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14 - Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie · Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen of folk Tales Every Child Should Know. This
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  Speaker 1: is a Liberox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Alexis Castro. Folk Tales Every
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  Speaker 1: Child Should Know, edited by Hamilton Wright maybe chapter thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: The Wonderful Hare, translated from the Serbian by A. H.
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  Speaker 1: Rat saw m A in sixty folk Tales from exclusively
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  Speaker 1: Slavonic sources. There was a man who was very poor,
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  Speaker 1: but so well supply with children that he was utterly
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  Speaker 1: unable to maintain them, and one morning more than once
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  Speaker 1: prepared to kill them in order not to see their
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  Speaker 1: misery in dying of hunger. But his wife prevented him.
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  Speaker 1: One night, a child came to him in his sleep
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  Speaker 1: and said to him, man, I see that you are
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  Speaker 1: making up your mind to destroy and kill your poor
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  Speaker 1: little children, and I know that you are distressed thereat.
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  Speaker 1: But in the morning you will find under your pillow
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  Speaker 1: a mirror, a red kerchief, and an embroidered pocket handkerchief.
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  Speaker 1: Take all three secretly and tell nobody. Then go buy
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  Speaker 1: such a hill. Buy it you will find a stream.
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  Speaker 1: Go along it till you come to its fountain head.
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  Speaker 1: There you will find a damsel as bright as the sun,
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  Speaker 1: with her hair hanging down over her back. Be on
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  Speaker 1: your guard that the ferocious she dragon do not coil
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  Speaker 1: round you, do not converse with her she speaks, for
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  Speaker 1: if you converse with her, she will poison you and
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  Speaker 1: turn you into a fish or something else, and will
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  Speaker 1: then devour you. But if she bids you examine her head,
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  Speaker 1: examine it, and as you turn over her hair, look
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  Speaker 1: and you will find one hair as red as blood.
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  Speaker 1: Pull it out and run back again. Then if she
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  Speaker 1: suspects and begins to run after you throw her the
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  Speaker 1: first embroidered pocket handkerchief, thend the kerchief, and lastly the mirror.
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  Speaker 1: Then she'll find occupation for herself and sell that hair
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  Speaker 1: to some rich man. Don't let them cheat you, for
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  Speaker 1: that hare is worth countless wealth. And when you will
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  Speaker 1: thus enrich yourself and maintain your children. When the poor
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  Speaker 1: man awoke, he found everything under his pillow, just as
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  Speaker 1: the child had told him in his sleep. And then
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  Speaker 1: he went to the hill. When there he found the
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  Speaker 1: stream went on and on alongside of it till he
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  Speaker 1: came to the fountain head, having looked about him to
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  Speaker 1: see where the damsel was, he has spied her above
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  Speaker 1: a piece of water like sunbeams threaded on a needle,
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  Speaker 1: and she was embroidering at a frame on stuffed the
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  Speaker 1: threads of which were young men's hair. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: he saw her, he made a reverence to her, and
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  Speaker 1: she stood on her feet and questioned him, whence are you,
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  Speaker 1: unknown young man? But he held his tongue. She questioned
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  Speaker 1: him again, who are you, why have you come? And
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  Speaker 1: much else of sorts, But he was as mute as stone,
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  Speaker 1: making signs with his hands as if he were deaf,
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  Speaker 1: and wanted help. Then she told him to sit down
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  Speaker 1: on her skirt. He did not wait for any more orders,
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  Speaker 1: but sat down, and she bent down her head to
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  Speaker 1: him that he might examine it, turning over the hair
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  Speaker 1: of her head as if to examine it. He was
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  Speaker 1: not long in finding the red hair, and separated it
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  Speaker 1: from the other hair, pulled it out, jumped off her skirt,
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  Speaker 1: and ran back as best as he could. She noticed
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  Speaker 1: it and ran at his heels full speed after him.
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  Speaker 1: He looked round, and seeing that she was about to
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  Speaker 1: overtake him through as he was told the embroidered pocket
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  Speaker 1: handkerchief on the way, And when she saw the pocket handkerchief,
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  Speaker 1: she stooped and began to overhaul it in every direction,
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  Speaker 1: admiring the embroidery, till he had got a good way off.
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  Speaker 1: Then the damsel placed the pocket handkerchief in her bosom
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  Speaker 1: and began to run after him again. When he saw
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  Speaker 1: that she was about to overtake him, he threw the
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  Speaker 1: red kerchief, and she again occupied herself, admiring and gazing
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  Speaker 1: till the poor man had again got a good way off.
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  Speaker 1: Then the damsel became exasperated through both the pocket handkerchief
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  Speaker 1: and the kerchief on the way, and ran after him
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  Speaker 1: in pursuit again. When he saw that she was left
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  Speaker 1: to overtake him, he threw the mirror. When the damsel
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  Speaker 1: came to the mirror, the like of which she had
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  Speaker 1: never seen before, she lifted it up, and when she
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  Speaker 1: saw herself there in it, not knowing that it was herself,
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  Speaker 1: but thinking that it was somebody else, she, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with herself in the mirror, and the
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  Speaker 1: man got so far off that she was no longer
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  Speaker 1: able to overtake him. When she saw that she could
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  Speaker 1: not catch him. She turned back, and the man reached
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  Speaker 1: his home safe and sound. After arriving at his home,
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  Speaker 1: he showed his wife the hare and told her all
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  Speaker 1: that had happened to him. But she began to jeer
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  Speaker 1: and laugh at him. But he paid no attention to
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  Speaker 1: her and went to a town to sell the hair.
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  Speaker 1: A crowd of all sorts of people and merchants collected
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  Speaker 1: round him. One offered a sequin, another too, and so on,
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  Speaker 1: higher and higher, till they came to a hundred gold sequins.
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  Speaker 1: Just then the Emperor heard of the hare, summoned the
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  Speaker 1: man into his presence and said to him that he
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  Speaker 1: would give him a thousand sequins for it, and he
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  Speaker 1: sold it to him. What was a hair? The Emperor
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  Speaker 1: split it in two from top to bottom, and found
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  Speaker 1: registered in it the writing of many remarkable things which
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  Speaker 1: happened in the olden time since the beginning of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Thus the man became rich and lived on with his
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  Speaker 1: wife and children. And that childhood that came to him
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  Speaker 1: in his sleep was an angel sent by the Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: whose will it was to aid the poor man in
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  Speaker 1: to reveal secrets which had not been revealed till then.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter thirteen, The Wonderful Hare recording by Alexis
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