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025 - The Cripple · Fairytales and Short Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

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  Speaker 1: The Cripple by Hans Christian Andersen eighteen seventy two. There
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  Speaker 1: was an old country house which belonged to young wealthy people.
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  Speaker 1: They had riches and blessings. They liked to enjoy themselves,
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  Speaker 1: but they did good as well. They wished to make
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  Speaker 1: everybody as happy as they were themselves. On Christmas Eve,
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  Speaker 1: a beautifully decorated Christmas tree stood in the old hall,
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  Speaker 1: where the fire burned and the chimney and fur branches
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  Speaker 1: were hung round the old pictures. Here were assembled a
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  Speaker 1: family and their guests, and there was dancing and singing.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the evening there had been a Christmas gayety
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  Speaker 1: in the servants hall.
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  Speaker 2: Here also was.
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  Speaker 1: A great fir tree with red and white candles, small
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  Speaker 1: Danish flags, swans, and fishing nets cut out of colored paper,
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  Speaker 1: and filled with goodies. The poor children from the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: were invited. Every one had his mother with him. The
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  Speaker 1: mothers did not look much at the Christmas tree, but
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  Speaker 1: at the Christmas table, where there lay linen and woolen cloth,
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  Speaker 1: stuff for gowns and stuff for trousers. They and the
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  Speaker 1: bigger children looked there. Only the very little ones stretched
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  Speaker 1: out their hands to the candles and the tinsel and flags.
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  Speaker 1: The whole party came early in the afternoon and got
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  Speaker 1: Christmas porridge and roast goose with red cabbage. Then, when
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree was seen and the gifts distributed, each
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  Speaker 1: got a little glass of punch with apple fritters.
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  Speaker 2: Then they went back to.
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  Speaker 1: Their own poor homes and talked of the good living,
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  Speaker 1: that is to say, good things to eat, and the
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  Speaker 1: gifts were once more inspected. There were now garden Christen
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  Speaker 1: and garden only they were married, and there had their
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  Speaker 1: house and daily bread for weeding and digging in the
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  Speaker 1: garden of the big house. Every Christmas festival they got
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  Speaker 1: a good share of the gifts. They had five children,
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  Speaker 1: and all of them were clothed by the family. They
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  Speaker 1: are generous people, our master and mistress, said they. But
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  Speaker 1: they have the means to be so, and they have
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in doing it. Here are good clothes for the
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  Speaker 1: four children to wear, said only, But why is there
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  Speaker 1: nothing for the cripple. They used to think about him too,
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  Speaker 1: Although he was not at the festival. It was the
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  Speaker 1: eldest of the children they called the cripple. He was
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  Speaker 1: called Hans otherwise, as a little boy He was the
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  Speaker 1: smartest and liveliest child. But he became all at once
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  Speaker 1: loose in the legs, as they call it. He could
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  Speaker 1: neither walk nor stand, and now he had been lying
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  Speaker 1: in bed for five years. Yes, I've got something for
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  Speaker 1: him too, said mother. But it is nothing much. It
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  Speaker 1: is only a book to read.
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  Speaker 2: He won't get.
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  Speaker 1: Fat on that, said the father. But Hans was glad
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  Speaker 1: of it. He was a very clever boy who liked
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  Speaker 1: to read, but used his time also for working, so
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  Speaker 1: far as one who must always lie.
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  Speaker 2: In bed could be useful. He was very.
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  Speaker 1: Handy and knitted woolen stockings and even bed covers. The
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  Speaker 1: lady at the big house had praised and bought them.
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  Speaker 1: It was a story book Hans had got in it.
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  Speaker 1: There was much read and much to think about. It
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  Speaker 1: is not of any kind of use here in the house,
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  Speaker 1: said his parents.
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  Speaker 2: But let him read. It passes the time.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot always be knitting stockings. The spring came, flowers
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  Speaker 1: and green leaves began to sprout. The weeds also, as
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  Speaker 1: one may call the nettles, although the Psalm speaks so
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  Speaker 1: nicely of them. Though kings, in all their power and might,
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  Speaker 1: came forth in splendid row. They could not make the
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  Speaker 1: smallest leaf upon a nettle grove. There was much to
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  Speaker 1: do in the garden, not only for the gardener and
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  Speaker 1: his apprentice, but also for Kristin and Ole. It is
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  Speaker 1: perfect drudgery, they said. We have no sooner raked the
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  Speaker 1: paths and made them nice than they are just trodden
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  Speaker 1: down again. There is such a run of visitors up
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  Speaker 1: at the house. How much it must cost. But the
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  Speaker 1: family are rich people. Things are badly divided, said Oly.
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  Speaker 1: The priest says, we are all our father's children. Why
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  Speaker 1: the difference?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 1: It comes from the fall, said Kristin. They talked about
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  Speaker 1: it again in the evening, where cripple Hans lay with
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  Speaker 1: his story book straightened circumstances. Work and drudgery had made
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  Speaker 1: the parents not only hard in the hands, but also
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  Speaker 1: in their opinions and judgments. They could not grasp it,
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  Speaker 1: could not explain it, and made themselves more peevish and
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  Speaker 1: angry as they talked. Some people get prosperity and happiness,
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  Speaker 1: others only poverty. Why should our first parents disobedience and
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  Speaker 1: curiosity be visited upon us. We would not have behaved
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  Speaker 1: ourselves as they did. Yes, we would, said cripple Hans.
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  Speaker 1: All at once, it's all here in the book.
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  Speaker 2: What is in the book?
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  Speaker 1: Asked the parents, and Hans read for them the old
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  Speaker 1: story of the woodcutter and his wife. They also scolded
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  Speaker 1: about Adam and Eve's curiosity, which was the cause of
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  Speaker 1: their misfortune. The King of the country came past. Just
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  Speaker 1: then come home with me, he said. Then you shall
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  Speaker 1: have it as good as I Seven courses for dinner
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  Speaker 1: and a course for show that is in a closed treen,
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  Speaker 1: and you must not touch it, for if you do,
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  Speaker 1: it is all over with your grandeur. What can there
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  Speaker 1: be in the tureen, said the wife. That does not
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  Speaker 1: concern us, said the man. Yes, I am not inquisitive,
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  Speaker 1: said the wife, But I would only like to know
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  Speaker 1: why we dare not lift the lid. It is certainly
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  Speaker 1: something delicate, If only it is not something mechanical, said
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  Speaker 1: the man, such as a pistol which goes off and
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  Speaker 1: wakens the whole house. Oh my, said the wife, and
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  Speaker 1: did not touch the tureen. But during the night she
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  Speaker 1: dreamt that the lid lifted itself, and from the tureen
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  Speaker 1: came the smell of the loveliest punch, such as one
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  Speaker 1: gets at weddings and funerals.
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  Speaker 2: There lay a big.
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  Speaker 1: Silver shilling with the inscription drink of this punch, and
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  Speaker 1: you will become the two richest people in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody else will become beggars. And the wife wakened
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  Speaker 1: at once and told her husband her dream. You think
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  Speaker 1: too much about the thing, he said. We could lift
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  Speaker 1: it gently, said the wife, Gently, said the man. And
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  Speaker 1: the wife then lifted the lip very gently. Then two
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  Speaker 1: little active mice sprang out and ran at once into
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  Speaker 1: a mouse hole. Good night, said the king. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can go home and lie in your own bed. Don't
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  Speaker 1: scold Adam and Eve any more. You yourselves have been
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  Speaker 1: as inquisitive and ungrateful. From Where has that story come.
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  Speaker 2: In the books? Said Ole.
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  Speaker 1: It looks at it as if it looks as if
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  Speaker 1: it concerned us. It is something to think about. Next
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  Speaker 1: day they went to work again. They were roasted by
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  Speaker 1: the sun and soaked to the skin with rain in them.
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  Speaker 1: Were fretful thoughts, and they ruminated on them. It was
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  Speaker 1: still quite light at home. After they had eaten their milk,
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  Speaker 1: Porridge read the story of the woodcutter to us again,
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  Speaker 1: said Oly, there are so many nice ones in the books,
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  Speaker 1: said Hans.
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  Speaker 2: So many you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know, Yes, but I don't care about them, said Oly,
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear the one I know. And he
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  Speaker 1: and his wife listened to it again more than one evening.
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  Speaker 1: They returned to the story. It cannot quite make everything
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  Speaker 1: clear to me, said Oly. It is with people, as
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  Speaker 1: with sweet milk which sours. Some become fine cheese, and
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  Speaker 1: others the thin, watery way. Some people have luck in everything,
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  Speaker 1: sit at the high table every day and know neither
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  Speaker 1: sorrow nor want. Cripple Hans heard that he was weak
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  Speaker 1: in the legs, but clever in the head. He read
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  Speaker 1: to them from his story book, read about the man
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  Speaker 1: without sorrow or want? Where was he to be found?
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  Speaker 1: For found he must be. The king lay sick and
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  Speaker 1: could not be cured except by being dressed in the
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  Speaker 1: shirt which had been worn on the body of a
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  Speaker 1: man who could truthfully say that he had never known
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  Speaker 1: sorrow or want. Messages were sent to all the countries
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  Speaker 1: in the world, to all castles and estates, to all prosperous.
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  Speaker 2: And happy men.
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  Speaker 1: But when it was properly investigated, every one of them
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  Speaker 1: had experienced sorrow and want. That I have not said
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  Speaker 1: the swineherd, who sat in the ditch and laughed and sang,
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  Speaker 1: I am the happiest man. Then give us your shirt,
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  Speaker 1: said the king's messengers. You shall be paid for it
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  Speaker 1: with half of the kingdom. But he had no shirt,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he called himself the happiest man. That was
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  Speaker 1: a fine fellow, shouted Oly, And he and his wife
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  Speaker 1: laughed as they had not laughed.
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  Speaker 2: For a year and a day. Then the schoolmaster came past.
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  Speaker 2: How you are enjoying yourselves? Said he.
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  Speaker 1: That is something new in this house. Have you won
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  Speaker 1: a prize in the lottery. No, we are not of
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  Speaker 1: that kind, said Oly. It is Hans who has been
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  Speaker 1: reading his story book to us about the man without
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  Speaker 1: sorrow or want, And the fellow had no shirt. One's
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  Speaker 1: eyes get moist when one hears such things. And from
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  Speaker 1: that printed book every one has his load to draw.
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  Speaker 1: One is not alone in that. That is always a comfort.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you get that book, asked the schoolmaster. Our
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  Speaker 1: Hans got it more than a year ago, at Christmas time.
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  Speaker 1: The master and his mistress gave it to him. They
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  Speaker 1: know that he likes reading so much, and he is
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  Speaker 1: a cripple. We would rather have seen him get two
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  Speaker 1: linen shirts at the time. But the book is wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: It can almost answer one's thoughts. The schoolmaster took the
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  Speaker 1: book and opened it. Let us have the same story again,
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  Speaker 1: said Oli. I have not quite taken.
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  Speaker 2: It in yet.
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  Speaker 1: Then he must also read the other one about the woodcutter.
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  Speaker 1: These two stories were enough for Oli.
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  Speaker 2: They were like two.
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  Speaker 1: Sunbeams coming into the poor room, into the stunted thought,
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  Speaker 1: which made him so cross and ill natured. Hans had
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  Speaker 1: read the whole book, read it many times. The stories
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  Speaker 1: carried him out into the world, there where he could
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  Speaker 1: not go because his legs would not carry him. The
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  Speaker 1: schoolmaster sat by his bed. They talked together, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a pleasure for both of them. From that day,
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  Speaker 1: the schoolmaster came oftener to Hans when the parents.
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  Speaker 2: Were at work.
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  Speaker 1: It was a treat for the boy every time he came.
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  Speaker 1: How he listened to what the old man told him
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  Speaker 1: about the size of the world and its many countries,
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  Speaker 1: and that the Sun was almost half a million times
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  Speaker 1: bigger than the Earth, and so far away that a cannonball,
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  Speaker 1: in its course would take a whole twenty five years
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  Speaker 1: to come from the Sun to the Earth. Whilst the
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  Speaker 1: beams of light could come in eight minutes. Every industrious
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  Speaker 1: schoolboy knew all that, but for Hans it was all
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  Speaker 1: new and still more wonderful than what was in the storybook.
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  Speaker 1: The schoolmaster dined with the squire's family two or three
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  Speaker 1: times a year, and he told how much importance the
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  Speaker 1: storybook had in the poorhouse, where two stories in it
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  Speaker 1: alone had been the means of spiritual awakening and blessing.
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  Speaker 1: The weekly clever little Boy had his reading brought reflections
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  Speaker 1: and joy into the house. The weekly clever little Boy
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  Speaker 1: had with his reading, bought reflections and joy into the house.
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  Speaker 1: When the schoolmaster went away, the lady pressed to her
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  Speaker 1: three silver dollars into his hand for little Hans. Father
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  Speaker 1: and mother must have them, said Hans, when the schoolmaster
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  Speaker 1: brought the money, and only and Kristen said cripple Hans,
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  Speaker 1: after all, is a prophet and a blessing. Two or
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  Speaker 1: three days after, when the parents were at work at
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  Speaker 1: the big house, the squire's carriage stopped outside.
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  Speaker 2: It was the kind hearted lady who.
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  Speaker 1: Came glad that her Christmas present had been such a
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  Speaker 1: comfort and pleasure for the boy and his parents. She
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  Speaker 1: brought with her fine bread, fruit and a bottle of
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  Speaker 1: fruit syrup. But was still more delightful. She brought him
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  Speaker 1: in a gilt cage a little blackbird, which could whistle
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  Speaker 1: quite charmingly. The cage with the bird was set up
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  Speaker 1: on the old clothes chest a little bit away from
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  Speaker 1: the boy's bed. He could see the bird and hear it,
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  Speaker 1: even if the people out in the road could hear
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  Speaker 1: its song. Only and Kristen came home after the lady
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  Speaker 1: had driven away. They noticed how glad Hans was, but
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  Speaker 1: that they thought there would be only trouble with the
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  Speaker 1: present he had got. Rich people don't have much foresight,
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  Speaker 1: said they. Shall we now have to look up? Shall
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  Speaker 1: we now have that to look after?
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  Speaker 2: Also?
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  Speaker 1: Cripple Hans cannot do it. The end will be that
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  Speaker 1: the cat will take it. Eight days passed, and still
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  Speaker 1: another eight days. The cat had in that time been
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  Speaker 1: often in the room without frightening the bird, to say
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  Speaker 1: nothing of hurting it. Then a great event happened. It
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  Speaker 1: was afternoon, The parents and the other children were at work.
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  Speaker 2: Hans was quite alone. He had the.
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  Speaker 1: Story book in his hand and read about the fisherwoman
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  Speaker 1: who got everything she wished for. She wished to be
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  Speaker 1: a king, and that she became. She wished to be
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  Speaker 1: an emperor, and that she became. But when she wished
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  Speaker 1: to become the good God, then she sat once more
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  Speaker 1: in the muddy ditch she had come from. The story
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the bird of the cat,
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  Speaker 1: but it was just the story he was reading when
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  Speaker 1: the incident happened. He always remembered that afterwards, the cage
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  Speaker 1: stood on the chest. The cat stood on the floor
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  Speaker 1: and stared at the bird with his greeny gold eyes.
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  Speaker 1: There was something in the cat's face which seemed to say,
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  Speaker 1: how lovely you are.
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  Speaker 2: How I should like to eat you.
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  Speaker 1: Hans could understand that he read it in the cat's face.
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  Speaker 1: Be off, cat, he shouted, Will you go.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the room.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed as if it were just about to spring.
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  Speaker 1: Hans could not get at him, and he had nothing
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  Speaker 1: else to throw at him but his dearest treasure, the storybook.
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  Speaker 1: He threw that, but the binding was loose, and it
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  Speaker 1: flew to one side, and the book itself, with all
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  Speaker 1: its leaves, flew to the other. The cat went, with
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  Speaker 1: slow steps a little back into the room and looked
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  Speaker 1: at Hans as much as to say don't mix yourself
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  Speaker 1: up in this affair, little Hans. I can walk and
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  Speaker 1: I can spring, and you can do neither. Hans kept
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  Speaker 1: his eyes on the cat and was greatly distressed. The
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  Speaker 1: bird was also anxious. There was no one there to
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  Speaker 1: call its seemed as if the cat knew it. He
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  Speaker 1: perpared itself again to spring.
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  Speaker 2: Hans shook the bed cover at him.
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  Speaker 1: His hands he could use, but the cat paid no
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  Speaker 1: attention to the bed cover, and when it was also
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  Speaker 1: thrown at him without a veil, he sprang upon the
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  Speaker 1: chair and into the window sill, where he was nearer
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  Speaker 1: to the bird. Hans could feel his own warm blood
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  Speaker 1: in himself, but he did not think of that. He
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  Speaker 1: thought only about the cat and the bird. The boy
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  Speaker 1: could not help himself out of bed, could not stand
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  Speaker 1: on his legs, still less walk. It seemed as if
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  Speaker 1: his heart turned inside him when he saw the cat
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  Speaker 1: spring from the window right onto the chest and pushed
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  Speaker 1: the cage so that it was upset. The bird fluttered
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  Speaker 1: wildly about inside. Hans gave a scream. Something gave a
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  Speaker 1: tug inside him, and without thinking about it, he jumped
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  Speaker 1: out of bed, flew across to the chest, tore the
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  Speaker 1: cat down and got hold of the cage where the
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  Speaker 1: bird was in a great fright.
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  Speaker 2: He held the cage.
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  Speaker 1: In his hands and ran with it out of the
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  Speaker 1: door and out onto the road. Then the tears streamed
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  Speaker 1: out of his eyes. He shouted with joy, I can walk,
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  Speaker 1: I can walk. He had recovered his activity again. Such
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  Speaker 1: things can happen, and it had happened to him. The
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  Speaker 1: schoolmaster lived close by. Hans ran into him with his
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  Speaker 1: bare feet, with only his shirt and jacket on, and
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  Speaker 1: with the bird in the cage. I can walk, he shouted,
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  Speaker 1: My God, and he sobbed and wept with joy. And
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  Speaker 1: there was joy in the house of Ole and Kristen.
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  Speaker 1: A more joyful day we could not see, said both
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  Speaker 1: of them. Hans was called up to the big house.
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  Speaker 1: He had not gone that way for many years. It
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  Speaker 1: seemed as if the trees and the nut bushes, which
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  Speaker 1: he knew so well, nodded to him and said, good day, Hans,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome here. The sun shone on his face as well
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  Speaker 1: as in his heart. The master and mistress let him
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  Speaker 1: sit with them, and looked as glad as he had
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  Speaker 1: belonged to their own family. Gladdest of all was the
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  Speaker 1: lady who had given him the storybook given him the
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  Speaker 1: Singing Bird, which was now as as a matter of fact, dead,
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  Speaker 1: dead of fright.
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  Speaker 2: But it had been the.
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  Speaker 1: Means of restoring him to health, and the book had
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  Speaker 1: brought up the awakening of the parents.
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  Speaker 2: He had the book still, he would keep it and
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  Speaker 2: read it if he were ever so old.
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  Speaker 1: Now he could be a benefit to those at home.
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  Speaker 1: He would learn a trade by preference a bookbinder, because
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  Speaker 1: he said, I can get all the new books to read.
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  Speaker 1: In the afternoon, a lady called both.
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  Speaker 2: Parents up to her.
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  Speaker 1: She and her husband had talked together about Hans. He
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  Speaker 1: was a wise and clever boy, had pleasure in reading
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  Speaker 1: and ability.
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  Speaker 2: That evening, the.
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  Speaker 1: Parents came home joyfully from the farm, Kristen in particular.
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  Speaker 2: But the week after she wept.
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  Speaker 1: Before then little Hans went away.
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  Speaker 2: He was dressed in good clothes. He was a good boy.
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  Speaker 1: But now he must go away across the salt water,
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  Speaker 1: far away to school, and many years would pass before
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  Speaker 1: they would see him again. He did not get the
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  Speaker 1: story book with him. The parents kept that for remembrance,
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  Speaker 1: and the father often read in it, but nothing except
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: the two stories, for he knew them and they got
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: letters from Hans, each one gladder than the last. He
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: was with fine people, in good circumstances, and it was
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: most delightful to go to school. There was so much
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to learn and to know. He only wanted to remain
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: there one hundred years and then be a schoolmaster, if
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: we should live to see it, said the parents, and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: pressed each other's hands as.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: If at communion.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: To think of what has happened to Hans, said Oli.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Our father thinks also of the poor man's child, and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: that it should happen just with the cripple. Is it
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: not as if Hans were to read it for us
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: out of the story book.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: End of the Cripples