to
• 41:17
  her and rejoiced at seeing her again, and when the dance began, he
• 41:22
  danced with her. After the dance was at an end, she managed to
• 41:27
  slip out so slyly that the king did not see where she was gone.
• 41:31
  But she sprang into her little cabin and made herself into Catskin again, and
• 41:37
  went into the kitchen to cook the soup. Whilst the cook was above stairs,
• 41:42
  she took the golden necklace and dropped it into the soup. Then it
• 41:45
  was brought to the King, who ate it, and it pleased him as
• 41:49
  well as before, so he sent for the cook, who was again forced
• 41:53
  to tell him that Katskin had cooked it. Catskin was brought again before the
• 41:59
  king but she still told him that she was only fit to have boots and
• 42:02
  shoes thrown at her head. But when the King had ordered a feast to
• 42:07
  be got ready for the third time, it happened just the same as before.
• 42:13
  You must be a witch, catskin, I said the cook, for
• 42:16
  you always put something into your soup, so it pleases the king better than
• 42:21
  mine. However, he let her go up as before. Then she put
• 42:25
  on her dress, which sparkled like the stars, and went into the ball
• 42:30
  room in it. And the King danced with her again and thought she had
• 42:34
  never looked so beautiful as she did then, So whilst he was dancing with
• 42:38
  her, he put a gold ring on her finger without her seeing it,
• 42:43
  and ordered that the dance should be kept up a long time. When it
• 42:46
  was at an end, he would have held her fast by the hand,
• 42:51
  but she slipped away and sprang so quickly through the crowd that he lost sight
• 42:54
  of her, and she ran as fast as she could into her little cabin
• 43:00
  under the stairs. But this time she kept away too long and stayed beyond
• 43:05
  the half hour, so she had not time to take off her fine dress,
• 43:09
  and threw her fur mantle over it and in her haste, did not
• 43:14
  blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.
• 43:20
  Then she ran into the kitchen and cooked the king's soup, and as soon
• 43:22
  as the cook was gone, she put the golden brooch into the dish.
• 43:27
  When the king got to the bottom, he ordered Catskin to be called once
• 43:30
  more, and soon saw the white finger and the ring that he had put
• 43:35
  on it whilst they were dancing. So he seized her hand and kept fast
• 43:40
  hold of it, And when she wanted to loose herself and spring away,
• 43:45
  the fur cloak fell off a little on one side, and the starry dress
• 43:50
  sparkled underneath it. Then he got hold of the fur and tore it off,
• 43:55
  and her golden hair and beautiful form were seen, and she could no
• 44:00
  longer hide herself. So she washed the soot and ashes from her face and
• 44:06
  showed herself to be the most beautiful princess upon the face of the earth.
• 44:10
  And the King said, you are my beloved bride, and we will never
• 44:15
  more be parted from each other. And the wedding feast was held, and
• 44:21
  a merry day it was, as ever it was heard of or seen in
• 44:24
  that country, or indeed in any other and of catskin. There was once
• 44:34
  a man who had a daughter who was called clever Elsie, And when she
• 44:37
  had grown up, her father said, we will get her married. Yes,
• 44:44
  said the mother, if only some one would come who would have her.
• 44:49
  At length, a man came from a distance and wooder, who was
• 44:52
  called Hans. But he stipulated that clever Elsie should be really smart. Oh,
• 45:00
  said the father, she has plenty of good sense. And the mother
• 45:04
  said, oh, she can see the wind coming up the street and hear
• 45:07
  the flies coughing. Well, said Hans. If she is not really smart,
• 45:14
  I won't have her. When they were sitting at dinner and had eaten,
• 45:19
  the mother said, Elsie, go into the cellar and fetch some beer.
• 45:23
  Then clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar,
• 45:28
  and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might
• 45:31
  not appear long. When she was below, she fetched herself a chair and
• 45:37
  set it before the barrel, so that she had no need to stoop and
• 45:42
  did not hurt her back or do herself any unexpected injury. Then she placed
• 45:46
  the can before her and turned the tap, and while the beer was running,
• 45:51
  she would not let her eyes be idle, but looked up at the
• 45:54
  wall, and, after much peering here and there, saw a pickaxe exactly
• 46:00
  above her, which the Masons had accidentally left there. Then clever Elsie began
• 46:06
  to weep, and said, if I get Hans and we have a child,
• 46:09
  and he grows big, and we send him into the cellar here to
• 46:14
  draw beer, then the pick axe will fall on his head and kill him.
• 46:19
  Then she sat and wept and screamed with all the strength of her body
• 46:23
  over the misfortune which lay before her. Those upstairs waited for the drink,
• 46:30
  but clever Elsie still did not come. Then the woman said to the servant,
• 46:37
  just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is. The maid
• 46:40
  went and found her sitting in front of the barrel, screaming loudly. Elsie,
• 46:46
  why do you weep? Asked the maid, Oh, she answered,
• 46:52
  have I not reason to weep? If I get Hans and we have a
• 46:55
  child, and he grows big and has to draw beer here, the pick
• 47:00
  axe will perhaps fall on his head and kill him. Then said the maid,
• 47:06
  what a clever Elsie we have, and sat down beside her and began
• 47:10
  loudly to weep over the misfortune. After a while, as the maid did
• 47:15
  not come back and those upstairs were thirsty for beer, the man said to
• 47:21
  the boy, just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie and the
• 47:24
  old girl are. The boy went down when there sat clever Elsie and the
• 47:30
  girl both weeping together. Then he asked, why are you weeping? Oh,
• 47:37
  said Elsie, have I not reason to weep? If I get Hans
• 47:44
  and we have a child and he grows big and has to draw beer,
• 47:47
  here the pick axe will fall on his head and kill him. Then said
• 47:52
  the boy, what a clever Elsie we have, and sat down beside her,
• 47:59
  and like eyes began to howl loudly. Upstairs, they waited for the
• 48:04
  boy, but as he still did not return, the man said, to
• 48:07
  the woman, who just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is.
• 48:13
  The woman went down, found all three in the midst of their lamentations,
• 48:17
  and inquired what was the cause. Then Elsie told her also that her
• 48:22
  future child was to be killed by the pickaxe when it grew big and had
• 48:27
  to draw a beer, and the pick axe fell down. Then said the
• 48:31
  mother, likewise, what a clever Elsie we have and sat down and wept
• 48:37
  with them. The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife
• 48:43
  did not come back, and his thirst grew ever greater, he said,
• 48:46
  I must go down in the cellar myself and see where Elsie is. But
• 48:52
  when he got into the cellar and they were all sitting together crying, when
• 48:57
  he heard the reason, and that Elsie, his child, was the cause,
• 49:01
  and that Elsie might perhaps bring one into the world some day, and
• 49:06
  that he might be killed by the pickaxe if he should happen to be sitting
• 49:08
  beneath it drawing beard just at the very time when it fell down. He
• 49:14
  cried, Oh, what a clever Elsie, and sat down and likewise wept
• 49:20
  with them. The bridegroom stayed upstairs alone for a long time. Then,
• 49:25
  as no one would come back, he thought they must be waiting for me
• 49:30
  below. I too must go there and see what they are about. When
• 49:36
  he got down, the five of them were sitting screaming and lamenting, quite
• 49:40
  piteously, each out doing the other. What misfortune has happened, then,
• 49:46
  asked he. Ah. Dear Hans, said, Elsie, if we marry
• 49:52
  each other and have a child, that he is big, and we perhaps
• 49:57
  send him here to draw something to drink. Then the pickaxe which has been
• 50:00
  left up there might dash his brains out if it were to fall down.
• 50:06
  So have we not reason to weep? Come, said Hans, more understanding
• 50:12
  than that is not needed for my household. As you are such a clever
• 50:16
  Elsie, I will have you, and seized her hand, took her upstairs
• 50:22
  with him, and married her. After Hans had had her for some time,
• 50:27
  he said, wife, I am going out to work and earn some
• 50:30
  money for us. Go into the field and cut the corn that we may
• 50:35
  have some bread. Yes, dear Hans, I will do that. After
• 50:39
  Hans had gone away, she cooked herself some good broth and took it into
• 50:45
  the field with her. When she came to the field, she said to
• 50:47
  herself, Oh, what shall I do? Shall I cut first? Or
• 50:52
  shall I eat first? No? I will eat first. Then she drank
• 50:59
  her cup of bra off, and when she was fully satisfied, she once
• 51:01
  more said what shall I do? Shall I cut first? Or shall I
• 51:07
  sleep first? I will sleep first. Then she lay down among the corn
• 51:14
  and fell asleep. Hans had been at home for a long time, but
• 51:17
  Elsie did not come. Then, said he what a clever Elsie I have.
• 51:24
  She is so industrious that she does not even come home to eat.
• 51:30
  But when evening came and she still stayed away, Hans went out to see
• 51:34
  what she had cut, but nothing was cut, and she was lying among
• 51:37
  the corn asleep. Then Hans hastened home and brought a fowler's net with little
• 51:45
  bells, and hung it round about her, and she still went on sleeping.
• 51:49
  Then he ran home, shut the house door, and sat down in
• 51:52
  his chair and worked at length. When it was quite dark, clever Elsie
• 51:59
  awoke. When she got up, there was a jingling all round about her,
• 52:02
  and the bells rang at each step which she took. Then she was
• 52:07
  alarmed and became uncertain whether she really was clever Elsie or not, and said,
• 52:13
  is it I? Or is it not I? But she knew not
• 52:17
  what answer to make to this, and stood for a time in doubt.
• 52:22
  At length she thought, I will go home and ask if it be I
• 52:28
  or if it be not I, they will be sure to know. She
• 52:32
  ran to the door of her own house, but it was shut. Then
• 52:36
  she knocked at the window and cried, Hans, is Elsie within? Yes,
• 52:43
  answered Hans, she is within hereupon she was terrified and said, ah,
• 52:50
  heavens that it is not I, and went to another door. But
• 52:54
  when the people heard the jingling of the bells, they would not open it,
• 52:59
  and she could get in nowhere. Then she ran out of the village,
• 53:05
  and no one has seen her since. And of clever Elsie. There
• 53:10
  once was a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels. And
• 53:15
  when she walked out with them on, she turned herself this way, and
• 53:20
  that was quite happy, and thought, you certainly are a pretty girl.
• 53:25
  And when she came home, she drank, in her gladness of heart a
• 53:30
  draft of wine, And as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted
• 53:35
  the best of whatever she was cooking, until she was satisfied, and said,
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  the cook must know what the food is like. It came to pass
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  that the master one day said to her, Gretel, there is a guest
• 53:49
  coming this evening. Prepare me two fowls. Very daintily. I will see
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  to it. Master, answered Gretel. She killed two fowls, scarlded them,
• 54:00
  plucked them, put them on a spit, and towards evening set them
• 54:05
  before the fire that they might broast. The fowls began to turn brown and
• 54:09
  were nearly ready, but the guest had not yet arrived. Then Gretel called
• 54:15
  out to her master. If the guest does not come, I must take
• 54:20
  the fowls away from the fire. But it will be a sin and a
• 54:23
  shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juiciest. The
• 54:29
  master said, I will run myself and fetch the guests. When the master
• 54:35
  had turned his back, Gretel laid the spit with the fowls on one side,
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  and thought, standing so long by the fire there makes one sweat and
• 54:44
  thirsty. Who knows when they will come. Meanwhile, I will run into
• 54:50
  the cellar and take a drink. She ran down, sat a drug and
• 54:54
  said, God bless it for you, Gretel, and took a good drink,
• 55:00
  and thought that wine should flow on and should not be interrupted, and
• 55:04
  took yet another hearty draft. Then she went and put the fowls down again
• 55:10
  to the fire, basted them, and drove the spit merrily round. But
• 55:16
  as the roast meat smelt so good, Gretel thought something might be wrong.
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  It ought to be tasted. She touched it with her finger and said,
• 55:28
  ah, how good fowls are It certainly is a sin and a shade,
• 55:34
  but they are not eaten at the right time. She ran to the window
• 55:38
  to see if the master was not coming with his guest, but she saw
• 55:43
  no one and went back to the fowls and thought, one of the wings
• 55:46
  is burning. I had better take it off and eat it. So she
• 55:51
  cut it off, ate it and enjoyed it. And when she had done,
• 55:54
  she thought the other must go down too, or else, Master,
• 56:00
  you will observe that something is missing. When the two wings were eaten,
• 56:05
  she went and looked for her master and did not see him. It suddenly
• 56:08
  occurred to her, who knows they are perhaps not coming at all and have
• 56:14
  turned in somewhere. Then she said, well, Gretel, enjoy yourself.
• 56:21
  One fowl has been cut into. Take another drink and eat it up entirely.
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  When it is eaten, you will have some peace. Why should God's
• 56:30
  good gifts be spoiled. So she ran into the cellar again, took an
• 56:37
  enormous drink, and ate up the one chicken in great glee. When one
• 56:42
  of the chickens was swallowed down and still her master did not come, Gretel
• 56:46
  looked at the other, and said, what one is, the other should
• 56:52
  be. Likewise, the two go together. What's right for the one is
• 56:57
  right for the other. I think if I were to take another draft,
• 57:00
  it would do me no harm. So she took another hearty drink and let
• 57:07
  the second chicken follow the first. While she was making the most of it,
• 57:13
  the master came and cried, hurry up, Gretel. The guest is
• 57:16
  coming directly after me. Yes, sir, I will soon serve up,
• 57:22
  answered Gretel. Meantime, the Master looked to see that the table was properly
• 57:27
  laid, and took the great knife wherewith he was going to carve the chickens,
• 57:31
  and sharpened it on the steps. Presently, the guest came and knocked
• 57:37
  politely and courteously at the house door. Gretel ran and looked to see who
• 57:42
  was there, and when she saw the guest, she put her finger to
• 57:45
  her lips and said, hush, hush, go away as quickly as you
• 57:51
  can. If my master catches you, it will be the worse for you.
• 57:55
  He certainly did ask you to supper, but his intention is to cut
• 58:00
  off your two ears. Just listen how he is sharpening the knife for it.
• 58:06
  The guest heard the sharpening and hurried down the steps again as fast as
• 58:10
  he could. Gretel was not idle. She ran screaming to her master and
• 58:16
  cried, you have invited a fine guest. Why, Gretel, what do
• 58:22
  you mean by that? Yes, said she. He has taken the chickens
• 58:27
  which I was just going to serve up off the dish, and has run
• 58:30
  away with them. That's a nice trick, said her master, and lamented
• 58:36
  the fine chickens. If he had but left me one so that something remained
• 58:42
  for me to eat. He called to him to stop, but the guest
• 58:46
  pretended not to hear. Then he ran after him, with the knife still
• 58:52
  in his hand, crying, just one, just one, meaning that the
• 58:58
  guests should leave him just one, and not take both. The guest,
• 59:01
  however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his
• 59:07
  ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to
• 59:12
  take them both with him. And of clever Gretel, the mother of Hans,
• 59:20
  said, whither away Hans. Hans answered to Gretel, behave well,
• 59:27
  Hans, Oh, I'll behave well. Goodbye, mother, goodbye. Hans.
• 59:32
  Hans comes to Gretel, good day, Gretel, Good day, Hans.
• 59:38
  What do you bring that is good? I bring nothing. I want
• 59:43
  to have something given me. Gretel presents Hans with a needle. Hans says,
• 59:49
  goodbye, Gretel. Goodbye Hans. Hans takes the needle, sticks it
• 59:55
  into a hay cart, and follows the cart home. Evening, Mother,
• 1:00:00
  Good evening, Hans. Where have you been with Gretel? What did you
• 1:00:06
  take her? I took nothing, had something given me? What did Gretel
• 1:00:10
  give you? Gave me a needle? Where is the needle? Hans stuck
• 1:00:15
  in the hay cart. That was ill done, Hans. You should have
• 1:00:21
  stuck the needle in your sleeve. Never mind, I'll do better next time.
• 1:00:28
  Whither away Hans to Gretel. Mother, behave well, Hans, I'll
• 1:00:34
  behave well. Good bye, Mother, good bye Hans. Hans comes to
• 1:00:38
  Gretel. Good day, Gretel, Good day, Hans. What do you
• 1:00:43
  bring that is good? I bring nothing. I want to have something given
• 1:00:47
  to me. Gretel presents Hans with a knife. Good Bye, Gretel,
• 1:00:53
  good bye Hans. Hans takes the knife, sticks it in his sleeve and
• 1:00:58
  goes home. Good evening, Mother, Good evening, Hans, where have
• 1:01:04
  you been with Gretel? With Gretel, what did you take her? I
• 1:01:09
  took her nothing. She gave me something. What did Gretel give you?
• 1:01:14
  Gave me a knife? Where is the knife, Hans? Stuck in my
• 1:01:19
  sleeve. That's ill done, the Hans. You should have put the knife
• 1:01:23
  in your pocket. Never mind, we'll do better next time. Whither away,
• 1:01:30
  Hans to Gretel. Mother, behave well, Hans, Oh, I'll
• 1:01:36
  behave well. Good bye mother, Good bye Hans. Hans comes to Gretel.
• 1:01:43
  Good day, Gretel, Good day, Hans. What good thing do
• 1:01:46
  you bring? I bring nothing? I want something given me. Gretel presents
• 1:01:52
  Hans with a young goat. Goodbye, Gretel, Good bye Hans. Hans
• 1:01:59
  takes the girl, ties its legs and puts it in his pocket. When
• 1:02:02
  he gets home, it is suffocated. Good evening, mother, Good evening,
• 1:02:07
  Hans. Where have you been with Gretel? What did you take her?
• 1:02:14
  I took nothing. She gave me something. What did Gretel give you?
• 1:02:20
  She gave me a goat? Where is the goat? Hans? I
• 1:02:23
  put it in my pocket. That was ill done, Hans. You should
• 1:02:29
  have put a rope around the goat's neck. Never mind, we'll do better
• 1:02:34
  next time. Whither away, Hans to Gretel. Mother, behave well,
• 1:02:39
  Hans, Oh, I'll behave well. Goodbye, mother, Good bye Hans.
• 1:02:45
  Hans comes to Gretel. Good day, Gretel. Good day, Hans.
• 1:02:52
  What good thing do you bring? I bring nothing? I want something
• 1:02:55
  given me. Gretel presents Hans with a piece of bacon. Goodbye, Gretel,
• 1:03:02
  goodbye Hans. Hans takes the bacon, ties it to a rope and
• 1:03:07
  drags it away behind him. The dogs come and devour the bacon. When
• 1:03:13
  he gets home, he has a rope in his hand and there is no
• 1:03:15
  longer anything hanging on to it. Good evening, mother, Good evening,
• 1:03:22
  Hans. Where have you been with Gretel? What did you take her?
• 1:03:25
  I took her nothing. She gave me something. What did Gretel give you?
• 1:03:31
  Gave me a bit of bacon? Where is the bacon, Hans?
• 1:03:37
  I tied it to a rope, brought it home. Dogs took it.
• 1:03:40
  That was ill done, Hans. You should have carried the bacon on your
• 1:03:45
  head. Never mind, we'll do better next time. Whither away, Hans
• 1:03:52
  to Gretel, Mother, behave well, Hans, I'll behave well. Goodbye,
• 1:03:59
  mother, goodbye Hans. Hans comes to Gretel. Good day, Gretel.
• 1:04:04
  Good day, Hans. What good thing do you bring? I bring
• 1:04:09
  nothing but would have something given. Gretel presents Hans with a calf. Good
• 1:04:15
  bye, Gretel, goodbye Hans. Hans takes the calf, puts it on
• 1:04:20
  his head, and the calf kicks his face. Good evening, mother,
• 1:04:25
  Good evening, Hans. Where have you been with Gretel? What did you
• 1:04:30
  take her? I took nothing but had something given me. What did Gretel
• 1:04:35
  give you a calf? Where have you the calf? Hans? I set
• 1:04:41
  it on my head and it kicked my face. That was ill done,
• 1:04:45
  Hans. You should have led the calf and put it in the stall.
• 1:04:49
  Never mind, we'll do better next time. Whither away, Hans to Gretel.
• 1:04:56
  Mother, behave well, Hans, I'll behave well. Goodbye mother,
• 1:05:00
  good bye Hans. Hans comes to Gretel. Good day, Gretel, Good
• 1:05:06
  day, Hans. What good thing do you bring? I bring nothing but
• 1:05:12
  would have something given. Gretel says to Hans, I will go with you.
• 1:05:18
  Hans takes Gretel ties her to a rope, leads her to the rack
• 1:05:23
  and binds her fast. Then Hans goes to his mother. Good evening,
• 1:05:27
  Mother, Good evening, Hans, Where have you been with Gretel? What
• 1:05:32
  did you take her? I took her nothing. What did Gretel give you?
• 1:05:39
  She gave me nothing. She came with me. Where have you left
• 1:05:43
  Gretel? I let her by the rope, tied her to the rack,
• 1:05:46
  and scattered some grass for her. That was ill done, Hans. You
• 1:05:51
  should have cast friendly eyes on her. Never mind, we'll do better.
• 1:05:59
  Hans went into the table, cut out all the calves and sheep's eyes and
• 1:06:02
  threw them in Gretel's face. Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose,
• 1:06:09
  and ran away, and was no longer the bride of Hans. End of
• 1:06:15
  clever Hans. There was once upon a time a poor peasant called Crab,
• 1:06:23
  who drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town and sold it
• 1:06:27
  to a doctor for two dollers. When the money was being counted out to
• 1:06:31
  him, it so happened that the doctor was sitting at table, and when
• 1:06:35
  the peasant saw how well he ate and drank, his heart desired what he
• 1:06:40
  saw and would willingly have been a doctor too. So he remained standing awhile,
• 1:06:45
  and at length inquired if he too could not be a doctor. Oh
• 1:06:50
  yes, said the doctor, that is soon managed. What must I do,
• 1:06:57
  asked the peasant. In the first place, by yourself an A B
• 1:07:00
  C. Book of the kind which has a rooster on the frontispiece. In
• 1:07:04
  the second, turn your cart and your two occid into money, and get
• 1:07:10
  yourself some clothes and whatsoever else pertains to medicine. Thirdly, have a sign
• 1:07:15
  painted for yourself with the words I am Doctor Knowall, and have that nailed
• 1:07:21
  up above your house door. The peasant did everything that he had been told
• 1:07:27
  to do. When he had doctored people a while, but not long,
• 1:07:31
  a rich and great lord had some money stolen. Then he was told about
• 1:07:36
  doctor Knowall, who lived in such and such a village, and must know
• 1:07:41
  what had become of the money. So the lord had the horse's harness to
• 1:07:45
  his carriage, drove out to the village and asked Crabb if he were Doctor
• 1:07:49
  Knowall. Yes he was, he said, then he was to go with
• 1:07:55
  him and bring back the stolen money. Oh yes, but Greta, my
• 1:08:00
  wife, must go too. The lord was willing and let both of them
• 1:08:03
  have a seat in the carriage, and they all drove away together. When
• 1:08:09
  they came to the nobleman's castle, the table was spread and Crab was told
• 1:08:13
  to sit down and eat. Yes, but my wife Greta too, said
• 1:08:17
  he, and he seated himself with her at the table. And when the
• 1:08:23
  first servant came with a dish of delicate fare, the peasant nudged his wife
• 1:08:27
  and said, Greta, that was the first, meaning that was the servant
• 1:08:31
  who brought the first dish. The servant, however, thought he intended by
• 1:08:35
  that to say that is the first thief. And as he actually was so,
• 1:08:42
  he was terrified and said to his comrade outside, the doctor knows all
• 1:08:46
  we shall fare ill, He said, I was the first. The second
• 1:08:53
  did not want to go in at all, but was forced. So when
• 1:08:56
  he went in with his dish, the peasant nudged his wife and said,
• 1:09:00
  Greta, that is the second. This servant was equally alarmed, and he
• 1:09:06
  got out as fast as he could. The third fared no better, for
• 1:09:12
  the peasant again said Greta, that is the third. The fourth had to
• 1:09:16
  carry in a dish that was covered, and the Lord told the doctor that
• 1:09:20
  he was to show his skill and guess what was beneath the cover. Actually
• 1:09:27
  they were crabs. The doctor looked at the dish, had no idea what
• 1:09:31
  to say, and cried, a poor crab. When the lord heard that,
• 1:09:38
  he cried, there he knows it. He must also know who has
• 1:09:43
  the money on this The servants looked terribly uneasy and made a sign to the
• 1:09:48
  doctor that they wished him to step outside for a moment. When therefore he
• 1:09:54
  went out, all four of them confessed to him that they had stolen the
• 1:09:59
  money, and said that they would willingly restore it and give him a heavy
• 1:10:01
  palm into the bargain if he would not denounce them, for if he did,
• 1:10:06
  they would be hanged. They led him to the spot where the money
• 1:10:12
  was concealed. With this, the doctor was satisfied and returned to the hall,
• 1:10:16
  sat down at the table, and said, my Lord, now,
• 1:10:20
  will I search in my book where the gold is hidden. The fifth servant,
• 1:10:26
  however, crept into the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more.
• 1:10:30
  But the doctor sat still and opened his abc book, turned the pages
• 1:10:34
  backwards and forwards, and looked for the rooster as he could not find it
• 1:10:39
  immediately, he said, I know you are there, so you had better
• 1:10:44
  come out. Then the fellow in the stove thought the doctor met him,
• 1:10:48
  and full of terror, sprang out crying that man knows everything. Then Doctor
• 1:10:56
  Noah showed the lord where the money was, but did not say who stolen
• 1:11:00
  it, and received from both sides much money and reward, and became a
• 1:11:04
  renowned man, and of doctor knowall. There once was a man called Frederick.
• 1:11:14
  He had a wife whose name was Katherine, and they had not long
• 1:11:16
  been married. One day Frederick said, Kate, I am going to work
• 1:11:21
  in the fields. When I come back, I shall be hungry, so
• 1:11:26
  let me have something nice cooked and a good draft of ale. Very well,
• 1:11:32
  said she, It shall all be ready. When dinner time drew nigh,
• 1:11:39
  Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had,
• 1:11:42
  and put it on the fire to fry. The steak soon began to look
• 1:11:46
  brown and to crackle in the pan, and Catherine stood by with a fork
• 1:11:50
  and turned it. Then she said to herself, the steak is almost ready.
• 1:11:57
  I may as well go to the cellar for the ale. So she
• 1:12:00
  left the pan on the fire and took a large chug, and went into
• 1:12:03
  the cellar and tapped the ale cask. The beer ran into the jug,
• 1:12:09
  and Catherine stood looking on. At last it popped into her head, the
• 1:12:14
  dog is not shut up. He may be running away with steak. That's
• 1:12:18
  well thought of. So up she ran from the cellar, when sure enough
• 1:12:24
  the rascally cur had got the stake in his mouth and was making off with
• 1:12:29
  it. Away ran Catherine, and away ran the dog across the field,
• 1:12:33
  but he ran faster than she and stuck close to the stake. It's all
• 1:12:40
  gone, and what can't be cured must be endured, said Catherine. So
• 1:12:45
  she turned round, and as she had run a good way and was tired,
• 1:12:49
  she walked home leisurely to cool herself. Now, all this time the
• 1:12:55
  ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock, and when
• 1:13:00
  the jug was full, the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was
• 1:13:03
  empty. When she got to the cellar stairs, she saw what had happened.
• 1:13:09
  My stars, said she. What shall I do to keep Frederick from
• 1:13:13
  seeing all this slopping about? So she thought awhile, and at last remembered
• 1:13:18
  that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fare, and
• 1:13:23
  that if she sprinkled this over the floor, it would suck up the ale
• 1:13:27
  nicely. What a lucky thing, said she, that we kept that meal,
• 1:13:32
  we have now a good use for it. So away she went for
• 1:13:38
  it. But she managed to set it down just upon the great jug full
• 1:13:42
  of beer, and upset it. And thus all the ale that had been
• 1:13:46
  saved was set swimming on the floor. Also, ah well, said she.
• 1:13:54
  When one goes another may as well follow. Then she strewed the meal
• 1:13:59
  all up out the cellar, and was quite pleased with her cleverness, and
• 1:14:02
  said, how very neat and clean it looks. At noon, Frederick came
• 1:14:09
  home. Now, wife cried he, what have you for dinner? Oh,
• 1:14:15
  Frederick answered she. I was cooking you a steak. But while I
• 1:14:19
  went down to draw the ale, the dog ran away with it, and
• 1:14:23
  while I ran after him, the ale ran out. And when I went
• 1:14:27
  to dry up the ale with the sack of meal that we got at the
• 1:14:30
  fair, I upset the jug. But now the cellar is quite dry and
• 1:14:34
  looks so clean. Kate Kate said he, how could you do all this?
• 1:14:43
  Why did you leave the stake to fry? And the ale to run
• 1:14:45
  and then spoil all the meal. Why, Frederick said she, I did
• 1:14:51
  not know I was doing wrong. You should have told me before. The
• 1:14:57
  husband thought to himself, if my wife manages matters, thus I must look
• 1:15:01
  sharp myself. Now he had a good deal of gold in the house,
• 1:15:08
  so he said to Catherine, what pretty yellow buttons these are. I shall
• 1:15:13
  put them into a box and bury them in the garden. But take care
• 1:15:16
  that you never go near or meddle with them. No, Frederick said she
• 1:15:23
  that I never will. As soon as he was gone, there came by
• 1:15:28
  some peddlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would
• 1:15:32
  buy. Oh, dear me, I should like to buy very much,
• 1:15:38
  but I have no money. If you had any use for yellow buttons,
• 1:15:43
  I might deal with you yellow buttons, said they, I'll let us have
• 1:15:48
  a look at them. Go into the garden and dig where I tell you,
• 1:15:53
  and you will find the yellow buttons. I dare not go myself.
• 1:15:58
  So the rogues went, and when they found what these yellow buttons were,
• 1:16:02
  they took them all away and left her plenty of plates and dishes. Then
• 1:16:08
  she set them all about the house for a show, and when Frederick came
• 1:16:12
  back, he cried out, Kate, what have you been doing? See,
• 1:16:17
  said she. I have bought all these with your yellow buttons, but
• 1:16:21
  I did not touch them myself. The pedlars went themselves and dug them up.
• 1:16:28
  Wife, Wife, said Frederick, what a pretty piece of work you
• 1:16:32
  have made. Those yellow buttons were all my money. How came you to
• 1:16:38
  do such a thing? Why, answered she? I did not know there
• 1:16:43
  was any harm in it. You should have told me. Catherine stood musing
• 1:16:47
  for a while, and at last said to her husband, hark ye,
• 1:16:51
  Frederick, we will soon get the gold back. Let us run after the
• 1:16:57
  thieves. Well we will try, answered he. But take some butter,
• 1:17:01
  and she's with you that we may have something to eat by the way.
• 1:17:06
  Very well, said she, and they set out, and as Frederick walked
• 1:17:11
  the fastest, he left his wife some way behind. It does not matter,
• 1:17:16
  thought she, when we turned back, I shall be so much nearer
• 1:17:20
  home than he Presently, she came to the top of a hill, down
• 1:17:26
  the side of which there was a road so narrow that the cart wheels always
• 1:17:30
  chafed the trees on each side as they passed. Ah see now, said
• 1:17:35
  she, how they have bruised and wounded those poor trees. They will never
• 1:17:42
  get well. So she took pity on them and made use of the butter
• 1:17:46
  to grease them all so that the wheels might not hurt them so much.
• 1:17:50
  While she was doing this kind office, one of her cheeses fell out of
• 1:17:56
  the basket and rolled down the hill. Catherine looked, but did not see
• 1:18:00
  where it had gone, so she said, well, I suppose the other
• 1:18:04
  would go the same way and find you. He has younger legs than I
• 1:18:09
  have. Then she rolled the other cheese after it, and away it went.
• 1:18:15
  Nobody knows where down the hill, but she said she supposed that they
• 1:18:20
  knew the road and would follow her, and she could not stay there all
• 1:18:24
  day waiting for them. At last she overtook Frederick, who desired her to
• 1:18:30
  give him something to eat. Then she gave him the dry bread. Where
• 1:18:35
  are the butter and cheese, said he? Oh, answered she, I
• 1:18:41
  used the butter to grease those porchrees that the wheels chafed so and one of
• 1:18:46
  the cheeses ran away. So I sent the other after it to find it.
• 1:18:51
  And I suppose they are both on the road together somewhere. What a
• 1:18:57
  goose. You are to do such silly things, said the husband. How
• 1:19:01
  can you say so, said she, I am sure you never told me
• 1:19:06
  not. They ate the dry bread together, and Frederick said, Kate,
• 1:19:14
  I hope you locked the door safe when you came away. No, answered
• 1:19:18
  she, Hugh did not tell me. Then go home and do it now
• 1:19:24
  before we go any farther, said Frederick, and bring with you something to
• 1:19:29
  eat. Catherine did as he told her, and thought to herself, by
• 1:19:33
  the way, Frederick wants something to eat, but I don't think he's very
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  fond of butter and cheese. I'll bring him a bag of fine nuts and
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  the vinegar, for I have often seen him take some. When she reached
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  home, she bolted the back door, but the front door she took off
• 1:19:53
  the hinges and said, Frederick told me to lock the door, But surely
• 1:19:58
  it can nowhere be so sa safe if I take it with me. So
• 1:20:01
  she took her time by the way, and when she overtook her husband,
• 1:20:05
  she cried, out, there, Frederick, there is the door itself.
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  You may watch it as carefully as you please. Alas Alas said he,
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  What a clever wife I have I sent you to make the house fast,
• 1:20:21
  and you took the door away, so that everybody may go in and out
• 1:20:26
  as they please. However, as you have brought the door, you shall
• 1:20:31
  carry it about with you for your pains. Very well answered she, I'll
• 1:20:38
  carry the door, but I'll not carry the nuts and vinegar bottle also,
• 1:20:42
  that would be too much of a load, so if you please, I'll
• 1:20:45
  fasten them to the door. Frederick, of course made no objection to that
• 1:20:51
  plan, and they set off into the wood to look for the thieves.
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  But they could not find them, and when it grew dark, they climbed
• 1:20:59
  up into a tree to spend the night there. Scarcely were they up,
• 1:21:03
  but who should come by but the very rogues they were looking for. They
• 1:21:08
  were, in truth great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who
• 1:21:13
  find things before they are lost. They were tired, so they sat down
• 1:21:17
  and made a fire under the very tree where Frederick and Catherine were. Frederick
• 1:21:23
  slipped down on the other side and picked up some stones. Then he climbed
• 1:21:28
  up again and tried to hit the thieves on the head with them, but
• 1:21:31
  they only said, I must be near morning, for the wind shakes the
• 1:21:36
  fir apples down Catherine, who had the door on her shoulder, began to
• 1:21:42
  be very tired. But she thought it was the nuts upon it that were
• 1:21:45
  so heavy, so she said softly Frederick, I must let the nuts go.
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  No, answered he, not, now they will discover us. I
• 1:21:59
  can't help that. They must go. Well, then make haste and throw
• 1:22:04
  them down if you will. Then away rattled the nuts down among the boughs,
• 1:22:11
  and one of the thieves cried, brass me, it is hailing.
• 1:22:15
  A little while after, Catherine thought the door was still very heavy, so
• 1:22:20
  she whispered to Frederick, I must throw the vinegar down. Pray don't,
• 1:22:27
  answered he, it will discover us. I can't help it, said she.
• 1:22:32
  Go it must. So she poured all the vinegar down, and the
• 1:22:38
  thieves said, what a heavy dew there is. At last it popped into
• 1:22:45
  Catherine's head that it was the door itself that was so heavy all the time.
• 1:22:48
  So she whispered Frederick, I must throw the door down soon. But
• 1:22:56
  he begged and prayed her not to do so, for he was sure it
• 1:23:00
  would betray them. Here goes, however, said she, and down went
• 1:23:05
  the door with such a clatter upon the thieves that they cried out murder,
• 1:23:11
  and not knowing what was coming, ran away as fast as they could,
• 1:23:15
  and left all the gold. So when Frederick and Catherine came down there,
• 1:23:21
  they found all their money safe and sound. And of Frederick and Katherine.
• 1:23:30
  There once was a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as
• 1:23:35
  he entered it he heard a sound of screaming, as if a little child
• 1:23:39
  were there. He followed the sound, and at last came to a high
• 1:23:44
  tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting. For
• 1:23:48
  the mother had fallen asleep under the tree with the child, and a bird
• 1:23:53
  of prey had seen it in her arms, had flown down, snatched it
• 1:23:56
  away, and set it on the high tree. The forester climbed up,
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  brought the child down, and thought to himself, you will take him home
• 1:24:06
  with you, and bring him up with your Lina. He took it home
• 1:24:12
  therefore, and the two children brew up together. And the one which he
• 1:24:16
  had found on a tree was called Fundafogel, because a bird had carried it
• 1:24:21
  away. Funda Fogel and Lina loved each other so dearly that when they did
• 1:24:27
  not see each other they were sad. Now the forester had an old cook
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  who one evening took two pails and began to fetch water, and did not
• 1:24:38
  go once, only, but many times out to the spring. Lina saw
• 1:24:44
  this and said, listen, O Sanna, why are you fetching so much
• 1:24:48
  water? If you will never repeat it to any one, I will tell
• 1:24:54
  you why. So Lina said no, she would never repeat it to any
• 1:24:59
  one. And then the cook said, early to morrow morning, when the
• 1:25:03
  forester is out hunting, I will heat the water, and when it is
• 1:25:09
  boiling in the kettle, I will throw in the Fundevogel and will boil him
• 1:25:14
  in it. Early next morning, the forester got up and went out hunting,
• 1:25:18
  and when he was gone, the children were still in bed. Then
• 1:25:23
  Lina said to Fundevogel, if you will never leave me, I too will
• 1:25:29
  never leave you. Fundevogel said neither now, nor ever will I leave you.
• 1:25:36
  Then said Lina, then will I tell you? Last night Old Sanna
• 1:25:42
  carried so many buckets of water into the house that I asked her why she
• 1:25:46
  was doing that, and she said that if I will promise not to tell
• 1:25:50
  any one. And she said that early to morrow morning, when father was
• 1:25:56
  out hunting, she would set the kettle full of water, throw you into
• 1:26:00
  it and boil you, But we will get up quickly, dress ourselves,
• 1:26:06
  and go away together. The two children therefore got up, dressed themselves quickly,
• 1:26:14
  and went away. When the water in the kettle was boiling, the
• 1:26:17
  cook went into the bedroom to fetch Fundevogel and throw him into it. But
• 1:26:23
  when she came in and went to the beds, both the children were gone.
• 1:26:28
  Then she was terribly alarmed, and she said to herself, what shall
• 1:26:32
  I say now? When the forester comes home and sees that the children are
• 1:26:36
  gone, they must be followed instantly to get them back again. Then the
• 1:26:43
  cook sent three servants after them, who were to run and overtake the children.
• 1:26:47
  The children, however, were sitting outside the forest, and when they
• 1:26:51
  saw from afar the three servants running, Lina said to Fundevogel, never leave
• 1:26:58
  me, and I will leave you. Fundevogel said neither now, nor ever.
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  Then said Lina, do you become a rose tree, and I the
• 1:27:10
  rose upon it. When the three servants came to the forest, nothing was
• 1:27:15
  there but a rose tree and one rose on it. But the children were
• 1:27:20
  nowhere. Then said they there is nothing to be done here, and they
• 1:27:27
  went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but
• 1:27:30
  a little rose bush with one rose on it. Then the old cook scolded
• 1:27:36
  and said, Hugh, simpletons, you should have cut the rose bush in
• 1:27:41
  two and have broken off the rose and brought it home with you. Go
• 1:27:45
  and do it at once. They had, therefore, to go out and
• 1:27:50
  look for the second time. The children, however, saw them coming from
• 1:27:55
  a distance. Then Lina said, Fundevogel, never leave me, and I
• 1:28:00
  will never leave you. Fundevogel said neither now, nor ever, said Lena.
• 1:28:09
  Then do you become a church, and I'll be the chandelier in it.
• 1:28:15
  So when the three servants came, nothing was there but a church with
• 1:28:18
  a chandelier in it. They said, therefore to each other, what can
• 1:28:24
  we do here? Let us go home. When they got home, the
• 1:28:29
  cook asked if they had not found them. So they said no, they
• 1:28:32
  had found nothing but a church, and there was a chandelier in it.
• 1:28:38
  And the cook scolded them and said, you fools, why did you not
• 1:28:43
  pull the church to pieces and bring the chandelier home with you? And now
• 1:28:48
  the old cook herself got on her legs and went with the three servants in
• 1:28:53
  pursuit of the children. The children, however, saw from afar that the
• 1:28:58
  three servants were coming, and the cook waddling after them. Then said Lina
• 1:29:03
  Fundevogel, never leave me, and I will never leave you. Then said
• 1:29:10
  Fundevogel, neither now, nor ever, said Lina. Be a fish pond,
• 1:29:16
  and I will be the duck upon it. The cook, however,
• 1:29:20
  came up to them, and when she saw the pond, she lay down
• 1:29:25
  by it and was about to drink it up. But the duck swam quickly
• 1:29:29
  to her, seized her head in its beak, and drew her into the
• 1:29:31
  water, and there the old witch had to drown. Then the children went
• 1:29:40
  home together and were heartily delighted. And if they have not died, they
• 1:29:45
  are living still. And of Fundevogel. Some men are born to good luck.
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  All they do or try comes right. All that falls to them is
• 1:30:00
  so much gain. All their geese are swans, all their cards are trumps.
• 1:30:06
  Toss them which way you will, They will always, like poor puss,
• 1:30:12
  alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.
• 1:30:17
  The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves.
• 1:30:23
  But what care they for the world, What can it know about the
• 1:30:27
  matter. One of these lucky things was neighbor Hans. Seven long years he
• 1:30:33
  had worked hard for his master. At last he said, Master, my
• 1:30:39
  time is up. I must go home and see my poor mother once more.
• 1:30:44
  So pray, pay me my wages and let me go. When the
• 1:30:48
  master said, you have been a faithful and good servant, Hans, so
• 1:30:54
  your pay shall be handsome. Then he gave him a lump of silver as
• 1:30:59
  big as his head. Hans took out his pocket handkerchief, put the piece
• 1:31:03
  of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on
• 1:31:08
  his road homewards. As he went lazily on, dragging one foot after another,
• 1:31:14
  a man came in sight, trotting gaily along on a capital horse.
• 1:31:19
  Ah said Hans aloud, what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback.
• 1:31:26
  There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home in
• 1:31:30
  the chair by his fireside. He trips against no stones, saves shoe leather,
• 1:31:35
  and gets on. He hardly knows how. Hans did not speak so
• 1:31:41
  softly. But the horseman heard it all and said, well, friend,
• 1:31:45
  why do you go on foot? Then Ah said he I have this load
• 1:31:51
  to carry. To be sure it is silver, But it is so heavy
• 1:31:57
  that I can't hold up my head, and you must no, it hurts
• 1:32:00
  my shoulder sadly. Wow, what do you say of making an exchange?
• 1:32:05
  Said the horseman. I will give you my horse, and you shall give
• 1:32:10
  me the silver, which will save your great deal of trouble in carrying such
• 1:32:15
  a heavy load about with you. With all my heart, said Hans,
• 1:32:20
  but as you are so kind to me, I must tell you one thing.
• 1:32:25
  You will have a weary task to draw that silver about with you.
• 1:32:30
  However, the horseman got off, took the silver, helped Hans up,
• 1:32:34
  gave him the bridle into one hand and the whip into the other, and
• 1:32:39
  said, when you want to go very fast, smack your lips loudly together
• 1:32:45
  and cry jeep. Hans was delighted as he sat on the horse, drew
• 1:32:50
  himself up, squared his elbows, turned out his toes, cracked his whip,
• 1:32:56
  and rode merrily off one minute whistling a merry two and another singing no
• 1:33:02
  cares and no sorrow A fig for your marrow. We'll laugh and be merry,
• 1:33:09
  sing nay don derry. After a time, he thought he should like
• 1:33:15
  to go a little faster. So he smacked his lips and cried jeep.
• 1:33:19
  Away went the horse full gallop, and before Hans knew what he was about,
• 1:33:25
  he was thrown off and lay on his back by the roadside. His
• 1:33:30
  horse would have run off if a shepherd who was coming by driving a cow
• 1:33:34
  had not stopped it. Hans soon came to himself and got up on his
• 1:33:41
  legs again, sadly vexed, and said to the shepherd, this riding is
• 1:33:46
  no joke when a man has the luck to get upon a beast like this
• 1:33:50
  that stumbles and flings him off as if he would break his neck. However,
• 1:33:57
  I'm off now once for all. I like your cow now a great
• 1:34:01
  deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick and has spoiled my
• 1:34:06
  best coat. You see in this puddle, which by the bye smells not
• 1:34:13
  very like a nosegay. One can walk along at one's leisure behind that cow,
• 1:34:18
  keep good company, and have milk me butter cheese every day. Into
• 1:34:25
  the bargain. What would I give to have such a prize, well said
• 1:34:31
  the shepherd. If you are so fond of her, I will change my
• 1:34:35
  cow for your horse. I like to do good to my neighbors, even
• 1:34:41
  though I lose by it myself done, said Hans merrily. What a noble
• 1:34:46
  heart that good man has, thought he. Then the shepherd jumped upon the
• 1:34:53
  horse, wished Hans and the cow good morning, and away he rode.
• 1:34:59
  Hans brought his coat, wiped his face and hands, rested awhile, and
• 1:35:03
  then drove off his cow quietly, and thought his bargain a very lucky one.
• 1:35:10
  If I have only a piece of bread, and I certainly shall always
• 1:35:14
  be able to get that, I can wherever I like, eat my butter
• 1:35:17
  and cheese with it. And when I am thirsty, I can milk my
• 1:35:23
  cow and drink the milk. And what can I wish for more? When
• 1:35:29
  he came to an inn, he halted, ate up all his bread,
• 1:35:32
  and gave away his last penny for a glass of beer. When he had
• 1:35:36
  rested himself, he set off again, driving his cow towards his mother's village.
• 1:35:43
  But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at
• 1:35:46
  last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more
• 1:35:51
  than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that
• 1:35:57
  his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth. I can find a cure
• 1:36:01
  for this, thought he now, I will milk my cow and quench my
• 1:36:06
  thirst. So he tied her to the stump of a tree and held his
• 1:36:11
  leathern cap to milk into. But not a drop was to be had.
• 1:36:16
  Who would have thought that this cow, which was to bring him milk and
• 1:36:20
  butter and cheese, was all that time utterly dry. Hans had not thought
• 1:36:28
  of looking to that. While he was trying his luck in milking and managing
• 1:36:32
  the matter very clumsily. The uneasy beast began to think him very troublesome,
• 1:36:39
  and at last gave him such a kick on the head as knocked him down,
• 1:36:44
  and there he lay a long while senseless. Luckily, a butcher soon
• 1:36:49
  came by, driving a pig in a wheelbarrow. What is the matter with
• 1:36:55
  you, my man, said the butcher, as he helped him up.
• 1:36:59
  Hans told told him what had happened, how he was dry and wanted to
• 1:37:02
  milk his cow, but found the cow was dry too. Then the butcher
• 1:37:08
  gave him a flask of ale, saying, there, drink and refresh yourself.
• 1:37:14
  Your cow will give no milk. Don't you see? She is an
• 1:37:17
  old beast and good for nothing but the slaughter house. Alas alas, said
• 1:37:26
  Hans, who would have thought it what a shame to take my horse and
• 1:37:30
  give me only a dry cow. If I kill her, what will she
• 1:37:35
  be good for? I hate cow beef. It is not tender enough for
• 1:37:41
  me. If it were a pig now, like that fat gentleman you are
• 1:37:45
  driving along at his ease, one could do something with it. It would
• 1:37:50
  at any rate make sausages. Well, said the butcher. I don't like
• 1:37:57
  to say no when one is asked to do a kind neighborly thing to please
• 1:38:01
  you. I will change and give you my fine fat pig for the cow.
• 1:38:09
  Heaven reward you for your kindness and self denial, said Hans, as
• 1:38:15
  he gave the butcher the cow, and, taking the pig off the wheelbarrow,
• 1:38:18
  drove it away, holding it by the string that was tied to its
• 1:38:23
  leg. So on he jogged, and all seemed now to go right with
• 1:38:29
  him. He had met with some misfortunes, to be sure, but he
• 1:38:32
  was now well repaid for all. How could it be otherwise with such a
• 1:38:38
  traveling companion as he had at last got The next man he met was a
• 1:38:44
  countryman carrying a fine white goose. The countryman stopped to ask what was o'clock.
• 1:38:50
  This led to further chat, and Hans told him all his luck,
• 1:38:56
  how he had had so many good bargains, and how all the world went
• 1:39:00
  gay and smiling with him. The countryman then began to tell his tale and
• 1:39:04
  said he was going to take the goose to a christening. Feel said he,
• 1:39:11
  how heavy it is, and yet it is only eight weeks old.
• 1:39:15
  Whoever roasts and eats it will find plenty of fat upon it. It has
• 1:39:19
  lived so well. You are right, said Hans, as he waited in
• 1:39:25
  his hand. But if you talk of fat, my pig is no trifle.
• 1:39:30
  Meantime, the countryman began to look grave and shook his head. Hark
• 1:39:34
  Ye, said he, my brother friend. You seem a good sort of
• 1:39:40
  fellow, so I can't help doing you a kind turn. Your pig may
• 1:39:45
  get you into a scrape in the village. I just came from the squire
• 1:39:50
  has had a pig stolen out of his sty. I was dreadfully afraid when
• 1:39:56
  I saw you that you had got the squire's pig. If if you have,
• 1:40:00
  and they catch you, it will be a bad job for you.
• 1:40:04
  The least they will do will be to throw you into the horsepond. Can
• 1:40:10
  you swim? Poor Hans was sadly frightened. Good man cried, he pray,
• 1:40:16
  get me out of this scrape. I know nothing of where the pig
• 1:40:20
  was either bred or born, but he may have been the squire's for aught.
• 1:40:26
  I can tell you know this country better than I do. Take my
• 1:40:30
  pig and give me the goose. But I ought to have something into the
• 1:40:34
  bargain, said the countryman. Give a fat goose for a pig. Indeed
• 1:40:41
  tis not everyone would do so much for you as that. However, I
• 1:40:46
  will not be hard upon you, as you are in trouble. Then he
• 1:40:50
  took the string in his hand and drove off the pig by a side path,
• 1:40:57
  while Hans went on the way homewards for from care. After all,
• 1:41:01
  thought he that chap is pretty well taken in. I don't care whose pig
• 1:41:05
  it is, but wherever it came from, it has been a very good
• 1:41:10
  friend to me. I have much the best of the bargain. First there
• 1:41:15
  will be a capital roast. Then the fat will find me in goose grease
• 1:41:20
  for six months, and then there are all the beautiful white feathers. I
• 1:41:27
  will put them into my pillow, and then I am sure I will sleep
• 1:41:30
  soundly without rocking. How happy my mother will be. Talk of a pig,
• 1:41:38
  indeed, give me a fine fat goose. As he came to the
• 1:41:44
  next village, he saw a scissor grinder with his wheel, working and singing,
• 1:41:48
  Oh heel and oor nil. So happy iroam, work light and live
• 1:41:56
  well. All the world is my home. Then whose oblige? So merry?
• 1:42:01
  As I Hans stood looking on for a while, and at last said,
• 1:42:10
  you must be well off, master grinder. You seem so happy at
• 1:42:14
  your work, Yes, said the other. Mine is a golden trade.
• 1:42:18
  A good grinder never puts his hand into his pocket without finding money in it.
• 1:42:25
  But where did you get that beautiful goose? I did not buy it.
• 1:42:30
  I gave a pig for it. Ah, And where did you get
• 1:42:33
  the pig? I gave a cow for it? And the cow I gave
• 1:42:40
  a horse for it, and the horse I gave a lump of silver as
• 1:42:45
  big as my head for it. And the silver, though I worked hard
• 1:42:51
  for that seven long years, you have thriven well in the world. Hitherto,
• 1:42:58
  said the grinder. N Oh, if you could find money in your
• 1:43:01
  pocket whenever you put your hand in it, your fortune would be made very
• 1:43:06
  true. But how is that to be managed? How? Why you must
• 1:43:13
  turn grinder like myself? Said the other. Do you only want a grindstone?
• 1:43:18
  The rest will come of itself. Here is one that is but little,
• 1:43:23
  the worse for wear. I could not ask more than the value of
• 1:43:28
  your goose for it? Will you buy? How can you ask? Said
• 1:43:33
  Hans. I should be the happiest man in the world if I could have
• 1:43:38
  money whenever I put my hand in my pocket, what could I want more?
• 1:43:43
  There's the goose, now, said the grinder, as he gave him
• 1:43:47
  a common rough stone that lay by his side. This is a most capital
• 1:43:54
  stone. Do but work it well enough, and you can make an old
• 1:43:58
  nail cut with it. Hans took the stone and went his way with a
• 1:44:03
  light heart. His eyes sparkled for joy, and he said to himself,
• 1:44:10
  surely I must have been born in a lucky hour. Everything I could want
• 1:44:15
  or wish for comes of itself. People are so kind they seem really to
• 1:44:20
  think I'd do them a favor in letting them make me rich and giving me
• 1:44:25
  good bargains. Meantime, he began to be tired and hungry too, for
• 1:44:30
  he had given away his last penny and his joy at getting the cow.
• 1:44:35
  At last he could go no farther, for the stone tired him sadly,
• 1:44:41
  and he dragged himself to the side of a river that he might take a
• 1:44:45
  drink of water and rest Awhile so he laid the stone carefully by his side
• 1:44:50
  on the bank. But as he stooped down to drink, he forgot it,
• 1:44:56
  pushed it a little, then down it rolled plump into the stream.
• 1:45:00
  For a while, he watched it sinking in the deep clear water, then
• 1:45:06
  sprang up and danced for joy, then again fell upon his knees and thanked
• 1:45:12
  Heaven with tears in his eyes for its kindness in taking away his only plague,
• 1:45:17
  the ugly heavy stone. How happy am I cried he nobody was ever
• 1:45:26
  so lucky as I. Then up he got with a light heart, free
• 1:45:30
  from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother's house,
• 1:45:36
  and told her how very easy the road to good luck was. And of
• 1:45:44
  Hans in luck hard by a great forest, dwelt a poor wood cutter with
• 1:45:49
  his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl
• 1:45:55
  Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once, when
• 1:46:00
  great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread.
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  Now, when he thought over this by night in his bed and tossed
• 1:46:11
  about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife, what is
• 1:46:15
  to become of us? How are we to feed our poor children when we
• 1:46:20
  no longer have anything even for ourselves. I'll tell you what, husband,
• 1:46:28
  answered the woman. Early to morrow morning, we will take the children out
• 1:46:31
  into the forest to where it is the thickest. There we will light a
• 1:46:35
  fire for them and give each of them one more piece of bread. Then
• 1:46:40
  we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find
• 1:46:44
  the way home again, and we shall be rid of them. No,
• 1:46:48
  wife, said the man, I will not do that. How can I
• 1:46:53
  bear to leave my children alone in the forest. The wild animals would soon
• 1:46:58
  come and tear them to peace. Oh, you fool, said she.
• 1:47:03
  Then we must all four die of hunger. You may as well plane the
• 1:47:09
  planks for our coffins. And she left him no peace until he consented,
• 1:47:15
  But I feel very sorry for the poor children. All the same, said
• 1:47:19
  the man. The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger,
• 1:47:26
  and had heard what their stepmother had said to their father. Gretel wept
• 1:47:30
  bitter tears and said to Hansel, now is all over with us. Be
• 1:47:38
  quiet, Gretel said, Hansel, do not distress yourself. I will soon
• 1:47:43
  find a way to help us. And when the old folks had fallen asleep,
• 1:47:48
  he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below,
• 1:47:53
  and crept outside. The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which
• 1:47:59
  lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies. Hansel stooped and
• 1:48:04
  stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in.
• 1:48:10
  Then he went back and said to Gretel, be comforted, dear little
• 1:48:14
  sister, and sleep in peace. God will not forsake us. And he
• 1:48:19
  lay down again in his bed. When day dawned, but before the sun
• 1:48:26
  had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying, get
• 1:48:30
  up, you sluggards. We are going into the forest to fetch wood.
• 1:48:35
  She gave each a little piece of bread and said there is something for your
• 1:48:40
  dinner. But do not eat it up before then, for you will get
• 1:48:44
  nothing else. Gretel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the
• 1:48:49
  pebbles in his pocket. Then they all set out together on the way to
• 1:48:54
  the forest. When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and
• 1:48:59
  peeped at the house, and did so again and again. His father said,
• 1:49:04
  Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind? For pay
• 1:49:10
  attention and do not forget how to use your legs. Ah. Father said,
• 1:49:15
  Hansel, I am looking at my little white cat, which is sitting
• 1:49:19
  up on the roof and wants to say good bye to me. The wife
• 1:49:24
  said, fool, fool, that is not your little cat. That is
• 1:49:28
  the morning sun which is shining on the chimneys. Hansel, however, had
• 1:49:32
  not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throwing one of
• 1:49:36
  the white pebblestones out of his pocket on the road. When they had reached
• 1:49:43
  the middle of the forest, the father said, now, children, pile
• 1:49:47
  up some wood, and I will light a fire that you may not be
• 1:49:50
  cold. Hansel and Gretel gathered brushwood together as high as a little hill.
• 1:49:57
  The brushwood was lighted, and when the flame eames were burning very high.
• 1:50:00
  The woman said, now, children, lay yourselves down by the fire and
• 1:50:05
  rest. We will go into the forest and cut some wood. When we
• 1:50:11
  have done, we will come back and fetch you away. Hansel and Gretel
• 1:50:15
  sat by the fire, and when noon came, each ate a little piece
• 1:50:19
  of bread, And as they heard the strokes of the wood axe, they
• 1:50:23
  believed that their father was near. It was not the axe, however,
• 1:50:28
  but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree, which the wind
• 1:50:31
  was blowing backwards and forwards. And as they had been sitting such a long
• 1:50:36
  time, their eyes closed with fatigue, and they fell fast asleep. When
• 1:50:43
  at last they awoke, it was already dark night. Gretel began to cry
• 1:50:48
  and said, how are we to get out of the forest now? But
• 1:50:53
  Hansel comforted her and said, just wait a little until the moon has risen,
• 1:50:59
  and then we will soon find the way. And when the full moon
• 1:51:02
  had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand and followed the pebbles,
• 1:51:09
  which shone like newly coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.
• 1:51:15
  They walked the whole night long, and by break of day came once more
• 1:51:18
  to their father's house. They knocked at the door, and when the woman
• 1:51:23
  opened it and saw it was Hansel and Gretel, she said, you naughty
• 1:51:28
  children. Why have you slept so long in the forest. We thought you
• 1:51:32
  were never coming back at all. The father, however, rejoiced, for
• 1:51:38
  it had cut him to the heart to leave them behind alone. Not long
• 1:51:43
  afterwards, there was once more great dirth throughout the land, when the children
• 1:51:47
  heard their mother saying at night to their father, everything is eaten again.
• 1:51:53
  We have one half loaf left, and that is the end. The children
• 1:51:58
  must go. We will take them farther into the wood so that they will
• 1:52:01
  not find their way out again. There is no other means of saving ourselves.
• 1:52:08
  The man's heart was heavy, and he thought it would be better for
• 1:52:13
  you to share the last mouthful with your children. The woman, however,
• 1:52:17
  would listen to nothing that he had to say, but scolded and reproached him.
• 1:52:23
  He who says A must say b likewise, And as he had yielded
• 1:52:28
  the first time, he had to do so a second time also. The
• 1:52:32
  children, however, were still awake and had heard the conversation. When the
• 1:52:38
  old folks were asleep, Hansel again got up and wanted to go out and
• 1:52:42
  pick up pebbles as he had done before, But the woman had locked the
• 1:52:45
  door and Hansel could not get out. Nevertheless, he comforted his little sister
• 1:52:53
  and said, do not cry, Gretel, go to sleep quietly. The
• 1:52:58
  good God will help us. Early in the morning came the woman and took
• 1:53:02
  the children out of their beds. Their piece of bread was given to them,
• 1:53:08
  but it was still smaller than the time before. On the way into
• 1:53:12
  the forest, Hansel crumbled his in his pocket. Then often stood still and
• 1:53:15
  threw a morsel on the ground. Hansel, why do you stop and look
• 1:53:20
  round, said the father. Go on, I am looking back at my
• 1:53:26
  little pigeon, which is sitting on the roof and wants to say good bye
• 1:53:29
  to me. Answered Hansel, fool, said the woman. That is not
• 1:53:34
  your little pigeon. That is the morning sun that is shining on the chimney.
• 1:53:40
  Hansel, however, little by little, threw all the crumbs on the
• 1:53:44
  path. The woman led the children still deeper into the forest, where they
• 1:53:49
  had never in their lives been before. Then the great fire was again made,
• 1:53:56
  and the mother said, just sit here, you children, and when
• 1:54:00
  you are tired, you may sleep a little. We are going into the
• 1:54:02
  forest to cut wood, and in the evening, when we are done,
• 1:54:06
  we will come and fetch you away. When it was noon, Gretel shared
• 1:54:13
  her piece of bread with Hansel, who had scattered his by the way.
• 1:54:16
  Then they fell asleep. An evening passed, but no one came to the
• 1:54:21
  poor children. They did not awake until it was dark night, and Hansel
• 1:54:28
  comforted his little sister and said, just wait, Gretel, until the moon
• 1:54:31
  rises, and then we shall see the crumbs of bread which I have strewn
• 1:54:35
  about. They will show us our way home again. When the moon came,
• 1:54:41
  they set out, but they found no crumbs, for the many thousands
• 1:54:45
  of birds which fly about in the woods and fields had picked them all up.
• 1:54:50
  Hansel said to Gretel, we shall soon find the way, but they
• 1:54:56
  did not find it. They walked the whole night and all the next day
• 1:55:00
  too, from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the
• 1:55:03
  forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two
• 1:55:09
  or three berries which grew on the ground. And as they were so weary
• 1:55:14
  that their legs would carry them no longer, they lay down beneath a tree
• 1:55:18
  and fell asleep. It was now three mornings since they had left their father's
• 1:55:26
  house. They began to walk again, but they always came deeper into the
• 1:55:30
  forest, and if help did not come soon, they must die of hunger
• 1:55:35
  and weariness. When it was midday, they saw a beautiful snow white bird
• 1:55:41
  sitting on a bough, which sang so delightfully that they stood still and listened
• 1:55:45
  to it. And when its song was over, it spread its wings and
• 1:55:49
  flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house
• 1:55:55
  on the roof of which it alighted. And when they approached the little house,
• 1:55:59
  they saw that it was built of bread covered with cakes, but that
• 1:56:02
  the windows were of clear sugar. We will set to work on that,
• 1:56:09
  said Hansel, and have a good meal. I will eat a bit of
• 1:56:13
  the roof, and you, Gretel, can eat some of the window.
• 1:56:16
  It will taste sweet. Hansel reached up above and broke off a little of
• 1:56:21
  the roof to try how it tasted. And Gretel leaned against the window and
• 1:56:27
  nibbled at the panes. Then a soft voice cried from the parlor, nibble,
• 1:56:34
  nibble, now, who is nibbling in my little house. The children
• 1:56:41
  answered the wind, the wind, the heaven born wind, and went on
• 1:56:46
  eating without disturbing themselves. Hansel, who liked the taste of the roof,
• 1:56:51
  tore down a great piece of it, and Gretel pushed out the whole of
• 1:56:56
  one round windowpane, sat down and enjoyed her self with it. Suddenly the
• 1:57:01
  door opened, and a woman as old as the hills, who supported herself
• 1:57:05
  on crutches, came creeping out. Hansel and Gretel were so terribly frightened that
• 1:57:12
  they let fall what they had in their hands. The old woman, however,
• 1:57:16
  nodded her head and said, oh, you dear children, who has
• 1:57:21
  brought you here? But do come in and stay with me. No harm
• 1:57:27
  shall happen to you. She took them both by the hand and led them
• 1:57:31
  into her little house. Then good food was set before them, milk and
• 1:57:38
  pancakes with sugar, apples and nuts. Afterwards, two pretty little beds were
• 1:57:44
  covered with clean white linen, and Hansel and Gretel lay down in them and
• 1:57:47
  thought they were in heaven. The old woman had only pretended to be so
• 1:57:54
  kind. He was in reality a wicked witch who lay in wait for children,
• 1:58:00
  and had only built the little house of bread in order to entice them
• 1:58:03
  there. When a child fell into her power, she killed it, cooked
• 1:58:09
  and ate it, and that was a feast day with her. Witches have
• 1:58:15
  red eyes and cannot see far, but they have a keen sense like the
• 1:58:18
  beasts, and are aware when human beings draw near. When Hansel and Gretel
• 1:58:24
  came into her neighborhood, she laughed with malice and said mockingly, I have
• 1:58:30
  them. They shall not escape me again. Early in the morning, before
• 1:58:35
  the children were awake, she was already up when she saw both of them
• 1:58:41
  sleeping and looking so pretty with their plump and rosy cheeks. She muttered to
• 1:58:45
  herself, that will be a daintim mouthful. Then she seized Hansel with her
• 1:58:53
  shriveled hand, carried him into a little stable and locked him in behind a
• 1:58:57
  grated door. Scream as he might, it would not help him. Then
• 1:59:02
  she went to Gretel, shook her till she awoke, and cried, get
• 1:59:08
  up, lazy thing, fetch some water and cook something good for your brother.
• 1:59:14
  He is in the stable outside and is to be made fat. When
• 1:59:18
  he is fat, I will eat him. Gretel began to weep bitterly,
• 1:59:26
  but it was all in vain, for she was forced to do what the
• 1:59:30
  wicked witch commanded. And now the best food was cooked for poor Hansel,
• 1:59:35
  but Gretel got nothing but crabshells. Every morning, the woman crept to the
• 1:59:42
  little stable and cried, Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel
• 1:59:46
  if you will soon be fat. Hansel, however, stretched out a little
• 1:59:51
  bone to her, and the old woman, who had dim eyes, could
• 1:59:56
  not see it, and thought it was Hansel's finger, and was a astonished
• 2:00:00
  that there was no way of fattening him. When four weeks had gone by
• 2:00:04
  and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait
• 2:00:11
  any longer. Now, then, Gretel, she cried to the girl,
• 2:00:15
  stir yourself and bring me some water. Let Hansel be fat or lean Tomorrow
• 2:00:23
  I will kill him and cook him. Ah. How the poor little sister
• 2:00:29
  did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did
• 2:00:32
  flow down her cheeks. Dear God, do help us, she cried.
• 2:00:39
  If the wild beast in the forest had but devoured us, we should at
• 2:00:43
  any rate have died together. Jus keep your noise to yourself, said the
• 2:00:48
  old woman. It won't help you at all. Early in the morning,
• 2:00:54
  Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron with the water and light
• 2:00:58
  the fire. We will bake first, said the old woman. I have
• 2:01:02
  already heated the oven and kneaded the dough. She pushed dear Gretel out to
• 2:01:08
  the oven, from which flames of the fire were already darting. Creep in,
• 2:01:14
  said the witch, and see if it is properly heated, so that
• 2:01:16
  we can put the bread in. And once Gretel was inside, she intended
• 2:01:21
  to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would
• 2:01:26
  eat her too. But Gretel saw what she had in mind and said,
• 2:01:31
  I do not know how I am to do it. How do I get
• 2:01:35
  in, silly goose, said the old woman. The door is big enough.
• 2:01:42
  Just look, I can get in myself. And she crept up and
• 2:01:45
  thrust her head into the oven. Then Gretel gave her a push that drove
• 2:01:50
  her far into it, and shut the iron door and fastened the boat.
• 2:01:57
  Oh. Then she began to howl quiet horribly, but Gretel ran away,
• 2:02:01
  and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death. Gretel, however, ran
• 2:02:09
  like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable and cried, Hansel, we
• 2:02:14
  are saved. The old witch is dead. Then Hansel sprang like a bird
• 2:02:19
  from its cage. When the door is opened, how they did rejoice and
• 2:02:25
  embrace each other, and dance about and kiss each other. And as they
• 2:02:29
  had no longer any need to fear her, they went into the witch's house.
• 2:02:33
  And in every corner there stood chests full of pearls and jewels. These
• 2:02:39
  are far better than pebbles, said Hansel, and thrust into his pockets whatever
• 2:02:45
  he could get in. And Gretel said, I too will take something home
• 2:02:48
  with me, and filled her pinafore full. But now we must be off,
• 2:02:55
  said Hansel, that we may get out of the witch's forest. When
• 2:03:00
  they had walked for two hours, they came to a great stretch of water
• 2:03:04
  we cannot cross, said Hansel. I see no footplank and no bridge,
• 2:03:12
  and there is also no fairy, answered Gretel. But a white duck is
• 2:03:16
  swimming there. If I ask her, she will help us over. Then
• 2:03:21
  she cried, little duck, little duck, dost thou see. Hansel and
• 2:03:27
  Gretel are waiting for thee. There's never a plank or a bridge in sight.
• 2:03:31
  Take us across on thy back. So white. The duck came to
• 2:03:36
  them, and Hansel seated himself on its back and told his sister to sit
• 2:03:42
  by him. No, replied Gretel, that will be too heavy for the
• 2:03:46
  little duck. She will take us across one after the other. The good
• 2:03:51
  little duck did so, and when they were once safely across, and had
• 2:03:56
  walked for a short time, the forest seemed to be more and more were
• 2:04:00
  familiar to them, And at length they saw from afar their father's house.
• 2:04:05
  Then they began to run, rushed into the parlor, and threw themselves round
• 2:04:11
  their father's neck. The man had not known one happy hour since he had
• 2:04:15
  left the children in the forest. The woman, however, was dead.
• 2:04:19
  Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and
• 2:04:26
  Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them.
• 2:04:31
  Then all anxiety was at an end, and they lived together in perfect happiness.
• 2:04:41
  My tale is done. There runs a mouse, whosoever catches it may
• 2:04:45
  make himself a big fur cap out of it, And of Hansel and Gretel.
• 2:04:55
  There was once upon a time a king who had a great forest near
• 2:04:59
  his palace, full of all kinds of wild animals. One day he sent
• 2:05:03
  out a huntsman to shoot him a row, but he did not come back.
• 2:05:09
  Perhaps some accident has befallen him, said the king, And the next
• 2:05:13
  day he sent out two more huntsmen who were to search for him, but
• 2:05:16
  they too stayed away. Then on the third day he sent for all his
• 2:05:21
  huntsmen and said, scour the whole forest through, and do not give up
• 2:05:27
  until you have found all three. But of these also none came home again.
• 2:05:32
  None were seen again. From that time forth, no one would any
• 2:05:38
  longer venture into the forest, and it lay there in deep stillness and solitude,
• 2:05:43
  and nothing was seen of it, but sometimes an eagle or a hawk
• 2:05:45
  flying over it. This lasted for many years. When an unknown huntsman announced
• 2:05:51
  himself to the king as seeking a situation, and offered to go into the
• 2:05:57
  dangerous forest. The king, however, would not give his consent, and
• 2:06:00
  said, it is not safe in there. I fear it would fare with
• 2:06:04
  you no better than with the others, and you would never come out again.
• 2:06:09
  The huntsman replied, Lord I will venture at my own risk of fear.
• 2:06:15
  I know nothing. The huntsman therefore betook himself with his dog to the
• 2:06:19
  forest. It was not long before the dog fell in with some game on
• 2:06:24
  the way, and wanted to pursue it. But hardly had the dog run
• 2:06:28
  two steps when it stood before a deep pool could go no farther, and
• 2:06:32
  a naked arm stretched itself out of the water, seized it, and drew
• 2:06:36
  it under. When the huntsmen saw that, he went back and fetched three
• 2:06:42
  men to come with buckets and bail out the water. When they could see
• 2:06:46
  to the bottom there lay a wild man, whose body was brown like rusty
• 2:06:51
  iron, and whose hair hung over his face down to his knees. They
• 2:06:57
  bound him with cords and led him away to the cats. There was great
• 2:07:00
  astonishment over the wild man. The king, however, had him put in
• 2:07:05
  an iron cage in his courtyard, and forbade the door to be opened on
• 2:07:10
  pain of death. And the queen herself was to take the key into her
• 2:07:15
  keeping, and from this time forth every one could again go into the forest
• 2:07:18
  with safety. The king had a son of eight years who was once plague
• 2:07:25
  in the courtyard, and while he was playing his golden ball fell into the
• 2:07:29
  cage. The boy ran thither and said, give me my ball out now
• 2:07:35
  till you have opened the door for me. Answered the man, No,
• 2:07:41
  said the boy. I will not do that. The king has forbidden it,
• 2:07:45
  and ran away. The next day he again went and asked for his
• 2:07:48
  ball. The wild man said, open my door, but the boy would
• 2:07:55
  not. On the third day, the king had ridden out hunting, and
• 2:07:59
  the boy went once more and said, I cannot open the door even if
• 2:08:03
  I wished for, I have not the key. Then the wild man said,
• 2:08:09
  lies under your mother's pillow. You can get it there. The boy,
• 2:08:15
  who wanted to have his ball back, cast all thought to the winds
• 2:08:18
  and brought the key. The door opened with difficulty, and the boy pinched
• 2:08:24
  his finger. When it was open, the wild man stepped out, gave
• 2:08:28
  him the golden ball, and hurried away. The boy had become afraid.
• 2:08:35
  He called and cried after him, Oh, wild man, do not go
• 2:08:39
  away, or I shall be beaten. The wild man turned back, took
• 2:08:43
  him up, set him on his shoulder, and went with hasty steps into
• 2:08:46
  the forest. When the king came home, he observed the empty cage and
• 2:08:52
  asked the queen how that had happened. She knew nothing about it and sought
• 2:08:56
  the key, but it was gone. She called the boy, but no
• 2:09:01
  one answered. The king set out people to seek for him in the fields,
• 2:09:07
  but they did not find him. Then he could easily guess what had
• 2:09:11
  happened, and much grief reigned in the royal court. When the wild man
• 2:09:16
  had once more reached the dark forest, he took the boy down from his
• 2:09:20
  shoulder and said to him, you will never see your father and mother again,
• 2:09:24
  but I will keep you with me, for you have set me free,
• 2:09:28
  and I have compassion on you. If you do all I bid you,
• 2:09:35
  you shall farewell of treasure and gold. Have I enough and more than
• 2:09:41
  any one in the world. He made a bed of moss for the boy,
• 2:09:46
  on which he slept, and the next morning the man took him to
• 2:09:48
  a well and said, behold, the gold well is as bright and clear
• 2:09:54
  as crystal. You shall sit beside it and take care that nothing falls into
• 2:09:58
  it or it will be polluted. I will come every evening to see if
• 2:10:05
  you have obeyed my order. The boy placed himself by the brink of the
• 2:10:09
  well and often saw a golden fish or a golden snake show itself therein,
• 2:10:15
  and took care that nothing fell in. As he was thus sitting, his
• 2:10:20
  finger hurt him so violently that he involuntary put it in the water. He
• 2:10:24
  drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and
• 2:10:28
  whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no
• 2:10:33
  purpose. In the evening, I and Hans came back, looked at the
• 2:10:37
  boy and said, what has happened to the well? Nothing? Nothing,
• 2:10:43
  he answered, and held his finger behind his back that the man might not
• 2:10:48
  see it. But he said, you have dipped your finger into the water.
• 2:10:54
  This time it may pass, but take care you do not again let
• 2:11:00
  anything go in. By daybreak, the boy was already sitting by the wall
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  and watching it. His finger hurt him again, and he passed it over
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  his head, and then unhappily, a hare fell down into the well.
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  He took it quickly out, but it was already quite gilded. Iron Hans
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  came and already knew what had happened. You have let a hare fall into
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  the well, said he. I will allow you to watch by it once
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  more, but if this happens for the third time, then the well is
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  polluted, and you can no longer remain with me. On the third day,
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  the boy sat by the well and did not stir his finger, however
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  much it hurt him. But the time was long to him, and he
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  looked at the reflection of his face on the surface of the water. And
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  as he still bent down more and more. While he was doing so,
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  and trying to look straight into the eyes, his long, long hair fell
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  down from his shoulders into the water. He raised himself up quickly, but
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  the whole of the hair of his head was already golden and shone like the
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  sun. You can imagine how terrified the poor boy was. He took his
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  pocket handkerchief and tied it round his head in order that the man might not
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  see it. When he came, he already knew everything, and said,
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  take the handkerchief off. Then the golden hair streamed forth, and let the
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  boy excuse himself as he might. It was of no use. You have
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  not stood the trial, and can stay here no longer. Go forth into
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  the world. There you will learn what poverty is. But as you have
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  not a bad heart, and as I mean well by you, there is
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  one thing I will grant you if you fall into any difficulty, come to
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  the forest and cry iron Hans, and then I will come and help you.
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  My power is great, greater than you think, and I have gold
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  and silver in abundance. Then the King's son left the forest and walked by
• 2:13:18
  beaten and unbeaten paths ever onwards, until at length he reached a great city.
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  There he looked for work, but could find none, and he learnt
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  nothing by which he could help himself. At length he went to the palace
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  and asked if they would take him in. The people about court did not
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  at all know what use they could make of him, but they liked him
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  and told him to stay. At length, the cook took him into his
• 2:13:45
  service, and said he might carry wood and water and break the cinders together.
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  Once, when it so happened that no one else was at hand,
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  the cook ordered him to carry the food to the royal table. But as
• 2:13:56
  he did not like to let his golden hair be seen, he kept his
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  little cap on such a thing as that had never yet come under the King's
• 2:14:05
  notice. And he said, when you come to the royal table, you
• 2:14:07
  must take your hat off. He answered, ah Lord, I cannot I
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  have a bad soret place on my head. Then the king had the cook
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  called before him and scolded him, and asked how he could take such a
• 2:14:22
  boy as that into his service, and that he was to send him away
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  at once. The cook, however, had pity on him, and exchanged
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  him for the gardener's boy. And now the boy had to plant and water
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  the garden hoe, and dig and bear the wind and bad weather. Once
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  in summer, when he was working alone in the garden, the day was
• 2:14:43
  so warm that he took his little cap off that the air might cool him.
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  As the sun shone on his hair, it glittered and flashed, so
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  that the rays fell into the bedroom of the king's daughter, and up she
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  sprang to see what that could be. Then she saw the boy and cried
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  to him, boy, bring me a wreath of flowers. He put his
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  cap on with all haste and gathered wild field flowers and bound them together.
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  When he was ascending the stairs with them, the gardener met him and said,
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  how can you take the king's daughter a garland of such common flowers?
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  Go quickly and get another, and seek out the prettiest and rarest. Oh
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  No, replied the boy. The wild ones have more sent and will please
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  her. Better. When he got into the room, the king's daughter said,
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  take your cap off. It is not seemly to keep it on in
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  my presence. He again said, I may not, I have a sore
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  head. She, however, caught at his cap and pulled it off.
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  Then his golden hair rolled down on his shoulders, and it was splendid to
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  behold. He wanted to run out, but she held him by the arm
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  and gave him a handful of ducats. With these he departed, but he
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  cared nothing for the gold pieces. He took them to the gardener and said,
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  I present them to your children. They can play with them. The
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  following day, the king's daughter again called to him that he was to bring
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  her a wreath of field flowers, and then he went in with it.
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  She instantly snatched at his cap and wanted to take it away from him,
• 2:16:24
  but he held it fast with both hands. She again gave him a handful
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  of ducats, but he would not keep them and gave them to the gardener
• 2:16:33
  for playthings for his children. On the third day, things went just the
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  same. She could not get his cap away from him, and he would
• 2:16:43
  not have her money. Not long afterwards, the country was overrun by war.
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  The king gathered together his people and did not know whether or not he
• 2:16:54
  could offer any opposition to the enemy, who was superior in strength and had
• 2:16:58
  a mighty army. Then said the gardener's boy, I am grown up and
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  will go to the wars. Also, only give me a horse. The
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  others laughed and said, seek one for yourself. When we are gone,
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  we will leave one behind us in the stable for you. When they had
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  gone forth, he went into the stable and let the horse out. It
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  was lame of one foot and limped hobbledyjib hobbled e jib. Nevertheless, he
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  mounted it and rode away to the dark forest. When he came to the
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  outskirts, he called iron Hans three times, so loudly that it echoed through
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  the trees. Thereupon, the wild man appeared immediately and said, what do
• 2:17:45
  you desire? I want a strong steed, for I am going to the
• 2:17:50
  wars. That you shall have and still more than you ask for. Then
• 2:17:56
  the wild man went back into the forest, and it was not long before
• 2:18:01
  a stable boy came out of it, who led a horse that snorted with
• 2:18:05
  its nostrils and could hardly be restrained, and behind them followed a great troop
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  of warriors, entirely equipped in iron, and their swords flashed in the sun.
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  The youth made over his three legged horse to the stable boy, mounted
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  the other, and rode at the head of the soldiers. When he got
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  near the battlefield, a great part of the king's men had already fallen,
• 2:18:28
  and little was wanting to make the rest give way. Then the youth galloped
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  thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy and beat
• 2:18:39
  down all who opposed him. They began to flee, but the youth pursued
• 2:18:45
  and never stopped until there was not a single man left. Instead of returning
• 2:18:50
  to the king, however, he conducted his troop by byways back to the
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  forest and called forth iron Hans, what you desire, asked the wild man.
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  Take back your horse and your troops, and give me my three legged
• 2:19:05
  horse again. All that he asks was done, and soon he was riding
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  on his three legged horse. When the king returned to his palace, his
• 2:19:16
  daughter went to meet him and wished him joy of his victory. I am
• 2:19:20
  not the one who carried away the victory, said he, but a strange
• 2:19:26
  knight who came to my assistance with his soldiers. The daughter wanted to hear
• 2:19:31
  who the strange knight was, but the king did not know, and said
• 2:19:35
  he followed the enemy, and I did not see him again. She inquired
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  of the gardener where his boy was, but he smiled and said he has
• 2:19:45
  just come home on his three legged horse, and the others have been mocking
• 2:19:48
  him and crying. Here comesar happeldiejie back again. They asked, too,
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  under what hedge have you been lying sleeping all the time? So he said
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  I did the best of all, and it would have gone badly without me,
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  And then he was still more ridiculed. The king said to his daughter,
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  I will proclaim a great feast that shall last for three days, and
• 2:20:15
  you shall throw a golden apple. Perhaps the unknown man will show himself.
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  When the feast was announced, the youth went out to the forest and called
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  iron Hans, what do you desire? Asked he, that I may catch
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  the king's daughter's golden apple. It is as safe as if you had it
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  already, said iron Hans. You shall likewise have a suit of red armor
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  for the occasion, and ride on a spirited chestnut horse. When the day
• 2:20:46
  came. The youth galloped to the spot, took his place amongst the knights,
• 2:20:52
  and was recognized by no one. The king's daughter came forward and threw
• 2:20:56
  a golden apple to the knights, but none of them caught it, but
• 2:21:01
  he only as soon as he had it, he galloped away. On the
• 2:21:05
  second day, iron Hans equipped him as a white knight and gave him a
• 2:21:09
  white horse. Again, he was the only one who caught the apple,
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  and he did not linger an instant, but galloped off with it. The
• 2:21:18
  king grew angry and said that is not allowed. He must appear before me
• 2:21:24
  and tell his name. He gave the order that if the knight who caught
• 2:21:28
  the apple should go away again, they should pursue him, and if he
• 2:21:33
  would not come back willingly, they were to cut him down and stab him.
• 2:21:37
  On the third day he received from iron Hans a suit of black armor
• 2:21:41
  and a black horse, and again he caught the apple. But when he
• 2:21:46
  was riding off with it, the king's attendants pursued him, and one of
• 2:21:50
  them got so near him that he wounded the youth's leg with the point of
• 2:21:54
  his sword. The youth nevertheless escaped from them, but his horse leaped so
• 2:22:01
  violently that the helmet fell from the youth's head, and they could see that
• 2:22:05
  he had golden hair. They rode back and announced this to the king.
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  The following day, the king's daughter asked the gardener about his boy. He
• 2:22:16
  is at work in the garden. The queer creature has been at the festival
• 2:22:20
  too, and only came home yesterday evening. He has likewise shown my children
• 2:22:24
  three golden apples which he has won. The king had him summoned into his
• 2:22:31
  presence, and he came and again had his little cap on his head,
• 2:22:35
  But the king's daughter went up to him and took it off, and then
• 2:22:37
  his golden hair fell down over his shoulders, and he was so handsome that
• 2:22:43
  all were amazed. Are you the knight who came every day to the festival,
• 2:22:48
  always in different colors, and who caught the three golden apples? Asked
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  the king, Yes, answered he, and here the apples are, And
• 2:22:58
  he took them out of his pockets and returned them to the king. If
• 2:23:03
  you desire further proof, you may see the wound which your people gave me
• 2:23:07
  when they followed me. But I am, likewise the knight who helped you
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  to your victory over your enemies. If you can perform such deeds as that,
• 2:23:18
  you are no gardener's boy, Tell me who is your father. My
• 2:23:24
  father is a mighty king, and gold have I in plenty, as great
• 2:23:28
  as I require. I well see, said the king, that I owe
• 2:23:33
  my thanks to you. Can I do anything to please you? Yes,
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  answered he, that indeed you can give me your daughter to wife. The
• 2:23:43
  maiden laughed and said, he does not stand much on ceremony, but I
• 2:23:50
  have already seen by his golden hair that he was no gardener's boy, And
• 2:23:54
  then she went and kissed him. His father and mother came to the wedding
• 2:24:00
  and were in great delight, for they had given up all hope of ever
• 2:24:03
  seeing their dear son again. And as they were sitting at the marriage feast,
• 2:24:07
  the music suddenly stopped, the doors opened, and a stately king came
• 2:24:13
  in with a great retinue. He went up to the youth, embraced him,
• 2:24:18
  and said, I am iron Hans, and was by enchantment a wild
• 2:24:22
  man. But you have set me free. All the treasures which I possess
• 2:24:28
  shall be your property. And of Iron hun There was once an old castle
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  that stood in the middle of a deep, gloomy wood, and in the
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  castle lived an old fairy. Now this fairy could take any shape she pleased.
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  All day long, she flew about in the form of an owl,
• 2:24:52
  or crept about the country like a cat. But at night she always became
• 2:24:56
  an old woman again. When any young young man came within a hundred paces
• 2:25:01
  of her castle, he became quite fixed and could not move a step till
• 2:25:07
  she came and set him free, which she would not do till he had
• 2:25:11
  given her his word never to come there again. But when any pretty maiden
• 2:25:16
  came within that space, she was changed into a bird, and the fairy
• 2:25:20
  put her into a cage and hung her up in a chamber in the castle.
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  There were seven hundred of these cages hanging in the castle, and all
• 2:25:30
  with beautiful birds in them. There was once a maiden whose name was Orinda.
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  She was prettier than all the pretty girls that ever were seen before.
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  And a shepherd lad whose name was Urindel, was very fond of her,
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  and they were soon to be married. One day they went to walk in
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  the wood that they might be alone, and Orindel said, we must take
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  care that we don't go too near to the fairy's castle. It was beautiful
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  evening. The last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems
• 2:26:05
  of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle doves sang from
• 2:26:11
  the tall birches. Orinda sat down to gaze upon the sun. Or Indel
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  sat by her side, and both felt sad. They knew not why,
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  but it seemed as if they were to be parted from one another forever.
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  They had wandered a long way, and when they had looked to see which
• 2:26:31
  way they should go home, they found themselves at a loss to know what
• 2:26:37
  path to take. The sun was setting fast, and already half of its
• 2:26:41
  circle had sunk behind the hill. Urandell On a sudden looked behind him and
• 2:26:46
  saw through the bushes that they had, without knowing it, sat down close
• 2:26:52
  under the old walls of the castle. Then he shrank for fear, turned
• 2:26:58
  pale and trembled. Glorinda was just singing the ringed of sang from the will
• 2:27:05
  of spray well a day, well, a day he mourned for the fate
• 2:27:11
  of his darling mate well Lo day. When her song stopped. Suddenly,
• 2:27:20
  Yorndal turned to see the reason and beheld his Orinda changed into a nightingale,
• 2:27:26
  so that her song ended with a mournful jug jug. An owl with fiery
• 2:27:31
  eyes flew three times round them, and three times screamed too oo, too
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  oo, too oo. Orindell could not move. He stood fixed as a
• 2:27:46
  stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.
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  And now the sun went down, the gloomy night came, and the
• 2:27:56
  owl flew into a bush, And a moment after the old old fairy came
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  forth, pale and meager, with staring eyes and a nose and chin that
• 2:28:05
  almost met one another. She mumbled something to herself, seized the nightingale,
• 2:28:13
  and went away with it in her hand. Poor your and Ell saw the
• 2:28:16
  nightingale was gone. But what could he do. He could not speak,
• 2:28:22
  he could not move from the spot where he stood. At last, the
• 2:28:26
  fairy came back and sang with a hoarse voice, till the prison air is
• 2:28:33
  fast and her doom is cast. There, stay, oh, stay,
• 2:28:39
  when the charm is around her and the spell has bound her high away away.
• 2:28:48
  On a sudden ur and Alf found himself free. Then he fell on
• 2:28:54
  his knees before the fairy and prayed her to give him back his deal Yorinda,
• 2:29:00
  but she laughed at him and said he should never see her again.
• 2:29:03
  Then she went away. He prayed, he wept, he sorrowed, but
• 2:29:09
  all in vain alas he said, what will become of me? He could
• 2:29:16
  not go back to his own home, so he went to a strange village
• 2:29:22
  and implored himself in keeping sheep. Many a time did he walk round and
• 2:29:26
  round as near to the hated castle as he dared go, but all in
• 2:29:31
  vain he heard or saw nothing of Orinda. At last, he dreamt one
• 2:29:39
  night that he found a beautiful purple flower, and that in the middle of
• 2:29:43
  it lay a costly pearl. And he dreamt that he plucked the flower and
• 2:29:48
  went with it in his hand into the castle, and that everything he touched
• 2:29:52
  with it was disenchanted, and that there he found his Orinda again. In
• 2:30:00
  the morning, when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale
• 2:30:03
  for this pretty flower. In eight long days he sought for it in vain.
• 2:30:11
  But on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the
• 2:30:15
  beautiful purple flower, and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop as
• 2:30:20
  big as a costly pearl. Then he plucked the flower and set out,
• 2:30:24
  and traveled day and night till he came again to the castle. He walked
• 2:30:30
  nearer than a hundred paces to it, and yet he did not become fixed
• 2:30:35
  as before, but found that he could go quite close up to the door.
• 2:30:39
  Jorindel was very glad indeed to see this. Then he touched the door
• 2:30:45
  with the flower, and it sprang open, so that he went in through
• 2:30:48
  the court and listened when he heard so many birds singing. At last he
• 2:30:54
  came to the chamber where the fairy sat with the seven hundred birds singing in
• 2:31:00
  the seven hundred cages. When she saw Jorindel, she was very angry and
• 2:31:05
  screamed with rage. But she could not come within two yards of him,
• 2:31:11
  for the flower he held in his hand was his safeguard. He looked around
• 2:31:16
  at the birds, but alas there were many many nightingales, and how then
• 2:31:22
  should he find out which was his Orinda. While he was thinking what to
• 2:31:26
  do, he saw the fairy had taken down one of the cages and was
• 2:31:31
  making the best of her way off through the door. He ran or flew
• 2:31:35
  after her, touched the cage with the flower, and Orinda stood before him
• 2:31:41
  and threw her arms round his neck, looking as beautiful as ever, as
• 2:31:46
  beautiful as when they walked together in the wood. Then he touched all the
• 2:31:52
  other birds with the flower, so that they all took their old forms again.
• 2:31:56
  And he took Urinda home, where they were married and lived happily together
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  many years, And so did a good many other lads whose maidens had been
• 2:32:07
  forced to sing in the old fairies cages by themselves much longer than they liked.
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  And of Orinda and Urindell. A great king of a land far away
• 2:32:22
  in the east had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud and
• 2:32:28
  haughty and conceited that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage
• 2:32:31
  was good enough for her, and she only made sport of them. Once
• 2:32:37
  upon a time the king held a great feast and asked thither all her suitors,
• 2:32:41
  and they all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank,
• 2:32:46
  kings and princes and dukes, and earls and counts and barons and knights.
• 2:32:52
  Then the princess came in, and as she passed by them, she had
• 2:32:56
  something spiteful to say to everyone. The first was too fat, He's as
• 2:33:01
  round as a tub, said she. The next was too tall, What
• 2:33:07
  a maypole, said she. The next was too short, What a dumpling
• 2:33:13
  said she. The fourth was too pale, and she called him wallface.
• 2:33:18
  The fifth was too red, so she called him cockscomb. The sixth was
• 2:33:22
  not straight enough, so she said he was like a green stick that had
• 2:33:26
  been laid to dry over a baker's oven. And thus she had some joke
• 2:33:31
  to crack upon every one. But she laughed more than all at a good
• 2:33:35
  king who was there. Look at him, said she, His beard is
• 2:33:41
  like an old mop. He shall be called grizzly Beard. So the king
• 2:33:46
  got the nickname of Grizzly Beard. But the old king was very angry when
• 2:33:52
  he saw how his daughter behaved and how she ill treated all his guests,
• 2:33:56
  And he vowed that, willing or unwilling, she should marry the first man,
• 2:34:01
  be he prince or beggar that came to the door. Two days after
• 2:34:07
  there came by a traveling fiddler who began to play under the window and beg
• 2:34:13
  alms. And when the king heard him, he said, let him come
• 2:34:16
  in. So they brought in a dirty looking fellow, and when he had
• 2:34:20
  sung before the King and the princess. He begged a boon. Then the
• 2:34:26
  King said, you have sung so well that I will give you my daughter
• 2:34:30
  for your wife. The princess begged and prayed, but the King said,
• 2:34:35
  I have sworn to give you to the first comer, and I will keep
• 2:34:39
  my word. So words and tears were of no avail. The parson was
• 2:34:45
  sent for, and she was married to the fiddler. When this was over,
• 2:34:50
  the King said, now get ready to go. You must not stay
• 2:34:54
  here, you must travel on with your husband. Then the fiddler went his
• 2:34:58
  way, took her with him, and they soon came to a great wood.
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  Pray, said she, whose is this wood? It belongs to King
• 2:35:09
  Grizzly Beard, answered he hadst thou taken him. All had been thine ah
• 2:35:16
  unlucky wretch that I am, sighed, she would that I had married King
• 2:35:22
  Grizzly Beard. Next they came to some fine meadows. Whose are these beautiful
• 2:35:30
  green meadows? Said she? They belonged to King Grizzly Beard. Hadst thou
• 2:35:35
  taken him? They had all been thine, ah unlucky wretch that I am,
• 2:35:41
  said she would that I had married King Grizzly Beard. Then they came
• 2:35:46
  to a great city. Whose is this noble city? Said she? It
• 2:35:52
  belongs to King Grizzly Beard. Hast thou taken him? It had all been
• 2:35:56
  thine, ah wretch, that I am, sighed she. Why did I
• 2:36:01
  not marry King Grisly Beard? That is no business of mine, said the
• 2:36:07
  fiddler. Why should you wish for another husband? Am not I good enough
• 2:36:13
  for you? At last they came to a small cottage. What a paltry
• 2:36:18
  place, said she? To whom does this little dirty hole belong? Then
• 2:36:24
  the fiddler said, that is your in my house where we are to live.
• 2:36:30
  Where are your servants? Cried she? What do we want with servants?
• 2:36:35
  Said he. You must do for yourself whatever is to be done.
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  Now make the fire and put on water, and cook my supper, for
• 2:36:43
  I am very tired. But the princess knew nothing of making fires and cooking,
• 2:36:48
  and the fiddler was forced to help her. When they had eaten a
• 2:36:52
  very scanty meal, they went to bed, but the fiddler called her up
• 2:36:56
  very early in the morning to clean the house. Thus they lived for two
• 2:37:03
  days, and when they had eaten up all there was in the cottage,
• 2:37:07
  the man said, wife, we can't go on thus spending money and earning
• 2:37:11
  nothing. You must learn to weave baskets. Then he went out and cut
• 2:37:16
  willows and brought them home, and she began to weave, but it made
• 2:37:20
  her fingers very sore. I see this work won't do, said he.
• 2:37:28
  Try and spin, Perhaps you will do that better. So she sat down
• 2:37:31
  and tried to spin, but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood
• 2:37:37
  ran. See. Now, said the fiddler, you are good for nothing.
• 2:37:41
  You can do no work. What a bargain I have got. However,
• 2:37:48
  I'll try to set up a trade in pots and pans, and you
• 2:37:52
  shall stand in the market and sell them. Alas, sighed she. If
• 2:37:56
  any of my father's court should pass by and see me standing in the market,
• 2:38:01
  how they will laugh at me. But her husband did not care for
• 2:38:05
  that, and said she must work if she did not wish to die of
• 2:38:09
  hunger. At first, the trade went well, for many people, seeing
• 2:38:15
  such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares and paid their money without
• 2:38:18
  thinking of taking away the goods. They lived on this as long as it
• 2:38:24
  lasted. And then her husband bought a fresh lot of wear, and she
• 2:38:28
  sat herself down with it in the corner of the market, But a drunken
• 2:38:31
  soldier soon came by and rode his horse against her stall and broke all her
• 2:38:37
  goods into a thousand pieces. Then she began to cry and knew not what
• 2:38:41
  to do. Ah, what will become of me? Said she? What
• 2:38:46
  will my husband say? So she ran home and told him all who would
• 2:38:54
  have thought you had been so silly? Said he as to put an earthenware
• 2:38:58
  stall in the corner of the market where everybody passes. But let us have
• 2:39:03
  no more crying. I see you are not fit for this sort of work.
• 2:39:09
  So I have been to the king's palace and asked if they did not
• 2:39:11
  want a kitchen maid, and they say, they will take you, and
• 2:39:16
  there you will have plenty to eat. Thus the princess became a kitchen maid
• 2:39:20
  and helped the cook to do all the dirtiest work. But she was allowed
• 2:39:24
  to carry home some of the meat that was left, and on this they
• 2:39:28
  lived. She had not been there long before she heard that the king's eldest
• 2:39:33
  son was passing by, going to be married. And she went to one
• 2:39:37
  of the windows and looked out. Everything was ready, all the pomp and
• 2:39:43
  brightness of the court was there. Then she bitterly grieved for the pride and
• 2:39:48
  folly which had brought her so low, and the servants gave her some of
• 2:39:52
  the rich meats, which she put into her basket to take home. All
• 2:39:58
  on a sudden, as she was going out ouse, in came the king's
• 2:40:01
  son in golden clothes, and when he saw a beautiful woman at the door,
• 2:40:05
  he took her by the hand and said she should be his partner in
• 2:40:09
  the dance. But she trembled for fear, for she saw that it was
• 2:40:13
  King Grizzly Beard who was making sport of her. However, he kept fast
• 2:40:20
  hold and led her in, and the cover of the basket came off,
• 2:40:22
  so that the meats in it fell about. Then everybody laughed and jeered at
• 2:40:28
  her, and she was so abashed that she wished herself a thousand feet deep
• 2:40:33
  in the earth. She sprang to the door to run away, but on
• 2:40:37
  the steps King Grizzly Beard overtook her and brought her back, and said,
• 2:40:43
  fear me not. I am the fiddler who has lived with you in the
• 2:40:48
  hut. I brought you there because I really loved you. I am also
• 2:40:52
  the soldier that overset your stall, I have done all this solely to cure
• 2:40:58
  you of your silly pride, and to show you the folly of your ill
• 2:41:01
  treatment of me. Now all is over, you have learnt wisdom, and
• 2:41:07
  it is time to hold our marriage feast. Then the chamberlains came and brought
• 2:41:15
  her the most beautiful robes, and her father and his whole court were there
• 2:41:18
  already and welcomed her home. On her marriage, joy was in every face
• 2:41:24
  and every heart. The feast was grand. They danced and sang, all
• 2:41:30
  were merry, and I only wish that you and I had been of the
• 2:41:35
  party and of King grisly Beard. A merchant who had three daughters was once
• 2:41:43
  setting out upon a journey, But before he went he asked each daughter what
• 2:41:48
  gift he should bring back for her. The eldest wished for pearls, the
• 2:41:52
  second for jewels, But the third, who was called Lily, said,
• 2:41:58
  dear father, bring me a rose. Now it was no easy task to
• 2:42:05
  find a rose, for it was the middle of winter. Yet as she
• 2:42:09
  was his prettiest daughter and was very fond of flowers, her father said he
• 2:42:13
  would try what he could do. So he kissed all three and bid them
• 2:42:18
  goodbye. And when the time came for him to go home, he had
• 2:42:22
  bought pearls and jewels for the two eldest, but he had sought everywhere in
• 2:42:28
  vain for the rose. And when he went into any garden and asked for
• 2:42:31
  such a thing, the people laughed at him and asked him whether he thought
• 2:42:35
  roses grew in snow. This grieved him very much, for Lily was his
• 2:42:41
  dearest child. And as he was journeying home, thinking what he should bring
• 2:42:46
  her, he came to a fine castle. And around the castle was a
• 2:42:50
  garden, in one half of which it seemed to be summer time, and
• 2:42:54
  in the other half winter. On one side, the finest flower were in
• 2:43:00
  full bloom, and on the other everything looked dreary and buried in the snow.
• 2:43:05
  A lucky hit, said he, as he called to his servant and
• 2:43:09
  told him to go to a beautiful bed of roses that was there and bring
• 2:43:13
  him one of the finest flowers. This done, they were riding away well
• 2:43:18
  pleased, when up sprang a fierce lion and roared out, whoever has stolen
• 2:43:24
  my roses shall be eaten up alive. Then the man said, I knew
• 2:43:31
  not that the guard had belonged to. You can nothing save my life,
• 2:43:37
  No, said the lion, nothing unless you undertake to give me whatever meets
• 2:43:45
  you on your return home. If you agree to this, I will give
• 2:43:50
  you your life, and the rose too for your daughter. But the man
• 2:43:56
  was unwilling to do so, and said, it may be my young daughter,
• 2:44:00
  who loves me most and always runs to meet me when I go home.
• 2:44:05
  Then the servant was greatly frightened, and said it may perhaps be only
• 2:44:09
  a cat or a dog. And at last the man yielded with a heavy
• 2:44:15
  heart, and took the rose, and said he would give the lion whatever
• 2:44:18
  should meet him first on his return. And as he came home, it
• 2:44:24
  was Lily, his youngest and dearest daughter, that met him. She came
• 2:44:30
  running and kissed him and welcomed him home. And when she saw that he
• 2:44:33
  had brought her the rose, she was still more glad. But her father
• 2:44:37
  began to be very sorrowful and to weep, saying, alas, my dearest
• 2:44:43
  child, I have bought this flower at a high price, for I have
• 2:44:48
  said I would give you to a wild lion, and when he has you,
• 2:44:54
  he will tear you in pieces and eat you. Then he told her
• 2:45:00
  all that had happened, and said that she should not go, let what
• 2:45:03
  would happen. But she comforted him and said, dear father, the word
• 2:45:09
  you have given must be kept. I will go to the lion and soothe
• 2:45:13
  him. Perhaps he will let me come home safe again. The next morning
• 2:45:18
  she asked the way she was to go, and took her leave of her
• 2:45:22
  father, and went forth with a bold heart under the wood. But the
• 2:45:28
  lion was an enchanted prince. By day, he and all his court were
• 2:45:33
  lions. But in the evening they took their right forms again, and when
• 2:45:37
  Lily came to the castle, he welcomed her so courteously that she agreed to
• 2:45:41
  marry him. The wedding feast was held, and they lived happily together a
• 2:45:46
  long time. The prince was only to be seen as soon as evening came,
• 2:45:52
  and then he held his court. But every morning he left his bride
• 2:45:56
  and went away by himself. She knew not which there till the night came
• 2:46:01
  again. After some time he said to her, tomorrow there will be a
• 2:46:07
  great feast in your father's house, for your eldest sister is to be married,
• 2:46:11
  And if you wish to go and visit her. My lions shall lead
• 2:46:16
  you thither. Then she rejoiced much at the thoughts of seeing her father once
• 2:46:20
  more, and set out with the lions, and every one was over joy
• 2:46:24
  to see her, for they had thought her dead long since. But she
• 2:46:30
  told them how happy she was, and stayed till the feast was over,
• 2:46:33
  then went back to the wood. Her second sister was soon after married,
• 2:46:39
  and when Lily was asked to go to the wedding, she said to the
• 2:46:43
  prince, I will not go alone this time. You must go with me.
• 2:46:48
  But he would not and said that it would be a very hazardous thing,
• 2:46:52
  for if the least ray of the torchlight should fall upon him, his
• 2:46:56
  enchantment would become still worse, for he should be check changed into a dove
• 2:47:01
  and be forced to wander about the world for seven long years. However,
• 2:47:07
  she gave him no rest and said she would take care no light should fall
• 2:47:11
  upon him. So at last they set out together and took with them their
• 2:47:16
  little child, and she chose a large hall with thick walls for him to
• 2:47:20
  sit in while the wedding torches were lighted. But unluckily no one saw that
• 2:47:26
  there was a crack in the door. Then the wedding was held with great
• 2:47:31
  pomp. But as the train came from the church and passed with the torches
• 2:47:35
  before the hall, a very small ray of light fell upon the prince.
• 2:47:39
  In a moment he disappeared, and when his wife came in and looked for
• 2:47:43
  him, she found only a white dove. And it said to her,
• 2:47:48
  seven years must I fly up and down over the face of the earth.
• 2:47:52
  But every now and then I will let fall a white feather that will show
• 2:47:56
  you the way I am going. Follow it, and at last you may
• 2:48:01
  overtake and set me free. This said He flew out the door, and
• 2:48:07
  poor Lily followed, and every now and then a white feather fell and showed
• 2:48:13
  her the way she was to journey. Thus she went roving on through the
• 2:48:18
  wide world, and looked neither to the right hand or to the left,
• 2:48:22
  nor took any rest for seven years. Then she began to be glad,
• 2:48:26
  and thought to herself that the time was fast coming when all her trouble should
• 2:48:31
  end. Yet repose was still far off. For one day, as she
• 2:48:37
  was traveling on, she missed the white feather, and when she lifted up
• 2:48:41
  her eyes she could nowhere see the dove. Now, thought she to herself,
• 2:48:48
  No aid of man can be of use to me. So she went
• 2:48:52
  to the sun and said, thou shyest everywhere on the hillstop in the valley's
• 2:48:58
  depth. Hast the now anywhere see my white dove? No, said the
• 2:49:05
  sun. I have not seen it, but I will give thee a casket,
• 2:49:09
  open it when thy hour of need comes. So she thanked the sun
• 2:49:16
  and went on her way till eventide, And when the moon arose, she
• 2:49:20
  cried unto wit and said, thou shinest through the night over field and grove.
• 2:49:26
  Hast thou nowhere seen my white dove? No, said the moon.
• 2:49:31
  I cannot help thee, but I will give thee an egg break it when
• 2:49:37
  need comes. Then she thanked the moon and went on till the night wind
• 2:49:43
  blew, and she raised up her voice to it and said, thou blowest
• 2:49:48
  through every tree and under every leaf. Hast thou not seen my white dove?
• 2:49:54
  No, said the night wind. But I will ask three other winds.
• 2:49:58
  Perhaps thee seen it. Then the east wind and the west wind came
• 2:50:03
  and said they too had not seen it. But the south wind said,
• 2:50:07
  I have seen the white dove. He has fled to the Red Sea and
• 2:50:13
  has changed once more into a lion. For the seven years are passed away,
• 2:50:18
  and there he is fighting with a dragon, and the dragon is an
• 2:50:22
  enchanted princess who seeks to separate him from you. Then the night Wind said,
• 2:50:30
  I will give thee counsel. Go to the Red sea on the right
• 2:50:33
  shore. Stand many rods, count them, and when thou comest to the
• 2:50:39
  eleventh, break it off and smite the dragon with it, And so the
• 2:50:43
  lion will have the victory, and both of them will appear to you in
• 2:50:48
  their own forms. Then look round, and thou wilt see a griffin winged
• 2:50:56
  like a bird, sitting by the Red sea. Jump on to his act
• 2:51:00
  with thy beloved one as quickly as possible, and he will carry you over
• 2:51:03
  the waters to your home. I will also give thee this nut, continued
• 2:51:09
  the night Wind. When you are half way over, throw it down,
• 2:51:13
  and out of the waters will immediately spring up a high nut tree on which
• 2:51:18
  the gryffin will be able to rest, Otherwise he would not have the strength
• 2:51:24
  to bear you the whole way. If therefore thou dost forget to throw down
• 2:51:28
  the nut, he will let you both fall into the sea. So our
• 2:51:33
  poor wanderer went forth and found all as the night wind had said, And
• 2:51:39
  she plucked the eleventh rod and smote the dragon, and the lion forthwith became
• 2:51:45
  a prince, and the dragon a princess again. But no sooner was the
• 2:51:50
  princess released from the spell than she seized the prince by the arm, and
• 2:51:54
  sprang on to the gryffin's back, and went off, carrying the prince away
• 2:51:58
  with her. Thus the unhappy traveler was again forsaken and forlorn. But she
• 2:52:05
  took heart and said, as far as the wind blows, and as long
• 2:52:09
  as the rooster crows, I will journey on till I find him once again.
• 2:52:16
  She went on for a long, long way, till at length she
• 2:52:18
  came to the castle where the princess had carried the prince, and there was
• 2:52:24
  a feast got ready, and she heard that the wedding was about to be
• 2:52:28
  held. Heaven aid me, now, said she, And she took the
• 2:52:33
  casket that the sun had given her, and found that within it lay a
• 2:52:37
  dress as dazzling as the sun itself. So she put it on and went
• 2:52:43
  into the palace, and all the people gazed upon her and the dress pleased
• 2:52:48
  the bride so much that she asked whether it was to be sold. Not
• 2:52:52
  for gold or silver, said she, but for flesh and blood. The
• 2:52:58
  princess asked what she meant, and she said, let me speak with the
• 2:53:03
  bridegroom this night in his chamber, and I will give THEE the dress.
• 2:53:09
  At last, the princess agreed, but she told her chamberlain to give the
• 2:53:13
  prince a sleeping draft, that he might not hear or see her. When
• 2:53:18
  evening came and the prince had fallen asleep, she was led into his chamber,
• 2:53:24
  and she sat herself down at his feet and said, I have followed
• 2:53:28
  THEE seven years. I have been to the sun, the moon, and
• 2:53:33
  the night wind to seek THEE, and at last I have helped THEE to
• 2:53:37
  overcome the dragon. Wilt thou then forget me quite? But the Prince all
• 2:53:43
  the time slept so soundly that her voice only passed over him and seemed like
• 2:53:48
  the whistling of the wind among the fir trees. Then poor Lily was led
• 2:53:54
  away and forced to give up the golden dress. And when she saw that
• 2:53:58
  there was no help for her, she went out into the meadow and sat
• 2:54:03
  herself down and wept. But as she sat she bethought herself of the egg
• 2:54:09
  that the moon had given her, and when she broke it, there ran
• 2:54:13
  out a hen and twelve chickens of pure gold that played about and then nestled
• 2:54:18
  under the old one's wings, so as to form the most beautiful sight in
• 2:54:22
  the world. Then she rose up and drove them before her, till the
• 2:54:28
  bride saw them from her window and was so pleased that she came forth and
• 2:54:31
  asked her if she would sell the brood, not for gold or silver,
• 2:54:37
  but for flesh and blood. Let me again this evening, speak with the
• 2:54:43
  bridegroom in his chamber, and I will give thee the whole brood. Then
• 2:54:48
  the princess thought to betray her as before, and agreed to what she asked.
• 2:54:54
  But when the prince went to his chamber, he asked the chamberlain why
• 2:54:56
  the wind had whistled so in the night, and the chamberlain told him all
• 2:55:01
  how he had given him a sleeping draft, and how a poor maiden had
• 2:55:05
  come and spoken to him in his chamber and was to come again that night.
• 2:55:09
  Then the prince took care to throw away the sleeping draft, and when
• 2:55:13
  Lily came and began again to tell him what woes had befallen her, and
• 2:55:18
  how faithful and true to him she had been. He knew his beloved wife's
• 2:55:22
  voice and sprang up and said, you have awakened me as from a dream.
• 2:55:28
  For the strange princess had thrown a spell around me, so that I
• 2:55:33
  had altogether forgotten you. But Heaven hath sent you to me in a lucky
• 2:55:37
  hour. And they stole away out of the palace by knights unawares, and
• 2:55:43
  seated themselves on the griffin, who flew back with them over the Red Sea.
• 2:55:48
  When they were half way across, Lily let the nut fall into the
• 2:55:52
  water, and immediately a large nut tree arose from the sea, where on
• 2:55:58
  the griffin rested for a while, and then carried them safely home. There
• 2:56:03
  they found their child, now grown up to be comely and fair, and
• 2:56:09
  after all their troubles, they lived happily together to the end of their days.
• 2:56:16
  End of Lily and the Lion. Once upon a time there was a
• 2:56:20
  dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but
• 2:56:26
  most of all by her grandmother. And there was nothing that she would not
• 2:56:30
  have given to the child. Once she gave her a little cap of red
• 2:56:35
  velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else,
• 2:56:39
  so she was always called Little Red riding Hood. One day her mother said
• 2:56:45
  to her, come, Little Red riding Hood. Here is a piece of
• 2:56:48
  cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother. She is
• 2:56:54
  ill and weak, and they will do her good. Set out before it
• 2:56:58
  gets hot. And when you are going, walk nicely and quietly, and
• 2:57:03
  do not run off the path, or you may fall and break the bottle.
• 2:57:07
  And then your grandmother will get nothing. And when you go into her
• 2:57:11
  room, don't forget to say good morning, and don't peep into every corner
• 2:57:16
  before you do it. I will take great care, said Little Red riding
• 2:57:22
  Hood to her mother, and gave her hand on it. The grandmother lived
• 2:57:26
  out in the wood half a league from the village, and just as Little
• 2:57:31
  Red riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. Little Red riding
• 2:57:35
  Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at
• 2:57:39
  all afraid of him. Good day, Little Red riding Hood said, he
• 2:57:46
  thank you kindly. Wolf weather away so early, Little Red riding Hood to
• 2:57:54
  my grandmother's What have you got in your apron the cake and wine? Yesterday
• 2:58:00
  was baking day, So poor sick grandmother is to have something good to make
• 2:58:05
  her stronger. Where does your grandmother live, Little Red riding Hood? A
• 2:58:11
  good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under
• 2:58:16
  three large oak trees. The nut trees are just below. You surely must
• 2:58:20
  know, it, replied Little Red riding Hood. The wolf thought to himself,
• 2:58:26
  what a tender young creature, What a nice, plump mouthful. She
• 2:58:35
  will be better to eat than the old woman. I must at craftily so
• 2:58:41
  as to catch both. So he walked for a short time by the side
• 2:58:46
  of Little Red riding Hood, and then he said, see, Little Red
• 2:58:50
  riding Hood, how pretty the flowers are about here? Why do you not
• 2:58:54
  look around? I believe too that you do not hear house wheatly the little
• 2:59:00
  birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you were going to school,
• 2:59:05
  while everything else out here in the world is merry. Little Red riding
• 2:59:11
  Hood raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there
• 2:59:15
  through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, suppose I
• 2:59:20
  take grandmother a fresh nosegay that would please her too. It is so early
• 2:59:26
  in the day that I shall still get there in good time. And so
• 2:59:31
  she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers, And whenever
• 2:59:35
  she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther
• 2:59:39
  on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the
• 2:59:43
  wood. Meanwhile, the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at
• 2:59:50
  the door. Who is there, little red riding hood, replied the wolf.
• 2:59:56
  She is bringing cake and wine. Open the door. Lift the latch,
• 3:00:03
  cried out the grandmother. I am too weak and cannot get up.
• 3:00:09
  The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a
• 3:00:13
  word, he went straight to the grandmother's bed and devoured her. Then he
• 3:00:18
  put on her clothes, grassed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed,
• 3:00:24
  and drew the curtains that her Red riding room, however, had been
• 3:00:28
  running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so many that she could
• 3:00:33
  carry no more, she remembered her grandmother and sat out on the way to
• 3:00:37
  her. She was surprised to find the cottage door standing open, and when
• 3:00:41
  she went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said
• 3:00:46
  to herself, oh, dear, how uneasy I feel to day? And
• 3:00:52
  at other times I like being with grandmother so much. She called out good
• 3:00:58
  morning, but received no answer, so she went to the bed and drew
• 3:01:03
  back the curtains. There lay her grandmother, with her cap pulled far over
• 3:01:09
  her face and looking very strange. Oh, grandmother, she said, what
• 3:01:16
  big ears you have? The better to hear you with my child, was
• 3:01:22
  the reply. But grandmother, what big eyes you have? She said,
• 3:01:30
  The better to see you with, my dear. But grandmother, what large
• 3:01:35
  hands you have? The better to hug you with. Oh but grandmother,
• 3:01:43
  what a terrible big mouth you have? The better to eat you with.
• 3:01:48
  And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out
• 3:01:54
  of bed and swallowed up little red ridinghood. When the wolf had a pea
• 3:02:00
  his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep, and
• 3:02:05
  began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house and thought
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  to himself, how the old woman is snoring. I must just see if
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  she wants anything. So he went into the room and when he came to
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  the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. Do I
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  find you here, you old sinner? Said he, I have long sought
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  you. Then, just as he was going to fire at him, it
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  occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she
• 3:02:39
  might still be saved. So he did not fire, but took a pair
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  of scissors and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When
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  he had made two snips, he saw the Little Red riding Hood shining.
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  And then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out,
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  crying, Ah, how frightened I have been, how dark it was inside
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  the wolf's And after that the aged grandmother came out alive, also, but
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  scarcely able to breathe. Little Red riding Hood, however, quickly fetched great
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  stones with which to fill the wolf's belly. And when he awoke he wanted
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  to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once
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  and fell dead. Then all three were delighted. The huntsman drew off the
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  wolf's skin and went home with it. The grandmother ate the cake and drank
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  the wine which Little Red Riding Hood had brought and revived, But Little Red
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  Riding Hood thought to herself, as long as I live, I will never
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  by myself leave the path to run into the wood when my mother has forbidden
• 3:03:46
  me to do so. It was also related that once, when Little Red
• 3:03:52
  Riding Hood was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another wolf spoke to
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  her and tried to entice her from the path. Little Red Riding Hood,
• 3:04:01
  however, was on her guard and went straight forward on her way and told
• 3:04:05
  her grandmother that she had met the wolf, and that he had said good
• 3:04:09
  morning to her, but with such a wicked look in his eyes that if
• 3:04:13
  they had not been on the public road, she was certain he would have
• 3:04:16
  eaten her up. Well, said the grandmother, we will shut the door
• 3:04:24
  that he may not come in. Soon afterwards, the wolf knocked and cried
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  open the door, grandmother, I am Little Red Riding Hood and of bringing
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  you some cakes. But they did not speak or open the door. So
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  the graybeard stole twice or thrice around the house, and at last jumped on
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  the roof, intending to wait until Little Riding Hoood went home in the evening,
• 3:04:48
  and then to steal after her and devour her. In the darkness.
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  But the grandmother saw what was in his thoughts. In front of the house
• 3:04:58
  was a great stone trough, So she said to the child, take the
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  pail, Little Red riding Hood, I made some sausages yesterday, So carry
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  the water in which I boiled them to the trough. Little Red riding Hood
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  carried until the great trough was quite full. Then the smell of the sausages
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  reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at last stretched
• 3:05:24
  out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing, and
• 3:05:28
  began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough,
• 3:05:33
  and was drowned. But Little Red riding Hood went joyously home, and
• 3:05:37
  no one ever did anything to harm her again. And of Little Red riding
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  Hood. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters.
• 3:05:50
  One of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy. The
• 3:05:56
  mother, however, loved the ugly and lazy one best because she was her
• 3:06:01
  own daughter, and so the other, who was only her step daughter,
• 3:06:05
  was made to do all the work of the house, and was quite the
• 3:06:07
  Cinderella of the family. Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by
• 3:06:13
  the well in the high road there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.
• 3:06:18
  Now it chanced one day that some blood fell onto the spindle, and
• 3:06:22
  as the girl stopped over the well to wash it off, the spindle suddenly
• 3:06:26
  sprang out of her hand and fell into the well. She ran home crying
• 3:06:31
  to tell of her misfortune, but her stepmother spoke harshly to her, and,
• 3:06:35
  after giving her a violent scolding, said, unkindly, as you have
• 3:06:41
  left the spindle fall into the well, you may go yourself and fetch it
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  out. The girl went back to the well, not knowing what to do,
• 3:06:50
  and at last, in her distress, she jumped into the water after
• 3:06:54
  the spindle. She remembered nothing more until she awoke and found found herself in
• 3:07:00
  a beautiful meadow, full of sunshine and with countless flowers blooming in every direction.
• 3:07:07
  She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker's oven
• 3:07:11
  full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, take us out,
• 3:07:16
  Take us out, or alas we shall be burnt to a cinder.
• 3:07:20
  We were baked through long ago. So she took the bread shovel and drew
• 3:07:26
  them all out. She went on a little farther till she came to a
• 3:07:31
  tree full of apples. Shake me, Shake me, I pray, cried
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  the tree. My apples one and all are ripe. So she shook the
• 3:07:43
  tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain. But she
• 3:07:48
  continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it. Then she
• 3:07:54
  carefully gathered in the apples together in a heap and walked on again. The
• 3:07:58
  next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an
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  old woman looking out with such large teeth that she was terrified and turned to
• 3:08:09
  run away, But the old woman called after her, what are you afraid
• 3:08:13
  of? Dear child? Stay with me. If you will do the work
• 3:08:18
  of my house properly for me, I will make you very happy. You
• 3:08:22
  must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way,
• 3:08:26
  for I wish you always to shake it so thoroughly so that the feathers
• 3:08:31
  fly about. Then they say down there in the world that it is snowing.
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  For I am mother Holly. The old woman spoke so kindly that the
• 3:08:43
  girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service. She took care
• 3:08:50
  to do everything according to the old woman's bidding, and every time she made
• 3:08:54
  the bed, she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers
• 3:08:58
  flew about like so many snow flakes. The old woman was as good as
• 3:09:03
  her word. She never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and
• 3:09:07
  boiled meats every day. So she stayed on with Mother Holly for some time,
• 3:09:13
  and then she began to grow unhappy. She could not at first tell
• 3:09:18
  why she felt sad, but she became conscious at last of great longing to
• 3:09:22
  go home. Then she knew she was homesick, although she was a thousand
• 3:09:28
  times better off a Mother Holly than with her mother and sister. After waiting
• 3:09:35
  a while, she went to Mother Holly and said, I am so homesick
• 3:09:39
  that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy
• 3:09:45
  here, I must return to my own people. Then Mother Holly said,
• 3:09:50
  I am pleased that you should want to go back to your own people,
• 3:09:54
  and as you have served me so well and faithfully, I will take you
• 3:09:58
  home myself. Thereupon she led the girl by the hand up to a broad
• 3:10:03
  gateway. The gate was opened and As the girl passed through, a shower
• 3:10:09
  of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her so that she
• 3:10:15
  was covered with it from head to foot. And as she spoke, she
• 3:10:18
  handed her the spindle which she had dropped into the well. The gate was
• 3:10:26
  then closed, and the girl found herself back in the old world, close
• 3:10:30
  to her mother's house. As she entered the courtyard, the rooster, who
• 3:10:35
  was perched on the well, called out, kakadoolnoo, your golden daughters come
• 3:10:41
  back to you. Then she went to her mother and sister, and as
• 3:10:46
  she was so richly covered with gold, they gave her a warm welcome.
• 3:10:50
  She related to them all that had happened, and when the mother heard how
• 3:10:54
  she had come by her great riches, she thought she should like her ugly,
• 3:10:58
  lazy daughter to go and try her fortune. So she made the sister
• 3:11:03
  go and sit by the well and spin. And the girl pricked her finger
• 3:11:07
  and thrust her hand into a thorn bush so that she might drop some blood
• 3:11:11
  onto the spindle. Then she threw it into the well and jumped in herself.
• 3:11:18
  Like her sister. She awoke in the beautiful meadow and walked over it
• 3:11:22
  till she came to the oven, take us out, Take us out,
• 3:11:26
  or alas we shall be burnt to a cinder. We were baked through long
• 3:11:31
  ago, cried the loaves as before, But the lazy girl answered, do
• 3:11:37
  you think I'm going to dirty my hands for you? And walked on.
• 3:11:41
  Presently, she came to the apple tree, Shake me, shake me,
• 3:11:46
  I pray my apples one and all are ripe, it cried, but she
• 3:11:52
  only answered a nice thing to ask me to do one of the apples might
• 3:11:56
  fall on my head, and passed on. At last she came to Mother
• 3:12:03
  Holly's house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her
• 3:12:07
  sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to
• 3:12:11
  the old woman. The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and
• 3:12:18
  exerted herself to please Mother Holly, for she thought of the gold she would
• 3:12:22
  get in return. The next day, however, she began to dawdle over
• 3:12:28
  her work, and the third day she was more idle. Still. Then
• 3:12:31
  she began to lie in bed in the mornings and refused to get up.
• 3:12:37
  Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman's bread properly, and forgot
• 3:12:41
  to shake it so that the feathers might fly about. So Mother Holly very
• 3:12:46
  soon got tired of her and told her she might go. The lazy girl
• 3:12:52
  was delighted at this and thought to herself, the gold will soon be mine.
• 3:12:58
  Mother Holly led her as she had led her sister to the broad gateway,
• 3:13:03
  But as she was passing through, instead of a shower of gold,
• 3:13:07
  a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her. That is in return for
• 3:13:13
  your services, said the old woman, and shut the gate. So the
• 3:13:18
  lazy girl had to go home covered with pitch, and the rooster on the
• 3:13:22
  wall called out as he saw her cock a doodle, do your dirty daughters
• 3:13:30
  come back to you. But try what she would, she could not get
• 3:13:35
  the pitch off, and it stocked her as long as she lived, and
• 3:13:43
  of Mother Holly. A shepherd had a faithful dog called Sultan, who was
• 3:13:48
  grown very old and had lost all his teeth. And one day, when
• 3:13:54
  the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house, the shepherd said,
• 3:14:00
  I will shoot old Sultan to morrow morning, for he is of no
• 3:14:03
  use now. But his wife said, pray, let the poor faithful creature
• 3:14:09
  live. He has served us well. A great many years, and we
• 3:14:13
  ought to give him a livelihood for the rest of his days. But what
• 3:14:18
  can we do with him, said the shepherd. He has not a tooth
• 3:14:22
  in his head, and the thieves don't care for him at all. To
• 3:14:26
  be sure, he has served us, but then he did it to earn
• 3:14:30
  his livelihood. Tomorrow shall be his last day, depend upon it. Poor
• 3:14:37
  Sultan, who was lying close by them, heard all that the shepherd and
• 3:14:41
  his wife said to one another, and was very much frightened to think to
• 3:14:46
  morrow would be his last day. So in the evening he went to his
• 3:14:50
  good friend, the wolf who lived in the wood, and told him all
• 3:14:54
  his sorrows and how his master meant to kill him in the morning. And
• 3:15:01
  make yourself easy, said the wolf, I will give you some good advice.
• 3:15:07
  Your master, you know, goes out every morning very early with his
• 3:15:11
  wife into the field, and they take their little child with them and lay
• 3:15:16
  it down behind the hedge in the shade while they are at work. Now,
• 3:15:22
  do you lie down close by the child and pretend to be watching it.
• 3:15:26
  Then I will come out of the wood and run away with it.
• 3:15:31
  You must run after me as fast as you can. Then I will let
• 3:15:35
  it drop, then you may carry it back. Then they will think you
• 3:15:39
  have saved their child, and will be so thankful to you that they will
• 3:15:46
  take care of you as long as you live. The dog liked this plan
• 3:15:52
  very well, and accordingly so it was managed. The wolf ran with the
• 3:15:56
  child a little way. The shepherdon is wife screamed out, but Sultan soon
• 3:16:01
  overtook him and carried the poor little thing back to his master and mistress.
• 3:16:07
  Then the shepherd patted him on the head and said, hold, Sultan has
• 3:16:11
  saved our child from the wolf, and therefore he shall live and be well
• 3:16:16
  taken care of and have plenty to eat. Wife, go home and give
• 3:16:22
  him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on
• 3:16:26
  as long as he lives. So from this time forward Sultan had all that
• 3:16:33
  he could wish for. Soon afterwards, the wolf came and wished him joy,
• 3:16:39
  and said, now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales,
• 3:16:45
  but turn your head the other way when I want to taste one of
• 3:16:48
  the old shepherd's fine fat sheep, no, said the Sultan, I will
• 3:16:54
  be true to my master. However, the wolf thought he was in joke
• 3:17:00
  and came one night to get a daint immorsel. But Sultan had told his
• 3:17:05
  master what the wolf meant to do, so he laid weight for him behind
• 3:17:09
  the barn door, and when the wolf was busy looking out for a good
• 3:17:13
  fat sheep, he had a stout culture laid about his back that combed his
• 3:17:18
  locks for him. Finally, then the wolf was very angry and called Sultan
• 3:17:26
  an old rogue and swore he would have his revenge. So the next morning,
• 3:17:31
  the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to
• 3:17:35
  fight the matter. Now Sultan had nobody he could ask to be his second
• 3:17:41
  but the shepherd's old three legged cat, so he took her with him,
• 3:17:46
  and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck up her
• 3:17:50
  tail straight in the air. The wolf and the wild boar were first on
• 3:17:56
  the ground, and when they spied their enemies and saw the cat's long tails
• 3:18:01
  standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan
• 3:18:07
  to fight with, and every time she limped they thought she was picking up
• 3:18:11
  a stone to throw at them. So they said they should not like this
• 3:18:16
  way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush and the wolf
• 3:18:20
  jumped up into a tree. Sultan and the cat soon came up and looked
• 3:18:26
  about and wondered that there was no one there. The boar, however,
• 3:18:31
  had not quite hidden himself, for his ears stuck out of the bush,
• 3:18:35
  and when he shook one of them a little, the cat, seeing something
• 3:18:39
  move and thinking it was a mouse, sprang upon it and bit and scratched
• 3:18:43
  it, so that the boar jumped up and grunted and ran away, roaring
• 3:18:48
  out. Look up in the tree, there sits the one who is to
• 3:18:54
  blame. So they looked up and aspied the wolf sitting among the branches.
• 3:19:01
  When they called him a cowardly rascal, and would not suffer him to come
• 3:19:05
  down till he was heartily ashamed of himself, and had promised to be good
• 3:19:09
  friends again with old Sultan. And of old Sultan. There were once a
• 3:19:20
  man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At
• 3:19:24
  length, the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These
• 3:19:30
  people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid
• 3:19:33
  garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs.
• 3:19:41
  It was however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared
• 3:19:45
  to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress who had great power and
• 3:19:50
  was dreaded by all the world. One day the woman was standing by this
• 3:19:56
  window and looking down into the garden. But she saw a bed which was
• 3:20:00
  platted with the most beautiful rambian, and it looked so fresh and green that
• 3:20:05
  she longed for it. She quite pined away and began to look pale and
• 3:20:11
  miserable. Then her husband was alarmed, asked, what ails you, dear
• 3:20:16
  wife. Ah, she replied, If I can't eat some of the rampion
• 3:20:22
  which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die. The man
• 3:20:26
  who loved her thought, sooner than let your wife die, bring her some
• 3:20:33
  of the rampion yourself. Let it cost what it will. At twilight,
• 3:20:39
  he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched
• 3:20:43
  a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once
• 3:20:48
  made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so
• 3:20:54
  good to her, so very good, that the next day she longed for
• 3:20:58
  it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest,
• 3:21:05
  her husband must once more descend into the garden in the gloom of evening.
• 3:21:09
  Therefore he let himself down again. But when he had clamored down the
• 3:21:15
  wall, he was terribly afraid, for he saw the Enchantress standing before him.
• 3:21:22
  How can you dare, said she with angry look, descend into my
• 3:21:28
  garden and steal my rampion like a thief. You shall suffer for it,
• 3:21:35
  ah, answered he, let mercy take the place of justice. I only
• 3:21:41
  made up my mind to do it for necessity. My wife saw your rampion
• 3:21:46
  from the window and felt such a longing for it that she would have died
• 3:21:50
  if she had not got some to eat. Then the Enchantress allowed her anger
• 3:21:56
  to be softened, and said to him, if if the case be as
• 3:22:01
  you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much Rappian
• 3:22:05
  as you will. Only I make one condition. You must give me the
• 3:22:11
  child which your wife will bring into the world. It shall be well treated,
• 3:22:16
  and I will care for it like a mother. The man, in
• 3:22:20
  his terror, consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed,
• 3:22:26
  the enchantress appeared at once gave the child the name of Rapunzel. And
• 3:22:31
  took it away with her. Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the
• 3:22:37
  sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a
• 3:22:43
  tower which lay in a forest. Had had neither stairs nor door, but
• 3:22:48
  quite at the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go
• 3:22:54
  in, she placed herself beneath it and cried, Rapunzel, Rap Gunsel,
• 3:23:01
  let down your hair to me. Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as
• 3:23:07
  spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress, she unfastened
• 3:23:13
  her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above,
• 3:23:18
  and then the hare fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up
• 3:23:22
  by it. After a year or two, it came to pass that the
• 3:23:28
  King's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard
• 3:23:33
  a song which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was
• 3:23:39
  Rapunzel, who, in her solitude, passed her time in letting her sweet
• 3:23:43
  voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her and looked for
• 3:23:48
  the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode
• 3:23:54
  home but the singing had so deeply touched his heart that every day he went
• 3:23:58
  out into the forest and listened to it. Once, when he was thus
• 3:24:03
  standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he
• 3:24:07
  heard how she cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me.
• 3:24:15
  Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the enchantress climbed
• 3:24:20
  up to her. If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I
• 3:24:24
  too will try my fortune, said he. And the next day, when
• 3:24:28
  it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried, Rapunzel,
• 3:24:35
  Rapunzel, let down your hair to me. Immediately the hair fell down,
• 3:24:41
  and the king's son climbed up. At first, Rapunzel was terribly frightened
• 3:24:48
  when a man such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her.
• 3:24:52
  But the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend,
• 3:24:56
  and told her that his heart had been so stud that it had let him
• 3:25:01
  have no rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel
• 3:25:07
  lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for
• 3:25:11
  her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought
• 3:25:16
  he will love me more than old Dame Gothald does, And she said yes,
• 3:25:20
  and laid her hand in his. She said, I will willingly go
• 3:25:24
  away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring
• 3:25:30
  with you a skein of milk every time that you come, and I will
• 3:25:33
  weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready, I will descend
• 3:25:37
  and you will take me on your horse. They agreed that until that time
• 3:25:43
  he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
• 3:25:50
  The enchantress remarked nothing of this until once Rapunzel said to her, tell
• 3:25:56
  me, Dame gothal, how it happens that you you are so much heavier
• 3:26:01
  for me to draw up than the young king's son he is with me in
• 3:26:05
  a moment, Ah, you wicked child, cried the enchantress. What do
• 3:26:11
  I hear you say? I thought I had separated you from all the world,
• 3:26:16
  and yet you have deceived me. In her anger, she clutched Rapunzel's
• 3:26:22
  beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice around her left hand, seized a pair of
• 3:26:28
  scissors with the right and snip snap. They were cut off, and the
• 3:26:31
  lovely braids lay on the ground, and she was so pitiless that she took
• 3:26:37
  poor Rapunzel into a desert, where she had to live in great grief and
• 3:26:43
  misery. On the same day that she had cast out Rapunzel, however,
• 3:26:50
  the enchantress fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off, to the
• 3:26:54
  hook of the window. And when the king's son came and cried, Rapunz,
• 3:27:00
  Rapunzel, let down your hair to me, she let the hair down.
• 3:27:05
  The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he
• 3:27:11
  found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks Ah,
• 3:27:16
  she cried mockingly. You would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits
• 3:27:24
  no longer singing in the nest. The cat has got it and will scratch
• 3:27:28
  out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you. You will never
• 3:27:35
  see her again. The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in
• 3:27:41
  his despair he leaped down from the tower. He escaped with his life,
• 3:27:46
  but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite
• 3:27:54
  blind about the forest ate nothing but roots and berries. Than did not but
• 3:27:58
  lament and weep over the loss of his dearest wife. Thus he roamed about
• 3:28:05
  in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel,
• 3:28:11
  with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a
• 3:28:15
  girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so
• 3:28:20
  familiar to him that he went towards it. And when he approached, Rapunzel
• 3:28:26
  knew him, and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears
• 3:28:31
  wetted his eyes, and they grew clear again, and he could see with
• 3:28:35
  them as before. He led her to his kingdom, where he was joyfully
• 3:28:39
  received, and they lived a long time afterwards, happy and contented, and
• 3:28:50
  of Rapunzel. By the side of a wood in a country a long way
• 3:28:54
  off ran a fine stream of water, and upon the stream the st a
• 3:29:00
  mill. The miller's house was close by, And the miller, you must
• 3:29:05
  know, had a very beautiful daughter. She was moreover very shrewd and clever,
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  and the miller was so proud of her that he one day told the
• 3:29:15
  king of the land, who used to come and hunt in the wood,
• 3:29:18
  that his daughter could spin gold out of straw. Now, this king was
• 3:29:24
  very fond of money, and when he heard the miller's boast, his greediness
• 3:29:28
  was raised, and he sent for the girl to be brought before him.
• 3:29:33
  Then he led her to a chamber in his palace, where there was a
• 3:29:37
  great heap of straw, and gave her a spinning wheel, and said,
• 3:29:41
  all this must be spun into gold before morning, as you love your life.
• 3:29:48
  It was in vain that the poor maiden said that it was only a
• 3:29:50
  silly boast of her father, for that she could do no such thing as
• 3:29:54
  spin straw into gold. The chamber door was locked. When she was left
• 3:30:01
  alone, she sat down in one corner of the room and began to bewail
• 3:30:07
  her hard fate. But suddenly the door opened, and a droll looking little
• 3:30:13
  man hobbled in and said, good morrow to you, my good lash.
• 3:30:18
  What are you weeping for? Alas said she, I must spin this straw
• 3:30:24
  into gold, and I know not how a what will you give me,
• 3:30:31
  said the hobgoblin. To do it for you, my necklace, replied the
• 3:30:37
  maiden. He took her at her word and sat himself down to the wheel
• 3:30:43
  and whistled and sang round about round about lo and behold, reel away,
• 3:30:54
  reel away, straw into gold. And round about the wheel went merrily.
• 3:31:03
  The work was quickly done, and the straw was all spun into gold.
• 3:31:09
  When the king came and saw this, he was greatly astonished and pleased,
• 3:31:13
  but his heart grew still more greedy of gain, and he shut up the
• 3:31:18
  poor miller's daughter again with a fresh task. Then she knew not what to
• 3:31:24
  do, and sat down once more to weep. But the dwarf soon opened
• 3:31:30
  the door and said, what will you give me to do your task?
• 3:31:35
  The ring on my finger, said she. So her little friend took the
• 3:31:39
  ring and began to work at the wheel again, and whistled and sang round
• 3:31:46
  about, round about, low, and behold, reel away, reel away,
• 3:31:54
  straw into gold. Till long before morning all was done again. King
• 3:32:03
  was greatly delighted to see all this glittering treasure, but still he had not
• 3:32:09
  enough, so he took the miller's daughter to a yet larger heap and said,
• 3:32:15
  all this must be spun to night, and if it is, you
• 3:32:18
  shall be my queen. As soon as she was alone, that dwarf came
• 3:32:24
  in and said, what will you give me to spin gold for you?
• 3:32:30
  This third time? I have nothing left, said she, If then say
• 3:32:37
  you will give me, said the little man, the first little child that
• 3:32:43
  you may have when you are queen. That may never be thought the miller's
• 3:32:50
  daughter, And as she knew no other way to get her task done,
• 3:32:54
  she said she would do what he asked. Brown went the wheel again into
• 3:33:00
  the old song, and the mannikin once more spun the heap into gold.
• 3:33:05
  The king came in the morning, and, finding all he wanted, was
• 3:33:09
  forced to keep his word. So he married the miller's daughter, and she
• 3:33:13
  really became queen. At the birth of her first child, she was very
• 3:33:20
  glad and forgot the dwarf and what she had said. But one day he
• 3:33:26
  came into her room where she was sitting playing with her baby, and put
• 3:33:30
  her in mind of it. Then she grieved sorely at her misfortune and said
• 3:33:35
  she would give him all the wealth of the kingdom if he would let her
• 3:33:39
  off. But in vain till at last her tears softened him, and he
• 3:33:45
  said, I will give you three days grace, and if during that time
• 3:33:52
  you tell me my name, you shall keep your child. Now the queen
• 3:33:58
  lay awake on thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard,
• 3:34:03
  and she set messengers all over the land to find out new ones. The
• 3:34:07
  next day the little man came and she began with Timothy, Ikeabod, Benjamin,
• 3:34:13
  Jeremiah, and all the names she could remember, but to all in
• 3:34:18
  each of them, he said, madam, that's not my name. The
• 3:34:24
  second day she began with all the comical names she had heard of, bandilegs,
• 3:34:28
  hunchback, crooked shanks, and so on, But the little gentleman still
• 3:34:33
  said to every one of them, madam, that is not my name.
• 3:34:39
  The third day one of the messengers came back and said, I have traveled
• 3:34:43
  two days without hearing of any other names. But yesterday, as I was
• 3:34:48
  climbing a high hill among the trees of the forest, where the fox and
• 3:34:52
  the hare bid each other good night, I saw a little hut, and
• 3:34:56
  before the hut burnt a fire, and round about the fire a funny little
• 3:35:03
  dwarf was dancing upon one leg and singing merrily. The feast I make to
• 3:35:09
  day our brew tomorrow bake merrily, I dance and sing for next day?
• 3:35:13
  Will the stranger bring little? Does my lady dream? Rumplestiltskin is my name.
• 3:35:22
  When the king heard this, she jumped for joy, and as soon
• 3:35:26
  as her little friend came, she sat down upon her throne and called all
• 3:35:31
  her court round to enjoy the fun. And the nurse stood by her side,
• 3:35:35
  with the baby in her arms, as if it was quite ready to
• 3:35:39
  be given up. Then the little man began to chuckle at the thought of
• 3:35:43
  having the poor child to take home with him to his hut in the woods.
• 3:35:48
  And he cried out, Now, lady, what is my name?
• 3:35:54
  Is it? John? Asked she. Now madam, is it Tom?
• 3:36:00
  Now, madam is it Jemmy? It is not? Can your name be
• 3:36:09
  Rumplestiltskin, said the lady, slyly, Some witch told you that. Some
• 3:36:16
  witch told you that, cried the little man, and dashed his right foot
• 3:36:20
  in a rage, so deep into the floor that he was forced to lay
• 3:36:24
  hold of it with both hands to pull it out. Then he made the
• 3:36:30
  best of his way off, while the nurse laughed and the baby crowed,
• 3:36:33
  and all the court jeered at him for having had so much trouble for nothing,
• 3:36:39
  and said, we wish you are very good morning, and a merry
• 3:36:41
  feast, mister Rumpelstiltskin. And of Rumpelstiltskin. There once was a poor widow
• 3:36:52
  who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden
• 3:36:58
  wherein stood two rose trees, one of which bore white and the other red
• 3:37:03
  roses. She had two children who were like the two rose trees, and
• 3:37:07
  one was called snow White and the other rose Red. They were as good
• 3:37:11
  and happy, as busy and cheerful as ever two children in the world were.
• 3:37:16
  Only snow White was more quiet and gentle than rose Red. Rose Red
• 3:37:22
  liked better to run about in the meadows and fields, seeking flowers and catching
• 3:37:26
  butterflies, But snow White sat at home with her mother and helped her with
• 3:37:31
  her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do. The
• 3:37:35
  two children were so fond of each other that they always held each other by
• 3:37:39
  the hand when they went out together. And when snow White said, we
• 3:37:43
  will not leave each other, rose Red answered, never, so long as
• 3:37:48
  we live. And their mother would add, what one has she must share
• 3:37:52
  with the other. They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries,
• 3:37:58
  and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully.
• 3:38:03
  The little hare would eat a cabbageleaf out of their hands. The rogue
• 3:38:07
  grazed by their side. The stag leaped merrily by them, and the birds
• 3:38:13
  sat still upon the boughs and sang whatever they knew. No mishap overtook them
• 3:38:20
  if they had stayed too late in the forest, and night came on.
• 3:38:24
  They laid themselves down near one another upon the moss and slept until morning came.
• 3:38:30
  And their mother knew this and did not worry on their account. Once,
• 3:38:35
  when they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused
• 3:38:37
  them, they saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress sitting near their
• 3:38:41
  bed. He got up and looked quite kindly at them, but said nothing,
• 3:38:46
  and went into the forest. And when they looked round, they found
• 3:38:50
  that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have
• 3:38:54
  fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further.
• 3:39:00
  And the mother told them that it must have been the angel who watches
• 3:39:03
  over good children. Snow White and rose Red kept their mother's little cottage so
• 3:39:09
  neat that it was a pleasure to look inside it. In the summer,
• 3:39:13
  rose Red took care of the house, and every morning laid a wreath of
• 3:39:16
  flowers by her mother's bed. Before she awoke, in which was a rose
• 3:39:20
  from each tree. In the winter, snow White lit the fire and hung
• 3:39:26
  the kettle on the hob. The kettle was a brass and shone like gold,
• 3:39:31
  so brightly was it polished. In the evening, when the snowflakes fell,
• 3:39:35
  the mother said, go, snow White, and both the door.
• 3:39:41
  And then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and
• 3:39:45
  read aloud out of a large book. And the two girls listened as they
• 3:39:48
  sat and spun. And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor,
• 3:39:54
  and behind them, upon a perch, sat a white dove, with its
• 3:39:58
  head hidden beneath its wings. One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably
• 3:40:03
  together, some one knocked at the door, as if he wished to be
• 3:40:07
  let in. The mother said, quick rose Red opened the door. It
• 3:40:13
  must be a traveler who was seeking shelter. Rose Red went and pushed back
• 3:40:18
  the bolt, thinking that it was a poor man. But it was not.
• 3:40:22
  It was a bear that stretched his broad black head within the door.
• 3:40:28
  Rose Red screamed and sprang back. The lamb bleated, the dove fluttered,
• 3:40:33
  and snow White hid herself behind her mother's bed. But The bear began to
• 3:40:37
  speak and said, do not be afraid. I will do you no harm.
• 3:40:43
  I am half frozen and only want to warm myself a little beside you,
• 3:40:50
  poor bear, said the mother, lie down by the fire. Only
• 3:40:54
  take care that you do not burn your coat. Then she cried, no,
• 3:41:00
  white rose Red, come out. The bear will do you no harm.
• 3:41:03
  He means well. So they both came out, and by and by
• 3:41:09
  the lamb and dove came nearer and were not afraid of him. The bear
• 3:41:13
  said, here, children, knock the snow out of my coat a little.
• 3:41:18
  So they brought the broom and swept the bear's hide clean, and he
• 3:41:22
  stretched himself by the fire and growled contentedly, uncomfortably. It was not long
• 3:41:28
  before they grew quite at home and played tricks with their clumsy guest. They
• 3:41:33
  tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back, and
• 3:41:37
  rolled him about. Or they took a hazel switch and beat him, and
• 3:41:41
  when he growled, they laughed. But the bear took it all in good
• 3:41:46
  part. Only when they were too rough he called out, leave me alive,
• 3:41:52
  children, snow, white rose bread, will you beat your wooer dead?
• 3:41:58
  When it was bedtime and the others went to bed. The mother said
• 3:42:01
  to the bear, you can lie there by the hearth, and then you
• 3:42:05
  will be safe from the cold and the bad weather. As soon as day
• 3:42:09
  dawned, the two children let him out, and he trotted across the snow
• 3:42:13
  into the forest. Henceforth, the bear came every evening at the same time,
• 3:42:20
  laid himself down by the hearth, and let the children amuse themselves with
• 3:42:24
  him as much as they liked. And they got so used to him that
• 3:42:28
  the doors were never fastened until their black friend had arrived. When spring had
• 3:42:35
  come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to snow White,
• 3:42:41
  now I must go away and cannot come back for the whole summer.
• 3:42:46
  Where are you going, then, dear bear, asked snow White, I
• 3:42:52
  must go into the forest and guard my treasures from the wicked dwarfs. In
• 3:42:56
  the winter, when the earth is frozen hard, they are obliged to stay
• 3:43:01
  below and cannot work their way through. But now, when the sun has
• 3:43:05
  thawed and warmed the earth, they'd break through it and come out to pry
• 3:43:09
  and steal. And what once gets into their hands and in their caves does
• 3:43:15
  not easily see daylight. Again. Snow White was quite sorry at his departure,
• 3:43:22
  and as she unbolted the door for him and the bear was hurrying out,
• 3:43:26
  he caught against the bolt and a piece of his hairy coat was torn
• 3:43:30
  off, and it seemed to snow White as if she had seen gold shining
• 3:43:35
  through it, but she was not sure about it. The bear ran away
• 3:43:39
  quickly and was soon out of sight behind the trees. A short time afterwards,
• 3:43:45
  the mother sent her children into the forest to get firewood. There they
• 3:43:50
  found a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and close by the
• 3:43:54
  trunk something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but they could not
• 3:43:58
  make out what it was. When they came nearer, they saw a dwarf
• 3:44:03
  with an old, withered face and a snow white beard a yard long.
• 3:44:09
  The end of the beard was caught in a crevice of the tree, and
• 3:44:13
  the little fellow was jumping about like a dog tied to a rope and did
• 3:44:16
  not know what to do. He glared at the girls with his fiery red
• 3:44:22
  eyes and cried, why do you stand there? Can you not come here
• 3:44:26
  and help me? What are you up to? Little man? Asked rose
• 3:44:31
  Red, You stupid prying goose answered the dwarf. I was going to split
• 3:44:37
  the tree to get a little wood for cooking. The little bit of food
• 3:44:41
  that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs. We do not
• 3:44:46
  swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk. I had just driven the
• 3:44:50
  wedge safely in, and everything was going as I wished. But the cursed
• 3:44:56
  wedge was too smooth, and suddenly sprang out, and the tree closed so
• 3:45:01
  quickly that I could not pull out my beautiful white beard. So now it
• 3:45:05
  is tight and I cannot get away. And the silly, sleek, milk
• 3:45:11
  faced things laugh, Ah, how odious you are. The children tried very
• 3:45:18
  hard, but they could not pull the beard out. It was caught too
• 3:45:22
  fast. I will run and fetch someone, said rose Red. You senseless
• 3:45:30
  goose, snarled the dwarf. Why should you fetch someone? You are already
• 3:45:35
  too too many for me. Can you not think of something better? Don't
• 3:45:39
  be impatient, said snow White, I will help you, and she pulled
• 3:45:45
  her scissors out of her pocket and cut off the end of the beard.
• 3:45:50
  As soon as the dwarf felt himself free, he laid hold of a bag
• 3:45:54
  which lay amongst the roots of the tree, and which was full of gold,
• 3:45:58
  and lifted it up, rumbling to himself, uncoth people to cut off
• 3:46:03
  a piece of my fine beard. Bad luck to you. And then he
• 3:46:09
  swung the bag upon his back and went off, without even once looking at
• 3:46:13
  the children. Some time afterwards, snow White and rose Red went to catch
• 3:46:18
  a dish of fish. As they came near the brook, they saw something
• 3:46:22
  like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to
• 3:46:28
  leap in. They ran to it and found it was the dwarf. Where
• 3:46:33
  are you going, said Rose Red? You shurely don't want to go into
• 3:46:37
  the water. I am not such a fool, cried the dwarf. Don't
• 3:46:41
  you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in? The little man
• 3:46:46
  had been sitting there fishing, and unluckily the wind had tangled up his beard
• 3:46:52
  with the fishing line. A moment later, a big fish made a bite,
• 3:46:56
  and the feeble creature had not strength to pull it out. The fish
• 3:47:01
  kept the upper hand and pulled the dwarf towards him. He held on to
• 3:47:05
  all the reeds and rushes, but it was of little good, for he
• 3:47:09
  was forced to follow the movements of the fish, and was in urgent danger
• 3:47:13
  of being dragged into the water. The girls came just in time, beheld
• 3:47:18
  him fast, and tried to free his beard from the line, but all
• 3:47:24
  in vain. Beard and line were entangled fast together. There was nothing to
• 3:47:30
  do but to bring out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small
• 3:47:33
  part of it was lost. When the dwarf saw that, he screamed out,
• 3:47:39
  is that civil you toadstool to disfigure a man's face? Was it not
• 3:47:45
  enough to clip off the end of my beard? Now you have cut off
• 3:47:48
  the best part of it. I cannot let myself be seen by my people.
• 3:47:52
  I wish you had been made to run the soles off your shoes.
• 3:47:58
  Then he took out a sack of pearls, which lay in the rushes,
• 3:48:01
  and without another word, he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone.
• 3:48:09
  It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two children to the town to
• 3:48:13
  buy needles and thread and laces and ribbons. The road led them across a
• 3:48:18
  heath upon which huge pieces of rock lay strewn about. There they noticed a
• 3:48:24
  large bird hovering in the air, flying slowly round and round above them.
• 3:48:30
  It sank lower and lower, and at last settled near a rock not far
• 3:48:35
  away. Immediately they heard a loud, piteous cry. They ran up and
• 3:48:41
  saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance, the dwarf,
• 3:48:46
  and was going to carry him off. The children, full of pity that
• 3:48:50
  once, took tight hold of the little men and pulled against the eagle so
• 3:48:54
  long that at last he let his booty go. Soon as the dwarf had
• 3:49:00
  recovered from his first fright, he cried, with his shrill voice, could
• 3:49:05
  you not have done it more carefully? You dragged it my brown coat,
• 3:49:09
  so that it is all torn and full of holes, you clumsy creatures.
• 3:49:16
  Then he took up a sack full of precious stones and slipped away again under
• 3:49:20
  the rock into his hole. The girls, who by this time were used
• 3:49:26
  to his ingratitude, went on their way and did their business in town.
• 3:49:31
  As they crossed the heath again on their way home, they surprised the dwarf,
• 3:49:35
  who had emptied out his bag of precious stones in a clean spot,
• 3:49:39
  and had not thought that any one would come there so late. The evening
• 3:49:43
  sun shone upon the brilliant stones. They glittered and sparkled with all colors,
• 3:49:50
  so beautifully that the children stood there and stared at them. Why do you
• 3:49:54
  stand gaping there? Cried the dwarf, and his ashen gray face became copper
• 3:50:01
  red with rage. He was still cursing when a loud growling was heard,
• 3:50:05
  and a black bear came trotting towards them out of the forest. The dwarf
• 3:50:11
  sprang up in a fright, but he could not reach his cave, for
• 3:50:15
  the bear was already close. Then, in the dread of his heart,
• 3:50:20
  he cried, dear mister bear, spare me. I will give you all
• 3:50:24
  my treasures. Look the beautiful jewels lying there, Grant me my life.
• 3:50:31
  What do you want with such a slender little fellow as I you would not
• 3:50:35
  feel me between your teeth. Come take these two wicked girls. They are
• 3:50:41
  tender morsels for you, fat as young quails. For mercy's sake, eat
• 3:50:46
  them. The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked
• 3:50:52
  creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again.
• 3:50:58
  The girls had run away, but the bear called to them, snow white
• 3:51:03
  and rose red, and do not be afraid. Wait, I will come
• 3:51:07
  with you. Then they recognized his voice and waited, And when he came
• 3:51:15
  up to them, suddenly his bear skin fell off, and he stood there
• 3:51:20
  a handsome man, clothed all in gold. I am a king's son,
• 3:51:26
  he said, And I was bewitched by that wicked dwarf who had stolen my
• 3:51:30
  treasures. I have had to run about the forest as a savage bear until
• 3:51:35
  I was freed by his death. Now he has got his well deserved punishment.
• 3:51:41
  Snow White was married to him, and rose Red to his brother,
• 3:51:48
  and they divided between them the great treasure which the dwarf had gathered together in
• 3:51:52
  his cave. The old mother lived peacefully and happily with her children for many
• 3:51:58
  years. Took the two rose trees with her, and they stood before her
• 3:52:03
  window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red,
• 3:52:11
  and of snow white and rose red. It was the middle of winter,
• 3:52:16
  when the broad flakes of snow were falling around that the queen of a country
• 3:52:22
  many thousand miles off sat working at her window. The frame of the window
• 3:52:26
  was made of fine black ebony, and as she sat looking out upon the
• 3:52:31
  snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon it.
• 3:52:37
  Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow,
• 3:52:41
  and said, would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow,
• 3:52:46
  and as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony window
• 3:52:50
  frame. And so the little girl really did grow up. Her skin was
• 3:52:56
  as white as snow, her cheeks as rosy as the blood, and her
• 3:53:00
  hair as black as ebony. And she was called Snowdrop. But this queen
• 3:53:07
  died, and the king soon married another wife, who became queen, and
• 3:53:11
  was very beautiful, but so vain that she could not bear to think that
• 3:53:16
  any one could be handsomer than she was. She had a fairy looking glass
• 3:53:20
  to which she used to go, and then she would gaze upon herself in
• 3:53:24
  it and say, tell me, glass, tell me true, of all
• 3:53:30
  the ladies in the land, who is the fairest, Tell me who?
• 3:53:35
  And the glass had always answered, thou, Queen art the fairest in all
• 3:53:41
  the land. But Snowdrop grew more and more beautiful, and when she was
• 3:53:48
  seven years old she was as bright as the day and fairer than the queen
• 3:53:52
  herself. Then the glass one day answered the queen when she went to look
• 3:53:58
  in it as usual, Thou Queen art fair and beauteous to see, But
• 3:54:05
  Snowdrop is lovelier far than thee. When she heard this, she turned pale
• 3:54:11
  with rage and envy, and called to one of her servants and said,
• 3:54:16
  take Snowdrop away into the wild wood, that I may never see her any
• 3:54:20
  more. Then the servant led her away, but his heart melted when Snowdrop
• 3:54:26
  begged him to spare her life, and he said, I will not hurt
• 3:54:31
  you, thou pretty child. So he left her by herself, And though
• 3:54:37
  he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces,
• 3:54:41
  he felt as if a great weight were taken off his hearts when he made
• 3:54:46
  up his mind not to kill her, but to leave her to her fate,
• 3:54:50
  with the chance of some one finding and saving her. Then the poor
• 3:54:54
  Snowdrop wandered along through the wood in great fear, and the wild beasts roared
• 3:55:00
  about her, but none did her any harm. In the evening, she
• 3:55:05
  came to a cottage among the woods and went in to rest, for her
• 3:55:09
  little feat would carry her no further. Everything was spruce and neat in the
• 3:55:15
  cottage on The table was spread of white cloth, and there were seven little
• 3:55:18
  plates, seven little loaves, and seven little glasses with wine in them,
• 3:55:24
  and seven knives and forks laid in order. And by the wall stood seven
• 3:55:28
  little beds. As she was very hungry, she picked a little piece of
• 3:55:33
  each loaf, and drank a very little wine out of each glass. And
• 3:55:37
  after that she thought she would lie down and rest. So she tried all
• 3:55:43
  the little beds, but one was too long, and another was too short,
• 3:55:48
  till at last the seventh suited her, and there she laid herself down
• 3:55:54
  and went to sleep. By and by in came the masters of the cottage.
• 3:56:00
  Now they were seven little dwarfs that lived among the mountains and dug and
• 3:56:05
  searched for gold. They lighted up their seven lamps and saw at once that
• 3:56:09
  all was not right. The first said, who has been sitting on my
• 3:56:15
  stool, The second who has been eating off my plate, The third who
• 3:56:22
  has been picking my bread, The fourth who has been meddling with my spoon,
• 3:56:28
  the fifth who has been handling my fork, the sixth who has been
• 3:56:35
  cutting with my knife, the seventh who has been drinking my wine. Then
• 3:56:43
  the first looked round and said who has been lying on my bed? And
• 3:56:48
  the rest came running to him, and everyone cried out that somebody had been
• 3:56:52
  upon his bed. But the seventh saw Snowdrop and called all his brethren to
• 3:56:58
  come and see. Then they cried out with wonder and astonishment, and brought
• 3:57:03
  their lamps to look at her, and said, good Heavens, what a
• 3:57:07
  lovely child she is. And they were very glad to see her, and
• 3:57:13
  took care not to wake her, And the seventh dwarf slept an hour with
• 3:57:18
  each of the other dwarfs in turn, till the night was gone. In
• 3:57:22
  the morning, Snowdrop told them all her story, and they pitied her and
• 3:57:28
  said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash and
• 3:57:31
  knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was and they would
• 3:57:35
  take good care of her. Then they went out all day long to their
• 3:57:41
  work, seeking for gold and silver in the mountains. But Snowdrop was left
• 3:57:46
  at home, and they warned her and said the Queen will soon find out
• 3:57:50
  where you are, so take care and let no one in. But the
• 3:57:56
  Queen, now that she thought Snowdrop was dead, believed that she must be
• 3:58:01
  the handsomest lady in the land. And she went to her glass and said,
• 3:58:07
  tell me, glass, tell me true, of all the ladies in
• 3:58:11
  the land, who is fairest? Tell me who? And the glass answered,
• 3:58:18
  thou Queen, not the fairest in all this land. But over the
• 3:58:22
  hills, in the green wood shade, where the seven dwarfs their dwelling hath
• 3:58:28
  made their Snowdrop is hiding her head, and she is lovelier, far o
• 3:58:35
  queen than thee. Then the Queen was very much frightened, for she knew
• 3:58:41
  that the glass always spoke the truth, and was sure that the servants had
• 3:58:45
  betrayed her. And she could not bear to think that anyone lived who was
• 3:58:50
  more beautiful than she was. So she dressed herself up as an old peddler
• 3:58:54
  and went away over the hills to the place where the dwarfs dwelled. She
• 3:59:00
  knocked at the door and cried, fine wares to sell. Snowdrop looked out
• 3:59:05
  the window and said, good day, good woman, what have you to
• 3:59:11
  sell? Good wares? Fine wares, said she, laces and bobbins of
• 3:59:18
  all colors. I will let the old lady in. She seems to be
• 3:59:22
  a very good sort of body, thought Snowdrop, as she ran down and
• 3:59:28
  unbolted the door. Bless me, said the old woman, How badly your
• 3:59:33
  stays are laced. Let me lace them up with one of my nice new
• 3:59:39
  laces. Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief, so she stood before the
• 3:59:46
  old woman. But she set to work so nimbly and pulled the lace so
• 3:59:50
  tight that Snowdrop's breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were
• 3:59:54
  dead. There's an end to all thy beauty, said the spiteful Queen,
• 4:00:01
  and went away home. In the evening, the seven dwarfs came home,
• 4:00:07
  and I need not say how grieved they were to see their faithful Snowdrop stretched
• 4:00:13
  out upon the ground as if she was quite dead. However, they lifted
• 4:00:18
  her up, and when they found what ailed her, they cut the lace,
• 4:00:22
  and in a little time she began to breathe, and very soon came
• 4:00:26
  to life again. Then they said the old woman was the queen herself.
• 4:00:33
  Take care another time, and let no one in while we are away.
• 4:00:39
  When the Queen got home, she went straight to her glass and spoke to
• 4:00:43
  it as before. But to her great grief, it still said, thou
• 4:00:48
  Queen, not the fairest in all this land. But over the hills in
• 4:00:54
  the green wood shade were the seven Dwarfs. Their dwelling have made there.
• 4:01:00
  Snowdrop is hiding her head, and she is lovelier, far old queen than
• 4:01:05
  thee. Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice to
• 4:01:11
  see that Snowdrops still lived. And she dressed herself up again, but in
• 4:01:16
  quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a
• 4:01:22
  poisoned comb. When she reached the dwarf's cottage, she knocked at the door
• 4:01:26
  and cried, fine whores to sell, but Snowdrop said, I dare not
• 4:01:35
  let any one in. Then the queen said, only look at my beautiful
• 4:01:39
  combs, and gave her the poisoned one. And it looked so pretty that
• 4:01:46
  she took it up and put it into her hair to try it. But
• 4:01:50
  the moment it touched her head, the poison was so powerful that she fell
• 4:01:54
  down senseless. There you may lie, said the queen, and went her
• 4:02:01
  way. But by good luck, the dwarfs came in very early that evening,
• 4:02:05
  and when they saw Snowdrop lying on the ground, they thought what had
• 4:02:11
  happened, and soon found the poisoned comb. And when they got it away.
• 4:02:16
  She got well and told them all that had passed, and they warned
• 4:02:20
  her once more not to open the door to anyone. Meantime, the queen
• 4:02:26
  went home to her glass and shook with rage when she read the very same
• 4:02:31
  answer as before, and she said, Snowdrop shall die if it cost me
• 4:02:37
  my life. So she went by herself into her chamber and got ready a
• 4:02:41
  poisoned apple. The outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whoever tasted it
• 4:02:48
  was sure to die. Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife and
• 4:02:54
  traveled over the hills to the dwarf's cottage and knocked at the door. Snowdrop
• 4:03:00
  put her head out of the window and said, I dared not let any
• 4:03:03
  one in, for the dwarfs have told me not. I do as you
• 4:03:09
  please, said the old woman. But at any rate, take this pretty
• 4:03:13
  apple. I will give it to you. No, said Snowdrop. I
• 4:03:18
  dare not take it. You silly girl, answered the other, What are
• 4:03:24
  you afraid of? Do you think it is poisoned? Come? Do you
• 4:03:30
  eat one part and I will eat the other. Now, the apple was
• 4:03:35
  so made up that one side was good, though the other side was poisoned.
• 4:03:41
  Then Snowdrop was much tempted to taste, for the apple looked so very
• 4:03:46
  nice, And when she saw the old woman eat, she could wait no
• 4:03:50
  longer. But she had scarcely put the piece into her mouth when she fell
• 4:03:54
  down dead upon the ground. This time, noting will save thee, said
• 4:04:01
  the queen, and she went home to her glass. And at last it
• 4:04:05
  said, thou Queen art the fairest of all the fair. And then her
• 4:04:13
  wicked heart was glad and as happy as such a heart could be. When
• 4:04:20
  evening came and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the
• 4:04:24
  ground. No breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she
• 4:04:28
  was quite dead. They lifted her up and combed her hair, and washed
• 4:04:33
  her face with wine and water, but all was in vain, for the
• 4:04:37
  little girl seemed quite dead. So they laid her down upon a bier,
• 4:04:43
  and all seven watched and bewailed her three whole days. And then they thought
• 4:04:48
  they would bury her. But her cheeks were still rosy, and her face
• 4:04:54
  looked just as it did while she was alive. So they said, we
• 4:04:58
  will never bury her in the old ground, and they made a coffin of
• 4:05:03
  glass so that they might still look at her, and wrote upon it in
• 4:05:07
  golden letters what her name was, and that she was a king's daughter.
• 4:05:11
  And the coffin was set among the hills, and one of the dwarfs always
• 4:05:16
  sat by it and watched. And the birds of the air came to and
• 4:05:20
  bemoaned Snowdrop, And first of all came an owl, and then a raven,
• 4:05:26
  and at last a dove, and sat by her side. And thus
• 4:05:31
  Snowdrop lay for a long long time, and still only looked as though she
• 4:05:37
  was asleep, for she was even now as white as snow, and as
• 4:05:41
  red as blood, and as black as ebony. At last a prince came
• 4:05:46
  and called at the dwarf's house, and he saw Snowdrop and read what was
• 4:05:52
  written in golden letters. Then he offered the dwarf's money, and prayed and
• 4:05:56
  besought them to let him take her away, but they said, we will
• 4:06:01
  not part with her for all the gold in the world. At last,
• 4:06:07
  however, they had pity on him and gave him the coffin. But the
• 4:06:11
  moment he lifted it up to carry it home with him, the piece of
• 4:06:15
  apple fell from beneath her lips, and Snowdrop awoke and said where am i?
• 4:06:24
  And the Prince said, thou art quite safe with me. Then he
• 4:06:30
  told her all that had happened, and said, I love you far better
• 4:06:33
  than all the world. So come with me to my father's palace and you
• 4:06:39
  shall be my wife. And Snowdrop consented and went home with the prince,
• 4:06:45
  and everything was got ready with great pomp and splendor for their wedding. To
• 4:06:52
  the feast was asked among the rest Snowdrop's old enemy, the Queen, And
• 4:06:56
  as she was dressing herself in fine, rich clothes, she looked in the
• 4:07:01
  glass and said, tell me, glass, tell me, true, of
• 4:07:05
  all the ladies in the land, who is the fairest? Tell me who?
• 4:07:11
  And the glass answered thou lady art loveliest here, I ween, but
• 4:07:18
  lovelier far is the new made Queen. When she heard this she started with
• 4:07:24
  rage, But her envy and curiosity were so great that she could not help
• 4:07:31
  setting out to see the bride. When she got there and saw that it
• 4:07:35
  was no other than Snowdrop, who, as she thought, had been dead
• 4:07:39
  a long while, she choked with rage and fell down and died. But
• 4:07:46
  Snowdrop, and the prince lived and reigned happily over that land many many years,
• 4:07:52
  And sometimes they went up into the mountains and paid a visit to the
• 4:07:54
  little dwarfs who had been so kind to Snowdrop in her time of need.
• 4:08:01
  And of Snowdrop, there was once upon a time a woman who was a
• 4:08:07
  real witch, and had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this
• 4:08:11
  one she loved because she was her own daughter, and one beautiful and good,
• 4:08:16
  and this one she hated because she was her stepdaughter. The stepdaughter once
• 4:08:22
  had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious
• 4:08:28
  and told her mother that she must and would have that apron. Be quiet,
• 4:08:33
  my child, said the old woman, and you shall have it.
• 4:08:37
  Your stepsister has long deserved death. To night, when she is asleep,
• 4:08:43
  I will come and cut her head off. Only be careful that you are
• 4:08:48
  at the far side of the bed, and push her well to the front.
• 4:08:52
  It would have been all over with the poor girl if she had not
• 4:08:56
  just then been standing in a corner and heard every thing all day long.
• 4:09:01
  She dared not go out of doors, And when bedtime had come, the
• 4:09:05
  witch's daughter got into bed first so as to lie at the far side,
• 4:09:09
  But when she was asleep, the other pushed her gently to the front and
• 4:09:15
  took for herself the place at the back, close by the wall. In
• 4:09:18
  the night, the old woman came creeping in. She held an axe in
• 4:09:24
  her right hand and felt with her left to see if anything were lying at
• 4:09:28
  the outside, and then she grasped the axe with both hands and cut her
• 4:09:33
  own child's head off. When she had gone away, the girl got up
• 4:09:39
  and went to her sweetheart, who was called Rowland, and knocked at his
• 4:09:43
  door. When he came out, she said to him, listen, dearest
• 4:09:48
  Roland, we must fly in all haste. My stepmother wanted to kill me,
• 4:09:52
  but she has struck her own child. When daylight comes and she sees
• 4:09:58
  what she has done, we shut lost. But said Roland, I counsel
• 4:10:03
  you first to take away her magic wand, or we cannot escape her if
• 4:10:07
  she pursues us. The maiden fetched the magic wand, and she took the
• 4:10:13
  dead girl's head and dropped three drops of blood on the ground, one in
• 4:10:18
  front of the bed, one in the kitchen, and one on the stairs.
• 4:10:22
  Then she hurried away with her lover. When the old witch got up
• 4:10:26
  next morning, she called her daughter and wanted to give her the apron,
• 4:10:31
  but she did not come. Then the witch cried, where are you here
• 4:10:37
  on the steps? I am sweeping, answered the first drop of blood.
• 4:10:43
  The old woman went out, but saw no one on the stairs, and
• 4:10:46
  cried again, where are you here? In the kitchen? I am warming
• 4:10:52
  myself, cried the second drop of blood. She went into the kitchen but
• 4:10:58
  found no one. Then she cried, again, where are you ah?
• 4:11:05
  Here in the bed, I am sleeping, cried the third drop of blood.
• 4:11:11
  She went into the room to the bed. What did she see there?
• 4:11:15
  Her own child, whose head she had cut off, bathed in her
• 4:11:20
  blood. The witch fell into a passion, sprang to the window, and
• 4:11:24
  as she could look forth, quite far into the world, she perceived her
• 4:11:28
  step daughter hurrying away with her sweetheart Roland. That shall not help you,
• 4:11:35
  cried she, Even if you have got a long way off, you shall
• 4:11:39
  not escape me. She put on her many league boots, in which she
• 4:11:46
  covered an hour's walk at every step, and it was not long before she
• 4:11:50
  overtook them. The girl, however, when she saw the old woman striding
• 4:11:54
  towards her, changed with her magic wand her sweetheart rolland in to a lake,
• 4:12:01
  and herself into a duck swimming in the middle of it. The witch
• 4:12:05
  placed herself on the shore, threw bread crumbs in, and went in endless
• 4:12:09
  trouble to entice the duck. But the duck did not let herself be enticed.
• 4:12:16
  But the old woman had to go home at night as she had come.
• 4:12:20
  At this, the girl and her sweetheart rolland resumed their natural shapes again,
• 4:12:26
  and they walked on the whole night until daybreak. Then the maiden changed
• 4:12:31
  herself into a beautiful flower which stood in the midst of a briar hedge,
• 4:12:35
  and her sweet heart Roland into a fiddler. It was not long before the
• 4:12:41
  witch came striding up towards them and said to the musician, dear musician,
• 4:12:46
  may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself? Oh? Yes, he replied,
• 4:12:52
  I will play to you while you do it. Now, she was
• 4:12:56
  hastily creeping into the hedge and was just going to the flower, knowing perfectly
• 4:13:01
  well who the flower was. He began to play, and whether she would
• 4:13:07
  or not, she was forced to dance, for it was a magical dance.
• 4:13:13
  The faster he played, the more violent springs was she forced to make,
• 4:13:16
  and the thorns tore her clothes from her body and pricked her and wounded
• 4:13:22
  her till she bled, And as she did not stop, she had to
• 4:13:26
  dance till she lay dead on the ground. As they were now sat free,
• 4:13:33
  Rollin said, now I will go to my father and arrange for the
• 4:13:37
  wedding. Then in the meantime, I will stay here and wait for you,
• 4:13:41
  said the girl, and that no one may recognize me. I will
• 4:13:46
  change myself into a red stone landmark. Then Rollin went away, and the
• 4:13:52
  girl stood like a red landmark in the field and waited for her beloved.
• 4:13:56
  But when Rollin got home, he fell into the snare of another, who
• 4:14:01
  so fascinated him that he forgot the maiden. The poor girl remained there a
• 4:14:07
  long time, but at length, as he did not return at all,
• 4:14:11
  she was sad and changed herself into a flower, and thought some one will
• 4:14:16
  surely come this way and trample me down. It befell, however, that
• 4:14:24
  a shepherd kept his sheep in the field and saw the flower, and as
• 4:14:28
  it was so pretty plucked it, took it with him and laid it away
• 4:14:31
  in his chest. From that time forth, strange things happened in the shepherd's
• 4:14:37
  house. When he arose in the morning, all the work was already done.
• 4:14:43
  The room was swept, the table and benches cleaned, the fire in
• 4:14:46
  the hearth was lighted, and the water was fetched. And at noon,
• 4:14:50
  when he came home, the table was laid and a good dinner served.
• 4:14:56
  He could not conceive how this came to pass, for he never saw human
• 4:15:00
  being in his house, and no one could have concealed himself in it.
• 4:15:05
  He was certainly pleased with this good attendance, but still at last he was
• 4:15:09
  so afraid that he went to a wise woman and asked for her advice.
• 4:15:15
  The wise woman said, there is some enchantment behind it. Listen very early
• 4:15:22
  some morning if anything is moving in the room, and if you see anything,
• 4:15:26
  no matter what it is, throw a white cloth over it, and
• 4:15:31
  then the magic will be stopped. The shepherd did as she bade him,
• 4:15:35
  and next morning, just as day dawned, he saw the chest open and
• 4:15:41
  the flower come out. Swiftly. He sprang towards it and threw a white
• 4:15:46
  cloth over it. Instantly, the transformation came to an end, and a
• 4:15:50
  beautiful girl stood before him, who admitted to him that she had been the
• 4:15:56
  flower, and that up to this time she had intended to his housekeeping.
• 4:16:02
  She told him her story, and as she pleased him, he asked her
• 4:16:07
  if she would marry him, but she answered no, for she wanted to
• 4:16:11
  remain faithful to her sweetheart Roland, although he had deserted her. Nevertheless,
• 4:16:18
  she promised not to go away, but to continue keeping house for the shepherd.
• 4:16:25
  And now the time drew near when Roland's wedding was to be celebrated.
• 4:16:29
  And then, according to an old custom in the country, it was announced
• 4:16:33
  that all the girls were to be present at it and seeing in honor of
• 4:16:37
  the bridal pair. When the faithful Maiden heard of this, she grew so
• 4:16:41
  sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither.
• 4:16:48
  But the other girls came and took her. When it came her time
• 4:16:52
  to sing, she stepped back until at last she was the only one left,
• 4:16:56
  and then she could not refuse. But when she began her song and
• 4:17:03
  it reached Roland's ears, he sprang up and cried, I know the voice
• 4:17:08
  that is the true bride. I will have no other. Everything he had
• 4:17:15
  forgotten and which had vanished from his mind had suddenly come home again to his
• 4:17:19
  heart. Then the faithful maiden held her wedding with her sweetheart Rowland, and
• 4:17:26
  grief came to an end, and joy began end of sweetheart Roland. The
• 4:17:36
  knots are quite ripe now, said Chanticleer to his wife. Partlet suppose we
• 4:17:41
  go together to the mountains and eat as many as we can before the squirrel
• 4:17:45
  takes them all away. With all my heart, said partlet let us go
• 4:17:52
  and make a holiday of it together. So they went to the mountains,
• 4:17:59
  and as it was a lovely day, they stayed there till the evening.
• 4:18:03
  Now, whether it was that they had eaten so many knuts that they could
• 4:18:07
  not walk, or whether they were lazy and would not I do not know.
• 4:18:14
  However, they took it into their heads that it did not become them
• 4:18:18
  to go home on foot. So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of
• 4:18:23
  nutshells, and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down
• 4:18:29
  and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home. That's a good
• 4:18:34
  joke, said Chanticleer. Oh that will never do. I would rather buy
• 4:18:41
  half walk home. I'll sit on the box and be coachman if you like,
• 4:18:45
  but I'll not draw. While this was passing, a duck came quacking
• 4:18:51
  up and cried out, you thieving bagabonds, what business have you in my
• 4:18:56
  grounds? I give it you well for your insolence, And upon that she
• 4:19:03
  fell upon Chanticleer most lustily. But Chanticleer was no coward, and returned the
• 4:19:10
  duck's blows with his sharp spurs so fiercely that she soon began to cry out
• 4:19:15
  for mercy, which was only granted her upon condition that she would draw the
• 4:19:21
  carriage home for them. This she agreed to do, and Chanticleer got upon
• 4:19:26
  the box and drove, crying, now, duck, get on as fast
• 4:19:32
  as you can, and away they went at a pretty good pace. After
• 4:19:37
  they had traveled along a little way, they met a needle and a pin
• 4:19:41
  walking together along the road, and the needle cried out, stop, stop,
• 4:19:48
  and said it was so dark that they could hardly find their way,
• 4:19:52
  and such dirty walking they could not get on at all. He told them
• 4:19:57
  that he and his friend the pin, had been at a public house a
• 4:20:00
  few miles off and had sat drinking till they had forgotten how late it was.
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  He begged therefore that the travelers would be so kind as to give them
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  a lift in their carriage. Chanticleer, observing that they were but thin fellows
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  and not likely to take up much room, told them they might ride,
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  but made them promise not to dirty the wheels of the carriage in getting in,
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  nor to tread upon Partlet's toes. Late at night they arrived at an
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  inn, and as it was bad traveling in the dark, and the duck
• 4:20:34
  seemed much tired and waddled about a good deal from one side to the other,
• 4:20:40
  they made up their minds to fix their quarters there. But the landlord
• 4:20:44
  at first was unwilling and said his house was full, thinking they might not
• 4:20:48
  be very respectable company. However, they spoke civilly to him and gave him
• 4:20:55
  the egg which Partlet had laid by the way, and said they would give
• 4:20:59
  him the duck, who was in the habit of laying one every day.
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  So at last he let them come in, and they bespoke a handsome supper
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  and spent the evening very jollily. Early in the morning, before it was
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  quite light, and when nobody was stirring in the inn, Chanticleer awakened his
• 4:21:18
  wife, and fetching the egg they pecked a hole in it, ate it
• 4:21:23
  up, and threw the shells into the fireplace. They then went to the
• 4:21:27
  pin and needle, who were fast asleep, and, seizing them by the
• 4:21:32
  heads, stuck one into the landlord's easy chair and the other into his handkerchief.
• 4:21:37
  And having done this, they crept away as softly as possible. However,
• 4:21:42
  the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard
• 4:21:45
  them coming, and, jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn,
• 4:21:49
  soon swam out of their reach. An hour or two afterwards, the
• 4:21:55
  landlord got up and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin
• 4:22:00
  ran into him and pricked him. Then he walked into the kitchen to light
• 4:22:03
  his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up, the eggshells
• 4:22:07
  flew into his eyes and almost blinded him. Bless me, said he,
• 4:22:14
  all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning. And
• 4:22:18
  so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair, But oh dear,
• 4:22:25
  the needle ran into him, and this time the pain was not in
• 4:22:27
  his head. He now flew into a very great passion, and suspecting the
• 4:22:33
  company who had come in the night before. He went to look after them,
• 4:22:38
  but they were all off, so he swore that he never again would
• 4:22:44
  take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid
• 4:22:48
  no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his trouble but their apish tricks.
• 4:22:56
  Two how, Chanticleer and Partlet went to visit mister Corbys. Another day,
• 4:23:03
  Chanticleer and Partlett wished to ride out together. So Chanticleer built a handsome carriage
• 4:23:08
  with four red wheels and harnessed six mice to it, And then he and
• 4:23:14
  Partlet got into the garage and away they drove. Soon afterwards, a cat
• 4:23:21
  met them and said where are you going, and Chanticleer replied, all on
• 4:23:27
  our way a visit to pay to mister Corbys the Fox to day. Then
• 4:23:33
  the cat said, take me with you. Chanticleer said, with all my
• 4:23:40
  heart, get up behind, and be sure you do not fall off.
• 4:23:44
  Take care of this handsome coach of mine, nor dirty my pretty red wheels.
• 4:23:49
  So fine. Now, mice be ready and wheels run steady, for
• 4:23:55
  we are going a visit to pay to mister Corbys the Fox to day.
• 4:24:03
  Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a
• 4:24:07
  pin, and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go
• 4:24:11
  with them. When they arrived at mister Corbys's house, he was not at
• 4:24:15
  home, so the mice drew the carriage into the coach house, Chanticleer and
• 4:24:21
  partlet flew upon a beam. The cat sat down in the fireplace, the
• 4:24:26
  duck got into the washing cistern, the pin stuck himself into the red pillow,
• 4:24:30
  the millstone laid himself over the house door, and the egg rolled himself
• 4:24:36
  up in the towel. When mister Corbys came home, he went to the
• 4:24:41
  fireplace to make a fire, but the cat threw all the ashes in his
• 4:24:45
  eyes, so he ran to the kitchen to wash himself, But there the
• 4:24:49
  duck splashed all the water in his face, and when he tried to wipe
• 4:24:53
  himself, the egg broke to pieces in the towel, all over his face
• 4:24:59
  and eyes. Then he was very angry and went without his supper to bed,
• 4:25:06
  But when he laid his head on the pillow, the pin ran into
• 4:25:08
  his cheek. At this he became quite furious, and, jumping up,
• 4:25:14
  would have run out of the house but when he came to the door,
• 4:25:18
  the millstone fell down on his head and killed him on the spot. Three
• 4:25:26
  how Partlet died and was buried, and how Chanticleer died of grief. Another
• 4:25:33
  day, Chanticleer and Partlet agreed to go again to the mountains to eat nuts,
• 4:25:37
  and it was settled that all the nuts which they found should be shared
• 4:25:41
  equally between them. Now, Partlet found a very large nut, but she
• 4:25:47
  said nothing about it to Chanticleer and kept it all to herself. However,
• 4:25:52
  it was so big that she could not swallow it, and it stuck in
• 4:25:56
  her throat. Then she was in a great fright and cried out to Chanticleer,
• 4:26:03
  pray, run as fast as you can and fetch me some water,
• 4:26:07
  or I shall be choked. Chanticleer ran as fast as he could to the
• 4:26:11
  river and said, River, give me some water, for Partlet lies in
• 4:26:17
  the mountain and will be choked by a great nut. The river said,
• 4:26:22
  run first to the bride and ask her for a silken cord to draw up
• 4:26:26
  the water. Chanticleer ran to the bride and said, Pride, you must
• 4:26:33
  give me a silken cord, for then the river will give me water.
• 4:26:37
  And the water I will give to Partlet, who lies on the mountain and
• 4:26:40
  will be choked by a great nut. But the bride said, run first
• 4:26:45
  and bring me my garland that is hanging on a willow in the garden.
• 4:26:49
  Then Chanticleer ran to the garden and took the garden from the bough where it
• 4:26:55
  hung, and brought it to the bride. And then the bride gave him
• 4:26:57
  the silken cord, and he took the silk and cord of the river,
• 4:27:00
  and the river gave him water, and he carried the water to Partlet.
• 4:27:06
  But in the meantime she was choked by the great knot and lay quite dead
• 4:27:11
  and never moved any more. Then Chanticleer was very sorry and cried bitterly,
• 4:27:19
  and all the beasts came and wept with him over poor Bartlet. And six
• 4:27:26
  mice built a little hearse to carry her to her grave, And when it
• 4:27:30
  was ready, they harnessed themselves before it, and Chanticleer drove them. On
• 4:27:36
  the way, they met the fox. Where are you going, Chanticleer said
• 4:27:41
  he to barry my Partlet, said the other. May I go with you?
• 4:27:48
  Said the fox, yes, but you must get up behind, or
• 4:27:53
  my horses will not be able to draw you. Then the fox got up
• 4:28:00
  behind, and presently the wolf, the bear, the goat, and all
• 4:28:04
  the beasts of the wood came and climbed upon the hearse. So on they
• 4:28:11
  went till they came to a rapid stream. How shall we get over?
• 4:28:17
  Said chanticleer. Then said a straw, I will lay myself across, and
• 4:28:22
  you may pass over upon me. But as the mice were going over,
• 4:28:27
  the straw slipped away and fell into the water, and the six mice all
• 4:28:32
  fell in and were drowned. What was to be done? Then a large
• 4:28:38
  log of wood came and said, I am big enough. I will lay
• 4:28:42
  myself across the stream and you shall pass over upon me. So he let
• 4:28:48
  himself down, But they managed so clumsily that the log of wood fell in
• 4:28:53
  and was carried away by the stream. Then a stone, who saw what
• 4:29:00
  happened, came up and kindly offered to help poor chanticleer by laying himself across
• 4:29:04
  the stream. And this time he got safely to the other side with the
• 4:29:10
  hearse and managed to get partlet out of it. But the fox and the
• 4:29:14
  other mourners who were sitting behind were too heavy and fell back into the water.
• 4:29:18
  And were all carried away by the stream and drowned. Thus Chanticleer was
• 4:29:26
  left alone with his dead Partlet, and having dug a grave for her,
• 4:29:30
  he laid her in it and made a little hillock over her. Then he
• 4:29:36
  sat down by the grave and wept and mourned, till at last he died
• 4:29:41
  too, And so all were dead. And of the adventures of Chanticleer and
• 4:29:51
  Partlet. There was once upon a time a soldier who for many years had
• 4:29:56
  served the king faithfully. But when the war came to an end, and
• 4:30:00
  could serve no longer because of the many wounds which he had received, the
• 4:30:04
  King said to him, you may return to your home. I need you
• 4:30:08
  no longer, and you will not receive any more money, for he only
• 4:30:12
  receives wages who renders me service for them. Then, the soldier, did
• 4:30:18
  not know how to earn a living, went away greatly troubled, and walked
• 4:30:23
  the whole day, until in the evening he entered a forest. When darkness
• 4:30:29
  came on, he saw a light which he went up to and came to
• 4:30:33
  a house wherein lived a witch. Do give me one night's lodging and a
• 4:30:37
  little to eat and drink, said heeds of her, or I shall starve
• 4:30:44
  oho, she answered, who gives anything to a runaway soldier? Yet?
• 4:30:49
  Will I be compassionate and take you in if you will do what I wish?
• 4:30:56
  What do you wish? Said the soldier, that you you should dig
• 4:31:00
  all around my garden for me tomorrow. The soldier consented, and next day
• 4:31:07
  labored with all his strength, but could not finish it. By the evening,
• 4:31:11
  I see well enough, said the witch, that you can do no
• 4:31:15
  more to day, but I will keep you yet another night, in payment
• 4:31:18
  for which you must tomorrow chop a load of wood and chop it small.
• 4:31:26
  The soldier spent the whole day in doing it, and in the evening the
• 4:31:30
  witch proposed that he should stay one night more. Tomorrow. You shall only
• 4:31:34
  do me a very trifling piece of work. Behind my house there is an
• 4:31:38
  old dry well into which my light has fallen. It burns blue and never
• 4:31:45
  goes out, and you shall bring it up again next day. The old
• 4:31:49
  woman took him to the well and let him down in a basket. He
• 4:31:53
  found the blue light and made her a signal to draw him up again.
• 4:31:59
  She did draw came up, but when he came near the edge, she
• 4:32:03
  stretched down her hand and wanted to take the blue light away from him.
• 4:32:07
  No, said he, perceiving her evil intention, I will not give you
• 4:32:12
  the light until I am standing with both feet upon the ground. The witch
• 4:32:18
  fell into a passion, let him fall again into the well, and went
• 4:32:22
  away. The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the
• 4:32:26
  blue light went on burning. But of what use was that to him?
• 4:32:32
  He saw very well that he could not escape death. He sat for a
• 4:32:37
  while very sorrowfully. Then suddenly he felt in his pocket and found his tobacco
• 4:32:42
  pipe, which was still half full. This shall be my last pleasure,
• 4:32:48
  thought He pulled it out, lit it at the blue light, and began
• 4:32:52
  to smoke. When the smoke had circled about the cavern, suddenly a little
• 4:32:57
  black dwarf stood before for him and said, Lord, what are your commands?
• 4:33:04
  What my commands are, replied the soldier, quite astonished. I must
• 4:33:10
  do everything you bid me, said the little man. Good, said the
• 4:33:15
  soldier. Then in the first place, help me out of this well.
• 4:33:21
  The little man took him by the hand and led him through an underground passage,
• 4:33:25
  but he did not forget to take the blue light with him. On
• 4:33:29
  the way. The dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and
• 4:33:33
  hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry.
• 4:33:37
  When he was above, he said to the little man, now go and
• 4:33:41
  bind the old witch and carry her before the judge. In a short time
• 4:33:47
  she came by like the wind, riding on a wild tomcat and screaming frightfully.
• 4:33:53
  Nor was it long before the little man reappeared. It is all done,
• 4:33:57
  said he, and the witch is already hanging on the gallows. What
• 4:34:03
  further commands has my lord inquired the dwarf At the moment, none, answered
• 4:34:10
  the soldier. You can return home, only be at hand immediately if I
• 4:34:15
  summon you. Nothing more is needed than that you should light your pipe at
• 4:34:19
  the blue light, and I will appear before you at once. Thereupon he
• 4:34:26
  vanished from his sight. The soldier returned to the town from which he came.
• 4:34:32
  He went at the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then
• 4:34:36
  bade the landlord furnish him a room as handsome as possible. When it was
• 4:34:41
  ready and the soldier had taken possession of it, he summoned the little black
• 4:34:45
  Mannikin and said I have served the king faithfully, but he has dismissed me
• 4:34:51
  and left me to hunger, and now I want to take my revenge.
• 4:34:56
  What am I to do? Asked the little man. Eight At nights,
• 4:35:00
  when the king's daughter is in bed, bring her here in her sleep.
• 4:35:04
  She shall do servants work for me. The Mannikin said, that is an
• 4:35:11
  easy thing for me to do, but a very dangerous thing for you,
• 4:35:15
  For if it is discovered, you will fare ill. When twelve o'clock had
• 4:35:22
  struck, the door sprang open. When the Mannikin carried in the princess,
• 4:35:26
  Ah are you there? Cried the soldier. Get to work at once,
• 4:35:32
  fetch the broom and sweep the chamber. When she had done this, he
• 4:35:37
  ordered her to come to his chair, and then he stretched out his feet
• 4:35:41
  and said, pull off my boots. Then he threw them in her face,
• 4:35:47
  and made her pick them up again and clean and brightened them. She,
• 4:35:51
  however, did everything he bade her without opposition, silently and with half
• 4:35:56
  shut eyes. When the first rooster crowed, the Mannikin carried her back to
• 4:36:02
  the royal palace and laid her in her bed. Next morning, when the
• 4:36:07
  princess arose, she went to her father and told him that she had had
• 4:36:11
  a very strange dream. I was carried through the streets with the rapidity of
• 4:36:17
  lightning, said she, and taken into a soldier's room, and I had
• 4:36:22
  to wait upon him like a servant, sweep his room, clean his boots,
• 4:36:26
  and do all kinds of menial work. It was only a dream,
• 4:36:30
  and yet I am just as tired as if I really had done everything.
• 4:36:36
  The dream may have been true, said the King, I will give you
• 4:36:40
  a piece of advice. Fill your pocket full of peas, and make a
• 4:36:44
  small hole in the pocket, and then if you are carried away again,
• 4:36:48
  they will fall out and leave a track in the streets. But unseen by
• 4:36:52
  the king. The Mannikin was standing beside him when he said that, and
• 4:36:56
  heard all at night. When the sleeping princess was again carried through the streets,
• 4:37:02
  some peace certainly did fall out of her pocket, but they made no
• 4:37:06
  track, for the crafty Mannikin had just before scattered peas in every street there
• 4:37:11
  was, And again the princess was compelled to do servants work until cock crow.
• 4:37:18
  Next morning. The king sent his people out to seek the track,
• 4:37:22
  but it was all in vain for in every street, poor children were sitting
• 4:37:27
  picking up peas and saying, it must have read peas last night. We
• 4:37:33
  must think of something else, said the king. Keep your shoes on when
• 4:37:37
  you go to bed, and before you come back from the place where you
• 4:37:41
  are taken, hide one of them there. I will soon contrive to find
• 4:37:45
  it. The black Mannikin heard this plot, and at nights, when the
• 4:37:49
  soldier again ordered him to bring the princess, revealed it to him and told
• 4:37:55
  him that he knew of no expedient to counteract this stratagem, and if the
• 4:38:00
  shoe were found in the soldier's house, it would go badly with him.
• 4:38:04
  Do what I bid you, replied the soldier, and again this third night,
• 4:38:11
  the princess was obliged to work like a servant, but before she went
• 4:38:15
  away she hid her shoe under the bed. Next morning, the king had
• 4:38:21
  the entire town searched for his daughter's shoe. It was found at the soldier's
• 4:38:26
  and the soldier himself, who at the entreaty of the dwarf, had gone
• 4:38:30
  outside the gate, was soon brought back and thrown into prison. In his
• 4:38:36
  flight, he had forgotten the most valuable things he had, the blue lights
• 4:38:41
  and the gold, and had only one ducat in his pocket, and now
• 4:38:45
  loaded with chains. He was standing at the window of the dungeon when he
• 4:38:51
  chanced to see one of his comrades passing by. The soldier tapped at the
• 4:38:56
  pane of glass, and when this man came up, said to him,
• 4:39:00
  be so kind as to fetch me a small bundle I have left lying in
• 4:39:03
  the inn, and I will give you a ducat for doing it. His
• 4:39:07
  comrade ran thither and brought him what he wanted. As soon as the soldier
• 4:39:11
  was alone again, he lighted his pipe and summoned the black Mannikin. Have
• 4:39:17
  no fear, said the latter to his master. Go woresoever they take you,
• 4:39:22
  and let them do what they will, only take the blue light with
• 4:39:26
  you. Next day, the soldier was tried, and though he had done
• 4:39:32
  nothing wicked, the judge condemned him to death. When he was led forth
• 4:39:37
  to die, he begged the last favor of the king. What is it?
• 4:39:41
  Asked the King, that I may smoke one more pipe on my way.
• 4:39:47
  You may smoke three, answered the king, but do not imagine that
• 4:39:51
  I will spare your life. Then the soldier pulled out his pipe and lighted
• 4:39:56
  it at the blue light, and as soon as a few two wreaths of
• 4:40:00
  smoke had ascended, the Mannikin was there with a small cudgel in his hand,
• 4:40:04
  and said, what does my lord command? Strike down to earth?
• 4:40:11
  That false judge there and his constable, and spare not the king who has
• 4:40:15
  treated me so ill. Then the Mannikin fell on them like lightning, darting
• 4:40:22
  this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his
• 4:40:26
  cudgel fell to earth and did not venture to stir again. The king was
• 4:40:33
  terrified. He threw himself on the soldier's mercy, and merely to be allowed
• 4:40:37
  to live at all, gave him his kingdom for his own, and his
• 4:40:42
  daughter to wife, and of the blue light. A shepherd's dog had a
• 4:40:49
  master who took no care of him, but often let him suffer the greatest
• 4:40:55
  hunger. At last he could bear it no longer, so he took to
• 4:41:00
  his heels and off he ran, in a very sad and sorrowful mood.
• 4:41:06
  On the road, he met a sparrow that said to him, why are
• 4:41:08
  you so sad, my friend? Because said the dog, I am very,
• 4:41:15
  very hungry, and have nothing to eat. Would that be all?
• 4:41:21
  Answered the sparrow. Come with me into the next town, and I will
• 4:41:26
  soon find you plenty of food. So on they went together into the town,
• 4:41:30
  and as they passed by a butcher's shop, the sparrow said to the
• 4:41:33
  dog, stand there a little while till I peck you down a piece of
• 4:41:38
  meat. So the sparrow perched upon the shelf, and, having first looked
• 4:41:44
  carefully about her to see if anyone was watching her, she pecked and scratched
• 4:41:48
  at a steak that lay upon the edge of the shelf, till at last
• 4:41:52
  down it fell. Then the dog snapped it up and scrambled away with it
• 4:41:57
  into a corner, where he soon ate it all up. Well, said
• 4:42:03
  the sparrow, you shall have some more if you will, so come with
• 4:42:07
  me to the next shop, and I will peck you down another steak.
• 4:42:11
  When the dog had eaten this too, the sparrow said to him, well,
• 4:42:15
  my good friend, have you had enough? Now? I have had
• 4:42:18
  plenty of meat, answered he, But I should like to have a piece
• 4:42:23
  of bread to eat after it. Come with me, then, said the
• 4:42:27
  sparrow, and you shall have that too. So she took him to a
• 4:42:33
  baker's shop and pecked that two rolls that lay in the window till they fell
• 4:42:37
  down. And as the dog still wished for more, she took him to
• 4:42:41
  another shop and pecked down some more for him. When that was eaten,
• 4:42:47
  the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough. Now, yes, said
• 4:42:52
  he, And now let us take a walk a little way out of the
• 4:42:55
  town. So they both went out upon the high road. As the weather
• 4:43:00
  was warm. They had not gone far before the dog said, I am
• 4:43:04
  very much tired. I should like to take a nap. Very well,
• 4:43:11
  answered the sparrow. Do so, and in the meantime I will perch upon
• 4:43:15
  that bush. So the dog stretched himself out on the road and fell fast
• 4:43:21
  asleep. Whilst he slept, there came by a carter with a cart drawn
• 4:43:26
  by three horses and loaded with two casks of wine. The sparrow, seeing
• 4:43:33
  that the carter did not turn out of the way, but would go in
• 4:43:36
  the track in which the dog lay, so as to drive over him,
• 4:43:40
  cried out stop, stop, mister carter, or it shall be the worse
• 4:43:45
  for you. But the carter, grumbling to himself, you make it worse
• 4:43:49
  for me. Indeed, what can you do? Cracked his whip and drove
• 4:43:56
  his cart over the poor dog, so that the wheels crushed him to death.
• 4:44:00
  There cried the sparrow, thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend
• 4:44:07
  the dog. Now mind what I say. The deed of thine shall cost
• 4:44:12
  thee all thou art worth. Do your worst and welcome, said the brute,
• 4:44:18
  what arm can ye doe me? And passed on. But the sparrow
• 4:44:23
  crept under the tilt of the cart and pecked at the bung of one of
• 4:44:27
  the casks till she loosened it, and then all the wine ran out,
• 4:44:33
  without the carter seeing it. At last he looked round and saw that the
• 4:44:37
  cart was dripping and the cask quite empty. Oh what an unlucky wretch I
• 4:44:44
  am, cried He not wretch enough, yet, said the sparrow, as
• 4:44:49
  she alighted upon the head of one of the horses and pecked at him till
• 4:44:53
  he reared up and kicked. When the carter saw this, he drew out
• 4:44:59
  his hatchet and aimed to blow at the sparrow, meaning to kill her,
• 4:45:03
  But she flew away, and the blow fell upon the poor horse's head with
• 4:45:07
  such force that he fell down dead. Oh, unlucky wretch that I am,
• 4:45:15
  cried, He not wretch enough yet, said the sparrow, And as
• 4:45:21
  the carter went on with the other two horses, she again crept under the
• 4:45:25
  tilt of the cart and pecked out the bung of the second cask, so
• 4:45:29
  that all the wine ran out. When the carter saw this, he again
• 4:45:34
  cried out, miserable, wretch that I am. But the sparrow answered,
• 4:45:41
  not wretch enough yet, and perched on the head of the second horse and
• 4:45:47
  pecked at him too. The carter ran up and struck at her again with
• 4:45:51
  his hatchet, but away she flew, and the blow fell upon the second
• 4:45:56
  horse and killed him on the spot. Alas, miserable resh that I am
• 4:46:03
  cried. He not wretched enough yet, answered the sparrow, as she flew
• 4:46:10
  away. Now will I plague and punish thee at thy own house. The
• 4:46:17
  carter was forced at last to leave his cart behind him and to go home,
• 4:46:22
  overflowing with rage and vexation. Alas said he to his wife, what
• 4:46:27
  here luck has befallen me? My wine is all spilt, and my horse
• 4:46:33
  is all three dead. Alas husband replied, she and a wicked bird has
• 4:46:41
  come into the house and has brought with her all the birds in the world.
• 4:46:45
  I am sure that they have fallen upon our corn in the loft and
• 4:46:49
  are eating it up at such a rate. Away round the husband upstairs,
• 4:46:55
  and saw thousands of birds sitting upon the floor eating up his corn, with
• 4:47:00
  the sparrow in the midst of them. Oh, lucky wretch that I am,
• 4:47:07
  cried the carter, for he saw that the corn was almost gone,
• 4:47:12
  And that wretch enough yet, said the sparrow, My cruelty shall cost thee
• 4:47:18
  thy life. Yet, and away she flew. The carter, seeing that
• 4:47:25
  he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen and
• 4:47:30
  was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and
• 4:47:33
  sulkily in the chimney corner. But the sparrow sat on the outside of the
• 4:47:40
  window and cried, Carter, thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life. With
• 4:47:45
  that he jumped up in a rage, seized his hatchet and threw it at
• 4:47:51
  the sparrow, but it missed her and only broke the window. The sparrow
• 4:47:56
  now hopped in, perched upon the window seat, and cried Carter, it
• 4:48:02
  shall cost thee thy life. Then he became mad and blind with rage,
• 4:48:07
  and struck the window seat with such force that he cleft it in two.
• 4:48:12
  And as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife
• 4:48:17
  were so furious that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches,
• 4:48:22
  the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at
• 4:48:27
  all. In the end, however, they caught her, and the wife
• 4:48:32
  said, shall I kill her at once? Now? Cried he that is
• 4:48:37
  letting her off too easily. She shall die a much more cruel death.
• 4:48:42
  I will eat her. But the sparrow began to flutter about and stretch out
• 4:48:48
  her neck, and cried, Carter, it shall cost thee thy life.
• 4:48:53
  Yet with that he could wait no longer. So he gave his wife the
• 4:48:59
  hatchet and cried, wife, strike at the bird, and kill her in
• 4:49:03
  my hand. And the wife struck, but she missed her aim and hit
• 4:49:10
  her husband on the head, so that he fell down dead, and the
• 4:49:15
  sparrow flew quietly home to her nest. End of the dog and the sparrow.
• 4:49:25
  There once was a shoemaker who worked very hard and was very honest,
• 4:49:30
  but still he could not earn enough to live upon, and at last all
• 4:49:33
  he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one
• 4:49:38
  pair of shoes. Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make
• 4:49:42
  up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work.
• 4:49:47
  His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles. So
• 4:49:52
  he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to heaven, and soon
• 4:49:56
  fell asleep. In the morning, after he had said his prayers, he
• 4:50:00
  set himself down to his work, when, to his great wonder there stood
• 4:50:06
  the shoes already made upon the table. The good man knew not what to
• 4:50:11
  say or think it such an odd thing happening. He looked at the workmanship.
• 4:50:15
  There was not one false stitch in the whole job. All was so
• 4:50:21
  neat and true that it was quite a masterpiece. The same day a customer
• 4:50:26
  came in, and the shoes suited him so well that he willingly paid a
• 4:50:30
  price higher than usual for them, and the poor shoemaker, with the money
• 4:50:34
  bought leather enough to make two pairs more. In the evening, he cut
• 4:50:40
  out the work and went to bed early that he might get up and begin
• 4:50:42
  betimes next day. But he was saved all the trouble, for when he
• 4:50:48
  got up in the morning, the work was done ready to his hand.
• 4:50:52
  Soon in came buyers, who paid him handsomely for his goods, so that
• 4:50:57
  he bought leather enough for four pairs more. He cut out the work again
• 4:51:02
  overnight, and found it done in the morning as before, And so it
• 4:51:07
  went on for some time. What was got ready in the evening was always
• 4:51:12
  done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.
• 4:51:19
  One evening about Christmas time, as he and his wife were sitting over
• 4:51:23
  the fire chatting together, he said to her, I should like to sit
• 4:51:27
  up and watch tonight, though we may see who it is that comes and
• 4:51:30
  does my work for me. The wife liked the thought, so they left
• 4:51:36
  the light burning and hid themselves in a corner of the room behind a curtain
• 4:51:41
  that was hung up there, and watched what would happen. As soon as
• 4:51:45
  it was midnight, there came in two little naked dwarfs, and they sat
• 4:51:49
  themselves upon the shoemaker's bench, took up all the work that was cut out,
• 4:51:55
  and began to ply with their little fingers, stitching and rapping and tapping
• 4:52:00
  away at such a rate that the shoemaker was all wonder and could not take
• 4:52:04
  his eyes off them. And on they went till the job was quite done,
• 4:52:10
  and the shoes stood ready for use upon the table. This was long
• 4:52:15
  before daybreak, and then they bustled away as quick as lightning. The next
• 4:52:21
  day, the wife said to the shoemaker, those little whites have made us
• 4:52:25
  rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a
• 4:52:27
  good turn if we can. I am quite sorry to see them run about
• 4:52:33
  as they do, and indeed it is not very decent, for they have
• 4:52:37
  nothing upon their backs to keep off the cold. I'll tell you what.
• 4:52:42
  I will make each of them a shirt and a coat, and a waistcoat,
• 4:52:45
  and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain, and do you make each
• 4:52:49
  of them a little pair of shoes. The thought pleased the old cobbler very
• 4:52:55
  much, and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid
• 4:53:00
  them on the table instead of the work that they used to cut out,
• 4:53:03
  and then went out and hid themselves to watch what the little elves would do.
• 4:53:10
  About midnight, in they came dancing and skipping, hopping round the room,
• 4:53:15
  and then went to sit down to their work as usual. But when
• 4:53:18
  they saw the clothes lying for them, they laughed and chuckled and seemed mightily
• 4:53:25
  delighted. Then they dressed themselves in the twinkling of an eye, and danced
• 4:53:30
  and capered and sprang about as mary as could be, till at last they
• 4:53:33
  danced out the door and away over the green. The good couple saw them
• 4:53:40
  no more, but everything went well with them from that time forward, as
• 4:53:44
  long as they lived. End of the Elves and the Shoemaker. There was
• 4:53:51
  once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pig sty close by the
• 4:53:56
  sea side. The fishermen used to go out all day long fishing, and
• 4:54:00
  one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at
• 4:54:03
  the sparkling waves and watching his line, all of a sudden his float was
• 4:54:08
  dragged away deep into the water, and in drawing it up, he pulled
• 4:54:12
  out a great fish. But the fish said, pray, let me live.
• 4:54:18
  I am not a real fish. I am an enchanted prince. Put
• 4:54:22
  me in the water again and let me go. Oh, said the man,
• 4:54:29
  you need not make so many words about the matter. I will have
• 4:54:33
  nothing to do with a fish that can talk, So swim away, sir,
• 4:54:37
  as soon as you please. Then he put him back into the water,
• 4:54:42
  when the fish darted straight down to the bottom and left a long streak
• 4:54:47
  of blood behind him on the wave. When the fisherman went home to his
• 4:54:52
  wife in the pig sty, he told her how he had caught a great
• 4:54:56
  fish, and how it had told him that it was an enchanted prince,
• 4:55:00
  and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.
• 4:55:03
  Did you not ask it for anything? Said the wife. We live very
• 4:55:10
  wretchedly here in this nasty, dirty pig sty. Do go back and tell
• 4:55:15
  the fish we want a snug little cottage. The fisherman did not much like
• 4:55:19
  the business. However, he went to the seashore, and when he came
• 4:55:25
  back there the water looked all yellow and green. And he stood at the
• 4:55:29
  water's edge and said, oh, manner the sea hearken to me. My
• 4:55:34
  wife is a bill. We'll have her own will, and have sent me
• 4:55:40
  to beggar boon of thee. Then the fish came swimming to him and said,
• 4:55:45
  well, what is her will? What does your wife want? Ah,
• 4:55:49
  said the fisherman. She says that when I had caught you. I
• 4:55:53
  ought to have asked you for something before I let you go. She does
• 4:55:57
  not like living any longer in the pig stye, and wance a snug little
• 4:56:02
  cottage. Go home, then, said the fish. She is in the
• 4:56:07
  cottage already. So the man went home and saw his wife standing at the
• 4:56:12
  door of a nice, trim little cottage. Come in, Come in,
• 4:56:18
  said she. Is not this much better than the filthy pig stye we had.
• 4:56:23
  And there was a parlor and a bed shamer, and a kitchen,
• 4:56:26
  and behind the cottage there was a little garden planted with all sorts of flowers
• 4:56:32
  and fruits, and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.
• 4:56:37
  Ah, said the fisherman. How happily we shall live now. We
• 4:56:44
  will try to do so, at least, said his wife. Everything went
• 4:56:48
  right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilseabel said, husband,
• 4:56:53
  there is not near room enough for us in this cottage. The courtyard and
• 4:56:59
  the guy, and a great deal too small. I should like to have
• 4:57:03
  a large stone castle to live in. Go to the fish again and tell
• 4:57:07
  him to give us a castle. Wife, said the fisherman. I don't
• 4:57:12
  like to go to him again. For perhaps he will be angry. We
• 4:57:17
  ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in nonsense, said the
• 4:57:22
  wife. He will do it very willingly, I know. Go along and
• 4:57:26
  try. The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy, and when
• 4:57:32
  he came to the sea it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very
• 4:57:37
  calm, And he went close to the edge of the waves and said,
• 4:57:41
  o man of the seam. Hearken to me. My wife, il Isabel,
• 4:57:47
  will have her own will, and hath sent me to beg a boon
• 4:57:51
  of thee. Well, what does she want now, said the fish,
• 4:57:56
  ah, said the man dolefully. My wife wants to live in a stone
• 4:58:02
  castle. Go home, then said the fish. She is standing at the
• 4:58:07
  gate of it already. So away went the fisherman and found his wife standing
• 4:58:14
  before the gate of a great castle. See said she is not this grand.
• 4:58:22
  With that, they went into the castle together and found a great many
• 4:58:26
  servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished and full of golden chairs and
• 4:58:32
  tables. And behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a
• 4:58:37
  park half a mile long, full of sheep and goats and hares and deer,
• 4:58:42
  And in the courtyard were stables and cow houses. Well, said the
• 4:58:48
  man. Now we will live cheerful and happy in this beautiful castle for the
• 4:58:52
  rest of our lives. Perhaps we may, said his wife, but let
• 4:58:59
  us sleep upon it before we make our our minds to that. So they
• 4:59:03
  went to bed. The next morning. When Dame Izabel awoke, it was
• 4:59:08
  broad daylight, and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow and said, get
• 4:59:14
  up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we must be king of all
• 4:59:18
  the land. Wife. Wife, said the man, why should we wish
• 4:59:25
  to be the king? I will not be the king, then I will,
• 4:59:30
  said she. But wife, said the fisherman, how can you be
• 4:59:34
  king? The fish cannot make you a king? Husband said she. Say
• 4:59:41
  no more about it, but go and try. I will be king.
• 4:59:48
  So the man went away, quite sorrowful to think that his wife should want
• 4:59:52
  to be king. This time. The sea looked a dark gray color and
• 4:59:57
  was overspread with curling waves and the ridges of foam. As he cried out,
• 5:00:03
  O man of the sea, hearken to me. My wife Ilsebel will
• 5:00:10
  have her own will and has sent me to begar boon of thee. Well
• 5:00:17
  what would she have now? Said the fish, Alas, said the poor
• 5:00:22
  man. My wife wants to be king. Go home, said the fish.
• 5:00:30
  She is king already. Then the fisherman went home, and as he
• 5:00:37
  came close to the palace, he saw a troop of soldiers and heard the
• 5:00:41
  sound of drums and trumpets. And when he went in, he saw his
• 5:00:45
  wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon
• 5:00:52
  her head, and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each
• 5:00:56
  a head taller than the other. Well, wife, said the fisherman.
• 5:01:03
  Are you king, Yes, said she, I am king. And when
• 5:01:10
  he had looked at her for a long time, he said, oh,
• 5:01:14
  wife, what a fine thing it is to be king. Now we shall
• 5:01:19
  never have anything more to wish for as long as we live. I don't
• 5:01:25
  know how that may be, said she, never is a long time.
• 5:01:30
  I am king, it is true, but I begin to be tired of
• 5:01:34
  that, and I think I should like to be emperor. Alas, wife,
• 5:01:41
  why should you wish to be emperor, said the fisherman. Husband said
• 5:01:47
  she go to the fish, I say I will be emperor. Ah,
• 5:01:52
  wife, replied the fisherman. The fish cannot make an emperor. I am
• 5:01:59
  sure, and I I should not like to ask him for such a thing.
• 5:02:03
  I am king, said Ilzabel, and you are my slave. So
• 5:02:08
  go at once. So the fisherman was forced to go, and he muthered
• 5:02:15
  as he went along. This will come to no good. It is too
• 5:02:19
  much to ask. The fish will be tired at last, and then we
• 5:02:26
  shall be sorry for what we have done. He soon came to the seashore,
• 5:02:32
  and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew
• 5:02:36
  over the waves and brow them about. But he went as near as he
• 5:02:41
  could the water's brink, and said, oh, man of the sea,
• 5:02:47
  hearken to me. My wife, Ilzabel will have her own will and have
• 5:02:52
  sent me to begar boon of thee. What would she have now, said
• 5:03:00
  the fish, Ah, said the fisherman. She wants to be emperor.
• 5:03:07
  Go home, said the fish. She is emperor already. So he went
• 5:03:14
  home again, and as he came near, he saw his wife, Ilzabel,
• 5:03:18
  sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great
• 5:03:22
  crown on her head, full two yards high, and on each side of
• 5:03:27
  her stood her guards in attendants in a row, each one smaller than the
• 5:03:33
  other, from the tallest giant down to a little dwarf, no bigger than
• 5:03:37
  my finger. And before her stood princes and dukes and earls. And the
• 5:03:44
  fisherman went up to her and said, wife, are you emperor? Yes,
• 5:03:51
  said she, I am emperor. Ah, said the man, as
• 5:03:56
  he gazed upon her. What a fine thing it is to be emperor.
• 5:04:00
  Husband said she, Why should we stop at being emperor? I will be
• 5:04:07
  pope next, oh wife. Wife said he. How can you be pope?
• 5:04:15
  There is but one pope at a time in Christendom. Husband said she,
• 5:04:21
  I will be pope this very day. But replied the husband, the
• 5:04:26
  fish cannot make you pope. What nonsense, said she. If he can
• 5:04:32
  make me an emperor, he can make me a pope. Go and try
• 5:04:37
  him. So the fisherman went, But when he came to the shore,
• 5:04:41
  the wind was raging, and the sea was tossed up and down in boiling
• 5:04:45
  waves, and the ships were in trouble and rolled fearfully upon the tops of
• 5:04:51
  the billows. In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of
• 5:04:55
  blue sky, but towards the south all was red, as if a dreadful
• 5:05:00
  storm was rising. At this sight, the fisherman was dreadfully frightened. Then
• 5:05:06
  he trembled so that his knees knocked together. But still he went down near
• 5:05:11
  to the shore and said, Oh man of the sea, hearken to me.
• 5:05:18
  My wife Ilsebil will have her own will and have sent me to beg
• 5:05:23
  a boon of thee. What does she want thou said the fish, Ah,
• 5:05:30
  cried the fisherman. My wife wants to be pope. Go home,
• 5:05:36
  said the fish. She is pope already. Then the fisherman went home and
• 5:05:41
  found Isabel sitting on a throne that was two miles high, and she had
• 5:05:47
  three great crowns on her head, and around her stood all the pomp and
• 5:05:51
  power of the church. And on each side of her were two rows of
• 5:05:56
  burning lights of all sizes, the greatest as large is the highest and biggest
• 5:06:00
  tower in the world, and the least no larger than a small rush light.
• 5:06:07
  Wife, said the fisherman, as he looked at all this greatness.
• 5:06:11
  Are you pope, yes, said she, I am pope. Well,
• 5:06:19
  wife replied he. It is a grand thing to be pope. And now
• 5:06:26
  you must be easy, for you can do nothing greater. I will think
• 5:06:32
  about that, said the wife. Then they went to bed, and Dame
• 5:06:37
  Ilsebel could not sleep all night for thinking what she should be next. At
• 5:06:41
  last, as she was dropping asleep, morning broke and the sun rose,
• 5:06:48
  ah, thought she as she woke up and looked at it through the window.
• 5:06:52
  After all, I cannot prevent the sun rising. At this thought,
• 5:06:57
  she was very angry and wakened her husband and said, husband, go to
• 5:07:03
  the fish and tell him I must be lord of the sun and moon.
• 5:07:11
  The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he
• 5:07:15
  started and fell out of bed. Alas wife said, he cannot you be
• 5:07:22
  easy with being pope, No, said she, I am very uneasy as
• 5:07:27
  long as the sun and moon rise without my leave. Go to the fish
• 5:07:33
  at once. Then the man went shivering with fear, and as he was
• 5:07:38
  going down to the shore, a dreadful storm arose, so that the trees
• 5:07:44
  and the very rocks shook. When all the heavens became black with stormy clouds,
• 5:07:48
  and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled, and you might have
• 5:07:53
  seen in the sea great black waves swelling up like mountains with crowns of white
• 5:08:00
  foam upon their heads, and the fisherman crept towards the sea and cried out
• 5:08:07
  as well as he could home. Man of the sea. Hearken to me,
• 5:08:11
  My wife Ilsebel, will have her own will and have sent me to
• 5:08:18
  beg a boon of thee. What does she want now, said the fish,
• 5:08:25
  ah said he. She wants to be lord of the sun and moon.
• 5:08:33
  Go home, said the fish, to your pig sty again, And
• 5:08:38
  there they live to this very day. And of the fisherman and his wife,
• 5:08:48
  dear children, said a poor man to his four sons, I have
• 5:08:52
  nothing to give you. You must go out into the wide world and try
• 5:08:56
  your luck. Begin by learning some craft or another, and see how you
• 5:09:02
  can get on. So the four brothers took their walking sticks in their hands
• 5:09:07
  and their little bundles on their shoulders, and after bidding their father good bye,
• 5:09:12
  went all out at the gate together. When they had got on some
• 5:09:17
  way, they came to four crossways, each leading to a different country.
• 5:09:22
  Then the eldest said, here we must part, but this day four years
• 5:09:27
  we will come back to this spot, And in the meantime each must try
• 5:09:32
  to do what he can for himself. So each brother went his way,
• 5:09:37
  and as the eldest was hastening on. A man met him and asked him
• 5:09:41
  where he was going and what he wanted. I am going to try my
• 5:09:45
  luck in the world, and should like to begin by learning some art or
• 5:09:48
  trade, answered He then said the man, go with me, and I
• 5:09:55
  will teach you to become the cunningest thief that ever was. No, said
• 5:10:00
  the other. That is not an honest calling, and one can one look
• 5:10:04
  to earn by it in the end. But the gallows, oh, said
• 5:10:08
  the man. You need not fear the gallows, for I will only teach
• 5:10:12
  you to steal what will be fair game. I meddle with nothing but what
• 5:10:18
  no one else can get or care anything about, and where no one can
• 5:10:22
  find you out. So the young man agreed to follow his trade, and
• 5:10:26
  he soon showed himself so clever that nothing could escape him that he had once
• 5:10:32
  set his mind upon. The second brother also met a man, who,
• 5:10:37
  when he found out what he was setting out upon, asked him what craft
• 5:10:41
  he meant to follow. I do not know yet, said he. Then
• 5:10:45
  come with me and be a star gazer. It is a noble art,
• 5:10:51
  for nothing can be hidden from you when once you understand the stars. The
• 5:10:57
  plan pleased him much, and he soon became such a skillful stargazer that when
• 5:11:03
  he had served out his time and wanted to leave his master, he gave
• 5:11:07
  him a glass and said, with this you can see all that is passing
• 5:11:11
  in the sky and on earth, and nothing can be hidden from you.
• 5:11:18
  The third brother met a huntsman who took him with him and taught him so
• 5:11:22
  well all that belonged to hunting that he became very clever in the craft of
• 5:11:26
  the woods. And when he left his master, he gave him a bow
• 5:11:30
  and said, whatever you should ad with this bow, you will be sure
• 5:11:36
  to hit. The youngest brother likewise met a man who asked him what he
• 5:11:40
  wished to do. Would you not like, said he to be a tailor.
• 5:11:45
  Oh no, said the young man. Sitting cross legged from morning to
• 5:11:49
  night, working backwards and forwards with a needle and goose will never suit me.
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  Oh, answered the man, That is not any sort of tailoring.
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  Come with me, and you will learn quite another kind of craft from that.
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  Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan and learnt
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  tailoring from the beginning, And when he left his master, he gave him
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  a needle and said you can sew anything with this, be it as soft
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  as an egg or as hard as steal, and the joint will be so
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  fine that no scene will be seen after the space of four years. At
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  the time agreed upon, the four brothers met at the four cross roads,
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  and, having welcomed each other, set off towards their father's home, where
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  they told him all that had happened to them, and how each had learned
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  some craft. Then one day, as they were sitting before the house under
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  a very high tree, the father said, I should like to try what
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  each of you can do in this way. So he looked up and said
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  to the second son, at the top of this tree, there is a
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  chaf inch's nest. Tell me how many eggs there are in it. The
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  stargazer took his glass, looked up and said five. Now, said the
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  father to the eldest son, take away the eggs, without letting the bird
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  that is sitting upon them and hatching them know anything of what you are doing.
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  So the cunning thief climbed up the tree and brought away to his father
• 5:13:25
  the five eggs from under the bird. And it never saw or felt what
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  he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease. Then the father
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  took the eggs and put one on each corner of the table, and the
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  fifth in the middle. Then said to the huntsman, cut all the eggs
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  in two pieces at one shot. The huntsman took up his bow, and
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  at one shot struck all the five eggs as his father wished. Now comes
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  your turn, said he to the young tailor. So the egg and the
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  young birds in them together again, so neatly that the shot shall have done
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  them no harm. Then the tailor took his needle and sowed the eggs as
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  he was told. And when he had done, the thief was sent to
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  take them back to the nest and put them under the bird without its knowing
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  it. Then she went on sitting and hatched them, and in a few
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  days they crawled out and had only a little red streak across their necks where
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  the tailor had sewn them together. Well done, sons, said the old
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  man. You have made good use of your time and learnt something worse than
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  knowing. But I am sure I do not know which ought to have the
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  prize, O that a time might soon come for you to turn your skill
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  to some account. Not long after this there was a great bustle in the
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  country, for the king's daughter had been carried off by a mighty dragon.
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  And the king mourned over her lost day and night, and made it known
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  that whoever brought her back to him should have her for a wife. Then
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  the four brothers said to each other, here is a chance for us.
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  Let us try what we can do, and they agreed to see whether they
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  could not set the princess free. I will soon find out where she is,
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  however, said the star gazer, as he looked through his glass,
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  and soon cried out, I see her afar off, sitting upon a rock
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  in the sea, and I can spy the dragon close by guarding her.
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  Then he went to the king and asked for a ship for himself and his
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  brothers, and they sailed together over the sea till they came to the right
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  place. There they found the princess sitting, as the star gazer had said,
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  on the rock, and the dragon was lying asleep with his head upon
• 5:15:52
  her lap. I dare not shoot at him, said the huntsman, for
• 5:15:57
  I should kill the beautiful young lady all so then I will try my skill,
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  said the thief, and went and stole her away from under the dragon,
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  so quietly and gently that the beast did not know it, but went
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  on snoring. Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat
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  towards the ship. But soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air,
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  for he awoke and missed the princess. And when he got over the
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  boat and wanted to pounce upon them and carry off the princess, the huntsman
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  took up his bow and shot him straight through the heart, so that he
• 5:16:36
  fell down dead. They were still not safe, for he was such a
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  great beast that in his fall he overset the boat, and they had to
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  swim in the open sea upon a few planks. So the tailor took his
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  needle and with a few large stitches, put some of the planks together,
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  and he sat down upon these and sailed about and gathered up all the pieces
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  of the boat, and then tacked them together so quickly that the boat was
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  soon ready, And they then reached the ship and got home safe. When
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  they had brought home the princess to her father, there was great rejoicing,
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  and he said to the Ford brothers, one of you shall marry her,
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  But you must settle amongst yourselves which it is to be. Then there arose
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  a quarrel between them, and the stargazer said, if I had not found
• 5:17:29
  the princess out all, your skill would have been of no use. Therefore
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  she ought to be mine. Your seeing her would have been of no use,
• 5:17:37
  said the thief, if I had not taken her away from the dragon,
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  therefore she ought to be mine. No, she is mine, said
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  the huntsman, For if I had not killed the dragon, he would after
• 5:17:49
  all have torn you and the princess and the pieces. And if I had
• 5:17:53
  not served the boat together again, said the tailor, you would have all
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  drowned. Therefore, or she is mine. Then the king put in a
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  word and said, each of you is right, and as all cannot have
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  the young lady, the best way is for neither of you to have her.
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  For the truth is there is somebody she likes a great deal better.
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  But to make up for your loss, I will give each of you,
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  as a reward for his skill, half a kingdom. So the brothers agreed
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  that the plan would be much better than either quarreling or marrying a lady who
• 5:18:32
  had no mind to have them, and the king then gave to each other
• 5:18:36
  half a kingdom, as he had said, and they lived very happily the
• 5:18:41
  rest of their days. Then took good care of their father, and somebody
• 5:18:45
  took better care of the young lady than to let either the dragon or one
• 5:18:49
  of the craftsmen have her again. And of the four clever brothers, it
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  happened that the cat met the fox in a four forest, And as she
• 5:19:00
  thought to herself, he is clever and full of experience, and much esteemed
• 5:19:06
  in the world, she spoke to him in a friendly way. Good day,
• 5:19:11
  dear mister fox, How are you? How is all with you?
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  How are you getting on in these hard times? The fox, full of
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  all kinds of arrogance, looked at the cat from head to foot, and
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  for a long time did not know whether he would give an answer or not.
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  At last he said, Oh, you wretched beard cleaner, you piebald
• 5:19:34
  fool, you hungry mouse hunter? What can you be thinking of? Have
• 5:19:40
  you the cheek to ask? How I am getting on? What have you
• 5:19:45
  learned? How many arts do you understand? I understand? But one replied
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  the cat modestly, What art is that? Asked the fox? When the
• 5:19:57
  hounds are following me, I can spring into a tree and save myself.
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  Is that all? Said the fox. I am master of a hundred arts
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  and half into the bargain a sack full of cunning. You make me sorry
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  for you. Come with me. I will teach you how people get away
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  from the hounds. Just then came a hunter with four dogs. The cat
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  sprang nimbly up a tree and sat down at the top of it, where
• 5:20:29
  the branches and foliage quite concealed her. Open your sack, mister fox,
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  Open your sack, cried the cat to him, But the dogs had already
• 5:20:38
  seized him and were holding him fast. Ah, mister fox, cried the
• 5:20:44
  cat. You, with your hundred arts, are left in the lurch.
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  Had you been able to climb like me, you would not have lost your
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  life. End of the fox and the cat. A farmer had a horse
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  that had been an excellent, faithful servant to him, but he was now
• 5:21:02
  grown too old to work. So the farmer would give him nothing more to
• 5:21:06
  eat, and said, I want you no longer, so take yourself off
• 5:21:11
  out of my stable. I shall not take you back again until you are
• 5:21:15
  stronger than a lion. Then he opened the door and turned him adrift.
• 5:21:21
  The poor horse was very melancholy and wandered up and down in the wood,
• 5:21:26
  seeking some little shelter from the cold wind and rain. Presently a fox met
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  him. What's the matter, my friend, asked he. Why do you
• 5:21:36
  hang down your head and look so lonely? And woe be gone? Ah,
• 5:21:41
  replied the horse, justus and Apharis never dwell in one house. My
• 5:21:47
  master has forgotten all that I have done for him so many years, and
• 5:21:51
  because I can no longer work, he has turned me adrift, and says
• 5:21:56
  unless I can become stronger than a lion, he will not take me back
• 5:22:00
  again. What chance can I have of that? He knows I have none,
• 5:22:04
  or he would not talk. So however, the fox bid him be
• 5:22:10
  of good cheer and said, I will help you lie down there, stretch
• 5:22:15
  yourself out quite stiff, and pretend to be dead. The horse did as
• 5:22:19
  he was told, and the fox went straight to the lion who lived in
• 5:22:23
  a cave close by, and said to him, a little way off lies
• 5:22:29
  a dead horse. Come with me, and you may make an excellent meal
• 5:22:33
  of his carcasse. The lion was greatly pleased and set off immediately, and
• 5:22:38
  when they came to the horse, the fox said, you will not be
• 5:22:41
  able to eat him comfortably. Here I'll tell you what. I will tie
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  you fast to his tail, and then you can draw him to your den
• 5:22:51
  and eat him at your leisure. This advice pleased the lion, so he
• 5:22:56
  laid himself down quietly for the fox to make him fast to the horse.
• 5:23:00
  But the fox managed to tie his legs together and bound all so hard and
• 5:23:04
  fast that with all his strength he could not set himself free. When the
• 5:23:10
  work was done, the fox clapped the horse on the shoulder and said chip,
• 5:23:15
  dubb and jip. Then up he sprang and moved off, dragging the
• 5:23:21
  lion behind him. The beast began to roar and bellow till all the birds
• 5:23:26
  of the wood flew away for fright. But the horse let him sing on
• 5:23:30
  and made his way quietly over the fields to his master's house. Here he
• 5:23:37
  is master, said he I have got the better of him. And when
• 5:23:44
  the farmer saw his old servant, his heart relented, and he said,
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  thou shalt stay and thy stable and be well taken care of. And so
• 5:23:53
  the poor old horse had plenty to eat and lived till he died end of
• 5:24:00
  the fox and the horse. One fine evening, a young princess put on
• 5:24:06
  her bonnets and clogs and went out to take a walk by herself in a
• 5:24:10
  wood. And when she came to a cool spring of water that rose in
• 5:24:14
  the midst of it, she sat herself down to rest awhile. Now she
• 5:24:18
  had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favorite plaything, and
• 5:24:23
  she was always tossing it up into the air and catching it again as it
• 5:24:27
  fell. After a time, she threw it up so high that she missed
• 5:24:33
  catching it as it fell, and the ball bounded away and rolled along upon
• 5:24:37
  the ground, till at last it fell down into the spring. The princess
• 5:24:42
  looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so
• 5:24:48
  deep that she could not see the bottom of it. Then she began to
• 5:24:52
  bewail her loss and said, Alas, if I could only get my ball
• 5:24:57
  again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels and everything that I
• 5:25:03
  have in the world. Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head
• 5:25:07
  out of the water and said, Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?
• 5:25:14
  Alas, she said, what can you do for me, you nasty
• 5:25:18
  frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring. The frog said,
• 5:25:23
  I want not your pearls and jewels and fine clothes. But if you will
• 5:25:30
  love me and let me live with you, and eat from off your golden
• 5:25:33
  plate and sleep upon your bed, I will bring you your ball again.
• 5:25:40
  What nonsense this silly frog is talking, thought the princess. He can never
• 5:25:45
  even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able
• 5:25:49
  to get my ball for me, And therefore I will tell him he shall
• 5:25:55
  have what he asks. So she said to the frog, well, if
• 5:26:00
  you will bring me my ball, I will do all you ask. Then
• 5:26:06
  the frog put his head down and dived deep under the water, and after
• 5:26:10
  a little while he came up again with the ball in his mouth, and
• 5:26:15
  threw it on the edge of the spring. As soon as the young princess
• 5:26:19
  saw her ball, she ran to pick it up, and she was so
• 5:26:22
  overjoyed to have it in her hand again that she never thought of the frog,
• 5:26:27
  but ran home with it as fast as she could. The frog called
• 5:26:33
  after her, stay, princess, and take me with you, as you
• 5:26:37
  said, but she did not stop to hear a word. The next day,
• 5:26:44
  just as the princess had sat down to dinner. She heard a strange
• 5:26:48
  noise, tap tap, plash, plash, as if something was coming up
• 5:26:53
  the marble staircase. And soon afterwards there was a great knock at the door,
• 5:26:59
  and a little voice cried out and said, open the door, my
• 5:27:03
  princess dear, open the door to thy true love here, and mind the
• 5:27:11
  words that thou and I said by the fountain cool in the greenwood shade.
• 5:27:18
  Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw
• 5:27:22
  the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight, she was
• 5:27:27
  sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could, came back
• 5:27:33
  to her seat. The King, her father, seeing that something had frightened
• 5:27:37
  her, asked her what was the matter. There is a nasty frog,
• 5:27:44
  said she at the door, then lifted my ball for me out of the
• 5:27:47
  spring. This morning I told him that he should live with me here,
• 5:27:52
  thinking that he could never get out of the spring. But there he is
• 5:27:56
  at the door, and he wants to come in. While she was speaking,
• 5:28:00
  the frog knocked again at the door and said, open the door,
• 5:28:04
  my princess dear, open the door to thy true love here, and mind
• 5:28:11
  the words that thou, and I said, by the fountain cool in the
• 5:28:15
  greenwood shade. Then the king said to the young princess, whereas you have
• 5:28:21
  given your word, you must keep it, So go and let him in.
• 5:28:26
  She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then
• 5:28:30
  straight on, tap tap, plash plash, from the bottom of the room
• 5:28:36
  to the top, till he came up close to the table where the princess
• 5:28:38
  sat. Pray, lift me upon the chair, said he to the princess,
• 5:28:45
  and let me sit next to you. As soon as she had done
• 5:28:49
  this, the frog said, put your plate nearer to me that I may
• 5:28:53
  eat out of it. This she did, and when he had eaten as
• 5:29:00
  much as he could, he said, now I am tired. Carry me
• 5:29:04
  upstairs and put me into your bed. And the princess, though very unwilling,
• 5:29:11
  took him up in her hand and put him upon the pillow of her
• 5:29:15
  own bed, where he slept all night long. As soon as it was
• 5:29:21
  light, he jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went out of the house.
• 5:29:26
  Now then thought the princess, at last he is gone, and I
• 5:29:32
  shall be troubled with him no more. But she was mistaken, for when
• 5:29:38
  night came again, she heard the same tapping at the door, and the
• 5:29:42
  frog came once more and said, open the door, my princess, dear,
• 5:29:48
  open the door to thy true love. Here, and mind the words
• 5:29:53
  that thou and I said by the fountain cool in the greenwood shade. And
• 5:30:00
  when the princess opened the door, the frog came in and slept upon her
• 5:30:03
  pillow as before till the morning broke. And the third night he did the
• 5:30:10
  same. But when the princess awoke on the following morning, she was astonished
• 5:30:15
  to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince gazing on her with
• 5:30:21
  the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen, and standing at the head of
• 5:30:26
  her bed, he told her that he had been enchanted by a spiteful fairy
• 5:30:33
  who had changed him into a frog, and that he had been fated so
• 5:30:37
  to abide till some princess should take him out of the spring and let him
• 5:30:41
  eat from her plate and sleep upon her bed for three nights. You said,
• 5:30:48
  the prince have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to
• 5:30:52
  wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where
• 5:30:57
  I will marry you and love you as long as you live. The young
• 5:31:03
  princess, you may be sure, was not long in saying yes to all
• 5:31:07
  this. And as they spoke, a gay coach drove up with eight beautiful
• 5:31:12
  horses, decked with plumes of feathers and a golden harness. And behind the
• 5:31:18
  coach rode the prince's servant, faithful Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of
• 5:31:25
  his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly that his heart had
• 5:31:30
  well nigh burst. They then took leave of the king and got into the
• 5:31:37
  coach with eight horses, and all set out full of joy and merriment for
• 5:31:41
  the prince's kingdom, which they reached safely. And there they lived happily a
• 5:31:48
  great many years. And of the frog prince a certain king had a beautiful
• 5:31:56
  garden, And in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These
• 5:32:03
  apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe,
• 5:32:07
  it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king
• 5:32:12
  became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night
• 5:32:18
  under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch, but about
• 5:32:22
  twelve o'clock, he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples
• 5:32:27
  was missing. Then the second son was ordered to watch, and at midnight
• 5:32:33
  he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. Then
• 5:32:38
  the third son offered to keep watch, but the gardener at first would not
• 5:32:44
  let him, for fear some harm should come to him. However, at
• 5:32:48
  last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch.
• 5:32:55
  As the clock struck twelve if he heard a rustling noise in the air,
• 5:32:59
  and a bird came flying that was of pure gold, And as it
• 5:33:03
  was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped
• 5:33:07
  up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no
• 5:33:11
  harm, only it dropped a golden feather from its tail and then flew away.
• 5:33:18
  The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning. When all
• 5:33:22
  the council was called together, everyone agreed that it was worth more than all
• 5:33:26
  the wealth of the kingdom. But the King said, one feather is of
• 5:33:32
  no use to me. I must have the whole bird. Then the gardener's
• 5:33:37
  eldest son sat out and thought to find the golden bird very easily. And
• 5:33:44
  when he had gone but a little way, he came to a wood,
• 5:33:48
  and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting. So he
• 5:33:52
  took his bow and made ready to shoot at it. Then the fox said,
• 5:33:56
  do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel. I
• 5:34:03
  know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.
• 5:34:10
  You will reach a village in the evening, and when you get there
• 5:34:12
  you will see two inns opposite to each other, one of which is very
• 5:34:18
  pleasant and beautiful to look at. Go not in there, but rest for
• 5:34:22
  the night in the other, though it may appear to you to be very
• 5:34:26
  poor and mean. But the sun thought to himself, what can such a
• 5:34:32
  beast as this know about the matter. So he shot his arrow at the
• 5:34:37
  fox, but he missed it, and it set up its tail above its
• 5:34:41
  back and ran into the wood. Then he went his way, and in
• 5:34:47
  the evening came to the village where the two inns were. And in one
• 5:34:51
  of these were people singing and dancing and feasting, but the other looked very
• 5:34:56
  dirty and poor. I should be very silly, said he if I went
• 5:35:03
  to that shabby house and left this charming place, So he went into the
• 5:35:08
  smart house and ate and drank at his ease, and forgot the bird and
• 5:35:14
  his country too. Time passed on, and as the eldest son did not
• 5:35:19
  come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set
• 5:35:25
  out, and the same thing happened to him. He met the fox,
• 5:35:29
  who gave him the good advice. But when he came to the two inns,
• 5:35:33
  his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was and called
• 5:35:37
  to him to come in, and he could not withstand the temptation, but
• 5:35:42
  went in and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
• 5:35:48
  Time passed on again, and the youngest son, too wished to set out
• 5:35:52
  into the wide world to seek for the golden bird. But his father would
• 5:35:57
  not listen to it for a long long while, for he was very fond
• 5:36:02
  of his son and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also
• 5:36:07
  and prevent his coming back. However, at last it was agreed he should
• 5:36:11
  go, for he would not rest at home. And as he came to
• 5:36:17
  the wood, he met the fox and heard the same good counsel. But
• 5:36:22
  he was thankful to the fox and did not attempt his life as his brothers
• 5:36:26
  had done. Sit upon my tail, and you will travel faster. So
• 5:36:32
  he sat down, and the fox began to run, and away they went
• 5:36:37
  over stock and stone so quick that their hair whistled in the wind. When
• 5:36:42
  they came to the village, the sun followed the fox's counsel, and without
• 5:36:47
  looking about him, went to the shabby inn, and rested there all night
• 5:36:52
  at his ease. In the morning came the fox again and met him as
• 5:36:56
  he was beginning his journey, and said, go straight forward till you come
• 5:37:02
  to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers, fast asleep
• 5:37:07
  and snoring. Take no notice of them, but go into the castle and
• 5:37:12
  pass on and on till you come to a room where the golden bird sits
• 5:37:18
  in a wooden cage. Close by it stands a beautiful golden cage. But
• 5:37:23
  do not try to take the bird out of the shabby cage and put it
• 5:37:27
  into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it. Then the fox stretched
• 5:37:33
  out his tail again, and the young man sat himself down, and away
• 5:37:38
  they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled in the wind. Before
• 5:37:45
  the castle gates. All was as the fox had said. So the Sun
• 5:37:48
  went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage,
• 5:37:55
  and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had
• 5:37:59
  been lost were lying close by it. Then thought he to himself, it
• 5:38:04
  will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this
• 5:38:07
  shabby cage. So he opened the door and took hold of it and put
• 5:38:12
  it into the golden cage. But the bird set up such a loud scream
• 5:38:18
  that all the soldiers awoke. Then they took him prisoner and carried him before
• 5:38:22
  the king. The next morning, the court sat to judge him, and
• 5:38:27
  when all was heard, it sentenced him to die unless he should bring the
• 5:38:33
  king the golden horse, which could run as swiftly as the wind. And
• 5:38:38
  if he did this he was to have the golden bird given him for his
• 5:38:42
  own. So he set out once more on his journey, sighing and in
• 5:38:48
  great despair, when on a sudden his friend the Fox met him and said,
• 5:38:55
  you see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my
• 5:38:59
  counsel. I will, still, however, tell you how to find the
• 5:39:03
  golden horse. If you will do as I bid you, you must go
• 5:39:08
  straight on till you come to the castle, where the horse stands in his
• 5:39:11
  stall. By his side will lie the groom, fast asleep and snoring.
• 5:39:18
  Take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put on the old leathern
• 5:39:22
  saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.
• 5:39:29
  Then the sun sat down on the fox's tail, and away they went over
• 5:39:33
  stock and stone, till their hair whistled in the wind. All went right,
• 5:39:40
  and the groom lay snoring with his hand upon the golden saddle. But
• 5:39:45
  when the Sun looked at the horse, he thought it a great pity to
• 5:39:48
  put the leathern saddle upon it. I will give him the good one,
• 5:39:52
  said he. I am sure he deserves it. As he took up the
• 5:39:57
  golden saddle, the groom awoke and cried out so loud that all the guards
• 5:40:04
  ran in and took him prisoner. And in the morning he was again brought
• 5:40:08
  before the court to be judged, and was sentenced to die. But it
• 5:40:15
  was agreed that if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live
• 5:40:21
  and have the bird and the horse given him for his own. Then he
• 5:40:26
  went his way, very sorrowful. But the old fox came and said,
• 5:40:30
  why did you not listen to me? If you had, you would have
• 5:40:36
  carried away both the bird and the horse. Yet, will I once more
• 5:40:41
  give you counsel. Go straight on, and in the evening you will arrive
• 5:40:47
  at a castle. At twelve o'clock at night, the princess goes to the
• 5:40:51
  bathing house. Go up to her and give her a kiss, and she
• 5:40:56
  will let you lead her away, But take care you do not suffer her
• 5:41:00
  to go and take leave of her father and mother. Then the fox stretched
• 5:41:06
  out his tail, and so away they went over stock and stone, till
• 5:41:11
  their hair whistled again. As they came to the castle. All was as
• 5:41:18
  the fox had said. And at twelve o'clock the young man met the princess
• 5:41:22
  going to the bath and gave her a kiss, and she agreed to run
• 5:41:26
  away with him, but begged with many tears that he would let her take
• 5:41:30
  leave of her father. At first he refused, but she wept still more
• 5:41:37
  and more and fell at his feet, till at last he consented. But
• 5:41:42
  the moment she came to her father's house, the guards awoke, and he
• 5:41:47
  was taken prisoner again. Then he was brought before the king, and the
• 5:41:52
  king said, you shall never have my daughter unless it eight days you dig
• 5:41:57
  away the hill that stops the view from my window. Now this hill was
• 5:42:03
  so big that the whole world could not take it away. And when he
• 5:42:07
  had worked for seven days and done very little, the fox came and said,
• 5:42:14
  lie down and go to sleep. I will work for you. And
• 5:42:18
  in the morning he awoke and the hill was gone. So he went merrily
• 5:42:25
  to the king and told him that now that it was removed, he must
• 5:42:30
  give him the princess. Then the king was obliged to keep his word,
• 5:42:34
  and away went the young man and the princess. The fox came and said
• 5:42:40
  to him, we will have all three, the princess, the horse,
• 5:42:44
  and the bird. Ah said the young man, that would be a great
• 5:42:48
  thing, But how can you contrive it? If you will only listen,
• 5:42:55
  said the fox, it can be done. When you come to the king
• 5:43:00
  and he asks for the beautiful princess, you must say here she is.
• 5:43:06
  Then he will be very joyful, and you will mount the golden horse that
• 5:43:11
  they are to give you, and put out your hand to take leave of
• 5:43:15
  them. But shake hands with the princess last, then lift her quickly on
• 5:43:21
  to the horse behind you, clap your spurs to his side, and gallop
• 5:43:25
  away as fast as you can. All went right. Then the fox said,
• 5:43:32
  when you come to the castle where the bird is, I will stay
• 5:43:36
  with the princess at the door, and you will ride in and speak to
• 5:43:40
  the king, And when he sees that it is the right horse, he
• 5:43:42
  will bring out the bird. But you must sit still and say that you
• 5:43:48
  want to look at it to see whether it is the true golden bird.
• 5:43:52
  And when you get it into your hand, ride away. This too happened
• 5:44:00
  as the fox said. They carried off the bird, the princess mounted again,
• 5:44:04
  and they rode on into a great wood. Then the fox came and
• 5:44:10
  said, pray kill me and cut off my head and my feet. But
• 5:44:15
  the young man refused to do it. So the fox said, I will
• 5:44:19
  at any rate give you good counsel. Beware of two things. Ransom no
• 5:44:26
  one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.
• 5:44:33
  Then away he went. Well, thought the young man, it is no
• 5:44:38
  hard matter to keep that advice. He rode on with the princess till at
• 5:44:44
  last he came to the village where he had left his two brothers, and
• 5:44:48
  there he heard a great noise and uproar, And when he asked what was
• 5:44:52
  the matter, the people said, two men are going to be hanged.
• 5:44:56
  As he came nearer, he saw that the two men were his brothers,
• 5:45:02
  who had turned robbers. So he said, cannot they in any way be
• 5:45:07
  saved? But the people said no, unless he would bestow all his money
• 5:45:14
  upon the rascals and buy their liberty. Then he did not stay to think
• 5:45:18
  about the matter, but paid what was asked, and his brothers were given
• 5:45:23
  up and went on with him towards their home. And as they came to
• 5:45:29
  the wood where the fox first met them, it was so cool and pleasant
• 5:45:33
  that the two brothers said, let us sit down by the side of the
• 5:45:37
  river and rest awhile to eat and drink. So he said yes, and
• 5:45:42
  forgot the fox's counsel and sat down on the side of the river. And
• 5:45:48
  while he suspected nothing, they came behind and threw him down the bank,
• 5:45:55
  and took the princess, the horse, and the bird, and went home
• 5:45:59
  to the king there master, and said, all this have we won by
• 5:46:03
  our labor. Then there was great rejoicing made but the horse would not eat,
• 5:46:10
  the bird would not sing, and the princess wept. The youngest son
• 5:46:17
  fell to the bottom of the river's bed. Luckily it was nearly dry,
• 5:46:22
  but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he
• 5:46:26
  could find no way to get out. Then the old fox came once more
• 5:46:33
  and scolded him for not following his advice. Otherwise no evil would have befallen
• 5:46:40
  him. Yet said he I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of
• 5:46:47
  my tail and hold fast. Then he pulled him out of the river and
• 5:46:52
  said to him, as he got upon the bank, your brothers have set
• 5:46:56
  watch to kill you if they find you the kingdom. So he dressed himself
• 5:47:03
  as a poor man and came secretly to the king's court, and was scarcely
• 5:47:07
  within the doors when the horse began to eat and the bird to sing,
• 5:47:11
  and the princess left off weeping. And he went to the king and told
• 5:47:18
  him all his brother's roguery, and they were seized and punished, and he
• 5:47:22
  had the princess given to him again, And after the king's death he was
• 5:47:29
  heir to his kingdom. A long while after, he went to walk one
• 5:47:33
  day in the wood, and the old fox met him and besought him with
• 5:47:38
  tears in his eyes to kill him had cut off his head and feet,
• 5:47:44
  and at last he did so, and in a moment the fox was changed
• 5:47:48
  into a man, and turned out to be the brother of the princess who
• 5:47:53
  had been lost a great many many years, and of the golden bird.
• 5:48:03
  There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called
• 5:48:07
  dummling, and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion.
• 5:48:12
  It happened that the eldest went to go into the forest to hew wood,
• 5:48:17
  and before he went, his mother gave him a beautiful sweet cake and a
• 5:48:21
  bottle of wine in order that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst.
• 5:48:26
  When he entered the forest, he met a little, gray haired old man
• 5:48:30
  who bade him good day, and said, do give me a piece of
• 5:48:34
  cake out of your pocket, and let me have a draft of your wine.
• 5:48:40
  I am so hungry and thirsty. But the clever son answered, if
• 5:48:45
  I give you my cake and wine, I shall have none for myself.
• 5:48:49
  Be off with you, And he left the little man standing and went on.
• 5:48:55
  But when he began to hew down a tree. It was not long
• 5:48:59
  before he made a false stroke, and the axe cut him in the arm,
• 5:49:03
  so that he had to go home and have it bound up. And
• 5:49:06
  this was the little gray Man's doing. After this, the second son went
• 5:49:11
  into the forest, and his mother gave him, like the eldest, a
• 5:49:15
  cake and a bottle of wine. The little old gray man met him likewise
• 5:49:19
  and asked him for a piece of cake and a drink of wine. But
• 5:49:23
  the second son, too said, sensibly enough what I give you will be
• 5:49:29
  taken away from myself. Be off, and he left the little man standing
• 5:49:33
  and went on. His punishment, however, was not delayed. When he
• 5:49:38
  had made a few blows at the tree, he struck himself in the leg,
• 5:49:42
  so that he had to be carried home. Then Dummling said, father,
• 5:49:48
  do let me go and cut wood. The father answered, your brothers
• 5:49:53
  have hurt themselves with it. Leave it alone. You do not understand anything
• 5:49:59
  about it. But Dummling begged so long that at last he said, just
• 5:50:04
  go, then you will get wiser by hurting yourself. His mother gave him
• 5:50:11
  a cake made of water and baked in the cinders, and with it a
• 5:50:15
  bottle of sour beer. When he came to the forest, the little old
• 5:50:19
  gray man met him likewise, and greeting him, said, give me a
• 5:50:25
  piece of your cake and a drink of your bottle. I am so hungry
• 5:50:30
  and thirsty. Dummling answered, I have only sinder cake and sour beer.
• 5:50:37
  If that pleases you, we will sit down and eat. So they sat
• 5:50:41
  down, and when Dummling pulled out his cinder cake, it was a fine
• 5:50:47
  sweet cake, and the sour beer became good wine. So they ate and
• 5:50:52
  drank. And after that the little man said, since you have a good
• 5:50:56
  heart and are willing to divide what you have, I will give you good
• 5:51:02
  luck. There stands an old tree. Cut it down and you will find
• 5:51:08
  something at the roots. Then the little man took leave of him. Doubling
• 5:51:15
  went and cut down the tree, and when it fell there was a goose
• 5:51:19
  sitting in the roots with feathers of pure gold. He lifted her up,
• 5:51:26
  and, taking her with him, went to an inn, where he thought
• 5:51:29
  he would stay the night. Now the host had three daughters who saw the
• 5:51:33
  goose and were curious to know what such a wonderful bird might be, and
• 5:51:37
  would have liked to have one of its golden feathers. The eldest thought,
• 5:51:42
  I will soon find an opportunity of pulling out a feather, and as soon
• 5:51:45
  as Dummling had gone out, she seized the goose by the wing, but
• 5:51:49
  her finger and hand remained sticking fast to it. The second came soon afterwards,
• 5:51:56
  thinking only of how she might get a feather for herself, but she
• 5:52:00
  had scarcely touched her sister when she was held fast. At last, the
• 5:52:06
  third also came with the like intent, and the others screamed out keep away,
• 5:52:11
  for goodness sake, keep away, but she did not understand why she
• 5:52:15
  was to keep away. The others are there. She thought, I may
• 5:52:18
  as well be there too, and ran to them, But as soon as
• 5:52:22
  she had touched her sister, she remained sticking fast to her. So they
• 5:52:29
  had to spend the nights with the goose. The next morning, Dummling took
• 5:52:33
  the goose under his arm and set out without troubling himself about the three girls
• 5:52:37
  who were hanging on to it. They were obliged to run after him continually.
• 5:52:44
  Now left now right wherever his legs took him. In the middle of
• 5:52:48
  the fields, the parson met them, and when he saw the procession,
• 5:52:52
  he said, for shame you good for nothing? Girls? Why are you
• 5:52:56
  running across the fields after this young man? Is that seemly? At the
• 5:53:03
  same time, he seized the youngest by the hand in order to pull her
• 5:53:06
  away, But as soon as he touched her, he likewise stuck fast and
• 5:53:11
  was himself obliged to run behind. Before long, the sexton came by and
• 5:53:18
  saw his master, the parson, running behind three girls. He was astonished
• 5:53:22
  at this and called out, hay, your reverence, whither away so quickly?
• 5:53:30
  Do not forget that we have a christening to day, and running after
• 5:53:33
  him, he took him by the sleeve, but was also held fast to
• 5:53:37
  it. Whilst the five were trotting thus, one behind the other, two
• 5:53:42
  laborers came with their hose from the fields. The parson called out to them
• 5:53:48
  and begged that they would set him and the sexton free. But they had
• 5:53:52
  scarcely touched the sexton when they were held fast, and now there were seven
• 5:53:57
  of them running behind Dumbling and the goose. Soon afterwards he came to a
• 5:54:03
  city where a king ruled, who had a daughter who was so serious that
• 5:54:07
  no one could make her laugh. So he had put forth a decree that
• 5:54:11
  whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her. When Dummling heard
• 5:54:17
  this, he went with his goose and all her train before the king's daughter.
• 5:54:22
  And as soon as she saw the seven people running on and on,
• 5:54:26
  one behind the other, she began to laugh, quite loudly, and as
• 5:54:30
  if she would never stop. Thereupon, Dummling asked to have her for his
• 5:54:34
  wife. But the king did not like the son in law, and made
• 5:54:38
  all manner of excuses, and said he must first produce a man who could
• 5:54:42
  drink a cellarful of wine. Dummling thought of the little gray man, who
• 5:54:48
  would certainly help him. So he went into the forest, and in the
• 5:54:52
  same place where he had felled the tree, he saw a man sitting who
• 5:54:56
  had a very sorrowful face. Dummling asked him what he was taking to heart
• 5:55:02
  so sorely, and he answered, I have such a great thirst and cannot
• 5:55:07
  quench it cold water. I cannot stand a barrel of wine I have just
• 5:55:12
  emptied, But that to me is like a drop on a hot stone.
• 5:55:18
  There I can help you, said Dummling. Just come with me and you
• 5:55:22
  shall be satisfied. He led him into the King's cellar, and the man
• 5:55:27
  bent over the huge barrels and drank and drank till his loins hurt, And
• 5:55:33
  before the day was out he had emptied all the barrels. Then Dummling asked
• 5:55:40
  once more for his bride. But the king was vexed at such an ugly
• 5:55:44
  fellow, whom every one called Dummling, should take away his daughter, and
• 5:55:48
  he made a new condition, he must first find a man who can eat
• 5:55:52
  a whole mountain of bread. Dummling did not think long, but went straight
• 5:55:59
  into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was
• 5:56:03
  tying up his body with a strap and making an awful face, and saying,
• 5:56:07
  I have eaten the whole ovenful of rolls. But what good is that
• 5:56:11
  when one has such a hunger as i. My stomach remains empty, and
• 5:56:17
  I must tie myself up if I am not to die of hunger. That
• 5:56:22
  this Dumbling was glad and said, get up, Come with me, you
• 5:56:26
  shall eat yourself full. He led him to the king's palace, where all
• 5:56:33
  the flour in the whole kingdom was collected, and from it he caused a
• 5:56:37
  huge mountain of bread to be baked. The man from the forest stood before
• 5:56:42
  it began to eat, and by the end of one day the whole mountain
• 5:56:47
  had vanished. Then Dumbling, for the third time, asked for his bride,
• 5:56:52
  but the king again sought a way out and ordered a ship which could
• 5:56:56
  sail on land and hot water. As soon as you come sailing back in
• 5:57:00
  it, said he, you shall have my daughter for wife. Dummling went
• 5:57:06
  straight into the forest, and there sat the little gray man to whom he
• 5:57:10
  had given his cake. When he heard what Dummling wanted, he said,
• 5:57:15
  since you have given me to eat and drink, I will give you the
• 5:57:18
  ship. And I do all this because you once were kind to me.
• 5:57:25
  Then he gave him the ship, which could sail on land and water,
• 5:57:29
  And when the king saw that he could no longer prevent him from having his
• 5:57:33
  daughter, the wedding was celebrated, and after the king's death, Dummling inherited
• 5:57:38
  his kingdom and lived for a long time contentedly with his wife. End of
• 5:57:45
  the Golden Goose, the King of a great Land died and left his queen
• 5:57:52
  to take care of their only child. The child was a daughter who was
• 5:57:56
  very beautiful, and her mother loved her dearly and was very kind to her.
• 5:58:03
  And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess
• 5:58:07
  and helped her mother to watch over her. When she grew up, she
• 5:58:11
  was betrothed to a prince who lived a great way off, and as the
• 5:58:15
  time drew near for her to be married, she got ready to set off
• 5:58:18
  on her journey to his country. Then the queen her mother packed up a
• 5:58:25
  great many costly things, jewels and gold and silver trinkets, fine dresses and
• 5:58:32
  in shorts, everything that became a royal bride, and she gave her a
• 5:58:37
  waiting maid to ride with her and give her into the bridegroom's hands, and
• 5:58:41
  each had a horse for the journey. Now, the princess's horse was the
• 5:58:47
  fairy's gift, and it was called Falada and could speak. When the time
• 5:58:53
  came for them to set out, the fairy went into her bedchamber and took
• 5:58:57
  a little knife and cut off a lock of her hair and gave it to
• 5:59:02
  the princess, and said, take care of it, dear child, for
• 5:59:06
  it is a charm that may be of use to you on the road.
• 5:59:11
  Then they all took a sorrowful leave of the princess, and she put the
• 5:59:15
  lock of hair into her bosom, got upon her horse, and set off
• 5:59:19
  on her journey to her bridegroom's kingdom. One day, as they were riding
• 5:59:26
  along by a brook, the princess began to feel very thirsty, and she
• 5:59:30
  said to her maid, pray, get down and fetch me some water in
• 5:59:34
  my golden cup out of yonder brook, for I want to drink. Nay,
• 5:59:41
  said the maid, if you are thirsty, get off yourself and stoop
• 5:59:45
  down by the water and drink. I shall not be your waiting maid any
• 5:59:51
  longer. Then she was so thirsty that she got down and knelt over the
• 5:59:56
  little brook and drank. For she was frightened and dared not bring out her
• 6:00:02
  golden cup. And she wept and said, alas, what will become of
• 6:00:07
  me? And the lock answered her and said, alas, alas, if
• 6:00:14
  thy mother knew it sadly, sadly would she rue it. But the princess
• 6:00:21
  was very gentle and meek, so she said nothing to her maid's ill behavior,
• 6:00:26
  but got upon her horse again. Then all rode farther on their journey,
• 6:00:32
  till the day grew so warm and the sun so scorching, that the
• 6:00:36
  bride began to feel very thirsty again, And at last, when they came
• 6:00:41
  to a river, she forgot her maid's rude speech and said, pray,
• 6:00:45
  get down and fetch me some water to drink in my golden cup. But
• 6:00:51
  the maid answered her and spoke even more haughtily than before. Drink if you
• 6:00:56
  will, but I shall not be your waiting maid. Then the princess was
• 6:01:02
  so thirsty that she got off her horse and laid down and held her head
• 6:01:07
  over the running stream, and cried and said, what will become of me?
• 6:01:15
  And the lock of hair answered her again, alas alas if thy mother
• 6:01:21
  knew it, sadly, sadly would she rue it. And as she leaned
• 6:01:26
  down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom and floated away
• 6:01:30
  with the water. Now she was so frightened that she did not see it.
• 6:01:37
  But her maid saw it and was very glad, for she knew the
• 6:01:41
  charm, and she saw that the poor bride would be in her power now
• 6:01:45
  that she had lost the hair. So, when the bride had done drinking
• 6:01:49
  and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, I shall ride
• 6:01:55
  upon Falada. Then you may have my horse instead. So she was forced
• 6:02:02
  to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes
• 6:02:06
  and put on her maid's shabby ones. At last, as they drew near
• 6:02:11
  the end of their journey, this treacherous servant threatened to kill her mistress if
• 6:02:17
  she ever told any one what had happened. But Falada saw it all and
• 6:02:22
  marked it well. Then the waiting maid got upon Falada, and the real
• 6:02:29
  bride rode upon the other horse, and they went on in this way till
• 6:02:33
  at last they came to the royal court. There was great joy at their
• 6:02:38
  coming, and the prince flew to meet them, and lifted the maid from
• 6:02:42
  her horse, thinking she was the one who was to be his wife,
• 6:02:47
  and she was led upstairs to the royal chamber, But the true princess was
• 6:02:52
  told to stay in the court below. Now, the old king happened just
• 6:02:57
  then to have nothing else to do, so he amused himself by sitting at
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  his kitchen window looking at what was going on, and he saw her in
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  the courtyard. As she looked very pretty and too delicate for a waiting maid,
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  he went up into the royal chamber to ask the bride who it was
• 6:03:15
  she had brought with her. That was thus left standing in the court below.
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  Ay brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,
• 6:03:26
  said she, pray give the girl some work to do, that she
• 6:03:29
  may not be idle. The old king could not for some time think of
• 6:03:34
  any work for her to do, But at last he said, I have
• 6:03:40
  a lad who takes care of my geese. She may go and help him.
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  Now the name of this lad that the real bride was to help in
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  watching the king's geese was Curdken. Dear husband, pray do me one piece
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  of kindness that I will, said the prince. Then tell one of your
• 6:04:00
  slaughterers to cut off the head of the horse I rode upon, for it
• 6:04:04
  is very unruly, and plugged me sadly on the road. But the truth
• 6:04:11
  was she was very much afraid lest Falada should some day or other speak and
• 6:04:15
  tell all she had done to the princess. She carried her points, and
• 6:04:22
  the faithful Falada was killed. But when the true princess heard of it,
• 6:04:26
  she wept and begged the man to nail up Falada's head against a large dark
• 6:04:32
  gate of the city through which she had to pass every morning and evening,
• 6:04:37
  that there she might still see him. Sometimes. Then the slaughterer said he
• 6:04:42
  would do as she wished, and cut off the head and nailed it up
• 6:04:47
  under the dark gate. Only the next morning, as she and Kurdken went
• 6:04:55
  out through the gates, she said sorrowfully, falada da, there thou hangest,
• 6:05:03
  and the head answered, bride, bride, there thou gangest alas alas
• 6:05:11
  if thy mother knew it sadly, sadly would she rue it. Then they
• 6:05:18
  went out of the city and drove the geese on, And when she came
• 6:05:22
  to the meadow, she sat down upon a bank there and let down her
• 6:05:26
  waving locks of air, which were all of pure silver. And when Curdgan
• 6:05:33
  saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up and would have pulled some
• 6:05:37
  of the locks out, but she cried, blow, breezes, blow,
• 6:05:41
  let Curgan's hat go, blow breezes, blow let him after it go or
• 6:05:48
  hills and dales and rocks away. Be it whirled till the silvery locks are
• 6:05:52
  all combed and curled. Then there came a wind so strong that it blew
• 6:06:00
  off Curdken's hat, and away it flew over the hills, and he was
• 6:06:04
  forced to turn and run after it, till by the time he came back
• 6:06:08
  she had done combing and curling her hair and put it up again safe.
• 6:06:15
  Then he was very angry and sulky and would not speak to her at all.
• 6:06:21
  But they watched the geese until it grew dark in the evening, and
• 6:06:25
  then drove them homewards the next morning. As they were going through the dark
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  gate, the poor girl looked up at Falada's head and cried, Falada,
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  Falada, there thou hangest, and the head answered, bride, bride,
• 6:06:45
  there thou gangest, alas alas If thy mother knew it, sadly, sadly
• 6:06:52
  would she rue it. Then she drove on the geese and sat down again
• 6:06:57
  in the meadow and began to comb her hair as before, and Curdken ran
• 6:07:02
  up to her and wanted to take hold of it, but she cried out
• 6:07:06
  quickly, blow Preece's blow. Let Curdken's hat go, blow Preece's blow.
• 6:07:12
  Let him after it go or heels and dales and rocks away. Be it
• 6:07:18
  whirled till the silvery locks are all combed and curled. Then the wind came
• 6:07:25
  and blew away his hat. Then off it flew a great way over the
• 6:07:30
  hills and far away, so that he had to run after it, and
• 6:07:33
  when he came back, she had bound up her hair again and all was
• 6:07:37
  safe. So they watched the geese till it grew dark in the evening.
• 6:07:45
  After they came home, Curdken went to the old King and said, I
• 6:07:49
  cannot have that strange girl to help me to keep the geese any longer.
• 6:07:55
  Why said the king, because instead of doing any good, she does nothing
• 6:08:00
  but tease me all day long. Then the king made him tell him what
• 6:08:06
  had happened, and Curdken said, when we go in the morning through the
• 6:08:10
  dark gate with our flock of geese, she cries and talks with the head
• 6:08:15
  of a horse that hangs upon the wall, and says, falada, falada,
• 6:08:19
  there thou hangest, and the head answers bride, bride there thou gangest
• 6:08:25
  alas alas. If thy mother knew it, sadly, sadly would she rue
• 6:08:29
  it. And Curdken went on telling the king what had happened upon the meadow
• 6:08:34
  where the geese fed, how his hat was blown away, and how he
• 6:08:38
  was forced to run after it and to leave his flock of geese to themselves.
• 6:08:44
  But the old king told the boy to go out again the next day,
• 6:08:48
  and when morning came, he placed himself behind the dark gate and heard
• 6:08:52
  how she spoke to Falada, and how Falada answered. Then he went into
• 6:08:59
  the field and hid himself in the bush by the meadow's side, and he
• 6:09:02
  soon saw with his own eyes how they drove that flock of geese, and
• 6:09:07
  how after a little time she let down her hair that glittered in the sun.
• 6:09:12
  And then he heard her say, blow Breece's blow. Let Curdken's hat
• 6:09:18
  go, blow Breeze's blow. Let him after it, go or hills,
• 6:09:23
  dales and rocks away. Be it whirled till the silvery locks are all combed
• 6:09:30
  and curled, and soon came a gale of wind and carried away Curdken's hat,
• 6:09:36
  and away went Curdken after it, while the girl went on combing and
• 6:09:41
  curling her hair. All this the old king saw, so he went home
• 6:09:47
  without being seen. And when the little goose girl came back in the evening,
• 6:09:51
  he called her aside and asked her why she did so. But she
• 6:09:56
  burst into tears and said, but that I must not tell you or any
• 6:10:02
  man, or I shall lose my life. But the old king begged so
• 6:10:07
  hard that she had no peace till she had told him all the tale from
• 6:10:11
  beginning to end, word for word. And it was very lucky for her
• 6:10:17
  that she did so, for when she had done, the king ordered royal
• 6:10:22
  clothes to be put upon her, and gazed on her with wonder she was
• 6:10:26
  so beautiful. Then he called his son and told him that he had only
• 6:10:30
  a false bride, for that she was merely a waiting maid, while the
• 6:10:36
  true bride stood by, And the young man rejoiced when he saw her beauty
• 6:10:41
  and heard how meek and patience she had been. And without saying anything to
• 6:10:45
  the false bride, the king ordered a great feast to be got ready for
• 6:10:51
  all his court. The bridegroom sat at the top, with the false princess
• 6:10:56
  on one side and the true one on the other. But nobody knew her
• 6:11:00
  again, for her beauty was quite dazzling to their eyes, and she did
• 6:11:04
  not seem at all like the little goose girl now that she had her brilliant
• 6:11:10
  dress on. When they had eaten and drank and were very merry, the
• 6:11:17
  old king said he would tell them a tale. So he began and told
• 6:11:22
  all the story of the princess, as if it was one that he had
• 6:11:26
  once heard, and he asked the true waiting maid what she thought ought to
• 6:11:30
  be done to any one who would behave Thus, nothing better said this false
• 6:11:36
  bride than that she would be thrown into the cask, stuck round with sharp
• 6:11:41
  nails, and that two white horses should be put to it, and should
• 6:11:45
  drag it from street to street till she was dead. Thou art, she
• 6:11:52
  said the old king, And as thou hast judged thyself, so shall it
• 6:11:56
  be done to thee. And the young king was then married to his true
• 6:12:03
  wife, and they reigned over the kingdom in peace and happiness all their lives.
• 6:12:08
  And the good Fairy came to see them and restored the faithful Falada to
• 6:12:14
  life again, and of the goose girl. Long long ago, some two
• 6:12:23
  thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful
• 6:12:27
  wife. They loved each other dearly, but sorrowed much that they had no
• 6:12:33
  children. So greatly did they desire to have one, that the wife prayed
• 6:12:37
  for it day and night, but still they remained childless. In front of
• 6:12:42
  the house there was a court in which grew a juniper tree. One winter's
• 6:12:48
  day, the wife stood under the tree to peel some apples, and as
• 6:12:52
  she was peeling them, she cut her finger, and the blood fell on
• 6:12:56
  the snow. Ah sighed the woman heavily, if I had but her child
• 6:13:02
  as red as blood and as white as snow. And as she spoke the
• 6:13:07
  words, her heart grew light within her, and it seemed to her that
• 6:13:11
  her wish was granted, and she returned to the house feeling glad and comforted.
• 6:13:17
  A month passed and the snow had all disappeared. Then another month went
• 6:13:22
  by, and all the earth was green. So the months followed one another,
• 6:13:26
  and first the trees budded in the woods, and soon the green branches
• 6:13:30
  grew thickly intertwined, and then the blossoms began to fall. Once again,
• 6:13:37
  the wife stood under the juniper tree, and it was so full of sweet
• 6:13:41
  scent that her heart leaped for joy, and she was so overcome with her
• 6:13:45
  happiness that she fell on her knees. Presently, the fruit became round and
• 6:13:52
  firm, and she was glad and at peace. And when they were fully
• 6:13:56
  ripe, she picked the berries and ate eagerly of them, and then she
• 6:14:00
  grew sad and ill. A little while later she called her husband and said
• 6:14:06
  to him, weeping, If I die, bury me under the juniper tree.
• 6:14:12
  Then she felt comforted and happy again, And before another month had passed
• 6:14:18
  she had a little child, And when she saw that it was as white
• 6:14:21
  as snow and as red as blood, her joy was so great that she
• 6:14:26
  died. Her husband buried her under the juniper tree and wept bitterly for her.
• 6:14:34
  By degrees, however, his sorrow grew less, and although at times
• 6:14:40
  he still grieved over his loss, he was able to go about as usual,
• 6:14:45
  and later on he married again. He now had a little daughter born
• 6:14:49
  to him. The child of his first wife was a boy who was as
• 6:14:53
  red as blood and as white as snow. The mother loved her daughter very
• 6:14:59
  much, and when she looked at her, and then looked at the boy,
• 6:15:02
  it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way
• 6:15:06
  of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the
• 6:15:10
  whole of the property for her. This evil thought took possession of her more
• 6:15:15
  and more, and made her behave very unkindly to the boy. She drove
• 6:15:21
  him from place to place with cuffings and buffetings, so that the poor child
• 6:15:25
  went about in fear and had no peace from the time he left school to
• 6:15:30
  the time he went back. One day, the little daughter came running to
• 6:15:33
  her mother in the storeroom and said, Mother, give me an apple.
• 6:15:38
  Yes, my child, said the wife, and she gave her a beautiful
• 6:15:42
  apple out of the chest. The chest had a very heavy lid and a
• 6:15:47
  large iron lock. Mother said the little girl again, may not brother have
• 6:15:52
  one too? The mother was angry at this, but she answered yes,
• 6:15:59
  when he come out of school. Just then she looked out of the window
• 6:16:03
  and saw him coming, and it seemed as if an evil spirit entered into
• 6:16:07
  her, for she snatched the apple out of her little daughter's hand and said,
• 6:16:12
  you shall not have one before your brother. She threw the apple into
• 6:16:17
  the chest and shut it too. The little boy now came in, and
• 6:16:22
  the evil spirit and the wife made her say kindly to him, my son,
• 6:16:27
  will you have an apple? But she gave him a wicked look.
• 6:16:33
  Mother said the boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an
• 6:16:37
  apple. The thought came to her that she should kill him. Come with
• 6:16:44
  me, she said, and she lifted up the lid of the chest.
• 6:16:47
  Take one out for yourself, And as he bent over to do so,
• 6:16:52
  the evil spirit urged her and crash, down went the lid, and off
• 6:16:57
  went the little boy's head. Then she was overwhelmed with fear at the thought
• 6:17:03
  of what she had done. If only I can prevent any one knowing that
• 6:17:07
  I did it, she thought, So she went upstairs to her room and
• 6:17:11
  took a white handkerchief out of her top drawer. Then she set the boy's
• 6:17:15
  head again on his shoulders and bound it with the handkerchief so that nothing could
• 6:17:19
  be seen, and placed him on a chair by the door with an apple
• 6:17:23
  in his hand. Soon after this, Little Marlene came up to her mother,
• 6:17:30
  who was stirring a pot of boiling water over the fire, and said,
• 6:17:33
  mother, brother is sitting by the door with an apple in his hand,
• 6:17:37
  and he looks so pale. And when I asked him to give me
• 6:17:41
  the apple, he did not answer, and that frightened me. Go to
• 6:17:45
  him again, said her mother, And if he does not answer, give
• 6:17:49
  him a box on the ear. So Little Marlene went and said, brother,
• 6:17:55
  give me that apple, but he did not say a word. Then
• 6:18:00
  she gave him a box on the ear, and his head rolled off.
• 6:18:04
  She was so terrified at this that she ran crying and screaming to her mother.
• 6:18:10
  Oh, she said, I have knocked off Breatha's head. And then
• 6:18:15
  she wept and wept, and nothing would stop her. What have you done,
• 6:18:22
  said her mother. But no one must know about it, so you
• 6:18:26
  must keep silence. What is done can't be undone. We will make him
• 6:18:30
  into puddings. And she took the little boy and cut him up, made
• 6:18:37
  him into puddings, and put him in the pot. But Marlene stood looking
• 6:18:41
  on and wept and wept, and her tears fell into the pot, so
• 6:18:45
  that there really was no need of salt. Presently, the father came home
• 6:18:51
  and sat down to his dinner. He asked, where is my son?
• 6:18:56
  Mother said nothing, but gave him a large dish of black pudding, and
• 6:19:00
  Marlene still wept without ceasing. The father again asked where is my son?
• 6:19:07
  Oh, answered the wife. He is gone into the country to his mother's
• 6:19:12
  great uncle. He is going to stay there some time. What is he
• 6:19:18
  gone there for? And he never even said good bye to me? Well,
• 6:19:22
  he likes being there, and he told me he should be away quite
• 6:19:26
  six weeks. He is well looked after there. I feel very unhappy about
• 6:19:33
  it, said the husband. In case it should not be all right,
• 6:19:37
  and he ought to have said good bye to me. With this, he
• 6:19:41
  went on with his dinner and said, Little Marlene, why do you weep?
• 6:19:47
  Brother will soon be back. Then he asked his wife for more pudding,
• 6:19:52
  and as he ate, he threw the bones under the table. Little
• 6:19:56
  Marlene went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer,
• 6:20:02
  and in it she rapped all the bones from under the table and carried them
• 6:20:06
  outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep. Then she laid
• 6:20:11
  them in the green grass under the juniper tree, and she had no sooner
• 6:20:15
  done so, than all her sadness seemed to leave her, and she wept
• 6:20:19
  no more. And now the juniper tree began to move, and the branches
• 6:20:26
  waved backwards and forwards, first away from one another, and then together again,
• 6:20:30
  as it might by some one clasping their hands for joy. After this,
• 6:20:36
  a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there
• 6:20:40
  was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a
• 6:20:44
  beautiful bird that rose high into the air, singing magnificently. And when it
• 6:20:49
  could no more be seen, the juniper tree stood there as before and the
• 6:20:55
  silk handkerchief and the bones were gone. Little Marlen now felt as light hearted
• 6:21:03
  and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went back to
• 6:21:07
  the house and sat down cheerfully to the table and ate. The bird flew
• 6:21:11
  away and alighted on the house of a goldsmith and began to sing. My
• 6:21:17
  mother killed her little son. My father grieved when I was gone. My
• 6:21:22
  sister loved me best of all. She laid my kerchief over me, and
• 6:21:26
  took my bones that they might lie underneath the juniper tree. Keew eat kiweet.
• 6:21:33
  What a beautiful bird am I? The goldsmith was in his workshop making
• 6:21:40
  a gold chain when he heard the song of the bird on his roof.
• 6:21:44
  He thought it so beautiful that he got up and ran out, And as
• 6:21:48
  he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers, but he ran on
• 6:21:52
  into the middle of the street with a slipper on one foot and a sock
• 6:21:56
  on the other. He still had on his apron, and still held the
• 6:22:00
  gold chain and the pincers in his hands. And so he stood gazing up
• 6:22:06
  at the bird while the sun came shining brightly down on the street. Bird,
• 6:22:11
  he said, how beautifully you sing sing me that song again. Nay,
• 6:22:18
  said the bird, I do not sing twice for nothing. Give that
• 6:22:23
  gold chain and I will sing it you again. Here is the chain,
• 6:22:29
  Take it, said the goldsmith. Only sing me that again. The bird
• 6:22:33
  flew down and took the gold chain in his right claw, and then he
• 6:22:37
  alighted again in front of the goldsmith and sang, my mother killed her little
• 6:22:42
  son. My father grieved when I was gone. My sister loved me best
• 6:22:48
  of all. She laid her kerchief over me and took my bones that they
• 6:22:53
  might lie underneath the juniper tree. Keew eat, keew eat, What a
• 6:23:00
  beautiful bird am I? Then he flew away and settled on the roof of
• 6:23:06
  a shoemaker's house, and sang, my mother killed her little son. My
• 6:23:11
  father grieved when I was gone. My sister loved me best of all.
• 6:23:15
  She laid her kerchief over me and took my bones that they might lie underneath
• 6:23:21
  a juniper tree. Kuwat keewat, What a beautiful bird am I? The
• 6:23:27
  shoemaker heard him, and he jumped up and ran out in his shirt sleeves,
• 6:23:33
  and stood looking up at the bird on the roof with his hand over
• 6:23:36
  his eyes to keep himself from being blinded by the sun. Bird, he
• 6:23:41
  said, how beautifully you sing. Then he called through the door to his
• 6:23:45
  wife, Wife, come out, here is a bird, Come and look
• 6:23:49
  at it. And here how beautifully it sings. Then he called his daughter
• 6:23:55
  and the children, then the apprentices, girls and boys, and they all
• 6:24:00
  ran up the street to look at the bird, and saw how splendid it
• 6:24:03
  was, with its red and green feathers, and its neck like burnished gold,
• 6:24:07
  and eyes like two bright stars in its head. Bird said the shoemaker,
• 6:24:14
  sing me that song again. Nay, answered the bird. I do
• 6:24:19
  not sing twice for nothing. You must give me something. Wife said the
• 6:24:26
  man. Go into the garret on the upper shelf. You will see a
• 6:24:30
  pair of red shoes. Bring them to me. The wife went in and
• 6:24:34
  fetched the shoes. There, bird said the shoemaker, Now sing me that
• 6:24:41
  song again. The bird flew down and took the red shoes in his left
• 6:24:47
  claw, and then he went back to the roof and sang, my mother
• 6:24:52
  killed her little son. My father grieved when I was gone. My sister
• 6:24:56
  left me best of all. She laid her kerchief over me and took my
• 6:25:02
  bones that they might lie underneath the juniper tree. Kiwat kiwat? What a
• 6:25:07
  beautiful bird am I? When he had finished, he flew away. He
• 6:25:15
  had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and
• 6:25:18
  he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went click clack,
• 6:25:22
  click clack glickkak. Inside the mill were twenty of the miller's men hewing a
• 6:25:27
  stone, and as they went he cock hee, cocky cock. The mill
• 6:25:33
  went glee clack gleeklock glee clock. The bird settled on a lime tree in
• 6:25:38
  front of the mill and sang, my mother killed her little son. Then
• 6:25:42
  one of the men left off. My father grieved when I was gone.
• 6:25:48
  Two more men left off and listened. My sister loved me best of all.
• 6:25:55
  Then four more left off. She laid her kerchief over me and took
• 6:25:59
  my bow wounds that they might lie. Now there were only eight at work
• 6:26:03
  underneath, and now only five the juniper tree, and now only one keep
• 6:26:11
  eat keewat. What a beautiful bird am I? Then he looked up and
• 6:26:18
  the last one had left off work bird. He said, what a beautiful
• 6:26:23
  song that is you sing? Let me hear it too. Sing it again?
• 6:26:29
  Nay, answered the bird, I do not sing twice for nothing.
• 6:26:34
  Give me that millstone, and I will sing it again. If it belonged
• 6:26:38
  to me alone, said the man. You should have it. Yes,
• 6:26:42
  yes, said the others. If you will sing again, he can have
• 6:26:47
  it. The bird came down, and all the twenty millers set to and
• 6:26:52
  lifted up the stone with a beam. Then the bird put his head through
• 6:26:56
  the hole, and took the stone round his neck like a collar, and
• 6:27:00
  flew back with it to the tree, and sang, My mother killed her
• 6:27:04
  little son. My father grieved when I was gone. My sister loved me
• 6:27:11
  best of all. She laid her kerchief over me, and took my bones
• 6:27:15
  that they might lie underneath the juniper tree. Keep eat, keew eat.
• 6:27:19
  What a beautiful bird am I? And when he had finished his song,
• 6:27:26
  he spread his wings, and with the chain in his right claw, the
• 6:27:30
  shoes in his left, and the millstone round his neck, he flew right
• 6:27:33
  away to his father's house. The father, the mother, and little Marlen
• 6:27:38
  were having their dinner. How light hearted I feel, said the father,
• 6:27:45
  so pleased and cheerful. And I said the mother, I feel so uneasy,
• 6:27:52
  as if a heavy thunder storm were coming. But little Marlen sat and
• 6:27:56
  wept and wept. Then the bird came flying towards the house and settled on
• 6:28:03
  the roof. I do feel so happy, said the father, And how
• 6:28:07
  beautifully the sun shines. I feel just as if I were going to see
• 6:28:11
  an old friend again, oh, said the wife. And I am so
• 6:28:17
  full of distress and uneasiness that my teeth chatter, and I feel as if
• 6:28:22
  there were a fire in my veins. And she tore open her dress,
• 6:28:26
  and all the while little Marlene sat in the corner and wept, and the
• 6:28:32
  plate on her knees was wet with her tears. The bird now flew to
• 6:28:37
  the juniper tree and began singing. My mother killed her little son. The
• 6:28:42
  mother shut her eyes and her ears that she might see and hear nothing.
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  But there was a roaring sound in her ears, like that of a violent
• 6:28:51
  storm, and in her eyes a burning and flashing like lightning. My father
• 6:28:56
  grieved when I was gone. Look, mother, said the man, at
• 6:29:02
  the beautiful bird that is singing so magnificently, And how warm and bright the
• 6:29:07
  sun is, And what a delicious scent of spice in the air. My
• 6:29:11
  sister loved me best of all. Then little Marlene laid her head down on
• 6:29:17
  her knees, and sobbed. I must go outside and see the bird nearer,
• 6:29:22
  said the man. Ah do not go, cried the wife. I
• 6:29:26
  feel as if the whole house were in flames. But the man went out
• 6:29:33
  and looked at the bird. She laid her kerchief over me and took my
• 6:29:37
  bones that they might lie underneath the juniper tree. Kuwat kiwat, What a
• 6:29:42
  beautiful bird am I? With that? The bird let fall the gold chain,
• 6:29:48
  and it fell just round the man's neck, so that it fitted him
• 6:29:52
  exactly. He went inside and said, see what a splendid bird that he
• 6:30:00
  has given me this beautiful gold chain, and looked so beautiful himself. But
• 6:30:07
  the wife was in such fear and trouble that she fell on the floor,
• 6:30:11
  and her cap fell from her head. Then the bird began again. My
• 6:30:18
  mother killed her little son. Ah me, cried the wife. If I
• 6:30:23
  were but a thousand feet beneath the earth, that I might not hear that
• 6:30:29
  song. My father grieved when I was gone. Then the woman fell down
• 6:30:34
  again, as if dead. My sister loved me best of all, well,
• 6:30:41
  said little marlin. I will go up too and see if the bird
• 6:30:45
  will give me anything. So she went out. She laid her kerchief over
• 6:30:51
  me and took my bones that they might lie. And he threw down the
• 6:30:55
  shoes to her underneath the juniper tree. Keep eat, he beat. What
• 6:31:00
  a beautiful bird am I? And she now felt quite happy and light hearted.
• 6:31:07
  She put on the shoes and danced and jumped about in them. I
• 6:31:11
  was so miserable, she said, when I came out, But that has
• 6:31:15
  all passed away. That is indeed a splendid bird, and he has given
• 6:31:21
  me a pair of red shoes. The wife sprang up, with her hair
• 6:31:26
  standing out from her head like flames of fire. Then I will go out
• 6:31:30
  too, she said, and see if it will lighten my misery, for
• 6:31:34
  I feel as if the world were coming to an end. But as she
• 6:31:40
  crossed the threshold, crash. The bird threw the millstone down on her head,
• 6:31:45
  and she was crushed to death. The father and little Marlen heard the
• 6:31:51
  sound and ran out, but they only saw mist and flame and fire rising
• 6:31:56
  from the spot. And when these had passed, there stood the little brother,
• 6:32:02
  and he took the father and little Marlene by the hand. Then they
• 6:32:06
  all three rejoiced and went inside together and sat down to their dinners. And
• 6:32:12
  ate, and of the juniper tree. There was once a merchant who had
• 6:32:18
  only one child, a son that was very young and barely able to run
• 6:32:23
  alone. He had two richly laden ships, then making a voyage upon the
• 6:32:29
  seas, in which he had embarked all his wealth in the hope of making
• 6:32:33
  great gains, when the news came that both were lost. Thus from being
• 6:32:38
  a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left
• 6:32:44
  to him but one small plot of land, and there he often went in
• 6:32:48
  an evening to take his walk and ease his mind of a little of his
• 6:32:52
  trouble. One day, as he was roaming along in a brown study,
• 6:32:56
  thinking with no great comfort on what he had been and what he now was
• 6:33:00
  and was like to be, all on a sudden there stood before him a
• 6:33:06
  little, rough looking black dwarf. Pretty friend, Why so sorrowful, said
• 6:33:11
  he to the merchant, What is it you take so deeply to heart?
• 6:33:17
  If you would do me any good, I would willingly tell you, said
• 6:33:19
  the merchant, who knows, but I may, said the little man.
• 6:33:25
  Tell me what ails you, and perhaps you may find I may be of
• 6:33:29
  some use. Then the merchant told him how all his wealth was gone to
• 6:33:33
  the bottom of the sea, and how he had nothing left but that little
• 6:33:37
  plot of land. Oh trouble not yourself about that, said the dwarf,
• 6:33:44
  Only undertake to bring me here twelve years. Hence whatever meets you first on
• 6:33:49
  your going home, and I will give you as much as you please.
• 6:33:55
  The merchant thought this was no great thing to ask, that it would most
• 6:33:59
  likely be his dog, or his cat, or something of that sort,
• 6:34:03
  but forgot his little boy heinel. So he agreed to the bargain and signed
• 6:34:10
  and sealed the bond to do what was asked of him. But as he
• 6:34:14
  drew near home, his little boy was so glad to see him that he
• 6:34:18
  crept behind him and laid fast hold of his legs and looked up in his
• 6:34:22
  face and laughed. Then the father started trembling with fear and horror and saw
• 6:34:29
  what it was that he had bound himself to do. But as no gold
• 6:34:33
  was come, he made himself easy by thinking that it was only a joke
• 6:34:37
  that the dwarf was playing him, and that at any rate, when the
• 6:34:41
  money came, he should see the bearer and would not take it. In
• 6:34:45
  About a month afterwards, he went upstairs into a lumber room to look for
• 6:34:49
  some old iron that he might sell it and raise little money. And there,
• 6:34:55
  instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on
• 6:35:00
  the floor. At the sight of this, he was overjoyed, and forgetting
• 6:35:03
  all about, his son went into trade again and became a richer merchant than
• 6:35:08
  before. Meanwhile, little Heinel grew up, and as the end of the
• 6:35:14
  twelve years drew near, the merchant began to call to mind his bond,
• 6:35:18
  and became very sad and thoughtful, so that care and sorrow were written upon
• 6:35:25
  his face. The boy one day asked what was the matter, but his
• 6:35:30
  father would not tell him for some time. At last, however, he
• 6:35:33
  said that he had, without knowing it, sold him for gold to a
• 6:35:38
  little, ugly looking black dwarf, and that the twelve years were coming round
• 6:35:42
  when he must keep his word. Then Heinel said, father, give yourself
• 6:35:48
  very little trouble about that I shall be too much for the little man.
• 6:35:55
  When the time came, the father and son went out together to the place
• 6:35:59
  agreed upon, and the son drew a circle on the ground and set himself
• 6:36:03
  and his father in the middle of it. The little black dwarf soon came
• 6:36:07
  and walked round and round about the circle, but could not find any way
• 6:36:11
  to get into it, and he either could not or dared not jump over
• 6:36:17
  it. At last, the boy said to him, have you anything to
• 6:36:21
  say to us? My friend? Oh, what do you want now?
• 6:36:25
  Heinel had found a friend in a good fairy that was fond of him,
• 6:36:29
  and had told him what to do. For this fairy knew what good luck
• 6:36:33
  was in store for him. Have you brought me what you said you would,
• 6:36:38
  said the dwarf to the merchant. The old man held his tongue,
• 6:36:42
  but Heinel said again, what do you want here? The dwarf said,
• 6:36:48
  I come to talk with your father, not with you. You have cheated
• 6:36:52
  and taken in my father. Said the son. Pray give him up his
• 6:36:56
  bond at once, fair and softly, said the little old man. Right
• 6:37:03
  is right. I have paid my money, and your father has had it
• 6:37:07
  and spent it, and so be so good as to let me have what
• 6:37:11
  I paid it for. You must have my consent to that first, said
• 6:37:15
  Heinel. So please to step in here and let us talk it over.
• 6:37:19
  The old man grinned and showed his teeth as if he should have been very
• 6:37:23
  glad to get into the circle if he could. Then, at last,
• 6:37:29
  after a long talk, they came to terms. Heinel agreed that his father
• 6:37:33
  must give him up, and that so far the dwarf should have his way.
• 6:37:37
  But on the other hand, the fairy had told Heinel what fortune was
• 6:37:41
  in store for him if he followed his own course, and he did not
• 6:37:47
  choose to be given up to his humpbacked friend, who seemed so anxious for
• 6:37:51
  his company. So to make a sort of drawn battle of the matter,
• 6:37:56
  it was settled that Heinel should be put into an open boat that lay on
• 6:38:00
  the sea shore hard by, that the father should push him off with his
• 6:38:03
  own hand, and that he should thus be set adrift and left to the
• 6:38:07
  bad or good luck of wind and weather. Then he took leave of his
• 6:38:12
  father and set himself in the boats. But before it got far off,
• 6:38:17
  a wave struck it, and it fell with one side low in the water.
• 6:38:22
  So the merchant thought that poor Heino was lost and went home very sorrowful,
• 6:38:26
  while the dwarf went his way, thinking that at any rate he had
• 6:38:30
  had his revenge. The boat, however, did not sink, for the
• 6:38:36
  good fairy took care of her friend and soon raised a boat up again,
• 6:38:40
  and it went safely on. The young man sat safe within, till at
• 6:38:45
  length it ran ashore upon an unknown land. As he jumped upon the shore,
• 6:38:51
  he saw before him a beautiful castle, but empty and dreary within,
• 6:38:56
  for it was enchanted here, said he to himself, Must I find the
• 6:39:02
  prize the good fairy told me of? So he once more searched the whole
• 6:39:07
  padace through, till at last he found a white snake lying coiled up on
• 6:39:11
  a cushion in one of the chambers. Now the white snake was an enchanted
• 6:39:18
  princess, and she was very glad to see him, and said, are
• 6:39:22
  you at last come to set me free? Twelve long years have I waited
• 6:39:27
  for the fairy to bring you hither as she promised, For you alone can
• 6:39:32
  save me. This night twelve men will come. Their faces will be black,
• 6:39:37
  and they will be dressed in chain armor. They will ask what you
• 6:39:41
  do here? But give no answer, and let them do what they will
• 6:39:45
  beat, whip, pinch, prick or torment. You bear all only speak
• 6:39:52
  not a word, And at twelve o'clock they must go away. The second
• 6:39:56
  night twelve others will come, and the third night twenty four who will even
• 6:40:02
  cut off your head. But at the twelfth hour of that night, their
• 6:40:06
  power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring
• 6:40:10
  you the water of life, and will wash you with it and bring you
• 6:40:14
  back to life and health. And all came to pass as she had said,
• 6:40:18
  Hainul bore all and spoke not a word. And the third night the
• 6:40:23
  princess came and fell on his neck and kissed him. Joy and gladness burst
• 6:40:30
  forth throughout the castle. The wedding was celebrated, and he was crowned King
• 6:40:34
  of the Golden Mountain. They lived together very happily, and the queen had
• 6:40:40
  a son, and thus eight years had passed over their heads when the king
• 6:40:45
  thought of his father and began to long to see him once again. But
• 6:40:49
  the queen was against his going, and said, I know well what misfortunes
• 6:40:55
  will come upon us if you go. However, he gave her no rest
• 6:41:00
  till she agreed. At his going away. She gave him a wishing ring
• 6:41:04
  and said, take this ring and put it on your finger. Whatever you
• 6:41:10
  wish it will bring you, only promise never to make use of it to
• 6:41:14
  bring me hence to your father's house. Then he said he would do what
• 6:41:19
  she asked, and put the ring on his finger and wished himself near the
• 6:41:23
  town where his father lived. Haino found himself at the gates in a moment,
• 6:41:30
  but the guards would not let him go in because he was so strangely
• 6:41:33
  clad. So he went up to a neighboring hill where a shepherd dwelt and
• 6:41:38
  borrowed his old frock, and thus passed ann into the town. When he
• 6:41:45
  came to his father's house, he said he was his son, but the
• 6:41:48
  merchant would not believe him, and said he had had but one son,
• 6:41:52
  his poor Heinel, who he knew was long since dead, and as he
• 6:41:57
  was only dressed like a poor shepherd, he would not even give him anything
• 6:42:00
  to eat. The king, however, still vowed that he was his son,
• 6:42:07
  and said, is there no mark by which you would know me if
• 6:42:10
  I am really your son? Yes, said his mother. Our Heinel had
• 6:42:15
  a mark like a raspberry on his right arm. Then he showed them the
• 6:42:21
  mark, and they knew that what he had said was true. He next
• 6:42:26
  told them how he was king of the Golden Mountain and was married to a
• 6:42:30
  princess and had a son seven years old. But the merchant said that can
• 6:42:34
  never be true. He must be a fine king, truly, who travels
• 6:42:40
  about in a shepherd's frock. At this the son was vexed, and,
• 6:42:45
  forgetting his word, turned his ring and wished for his queen and son.
• 6:42:49
  In an instant they stood before him. But the queen wept and said he
• 6:42:55
  had broken his word and bad luck would follow. He did all he could
• 6:43:00
  to soothe her, and she at last seemed to be appeased. But she
• 6:43:06
  was not so in truth, and was only thinking how she should punish him.
• 6:43:11
  One day, he took her to walk with him out of the town
• 6:43:14
  and showed her the spot where the boat was set adrift upon the wide waters.
• 6:43:18
  Then he sat himself down and said, I am very much tired.
• 6:43:23
  Sit by me. I will rest my head in your lap and sleep.
• 6:43:26
  Awhile. As soon as he had fallen asleep, however, she drew the
• 6:43:32
  ring from his finger and crept softly away, and wished herself and her son
• 6:43:37
  at home in their kingdom. And when he awoke, he found himself alone
• 6:43:42
  and saw that the ring was gone from his finger. I can never go
• 6:43:48
  back to my father's house, said he. They would say, I am
• 6:43:52
  a sorcerer, I will journey forth into the world till I come again to
• 6:43:56
  my kingdom. So saying, he set out and traveled till he came to
• 6:44:03
  a hill where three giants were sharing their father's goods. And as they saw
• 6:44:07
  him pass they cried out and said, little men have sharp wits. He
• 6:44:12
  shall part the goods between us. Now there was a sword that cut off
• 6:44:18
  an enemy's head whenever the wearer gave the words heads off, a cloak that
• 6:44:22
  made the owner invisible or gave him any form he pleased, and a pair
• 6:44:26
  of boots that carried the wearer wherever he wished. Idol said they must first
• 6:44:33
  let him try these wonderful things, then he might know how to set a
• 6:44:37
  value upon them. Then they gave him the cloak, and he wished himself
• 6:44:41
  a fly, and in a moment he was a fly. The cloak is
• 6:44:45
  very well, said he. Now give me the sword. No, said
• 6:44:51
  they not, unless you undertake not to say heads off, for if you
• 6:44:56
  do, we are all dead men. So they gave it to him,
• 6:45:00
  charging him to try it on a tree. He next asked for the boots
• 6:45:04
  also, and the moment he had all three in his power, he wished
• 6:45:08
  himself at the Golden Mountain. There he was at once, so the giants
• 6:45:15
  were left behind, with no goods to share or quarrel about. As heine
• 6:45:21
  came near his castle, he heard the sound of merry music, and the
• 6:45:25
  people around told him that his queen was about to marry another husband. Then
• 6:45:30
  he threw his cloak around him and passed through the castle hall, and placed
• 6:45:34
  himself by the side of the queen, where no one saw him. But
• 6:45:41
  when anything to eat was put upon her plates, he took it away and
• 6:45:44
  ate it himself. And when a glass of wine was handed to her,
• 6:45:48
  he took it and drank it. And thus though they kept on giving her
• 6:45:52
  meat and drink, her plate and cup were always empty. Upon this,
• 6:45:57
  fear and remorse came of her, and she went into her chamber alone and
• 6:46:03
  sat there weeping. And he followed her there alas she said to herself,
• 6:46:10
  was I not once set free? Why then, does this enchantment still seem
• 6:46:15
  to bind me? False and fickle? One said he. One indeed came
• 6:46:21
  who set thee free, And he is now near thee again. But how
• 6:46:25
  have you used him? Ought he to have had such a treatment from thee?
• 6:46:30
  Then he went out and sent away the company, and said the wedding
• 6:46:33
  was at an end. For that he was come back to the kingdom.
• 6:46:37
  But the princes, peers and great men mocked at him. However, he
• 6:46:42
  would enter into no parley with them, but only ask them if they would
• 6:46:47
  go in peace or not. Then they turned upon him and tried to seize
• 6:46:52
  him, but he drew his sword. Heads off, cried he, and
• 6:46:57
  with the word the traitors heads fell before him, and Heinel was once more
• 6:47:03
  king of the Golden Mountain, and of the King of the Golden Mountain.
• 6:47:10
  There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and
• 6:47:17
  just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. He had not
• 6:47:21
  even so much as a cow, and still less money to buy one,
• 6:47:25
  and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one. One day
• 6:47:30
  he said to her, listen, I have a good idea. There is
• 6:47:34
  our gossip the carpenter. He shall make us a wooden calf, and paint
• 6:47:40
  it brown, so that it looked like any other, and in time it
• 6:47:44
  will certainly get big and be a cow. The woman also liked the idea,
• 6:47:49
  and there gossip the carpenter cut and planed the calf and painted it as
• 6:47:55
  it ought to be, and made it with its head hanging down as if
• 6:47:59
  it were eating. Next morning, when the cows were being driven out,
• 6:48:03
  the little peasant called the cow herd in and said, look, I have
• 6:48:07
  a little calf here, but it is still small and has to be carried.
• 6:48:12
  The cow herd said all right, and took it in his arms and
• 6:48:17
  carried it to the pasture and set it among the grass. The little calf
• 6:48:21
  always remained standing like one which was eating, and the cow herd said,
• 6:48:26
  it will soon run by itself. Just look how it eats already at nights.
• 6:48:33
  When he was going to drive the herd home again, he said to
• 6:48:36
  the calf, if you can stand there and eat your fill, you can
• 6:48:40
  also go on your four legs. I don't care to drag you home again
• 6:48:45
  in my arms. But the little peasant stood at his door and waited for
• 6:48:48
  his little calf. And when the cow herd drove the cows through the village
• 6:48:52
  and the calf was missing, he inquired where it was. The cow herd
• 6:48:57
  answered, ier is still standing out there eating. It would not stop and
• 6:49:03
  come with us. But the little peasant said, oh, but I must
• 6:49:07
  have my beast back again. Then they went back to the meadow together,
• 6:49:14
  but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone. The cowherd said
• 6:49:19
  it must have run away. The peasant, however, said, don't tell
• 6:49:25
  me that, and led the cowherd before the mayor, who, for his
• 6:49:30
  carelessness, condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had
• 6:49:34
  run away. And now the little peasant and his wife had the cow for
• 6:49:41
  which they had so long wished, and they were heartily glad. But they
• 6:49:45
  had no food for it and could give it nothing to eat, so it
• 6:49:48
  soon had to be killed. They salted the flesh, and the peasant went
• 6:49:53
  into the town and wanted to sell the skin there so that he might buy
• 6:49:59
  a new calf. The proceeds. On the way, he passed by a
• 6:50:03
  mill, and there sat a raven with broken wings, and out of pity,
• 6:50:07
  he took him and wrapped him in the skin. But as the weather
• 6:50:11
  grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could
• 6:50:17
  go no farther and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter. The
• 6:50:22
  miller's wife was alone in the house and said to the peasant lay yourself on
• 6:50:27
  the SRaw there and gave him a slice of bread and cheese. The peasant
• 6:50:33
  ate it and laid down with his skin beside him, and the woman thought
• 6:50:37
  he is tired and has gone asleep. In the meantime came the parson.
• 6:50:44
  The miller's wife received him well and said, my husband is out, so
• 6:50:48
  we will have a feast. The peasant listened, and when he heard them
• 6:50:53
  talk about feasting, he was vexed that he had been forced to make shift
• 6:50:59
  with a slice of bread and cheese. Then the woman served up four different
• 6:51:03
  things, roast meat, salad, cakes, and wine. Just as they
• 6:51:11
  were about to sit down and eat, there was a knocking outside. The
• 6:51:15
  woman said, oh, heavens, it is my husband. She quickly hid
• 6:51:21
  the roast meat inside the tiled stove, the wine under the pillow, the
• 6:51:25
  salad on the bed, the cakes under it, and the parson in the
• 6:51:29
  closet on the porch. Then she opened the door for her husband and said,
• 6:51:34
  thank Heaven, you are back again. There is such a storm it
• 6:51:40
  looks as if the world were coming to an end. The miller saw the
• 6:51:44
  peasant lying on the straw and asked, what is that feller doing there,
• 6:51:51
  ah, said the wife. The porn knave came in the storm and rained
• 6:51:55
  and begged for shelter. So I gave him a bit of bread and cheese
• 6:51:59
  and showed him where the straw was. The man said, I have no
• 6:52:03
  objection, but be quick and get me something to eat. The woman said,
• 6:52:10
  but I have nothing but bread and cheese. I am contented with anything,
• 6:52:15
  replied the husband. So far as I am concerned, bread and cheese
• 6:52:18
  will do. And looked at the peasant and said, come and eat some
• 6:52:23
  more with me. The peasant did not require to be invited twice, but
• 6:52:30
  got up and ate. After this, the miller saw the skin in which
• 6:52:33
  the raven was lying on the ground and asked, what have you there.
• 6:52:40
  The peasant answered, I have a soothsayer inside it. Can he foretell anything
• 6:52:45
  to me? Said the miller. Why not, answered the peasant. But
• 6:52:52
  he only says four things, and the fifth he keeps to himself. The
• 6:52:56
  miller was curious and said, got him foretell something for once? Then the
• 6:53:03
  peasant pinched the raven's head so that it croaked and made a noise like cer
• 6:53:08
  cer. The miller said, what did he say? The peasant answered,
• 6:53:15
  In the first place, he says that there is some wine hidden under the
• 6:53:19
  pillow. Bless me, cried the miller, and went there and found the
• 6:53:25
  wine. I'll go on, said he. The peasant made the raven croak
• 6:53:30
  again and said, in the second place, he says that there is some
• 6:53:34
  roast meat in the tiled stove. Upon my word, cried the miller,
• 6:53:41
  and went thither and found the roast meat. The peasant made the raven prophesy
• 6:53:47
  still more, and said, thirdly, he says that there is some salad
• 6:53:52
  on the bed, that would be a fine thing. Cried the miller,
• 6:53:56
  and went there and found the salad. Last the peasant pinched the raven once
• 6:54:02
  more till he croaked, and said, fourthly, he says that there are
• 6:54:07
  some cakes under the bed, that would be a fine thing. Cried the
• 6:54:11
  miller, and looked there and found the cakes. And now the two sat
• 6:54:18
  down to the table together. But the miller's wife was frightened to death and
• 6:54:22
  went to bed and took all the keys with her. The miller would have
• 6:54:26
  liked much to know the fifth, but the little peasant said, first,
• 6:54:30
  we will quickly eat the four things, for the fifth is something bad.
• 6:54:36
  So they ate, and after that they bargained how much the miller was to
• 6:54:41
  give for the fifth prophecy, until they agreed on three hundred dollers. Then
• 6:54:48
  the peasant once more pinched the braven's head till he croaked loudly. The miller
• 6:54:53
  asked, what did he say. The peasant replied, he says that the
• 6:55:00
  devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch. The miller said
• 6:55:04
  the devil must go out, and opened the house door. Then the woman
• 6:55:11
  was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet.
• 6:55:15
  The parson ran out as fast as he could, and the miller said,
• 6:55:19
  it was true, I saw the black rascal with my own eyes. A
• 6:55:26
  peasant, however, made off next morning by daybreak with the three hundred dollers
• 6:55:33
  at home, the small peasant gradually launched out. He built a beautiful house,
• 6:55:38
  and the peasant said, the small peasant has certainly been to the place
• 6:55:42
  where gold and snow falls, and people carry the gold home in shovels.
• 6:55:48
  Then the small peasant was brought before the mayor and bidden to say from whence
• 6:55:52
  his wealth came. He answered, I sold my cowskin in the town for
• 6:55:56
  three hundred dollers. When the peasants heard that, they too wished to enjoy
• 6:56:03
  this great profit, and ran home, killed all their cows and stripped off
• 6:56:07
  their skins in order to sell them in the town to the greatest advantage.
• 6:56:12
  The mayor, however, said, but my servant must go first. When
• 6:56:18
  she came to the merchant in the town, he did not give her more
• 6:56:22
  than two tarthers for a skin, And when the others came, he did
• 6:56:27
  not give them so much, and said, what can I do with all
• 6:56:32
  these skins? Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus
• 6:56:37
  outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this
• 6:56:41
  treachery. Before the mayor, the innocent little peasant was unanimously sentenced to death,
• 6:56:48
  and was to be rolled into the water in a barrel pierced full of
• 6:56:52
  holes. He was led forth, and a priest was brought, who was
• 6:56:56
  to say a mass for his soul. The others were all obliged to retire
• 6:57:02
  to a distance, and when the peasant looked at the priest, he recognized
• 6:57:07
  the man who had been with the miller's wife. He said to him by
• 6:57:11
  set you free from the closet, set me free from the barrel. At
• 6:57:17
  this same moment, up came with a flock of sheep. The very shepherd,
• 6:57:22
  whom the peasant knew, had long been wishing to be mayor. So
• 6:57:25
  he cried with all his might, no, I will not do it.
• 6:57:30
  If the whole world insists on it, I will not do it. The
• 6:57:36
  shepherd, hearing that, came up to him and asked, what are you
• 6:57:40
  about. What is it that you will not do. The peasant said,
• 6:57:45
  they want to make me mayor if I will but put myself in the barrel,
• 6:57:48
  But I will not do it. The shepherd said, if nothing more
• 6:57:52
  than that is needful in order to be mayor, I would get into the
• 6:57:56
  barrel at once. The peasant said, if if you will get in,
• 6:58:00
  you will be mayor. The shepherd was willing and got in, and the
• 6:58:06
  peasant shut the top down on him. Then he took the shepherd's flock for
• 6:58:10
  himself and drove it away. The parson went to the crowd and declared that
• 6:58:15
  the mass had been said. Then they came and rolled the barrel towards the
• 6:58:21
  water. When the barrel began to roll, the shepherd cried, I am
• 6:58:25
  quite willing to be mayor. They believe no otherwise than that. It was
• 6:58:30
  the peasant who was saying this, and answered, that is what we intend.
• 6:58:34
  But first you shall look about you a little down below there, And
• 6:58:40
  they rolled the barrel down into the water. After the peasants went home,
• 6:58:45
  and as they were entering the village, the small peasant also came quietly in,
• 6:58:51
  driving a flock of sheep, and looking quite contented. Then the peasants
• 6:58:56
  were astonished, and said, peasant, from where thence do you come?
• 6:59:00
  Have you come out of the water, Yes, truly, replied the peasant.
• 6:59:06
  I sank down, deep down, until at last I got to the
• 6:59:10
  bottom. I pushed the bottom out of the barrel and crept out. And
• 6:59:14
  there were pretty meadows on which a number of lambs were feeding. And from
• 6:59:18
  thence I brought this flock away with me, said the peasants. Are there
• 6:59:22
  any more there? Oh? Yes, said he, more than I could
• 6:59:27
  want. Then the peasants made up their minds that they too would fetch some
• 6:59:33
  sheep for themselves a flock apiece. But the mayor said, but I come
• 6:59:37
  first. So they went to the water together, and just then there were
• 6:59:41
  some of the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky, which are called little
• 6:59:45
  lambs, and they were reflected in the water, whereupon the peasants cried,
• 6:59:52
  we already see the sheep down below. The mayor pressed forward and said,
• 6:59:57
  I will go down first and look about me, and if things promise well,
• 7:00:03
  i'll call you. So he jumped in, splash went the water.
• 7:00:08
  It sounded as if he were calling them, and the whole crowd plunged in
• 7:00:12
  after him as one man. Then the entire village was dead. When the
• 7:00:19
  small peasant as sole heir, became a rich man, and of the little
• 7:00:27
  peasant, the farmer had a faithful and diligent servant who had worked hard for
• 7:00:33
  him three years without having been paid any wages. At last it came into
• 7:00:38
  the man's head that he would not go on thus without pay any longer.
• 7:00:42
  So he went to his master and said, I have worked hard for you
• 7:00:48
  a long time. I will trust you to give me what I deserve to
• 7:00:52
  have for my trouble. The farmer was a sad miser and knew that this
• 7:00:56
  man was very simple hearted, so he took got threepence and gave him for
• 7:01:02
  every year's service a penny. The poor fellow thought it was a great deal
• 7:01:07
  of money to have, and said to himself, why should I work hard
• 7:01:11
  and live here on bad fare any longer? I can now travel into the
• 7:01:15
  wide world and make myself merry. With that, he put his money into
• 7:01:21
  his purse and set out, roaming over hill and valley. As he jogged
• 7:01:26
  along over the fields, singing and dancing, a little dwarf met him and
• 7:01:32
  asked him what made him so merry? Why what should make me downhearted?
• 7:01:37
  Said he, I am sound in health and rich in purse. What should
• 7:01:41
  I care for? I have saved up my three years earnings and have it
• 7:01:45
  all safe in my pocket. How much may it come to said the little
• 7:01:51
  man. A full threepence, replied the countryman. I wish you would give
• 7:01:56
  them to me, said the other, I am very poor. Then the
• 7:02:03
  man pitied him and gave him all he had, and the little dwarf said,
• 7:02:07
  in return, as you have such a kind, honest heart, I
• 7:02:12
  will grant you three wishes, one for every penny, so choose whatever you
• 7:02:18
  like. Then the countryman rejoiced at his good luck and said, I like
• 7:02:25
  many things better than money. First, I will have a bow that will
• 7:02:30
  bring down everything I shoot at. Secondly, a fiddle that will set everyone
• 7:02:36
  dancing that hears me play upon it. And thirdly, I should like that
• 7:02:40
  everyone should grant what I ask. The dwarf said he should have these three
• 7:02:45
  wishes. So he gave him the bow and fiddle and went his way.
• 7:02:53
  Our honest friend journeyed on his way too, And if he was merry before,
• 7:02:59
  he was now ten times more so. He had not gone far before
• 7:03:03
  he met an old miser. Close by them stood a tree, and on
• 7:03:07
  the topmost twig sat a thrush, singing away almost joyfully. Oh what a
• 7:03:15
  pretty bird, said the miser. I would give a great deal of money
• 7:03:19
  to have such a one. If that's all, said the countryman, I
• 7:03:25
  will soon bring it down. Then he took up his bow, and down
• 7:03:29
  fell the thrush into the bushes at the foot of the tree. The miser
• 7:03:33
  crept into the bush to find it, but directly he had got into the
• 7:03:37
  middle. His companion took up his fiddle and played away, and the miser
• 7:03:42
  began to dance and spring about, capering higher and higher in the air.
• 7:03:48
  The thorns soon began to tear his clothes till they all hung in rags about
• 7:03:52
  him, and he himself was all scratched and wounded, so that the blood
• 7:03:57
  ran down. Oh, for heaven's sake, cried the miser. Master Master,
• 7:04:07
  pray, let the fiddle alone. What have I done to deserve this?
• 7:04:11
  Thou hast shaved many a poor soul. Close enough, said the other,
• 7:04:17
  thou art only meeting thy reward, So he played up another tune.
• 7:04:22
  Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty.
• 7:04:27
  But he did not come up to the musician's price for some time,
• 7:04:30
  and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and
• 7:04:36
  higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had
• 7:04:41
  in his purse and had just gained by cheating some poor fellow. When the
• 7:04:45
  countryman saw so much money, he said, I will agree to your proposal.
• 7:04:52
  So he took up the purse, put up his fiddle, and traveled
• 7:04:56
  on, very pleased with his bargain. Meanwhile, the miser crept out of
• 7:05:02
  the bush, half naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder
• 7:05:06
  how he should take his revenge and serve his late companion some trick. At
• 7:05:11
  last, he went to the judge and complained that a rascal had robbed him
• 7:05:15
  of his money and beaten him into the bargain, and that the fellow who
• 7:05:19
  did it carried a bow on his back and a fiddle hung round his neck.
• 7:05:25
  Then the judge sent his officers to bring up the accused wherever they should
• 7:05:30
  find him, and he was soon caught and brought up to be tried.
• 7:05:33
  The miser began to tell his tale and said he had been robbed of his
• 7:05:38
  money. No, you gave it to me for playing a tune to you,
• 7:05:44
  said the countryman. But the judge told him that was not likely,
• 7:05:48
  and cut the matter short by ordering him off to the gallows. So away
• 7:05:55
  he was taken. But as he stood on the steps, he said,
• 7:06:00
  my lord, judge, grant me one last request. Anything but thy life,
• 7:06:06
  replied the other. No, said he I do not ask my life,
• 7:06:11
  only to let me play upon my fiddle for the last time. The
• 7:06:15
  miser cried out, oh no, no, for heaven's sake, don't listen
• 7:06:22
  to him. Don't listen to him. But the judge said, it is
• 7:06:26
  only this once. He will soon have done the fact was he could not
• 7:06:32
  refuse the request on account of the dwarf's third gift. Then the miser said,
• 7:06:38
  bind me fast, bind me fast, for pity's sake. But the
• 7:06:44
  countryman seized his fiddle and struck up a tune, and at the first note,
• 7:06:48
  judge, clerks and jailer were in motion. All began capering, and
• 7:06:55
  no one could hold the miser. At the second note, the hangman let
• 7:07:00
  his prisoner go and danced also, And by the time he had played the
• 7:07:04
  first bar of the tune, all were dancing together, Judge, court and
• 7:07:10
  miser, and all the people who had followed to look on. Not first
• 7:07:15
  the thing was merry and pleasant enough, but when it had gone on a
• 7:07:18
  while and there seemed to be no end of playing or dancing, they began
• 7:07:22
  to cry out and beg him to leave off. But he stopped, not
• 7:07:26
  a whit the more for their entreaties till the judge not only gave him his
• 7:07:32
  life, but promised to return him the hundred florins. Then he called to
• 7:07:37
  the miser and said, tell us, now, Hugh vagabond, where you
• 7:07:42
  got that gold? But I shall play on for your amusement. Only I
• 7:07:48
  stole it, said the miser, in the presence of all the people,
• 7:07:53
  I acknowledge that I stole it, and that you earned it fairly. Then
• 7:07:59
  the countryman stopped his fiddle and left the miser to take his place at the
• 7:08:04
  gallows. And of the miser in the bush. There was once upon a
• 7:08:12
  time an old goat who had seven little kids and loved them with all the
• 7:08:18
  love of a mother for her children. One day she wanted to go into
• 7:08:22
  the forest and fetch some food. So she called all seven to her and
• 7:08:26
  said, dear children, I have to go into the forest. Be on
• 7:08:30
  your guard against the wolf. If he comes in, he will devour you
• 7:08:34
  all skin, hair and everything. The wretch often disguises himself, but you
• 7:08:41
  will know him at once by his rough voice and his black feet. The
• 7:08:45
  kids said, dear mother, we will take good care of ourselves. You
• 7:08:51
  may go away without any anxiety. Then the old one bleated and went on
• 7:08:56
  her way with an easy mind. It was not long before some one knocked
• 7:09:02
  at the house door and called open the door. Dear children, your mother
• 7:09:07
  is here and has brought something back with her for each of you. But
• 7:09:11
  the little kids knew that it was the wolf by the rough voice. We
• 7:09:15
  will not open the door, cried they. You are not our mother.
• 7:09:21
  She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough. You
• 7:09:25
  are the wolf. Then the wolf went away to a shop keeper and bought
• 7:09:30
  himself a great lump of chalk ate this and made his voice soft with it.
• 7:09:34
  Then he came back, knocked at the door of the house and called,
• 7:09:38
  open the door, dear children, your mother is here and has brought
• 7:09:44
  something back with her for each of you. But the wolf had laid his
• 7:09:48
  black paws against the window, and the children saw them and cried, we
• 7:09:52
  will not open the door. Our mother has not black feet like you.
• 7:09:56
  You are the wolf. Then the wolf ran to a baker and said,
• 7:10:03
  I have hurt my feet. Rubbed some dough over them for me. And
• 7:10:07
  when the baker had rubbed his feet over he ran to the miller and said,
• 7:10:11
  strew some white meal over my feet for me. The miller thought to
• 7:10:17
  himself, the wolf wants to deceive some one, and refused. But the
• 7:10:22
  wolf said, if you will not do it, I will devour you.
• 7:10:27
  Then the miller was afraid and made his paws wide for him. Truly,
• 7:10:33
  this is the way of mankind. So now the wretch went for the third
• 7:10:38
  time to the house door, knocked at it, and said, open the
• 7:10:42
  door for me. Children, Your dear little mother has come home and has
• 7:10:47
  brought every one of you something back from the forest with her. The little
• 7:10:52
  kids cried, first, show us your paws, that we may know if
• 7:10:56
  you are our dear little mother. Then he put his paws in through the
• 7:11:02
  window. And when the kids saw that they were white, they believed that
• 7:11:04
  all he said was true and opened the door. But who should come in
• 7:11:10
  but the wolf. They were terrified and wanted to hide themselves. One sprang
• 7:11:15
  under the table, the second into the bed, the third into the stove,
• 7:11:19
  the fourth into the kitchen, the fifth into the cupboard, the sixth
• 7:11:25
  under the washing bowl, and the seventh into the clockcase. But the wolf
• 7:11:30
  found them all and used no great ceremony. One after the other, he
• 7:11:34
  swallowed them down his throat. The youngest, who was in the clock case,
• 7:11:38
  was the only one he did not find. When the wolf had satisfied
• 7:11:44
  his appetite, he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in
• 7:11:48
  the green meadow outside, and began to sleep. Soon afterwards, the old
• 7:11:53
  goat came home again from the forest, ah, what a sight she saw
• 7:11:57
  there. The house door stood wide open, The table, chairs and benches
• 7:12:03
  were thrown down, the washing bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts
• 7:12:07
  and pillows were pulled off the bed. She sought her children, but they
• 7:12:11
  were nowhere to be found. She called them one after another by name,
• 7:12:18
  but no one answered. At last, when she came to the youngest,
• 7:12:22
  a soft voice cried, near, mother, I am in the clock case.
• 7:12:27
  She took the kid out, and it told her that the wolf had
• 7:12:32
  come and eaten all the others. Then you may imagine how she wept over
• 7:12:37
  her poor children at length in her grief. She went out, and the
• 7:12:42
  youngest kid ran with her. When they came to the meadow, there lay
• 7:12:48
  the wolf by the tree and snort so loud that the branches shook. She
• 7:12:52
  looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in
• 7:12:57
  his gorged bell. Whah, Heavens, she said, is it possible that
• 7:13:03
  my poor children, whom he has swallowed down for his supper, can still
• 7:13:07
  be alive? Then the kid had to run home and fetch scissors and a
• 7:13:12
  needle and thread, and the goat cut open the monster's stomach and hardly had
• 7:13:18
  she made one cuts than one little kid thrust its head out, and when
• 7:13:22
  she had cut farther, all six sprang out, one after another, and
• 7:13:26
  were all still alive and had suffered no injury whatever, For in his greediness,
• 7:13:32
  the monster had swallowed them down hole. What rejoicing there was. They
• 7:13:38
  embraced their dear mother and jumped like a tailor at his wedding. The mother,
• 7:13:45
  however, said, now go and look for some big stones, and
• 7:13:48
  we will fill the wicked beast's stomach with them while he is still asleep.
• 7:13:53
  Then the seven kids dragged the stones thither with all speed, and put as
• 7:13:59
  many of them in to his stomach as they could get in, and the
• 7:14:02
  mother sewed him up again in the greatest haste, so that he was not
• 7:14:06
  aware of anything and never once stirred. When the wolf at length had had
• 7:14:11
  his fill of sleep, he got on his legs, and as the stones
• 7:14:15
  in his stomach made him very thirsty, he wanted to go to a well
• 7:14:18
  to drink. But when he began to walk and to move about, the
• 7:14:22
  stones and his stomach knocked against each other and rattled. Then cried, he,
• 7:14:29
  what rumbles and tumbles against my poor bones, I thought, tware six
• 7:14:34
  kids, But it feels like big stones. And when he got to the
• 7:14:40
  well and stooped over the water to drink, the heavy stones made him fall
• 7:14:44
  in, and he drowned miserably. When the seven kids saw that, they
• 7:14:49
  were running for the spot and cried aloud, the wolf is dead. The
• 7:14:53
  wolf is dead, and danced for joy round about the well with their mother,
• 7:15:00
  and of the wolf and the seven little kids. A poor woodman sat
• 7:15:06
  in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his
• 7:15:10
  wife sat by his side spinning. How lonely it is, wife, said
• 7:15:15
  he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke. For you and
• 7:15:18
  me to sit here by ourselves, without any children to play about and amuse
• 7:15:23
  us, while other people seem so happy and merry with their children. What
• 7:15:29
  you say is very true, said the wife, sighing and turning round her
• 7:15:33
  wheel. How happy should I be if I had but one child? If
• 7:15:38
  it were ever so small? Yea, if it were no bigger than my
• 7:15:41
  thumb, I should be very happy and love it dearly. Now, odd
• 7:15:48
  as you may think it, it came to pass that this good woman's wish
• 7:15:52
  was fulfilled just in the very way she had wished it for. Not long
• 7:15:56
  afterwards she had a little boy who was quite healthy and strong, but was
• 7:16:03
  not much bigger than my thumb. So they said, well, we cannot
• 7:16:07
  say we have not got what we wished for, And little as he is,
• 7:16:12
  we will love him dearly. And they called him Thomas Thumb. They
• 7:16:18
  gave him plenty of food. Yet for all they could do, he never
• 7:16:22
  grew bigger, but kept just the same size as he had been when he
• 7:16:26
  was born. Still his eyes were sharp and sparkling, and he soon showed
• 7:16:30
  himself to be a clever little fellow who always knew well what he was about.
• 7:16:37
  One day, as the woodman was getting ready to go into the wood
• 7:16:40
  to cut fuel, he said, I wish I had summoned to bring the
• 7:16:44
  cart after me, for I want to make haste. Oh, Father cried
• 7:16:48
  Tom, I will take care of that. The cart shall be in the
• 7:16:52
  wood by the time you want it. Then the woodman laughed and said,
• 7:16:57
  how can that be. You cannot reach up to the horse's bridle. Never
• 7:17:03
  mind that, Father said Tom, If my mother will only harness the horse,
• 7:17:07
  I will get into his ear and tell him which way to go.
• 7:17:12
  Well, said the father, We will try for once. When the time
• 7:17:18
  came, the mother harnessed the horse to the carts and put Tom into his
• 7:17:22
  ear. And as he sat there, the little man told the beast how
• 7:17:26
  to go, crying out, go on and stop as he wanted. And
• 7:17:33
  thus the horse went on, just as well as if the woodman had driven
• 7:17:37
  it himself into the wood. It happened that as the horse was going a
• 7:17:41
  little too fast, and Tom was calling out gently gently, two strangers came
• 7:17:48
  up. What an odd thing that is, said one. There is a
• 7:17:52
  cart going along, and I hear a carter talking to the horse, but
• 7:17:57
  yet I can see no one. Yeah, it's queer indeed, said the
• 7:18:03
  other. Let us follow the cart and see where it goes. So they
• 7:18:07
  went on into the wood till at last they came to the place where the
• 7:18:11
  woodman was. Then Tom thumb, seeing his father, cried out, see
• 7:18:17
  father, here I am with the cart, all right and safe. Now
• 7:18:22
  take me down. So his father took hold of the horse with one hand,
• 7:18:26
  and with the other took his son out of the horse's ear and put
• 7:18:30
  him down upon a straw, where he sat as merry as you please.
• 7:18:37
  The two strangers were all this time looking on, I did not know what
• 7:18:41
  to say for wonder. At last one took the other aside and said,
• 7:18:47
  that little urchin will make our fortune if we can get him and carry him
• 7:18:52
  about from town to town as a show. We must buy him. So
• 7:18:57
  they went up to the woodman and asked him what he would take for the
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  little man. He will be better off, said they with us than with
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  you. I won't sell him at all, said the father. My own
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  flesh and blood is dearer to me than all the silver and gold in the
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  world. But Tom, hearing of the bargain they wanted to make, crept
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  up his father's coat to his shoulder and whispered in his ear. Take the
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  money, father, and let them have me. I'll soon come back to
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  you. So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers
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  for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price. Where would
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  you like to sit, said one of them. Oh, put me on
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  the rim of your hat. That will be a nice gallery for me.
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  I can walk about there and see the country as we go along. So
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  they did as he wished, and when Tom had taken leave of his father,
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  they took him away with them. They journeyed on till it began to
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  be dusky, and then the little man said, let me get down.
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  I'm tired. So the man took off his hats and put him down on
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  a clod of earth and a plowed field by the side of the road.
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  But Tom ran about amongst the furrows, and at last slipped into an old
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  mouse hole. Good night, my masters, said he, I'm off,
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  mind, and look sharp after me the next time. Then they ran at
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  once to the place and poked the ends of their sticks into the mouse hole,
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  but all in vain. Tom only crawled farther and farther in, and
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  at last it became quite dark, so that they were forced to go their
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  way without their prize, as sulky as could be. When Tom found they
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  were gone, he came out of his hiding place. What dangerous walking it
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  is, said he, in this plowed field. If I were to fall
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  from one of these great clods, I should undoubtedly break my neck. At
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  last, by good luck, he found a large empty snail shell. This
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  is lucky, said he. I can sleep here very well, and in
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  he crept. Just as he was falling asleep, he heard two men passing
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  by chatting together, and one said to the other, how can we rub
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  that rich parson's house of his silver and gold? I'll tell you, cried
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  Tom. What noise was that? Said the thief, frightened, I'm sure
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  I heard some one speak. They stood listening, and Tom said, take
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  me with you, and I'll soon show you how to get the parson's money.
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  But where are you? Said? They look about on the ground,
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  answered he, and listen where the sound comes from. At last the thieves
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  found him out and lifted him up in their hands, O little urchin,
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  They said, what can you do for us? Why I can get between
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  the iron window bars at the parson's house and throw you out whatever you want.
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  M that's a good thought, said the thieves. Come along, we
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  shall see what you can do. When they came to the parson's house,
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  Tom slipped through the window bars into the room and then called out, as
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  loud as he could, bawl, will you have all that is here?
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  At this the thieves were frightened and said softly, softly, speak low,
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  that you may not awaken anybody. But Tom seemed as if he did not
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  understand them, and bawled out again, how much whin you have? Shall
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  I throw it all out now, the cook in the next room, and
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  hearing a noise, she raised herself up in her bed and listened. Meantime,
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  the thieves were frightened and ran off a little way. But at last
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  they plucked up their hearts and said, this little urchin is only trying to
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  make fools of us. So they came back and whispered softly to him,
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  saying, now let us have no more of your roguish jokes, but throw
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  us out some of the money. Then Tom called out as loud as he
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  could, very well, hold your hands, here it comes. The cook
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  heard this quite plain, so she sprang out of her bed and ran to
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  the open door. The thieves ran off as if a wolf was at their
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  tails, and the maid, having groped about and found nothing, went away
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  for a light. By the time she came back, Tom had slipped off
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  into the barn, and when she looked about and so which every hole and
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  corner and found nobody, she went to bed, thinking she must have been
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  dreaming with her eyes open. The little man crawled about in the hayloft and
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  at last found a snug place to finish his night's rest in so he laid
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  himself down, meaning to sleep till daylight and then find his way home to
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  his father and mother. But alas how woefully he was undone. What crosses
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  and sorrows happened to us all in this world. The cook got up early
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  before daybreak to feed the cows, and, going straight to the hayloft,
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  carried away a large bundle of hay, with the little man in the middle
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  of it. Fast asleep. He still, however, slept on and did
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  not awake till he found himself in the mouth of a cow. For the
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  cook had put the hay into the cow's rick, and the cow had taken
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  tom up in a mouthful of it. Good lack a day, said he.
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  How came I to tumble into the mill, But he soon found out
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  where he really was, and was forced to have all his wits about him,
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  that he might not get between the cow's teeth and so be crushed to
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  death. At last, down he went into her stomach. It is rather
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  dark, said he. They forgot to build windows in this room. To
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  let the sun in a candle would be no bad thing. Though he made
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  the best of his bad luck, he did not like his quarters at all,
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  and the worst of it was that more and more Hay was always coming
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  down, and the space left for him became smaller and smaller. At last
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  he cried out, as loud as he could, don't bring me any more
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  Hay. The maid happened to be just then milking the cow and hearing some
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  one speak, but seeing nobody, and yet being quite sure it was the
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  same voice that she had heard in the night. She was so frightened that
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  she fell off her stool and overset the milk pail. As soon as she
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  could pick herself up out of the dirt, she ran off as fast as
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  she could to her master, the parson, and said, Sir, sir,
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  the cow is talking. But the parson said, woman thou art surely
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  mad. However, he went with her into the cow house to try and
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  see what was the matter. Scarcely had he set foot on the threshold when
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  Tom called out, don't bring me any more Hay. Then the parson himself
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  was frightened, and, thinking the cow was surely bewitched, told his man
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  to kill her on the spot. So the cow was killed and cut up,
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  and the stomach in which Tom lay was thrown out upon a dunghill.
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  Tom soon set himself to work to get out, which was not a very
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  easy task. But at last, just as he had made room to get
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  his head out fresh ill luck befell him. A hungry wolf sprang out and
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  swallowed up the whole stomach with Tom in it at one gulp and ran away.
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  Tom, however, was still not disheartened, and thinking the wolf would
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  not dislike having some chat with him. As he was going along, he
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  called out, my good friend, I can show you a famous treat.
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  Where's that? Said the wolf? In such and such a house, said
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  Tom, describing his own father's house. You can crawl through the drain into
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  the kitchen and then into the pantry, and there you will find cakes,
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  ham beef, cold chicken, roast, pig, apple dumplings, and everything
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  that your heart can wish. The wolf did not want to be asked twice,
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  so that very night he went to the house and crawled through the drain
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  into the kitchen and then into the pantry, and ate and drank there to
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  his heart's content. As soon as he had had enough, he wanted to
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  get away, but he had eaten so much that he could not get out
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  by the same way he came in This was just what Tom had reckoned upon.
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  But now he began to set up a great shout, making all the
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  noise he could. Will you be easy, said the wolf. You'll awaken
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  everybody in the house if you make such a clatter. What's that to me,
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  said the little man. You have had your frolic. Now I've a
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  mind to be merry myself, and he began singing and shouting as loud as
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  he could. The woodman and his wife, being awakened by the noise,
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  peeped through a crack in the door. But when they saw a wolf was
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  there, you may well suppose that they were sadly frightened. And the woodman
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  ran for his axe and gave his wife a scythe do you stay behind,
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  said the woodman, And when I have knocked him on the head, you
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  must rip him up with the Scythe tom heard all this and cried out,
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  father, father, I am here. The wolf has swallowed me. And
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  his father said, Heaven be praised, we have found our dear child again.
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  And he told his wife not to use the scythe for fear she should
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  hurt him. Then he aimed a great blow and struck the wolf on the
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  head and killed him on the spot, And when he was dead, they
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  cut open his body and set Tommy free. Ah, said the father,
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  What fears we have had for you? Yes, father, answered he.
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  I have traveled all over the world, I think, in one way or
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  other since we parted, and now I am very glad to come home and
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  get fresh air again. Why where have you been, said his father.
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  I have been in a mouse hole, in a snail shell, and down
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  a cow's throat, and in a wolf's belly, and yet here I am
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  again, safe and sound. Well, said they, you are come back,
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  and we will not sell you again for all the riches in the world.
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  Then they hugged and kissed their dear little son, and gave him plenty
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  to eat and drink, for he was very hungry. And then they fetched
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  new clothes for him, for his old clothes have been quite spoiled on his
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  journey. So Master Thumb stayed at home with his father and mother in peace.
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  For though he had been so great a traveler, and had done and
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  seen so many fine things, and was fond enough of telling the whole story,
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  he always agreed that, after all, there's no place like band of Tom Thumb