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016 - The Shepherd and the Kings daughter · Serbian Fairy Tales

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Speaker 1: Seption sixteen of Serbian fairy Tales. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: by doctor Olmartin Serbian fairy Tales, translated by Ilodi Mijarovitch.
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Speaker 1: The Shepherd and the King's Daughter. A long time ago
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Speaker 1: there lived a poor woman who possessed nothing in the
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Speaker 1: world except one son and four lambs. The boy took
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Speaker 1: the lambs out to graze every morning and brought them
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Speaker 1: home every night. One day, it happened that the lambs
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Speaker 1: were grazing in a field not far from the summer
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Speaker 1: palace of the king, and the king's daughter came out
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Speaker 1: to the young shepherd and asked him to give her
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Speaker 1: one of them. The boy refused, saying I cannot give
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Speaker 1: you one, for my mother will scold me if I do,
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Speaker 1: as we have nothing in the world except these four lambs.
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Speaker 1: The princess, however, had taken so great a fancy for
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Speaker 1: a lamb that she would not be refused, and at
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Speaker 1: last said, only let me have this one, and I
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Speaker 1: will give you any price you like to ask. The boy,
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Speaker 1: seeing that the princess would not go away without a lamb,
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Speaker 1: considered a little how he could get rid of her,
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Speaker 1: and then he told her that he would give her
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Speaker 1: one if she would show him one of her shoulders.
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Speaker 1: To his great surprise, the princess, without any hesitation, pushed
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Speaker 1: her mantle aside and showed him her bare white arm,
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Speaker 1: and he noticed that on the shoulder there was a
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Speaker 1: mark like a star. He was obliged now to give
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Speaker 1: her one of his lambs, And when he went home
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Speaker 1: in the evening, he told his mother that he had
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Speaker 1: fallen asleep at noon, and that when he awoke, one
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Speaker 1: of the lambs had vanished, and he could not find
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Speaker 1: it anywhere. Then his mother scolded him very much, saying,
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Speaker 1: I see you will bring me to the Bigger's staff
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Speaker 1: with your carelessness. Tomorrow you must take these three lambs
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Speaker 1: out to graze very early and look well about for
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Speaker 1: the lost one. If you don't find it, you had
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Speaker 1: better never let me set eyes on you again. At
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Speaker 1: dawn the next day, the boy took the three lambs
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Speaker 1: to graze in the same field and sat down to
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Speaker 1: consider how he could get back the lamb he had lost.
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Speaker 1: At noon, when no one was about the king's daughter
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Speaker 1: came out of the palace and said to him, young shepherd,
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Speaker 1: give me another lamb, and ask what you please in return.
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Speaker 1: But the boy answered, no, I dare not give you another.
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Speaker 1: I have suffered enough for the one I gave you yesterday,
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Speaker 1: so please go and bring me my lamb back. This
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Speaker 1: the princess refused to do, and said, it is quite
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Speaker 1: useless to speak of such a thing. But tell me,
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Speaker 1: did you notice anything particular on my shoulder. The youth answered, yes,
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Speaker 1: I saw a star. Ah, exclaimed the princess, for that,
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Speaker 1: you can never pay me enough, and yet you want
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Speaker 1: your lamb back. So they almost quarreled, for the king's
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Speaker 1: daughter persisted in begging him to give her another lamb,
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Speaker 1: and the young shepherd insisted that she should bring him
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Speaker 1: the first one back again. At last, seeing there was
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Speaker 1: no end to her begging, the boy said, well, I
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Speaker 1: will give you one if you uncover before me your
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Speaker 1: other's shoulder. This the princess did instantly, and he remarked
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Speaker 1: that she had the mark of a star on that arm.
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Speaker 1: Also in this way he lost a second lamb, and
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Speaker 1: when the evening came, he went home very sadly feeling
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Speaker 1: sure his mother would scold him, and so she did
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Speaker 1: far more than at the first time, calling him ill
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Speaker 1: names and threatening to beat him. The boy was really
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Speaker 1: sorry that he had given way to the princess's prayers,
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Speaker 1: but he could not help it. Now. Next day, again
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Speaker 1: the princess came to him and begged so hard and
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Speaker 1: so long for a third lamb that he became impatient, and,
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Speaker 1: thinking to shame her, said he would give her one
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Speaker 1: if she showed him her neck. To his great surprise, however,
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Speaker 1: the king's daughter at once let her mental fall, and
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Speaker 1: he saw that she had the mark of a crescent
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Speaker 1: on her throat. So the poor boy lost a third lamb,
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Speaker 1: and hardly dared go home to his mother at night
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Speaker 1: with the one lamb left them. Indeed, the poor old
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Speaker 1: woman was so angry at her son's carelessness in losing
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Speaker 1: one lamb after another whilst he slept, for he did
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Speaker 1: not dare to tell her the truth about the princess
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Speaker 1: that she cursed him as a good for nothing who
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Speaker 1: would bring her to beggary. Notwithstanding all his mother's reproaches
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Speaker 1: and threats, the boy could not refuse the princess. The
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Speaker 1: next day, when she came out to ask for the
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Speaker 1: four lamb. However, he tried to get her to go
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Speaker 1: away a long time, and not until quite tired out
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Speaker 1: with her begging did he exclaim, well, I will give
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Speaker 1: you the lamb if you will show me your breast.
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Speaker 1: Then the princess pushed her robe aside, and the boy
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Speaker 1: noticed that she had the mark of a son on
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Speaker 1: her bosom. In this way, the young shepherd lost all
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Speaker 1: the four lambs, and he lived a long time with
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Speaker 1: his mother in great poverty. A long long time. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: the king sent out a proclamation that he intended to
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Speaker 1: let his daughter marry and would give her to that
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Speaker 1: man who could tell him what particular birth marks she
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Speaker 1: had about her. The young shepherd heard this proclamation, and
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Speaker 1: when he went home in the evening, he said to
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Speaker 1: his mother mother, I intend to go to the King's
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Speaker 1: palace tomorrow, So get me my best linen ready. And
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Speaker 1: what do you want in the king's palace, asked the
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Speaker 1: poor old woman, wondering, I intend God helping me to
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Speaker 1: marry The king's daughter, replied the young man boldly, Oh,
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Speaker 1: you had better give up that fancy, cried the mother.
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Speaker 1: It will be better for you to go and work
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Speaker 1: and gain a pasture, than to go like a fly
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Speaker 1: without a head, dreaming about things that are as high
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Speaker 1: as the sky above you. But the young man would
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Speaker 1: not be persuaded, and went the next day to the
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Speaker 1: king's palace. Before going out of the hut, however, he
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Speaker 1: said to his anxious old mother, goodbye. Mother. He had
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Speaker 1: not waited very far before a gipsy met him and asked,
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Speaker 1: where are you going, my young man. I am going
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Speaker 1: to the King's palace, answered the youth, and I mean
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Speaker 1: God helping me to marry the King's daughter. But my
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Speaker 1: dear comrade, said the gipsy, keeping near him, how can
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Speaker 1: you really expect that she will marry you when you
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Speaker 1: are so poor? Only a shepherd ah returned the young man.
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Speaker 1: But I know what birthmarks she has, and the king
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Speaker 1: has sent out a proclamation that whoever guesses these shall
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Speaker 1: have her for his wife. If it is so rejoined
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Speaker 1: the cunning gipsy, I myself will also go to the
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Speaker 1: palace with you. The young man was glad to have
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Speaker 1: company on the road, and so he and the gypsy
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Speaker 1: traveled untogether until they came to the residence of the king.
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Speaker 1: When they came to the palace. They found a large
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Speaker 1: number of people who had come to try their luck
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Speaker 1: and guess what birthmarks the princess had, But it was
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Speaker 1: lost time for every one of them. After going past
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Speaker 1: the king and guessing by good luck at the marks
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Speaker 1: of the princess, was obliged to go away, having lost
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Speaker 1: his time and gained nothing. At length, the turn came
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Speaker 1: for the young shepherd to pass before the king, and
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Speaker 1: the gypsy kept close to him to hear what he
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Speaker 1: would say. So the youth stopped before the king and said,
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Speaker 1: the princess has a star on each shoulder and a
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Speaker 1: crescent on the throat. At this moment, the gypsy shouted loudly,
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Speaker 1: Look there, that is just what I was going to say.
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Speaker 1: Be quiet, said the young shepherd. Or if you really
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Speaker 1: know what other marks she has, speak out. No, no,
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Speaker 1: cried the gipsy. Go On, go on, when you have done,
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Speaker 1: I will speak what I know. Then the youth turned
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Speaker 1: again to the king and continued, the princess has the
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Speaker 1: mark of a son on her bosom. That is exactly
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Speaker 1: what I was going to say, cried the gypsy, coming
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Speaker 1: up quickly. She has the mark of a son on
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Speaker 1: her breast. Now the King was exceeding surprised, and confessed
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Speaker 1: to his counselors that the young shepherd had really guessed
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Speaker 1: the truth. But as neither the King nor the counselors
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Speaker 1: at all liked the idea of the princess marrying a
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Speaker 1: poor shepherd, they consulted how they could get rid of
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Speaker 1: him without giving the lie to the king's proclamation. At length,
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Speaker 1: it was decided that his Majesty should say, as both
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Speaker 1: the shepherd and the gypsy have guessed the princess's birthmarks,
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Speaker 1: I cannot justly decide which of them should marry her.
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Speaker 1: But I will give to each of them seventy psters,
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Speaker 1: and they must both go and trade with this money
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Speaker 1: for a year. At the end of the year, that
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Speaker 1: one which brings back the most money shall have the
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Speaker 1: princess for his wife. The young shepherd and the gypsy,
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Speaker 1: having received the money, went off in opposite directions to
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Speaker 1: seek their fortunes. After having traveled about some time like
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Speaker 1: a fly without a head, not knowing where, the shepherd
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Speaker 1: stopped one night to rest in the hut of an
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Speaker 1: old woman who was even poorer than his own mother.
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Speaker 1: As he sat with the old woman in the hut
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Speaker 1: that evening, the lad thought he might just as well
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Speaker 1: ask her advice as to the best way to invest
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Speaker 1: his capital of seventy pistors. So he said, I have
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Speaker 1: seventy pstors to trade with. Can you tell me some
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Speaker 1: good way in which I I may employ them profitably?
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Speaker 1: The old woman considered the matter for some time before
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Speaker 1: she answered, and then said, tomorrow is market day in
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Speaker 1: the next city. Go there yourself, and when a man
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Speaker 1: brings a very poor cow for sale, go up and
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Speaker 1: try to buy it. The cow will be of many
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Speaker 1: different colors, but very thin and ill fed, and you
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Speaker 1: must buy her at whatever price the man asks for her.
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Speaker 1: When you have bought her, bring her here at once.
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Speaker 1: The young man agreed to follow the old woman's council,
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Speaker 1: and so next day he went to the city and
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Speaker 1: really found there a man who had brought a poor
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Speaker 1: but variously colored cow to sell. Many people wish to
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Speaker 1: buy the cow, but the young man out bid them
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Speaker 1: all and at length offered all his seventy pistres for her.
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Speaker 1: So he got the cow and drove it to the
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Speaker 1: hut where he had passed the night. When the old
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Speaker 1: woman came out to see who is coming he called
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Speaker 1: out to her. Now, my old man, I have bought
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Speaker 1: the cow, and what shall we do with her? She
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Speaker 1: has cost me all my capital. The old woman answered
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Speaker 1: at once, killed the cow, my son, and cut it
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Speaker 1: in pieces. But how will that bring me back my
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Speaker 1: money with profit? Asked the young shepherd, hesitating whether he
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Speaker 1: should follow her advice or no. Don't be afraid, my son,
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Speaker 1: but do as I say, returned the old woman. Accordingly,
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Speaker 1: he did as she advised him, killed the cow and
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Speaker 1: cut her into pieces. This done, he asked again, and
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Speaker 1: now what shall we do? The old woman said quietly, Well,
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Speaker 1: now we will eat the meat, and the suet we
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Speaker 1: will melt down and put into a pot to keep
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Speaker 1: for some other occasion. The shepherd did not at all
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Speaker 1: like this proposal, for he could not see what return
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Speaker 1: he could hope to get for such an investment of
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Speaker 1: his capital. However, he thought within himself, well, well, since
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Speaker 1: I have been foolish enough to follow her council on
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Speaker 1: the two former occasions, I may as well follow it
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Speaker 1: also this third time. So he remained with the old
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Speaker 1: woman many days until the last piece of meat had
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Speaker 1: been eaten up, when, however, he thought over all that
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Speaker 1: had happened. He grew very sad, and, seeing no sign
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Speaker 1: of anything better, said one morning to the old woman, reproachfully.
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Speaker 1: Now you see, by following your counsel, I have spent
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Speaker 1: all the king's money and am now a ruined man.
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Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, my son, said the old woman. You
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Speaker 1: can now take that pot of suet with you and
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Speaker 1: go to the black world, where all the people are
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Speaker 1: black as chimney pots, and there you can sell for
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Speaker 1: a good deal of money your suet, for it has
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Speaker 1: the power to make the black skin white. The poor
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Speaker 1: shepherd was very glad at hearing this, and next morning
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Speaker 1: took the pot of suet on his shoulder and started
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Speaker 1: on his journey. After he had traveled many many days,
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Speaker 1: he came to a strange looking country, and going a
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Speaker 1: little farther, he saw a man who was quite black,
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Speaker 1: just as the old woman had said, as black as
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Speaker 1: a chimney pot. He was immediately going to offer to
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Speaker 1: sell some of his fat to the black man, when
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Speaker 1: the latter, frightened at the sight of a white man,
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Speaker 1: ran away. Many other black men who saw him did
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Speaker 1: the same, but after a while, when they saw that
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Speaker 1: he went on quietly carrying his pot on his shoulder.
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Speaker 1: They took courage and came to him one by one,
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Speaker 1: until at last quite a large crowd had gathered about him.
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Speaker 1: At length, one of them ventured to say to him,
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Speaker 1: you strange looking man, tell us who you are, and
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Speaker 1: where you come from, and why did you come here.
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Speaker 1: The shepherd answered, I am a white man from a
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Speaker 1: white world, and I come to bring you some fat
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Speaker 1: which will make you also white, that is, of course,
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Speaker 1: if each us to buy it from me and pay
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Speaker 1: me for it. Well. Now, the black men, though they
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Speaker 1: had been quite shocked at first to see the white man,
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Speaker 1: began to think they also would like to be white.
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Speaker 1: So they said they were willing to pay him as
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Speaker 1: much as he liked to ask for his wonderful fat,
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Speaker 1: because they were very rich. However, they doubted a little
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Speaker 1: if the fat would really make them white, as he said,
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Speaker 1: and wished to see it tried before they bought it. Thereupon,
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Speaker 1: he sat the pot on the ground and walked round
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Speaker 1: and round it, saying some queer words, as if he
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Speaker 1: were charming it. Then he took out of the pot
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Speaker 1: a little of the fat, and with it smeared one
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Speaker 1: of the black men in a moment, the black skin
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Speaker 1: became quite white, and the other blacks, seeing that he
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Speaker 1: had told them the truth, crowded eagerly round him, begging
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Speaker 1: that he would make them white also, and out bidding
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Speaker 1: each other in offers of money, provided only that he
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Speaker 1: made them white in a short time. The young shepherd
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Speaker 1: worked hard, smearing one black skin after the other, until
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Speaker 1: he got quite weary and had become very rich, for
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Speaker 1: they gave him a good deal of money, and there
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Speaker 1: were a great many of them who wished to be
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Speaker 1: made white, just as he had thus whitened the last
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Speaker 1: of the black men about him. One of them said
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Speaker 1: to him, wonder working man, we have a king who,
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Speaker 1: being our chief, is the blackest of us all. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: if you think you can make him white also, we
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Speaker 1: are sure he will be very glad to get rid
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Speaker 1: of his blackness, and will pay you more money than
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Speaker 1: you ever dreamt of. I will do it very gladly,
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Speaker 1: answered the shepherd, For you must know I am doing
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Speaker 1: this not so much for the sake of money as
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Speaker 1: for charity. Only show me at once the way to
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Speaker 1: your king. So they all ran off before him to
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Speaker 1: show him the way, and he followed them, carrying his
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Speaker 1: pot on his shoulder. When they arrived at the door
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Speaker 1: of the king's palace, one of them and said to him,
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Speaker 1: wait a moment here, whilst I go and tell his
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Speaker 1: majesty all about your wonderful fat, and ask him to
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Speaker 1: receive you. The shepherd waited quietly, though crowds gathered round
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Speaker 1: him to stare at him and his great pot, until
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Speaker 1: the men came back and said the king was waiting
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Speaker 1: impatiently to see him. So he lifted his pot again
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Speaker 1: on his shoulder, for he had set it down that
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Speaker 1: he might rest the better, and followed the messenger to
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Speaker 1: the king's presence. Now the King of the black Men
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Speaker 1: was far blacker than anything the shepherd had ever seen
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Speaker 1: in his life. He had no doubt, however, after all
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Speaker 1: he had seen, but that his fat would whiten him also.
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Speaker 1: So he said, cheerfully, good morning, your majesty. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: my dear fellow, returned the black King. I have heard
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Speaker 1: that you can do wonders, and I have seen that
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Speaker 1: you have already whitened many of my subjects. So for
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Speaker 1: Heaven's sake, deliver me also from this my blackness, and
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Speaker 1: ask in return whatever you like, even the half of
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Speaker 1: my kingdom. What your majesty has heard is quite true,
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Speaker 1: said the shepherd, and I will very gladly try to
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Speaker 1: make you also white. And he took a great lump
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Speaker 1: of fat and rubbed it well all over the King's
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Speaker 1: face and neck. In a moment, the king became as
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Speaker 1: white as snow, to the great rejoicings of all his people.
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Speaker 1: But no one was so pleased as the king himself.
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Speaker 1: So he said again only ask, I will give you
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Speaker 1: whatever you wish, even if it be my throne. I
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Speaker 1: thank your majesty very humbly for offering me your throne,
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Speaker 1: but I don't want it, replied the shepherd. But if
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Speaker 1: you will give me three ships full of gold and silver,
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Speaker 1: and some good sailors to manage the ships, and some
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Speaker 1: good soldiers and cannons to defend them against the pirates,
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Speaker 1: I shall think myself more than repaid, and I will
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Speaker 1: send you back the ships and cannons when the golden
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Speaker 1: silver or lended safely in my country. Then the king
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Speaker 1: at once gave the necessary orders, and in a very
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Speaker 1: few days his servants came to report to him that
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Speaker 1: the ships were then filled with gold and silver, and
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Speaker 1: that the cannons were ready loaded and posted for action,
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Speaker 1: and all the sailors and soldiers prepared to fight if
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Speaker 1: any sea robber came in their way. Then the young
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Speaker 1: Shepherd took a courteous leave of the King and of
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Speaker 1: all those other people who were so thankful to him
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Speaker 1: for having changed them from black men into white ones.
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Speaker 1: He now went on board one of the ships, very
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Speaker 1: glad to go back to his own country, and the
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Speaker 1: two other ships full of gold and silver, followed the
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Speaker 1: first one across the seas. After having sailed a long time,
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Speaker 1: the three ships reached at last the coast of the kingdom,
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Speaker 1: where the king was waiting daily expecting the return of
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Speaker 1: the gypsy and shepherd to claim his daughter. The shepherd
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Speaker 1: let his ships lie quiet in the harbor one day,
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Speaker 1: and then, noticing much tumult and disturbance in the city,
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Speaker 1: went ashore to see what had happened. There. He found
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Speaker 1: a great crowd, and on asking some of the people
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Speaker 1: what they were going to do, they told him that
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Speaker 1: they were going to hang a gypsy who had come
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Speaker 1: to the city with seventy piastres capital, and who had
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Speaker 1: not only spent all his money in drinking and revelings,
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Speaker 1: but had even got into debt for seventy other piastres,
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Speaker 1: which he was quite unable to pay, and that this
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Speaker 1: was the reason they were about to hang him. In
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Speaker 1: a few moments, the hangman appeared leading the gypsy, who
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Speaker 1: was no other than the very men who had tried
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Speaker 1: to cheat the shepherd out of the princess. The young
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Speaker 1: shepherd recognized his rival at once, and, going near him, said,
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Speaker 1: what is this, my old friend? Have you really come
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Speaker 1: to this? The instant the gypsy saw the shepherd, he
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Speaker 1: stopped and began to want and waal, begging him to
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Speaker 1: save him from the gibbet and he would be his
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Speaker 1: faithful servant all his life. As for the princess, he
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Speaker 1: added cunningly, I have given her up a long time
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Speaker 1: ago and don't care for anything of only my life
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Speaker 1: is spared. Then the young shepherd was sorry for the
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Speaker 1: poor trembling, whining wretch, and offered to pay the debt
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Speaker 1: for the gypsy if the people would let him off.
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Speaker 1: So they agreed to this, and the young man not
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Speaker 1: only paid the seventy pistres the gypsy owned, but bought
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Speaker 1: him besides a suit of good clothes, as well as
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Speaker 1: a carriage and a pair of fine horses. Then he
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Speaker 1: left him and went back to his ships, and they
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Speaker 1: sailed on slowly along the coast towards the King's residence. Now,
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Speaker 1: when the Gypsy had dressed himself out smartly in his
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Speaker 1: fine new clothes, he got into his carriage and drove
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Speaker 1: off quickly to the King's palace. Arrived there, he left
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Speaker 1: his carriage and horses in the courtyard, and went at
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Speaker 1: once to the presence of the King, whom he addressed. Thus,
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Speaker 1: your Majesty knows it is not yet quite a year
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Speaker 1: since you gave me seventy psterres to trade with, and
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Speaker 1: see I come back already handsomely dressed, and have a
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Speaker 1: fine carriage with a pair of beautiful horses below in
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Speaker 1: the yard. As for the young shepherd, I have heard
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Speaker 1: that he has not only spent all your Majesty's money
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Speaker 1: in rioting, but that he had also got in debt
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Speaker 1: for which he has been hanged. So it is no
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Speaker 1: use waiting for him. Let us keep my wedding at once.
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Speaker 1: The King did not fancy the gypsy for his son
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Speaker 1: in law, and was thinking what he could say to
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Speaker 1: put him off a little time when looking by chance
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Speaker 1: through his window, he saw three strange looking ships sailing
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Speaker 1: slowly towards the shore. At this he exclaimed, I see
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Speaker 1: some foreign visitors are coming to visit me, and I
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Speaker 1: shall have enough to do to receive them with due honors.
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Speaker 1: So we must put off the marriage for some days
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Speaker 1: at least. But the Gipsy pressed the King more and
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Speaker 1: more to let him marry the princess at once. He
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Speaker 1: was even bold enough to tell his majesty that he
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Speaker 1: could not wait any longer, and that the wedding would
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Speaker 1: be all over in an hour. The King, however, refused
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Speaker 1: to hear anything of this, so the Gipsy, seeing that
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Speaker 1: his plan had failed, went out from the presence of
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Speaker 1: the king in great anger. A few hours later, the
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Speaker 1: three strange looking ships dropped their anchors just opposite the palace,
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Speaker 1: and the young shepherd Landing came into the presence of
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Speaker 1: the King, who was greatly astonished to see him alive,
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Speaker 1: and still more astonished to hear that in return for
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Speaker 1: his seventy pistres, he had brought three vessels full of
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Speaker 1: gold and silver. The King was now very well content
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Speaker 1: to accept him as his son in law, and told
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Speaker 1: him in the course of conversation what the gypsy had
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Speaker 1: set about his having gone in debt and been hanged.
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Speaker 1: Then the young shepherd told his majesty how he had
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Speaker 1: found the gypsy and had saved his life by paying
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Speaker 1: his debt for him. The King was exceedingly angry, and
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Speaker 1: ordered his servants to go after the gypsy and bring
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Speaker 1: him at once into his presence. The servants looked about
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Speaker 1: and around the palace on all sides, but nowhere could
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Speaker 1: they find any trace of the gypsy. Then the king
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Speaker 1: commanded that some of them should go in search of
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Speaker 1: him without delay, and armed men were speedily scattered over
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Speaker 1: the whole country, so that at last he was caught
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Speaker 1: and brought before the King, who condemned him to be
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Speaker 1: hanged for having so shamefully tried to injure the man
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Speaker 1: who had saved his life and treated him so generously,
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Speaker 1: and for having, at the same time attempted to cheat
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Speaker 1: the king. The young shepherd spent a few days in
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Speaker 1: the palace telling the king all the things he had
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Speaker 1: seen in the black world, and then all preparations having
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Speaker 1: been made, he was married to the princess with great
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Speaker 1: pomp and rejoicings. Then the king, with his daughter and
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Speaker 1: son in law, lived for a great many years, very happily.
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Speaker 1: End of section sixteen. End of Serbian fairy Tales by unknown,
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Speaker 1: translated by Iloone Mijedovitch