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  Speaker 1: The Princess on the Glass Hill of The Blue Fairy Book.
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  Speaker 1: Fairy Book by Andrew Lang The Princess on the Glass Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Once upon a time there was a man who had
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  Speaker 1: a meadow which lay on the side of a mountain,
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  Speaker 1: And in the meadow there was a barn in which
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  Speaker 1: he stored hay. But there had not been much hay
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  Speaker 1: in the barn for the last two years. For every
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  Speaker 1: Saint John's eve, when the grass was in the height
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  Speaker 1: of its figure, it was all eaten clean up, just
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  Speaker 1: as if a whole flock of sheep had knowed down
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  Speaker 1: to the ground during the night. This happened once, and
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  Speaker 1: it happened twice. But then the man got tired of
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  Speaker 1: losing his crop, and said to his son he had
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  Speaker 1: three of them, and the third was called cinder Lad,
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  Speaker 1: that one of them must go and sleep in the
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  Speaker 1: barn on Saint John's night, for it was absurd to
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  Speaker 1: let the grass be eaten up again. Blade in stalk
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  Speaker 1: as it had been the last two years, and the
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  Speaker 1: one who went to watch must keep a sharp lookout,
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  Speaker 1: the man said. The eldest was quite willing to go
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  Speaker 1: to the meadow. He would watch the grass, he said,
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  Speaker 1: and he would do it so well that neither man,
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  Speaker 1: nor beast, nor even the devil himself should have any
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  Speaker 1: of it. So when evening came he went to the
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  Speaker 1: barn and lay down to sleep. But when night was
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  Speaker 1: drawing near, there was such a rumbling and such an
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  Speaker 1: earthquake that the walls and roof shook again, And the
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  Speaker 1: lad jumped up and took to his heels as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could, and never even looked back, And the
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  Speaker 1: barn remained empty that year, just as it had been
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  Speaker 1: for the last two. Next Saint John's eve, the man
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  Speaker 1: again said that he could not go on in this
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  Speaker 1: way lose all the grass in the outlying field year
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  Speaker 1: after year, and that one of his sons must just
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  Speaker 1: go there and watch it, and watch well too. So
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  Speaker 1: the next oldest son was willing to show what he
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  Speaker 1: could do. He went to the barn and lay down
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  Speaker 1: to sleep, as his brother had done. But when night
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  Speaker 1: was drawing near, there was a great rumbling, and then
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  Speaker 1: an earthquake which was even worse than that on the
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  Speaker 1: former Saint John's night. And when the youth heard it,
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  Speaker 1: he was terrified and went off running as if for
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  Speaker 1: a wager. The year after it was cinder Lad's turn.
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  Speaker 1: But when he made ready to go, the others laughed
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  Speaker 1: at him and mocked him. Well you are just the
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  Speaker 1: right one to watch the hay, you who have never
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  Speaker 1: learned anything but how to sit among the ashes and
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  Speaker 1: bake yourself, said they. Cinder Lad, however, did not trouble
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  Speaker 1: himself about what they said. But when evening drew near,
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  Speaker 1: rambled away to the outlying field. When he got there,
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  Speaker 1: he went into the barn and lay down. But in
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  Speaker 1: about an hour's time the rumbling and creaking began, and
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  Speaker 1: it was frightful to hear it. Well, if it gets
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  Speaker 1: no worse than that, I can manage to stand it,
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  Speaker 1: thought cinder Lad. In a little time the creaking began again,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth quaked, so that all the hay flew
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  Speaker 1: about the boy. Oh, if it gets no worse than that,
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  Speaker 1: I can manage to stand it, thought cinder Lad. But
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  Speaker 1: then came a third rumbling and a third earthquake, so
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  Speaker 1: violent that the boy thought the walls and roof had
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  Speaker 1: fallen down. But when that was over, everything suddenly grew
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  Speaker 1: as still as death around him. I am pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: that it will come again, thought cinder Lad, But no
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  Speaker 1: it did not. Everything was quiet, and everything stayed quiet.
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  Speaker 1: And when he had lain still a short time, he
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  Speaker 1: heard something that sounded as if a horse were standing
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  Speaker 1: chewing just outside the barn door. He stole away to
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  Speaker 1: the door, which was a jar. See what was there?
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  Speaker 1: And a horse was standing eating. It was so big
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  Speaker 1: and fat and fine, a horse that cinder Lad had
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  Speaker 1: never seen one like it before. And a saddle and
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  Speaker 1: bridle lay upon it, and a complete suit of armor
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  Speaker 1: for a night, and everything was of copper, and so
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  Speaker 1: bright that it shone again. Ha ha, it is thou
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  Speaker 1: who eatst up our hay, then thought the boy. But
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  Speaker 1: I will stop that. So he made haste and took
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  Speaker 1: out his steel for striking fire, and threw it over
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  Speaker 1: the horse. And then it had no power to stir
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  Speaker 1: from the spot, and became so tame that the boy
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  Speaker 1: could do what he liked with it. So he mounted
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  Speaker 1: it and rode away to a place which no one
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  Speaker 1: knew of, But himself, and there he tied it up.
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  Speaker 1: When he went home again, his brothers laughed and asked
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  Speaker 1: how he had got on. You didn't lie long in
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  Speaker 1: the barn, if even you have been so far as
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  Speaker 1: the field, said they. I lay in the barn till
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  Speaker 1: the sun rose. But I saw nothing and heard nothing, not,
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  Speaker 1: I said the boy. God knows what there was to
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  Speaker 1: make you two so frightened. Well, we shall soon see
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  Speaker 1: whether you have watched the meadow or not, answered the brothers.
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  Speaker 1: But when they got there, the grass was all standing,
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  Speaker 1: just as long and as thick as it had been
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  Speaker 1: the night before. The next Saint John's Eve, it was
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  Speaker 1: the same thing once again. Neither of the two brothers
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  Speaker 1: dared to go to the outlying field to watch the crop,
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  Speaker 1: but cinder Lad went and everything happened exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: as on the previous Saint John's Eve. First there was
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  Speaker 1: a rumbling and an earthquake, and then there was another,
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  Speaker 1: and then a third, but all three earthquakes were much
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  Speaker 1: very much more violent than they had been the year before.
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  Speaker 1: Then everything became as still as death again, and the
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  Speaker 1: boy heard something chewing outside the barn door, so he
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  Speaker 1: stole as softly as he could to the door, which
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  Speaker 1: was slightly ajar, And again there was a horse standing
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  Speaker 1: close by the wall the house, eating and chewing. And
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  Speaker 1: it was far larger and fatter than the first horse,
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  Speaker 1: and it had a saddle on its back, and a
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  Speaker 1: bridle was on it too, and a full suit of
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  Speaker 1: armor for a knight, all of bright silver, and as
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  Speaker 1: beautiful as any one could wish to see. Ho, Ho,
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  Speaker 1: thought the boy. Is it thou who eatst up our
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  Speaker 1: hay in the night? But I will put a stop
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  Speaker 1: to that. So he took out his steel for striking
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  Speaker 1: fire and threw it over the horse's mane, and the
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  Speaker 1: beast stood there as quiet as a lamb. Then the
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  Speaker 1: boy rode this horse too, away to the place where
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  Speaker 1: he kept the other, and then went home again. I
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  Speaker 1: suppose you will tell us that you have watched well
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  Speaker 1: again this time, said the brothers. Well so I have, said,
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  Speaker 1: cinder Lad. So they went there again, and there the
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  Speaker 1: grass was standing as high and as thick as it
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  Speaker 1: had been before. But that did not make them any
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  Speaker 1: kinder to cinder Lad. When the third Saint John's knight came,
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  Speaker 1: neither of the two elder brothers dared to lie in
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  Speaker 1: the outlying barn to watch the grass, for they had
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  Speaker 1: been so heartily frightened the night that they had slept
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  Speaker 1: there that they could not get over it. But cinder
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  Speaker 1: Lad dared to go, and everything happened just the same
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  Speaker 1: as on the two former nights. There were three earthquakes,
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  Speaker 1: each worse than the other, and the last flung the
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  Speaker 1: boy from one wall of the barn to the other.
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  Speaker 1: But then everything suddenly became still as death. When he
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  Speaker 1: had lain quietly a short time, he heard something chewing
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  Speaker 1: outside the barn door. Then he once more stole to
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  Speaker 1: the door, which was slightly ajar, and behold a horse
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  Speaker 1: was standing just outside it, which was much larger and
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  Speaker 1: fatter than the two others he had caught. Ho, Ho,
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  Speaker 1: it is thou then, who art eating up our hay
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  Speaker 1: this time, thought the boy. But I will put a
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  Speaker 1: stop to that. So he pulled out his steel for
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  Speaker 1: striking fire and threw it over the horse, and it
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  Speaker 1: stood as still as if it had been nailed to
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  Speaker 1: the field, and the boy could do just what he
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  Speaker 1: liked with it. Then he mounted it and rode away
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  Speaker 1: to the place where he had the two others, And
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  Speaker 1: then he went home again. Then the two brothers mocked him,
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  Speaker 1: just as they had done before, and told him that
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  Speaker 1: they could see that he must have watched the grass
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  Speaker 1: very carefully that night, for he looked just as if
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  Speaker 1: he were walking in his sleep. But cinder Lad did
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  Speaker 1: not trouble himself about that, but just bade them go
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  Speaker 1: to the field. And see. They did go, and this
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  Speaker 1: time too the grass was standing, looking as fine and
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  Speaker 1: as thick as ever. The king of the country in
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  Speaker 1: which cinder Lad's father dwelt had a daughter whom he
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  Speaker 1: would give to no one who could not ride up
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  Speaker 1: to the top of the glass hill. For there was
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  Speaker 1: a high, high hill of glass, slippery as ice, and
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  Speaker 1: it was close to the king's palace. Upon the very
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  Speaker 1: top of this. The king's daughter was to sit with
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  Speaker 1: three gold apples in her lap, and the man who
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  Speaker 1: could ride up and take the three golden apples should
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  Speaker 1: marry her and have half the kingdom. The king had
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  Speaker 1: this proclaimed in every church in the whole kingdom, and
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  Speaker 1: in many other kingdoms too. The princess was very beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: and all who saw her fell violently in love with her,
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  Speaker 1: even in spite of themselves. So it is needless to
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  Speaker 1: say that all the princes and knights were eager to
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  Speaker 1: win her and half the kingdom besides, and that for
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  Speaker 1: this cause they came riding thither from the very end
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  Speaker 1: of the world, dressed so splendidly that their raiments gleamed
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  Speaker 1: in the sunshine, and riding on horses which seemed to
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  Speaker 1: dance as they went. And there was not one of
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  Speaker 1: these princes who did not think that he was sure
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  Speaker 1: to win the princess. When the day appointed by the
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  Speaker 1: king had come, there was such a host of knights
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  Speaker 1: and princes under the glass Hill that they seemed to swarm,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone who could walk or even creep, was there
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  Speaker 1: too to see who won the king's daughter. Sinder Lad's
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  Speaker 1: two brothers were there too, but they would not hear
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  Speaker 1: of letting him go withh them, for he was so
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  Speaker 1: dirty and black with sleeping and grubbing among the ashes,
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  Speaker 1: that they said everyone would laugh at them if they
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  Speaker 1: were seen in the company of such an oath. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then I will go all alone by myself, said sinder Lad.
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  Speaker 1: When the two brothers got to the glass hill, all
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  Speaker 1: the princes and knights were trying to ride up it,
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  Speaker 1: and their horses were in a foam but it was
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  Speaker 1: all in vain, for no sooner did the horses set
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  Speaker 1: foot upon the hill than down they slipped, and there
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  Speaker 1: was not one which could get even so much as
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  Speaker 1: a couple of yards up. Nor was that strange, for
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  Speaker 1: the hill was as smooth as a glass window pane,
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  Speaker 1: and as steep as the side of a house. But
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  Speaker 1: they were all eager to win the king's daughter and
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  Speaker 1: half the kingdom. So they rode, and they slipped, and
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  Speaker 1: thus it went on at length. All the horses were
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  Speaker 1: so tired that they could do no more, and so
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  Speaker 1: hot that the foam dropped from them, and the riders
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  Speaker 1: were forced to give up the attempt. The king was
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  Speaker 1: just thinking that he would cause it to be proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: that the riding should begin afresh on the following day,
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  Speaker 1: when perhaps it might go better. When suddenly a knight
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  Speaker 1: came riding up on so fine a horse that no
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  Speaker 1: one had ever seen the like of it before. And
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  Speaker 1: the knight had armor of copper, and his bridle was
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  Speaker 1: of copper, too, and all his accouterments were so bright
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  Speaker 1: that they shone again. The other knights all called out
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  Speaker 1: to him that he must just as well spare himself
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  Speaker 1: the trouble of trying to ride up the glass hill,
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  Speaker 1: for it was of no use to try. But he
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  Speaker 1: did not heed them, and rode straight off to it
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  Speaker 1: and went up as if it were nothing at all.
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  Speaker 1: Thus he rode for a long way, it may have
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  Speaker 1: been a third part of the way up, But when
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  Speaker 1: he had got so far, he turned his horse round
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  Speaker 1: and rode down again. But the princess thought that she
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  Speaker 1: had never yet seen so handsome a knight. And while
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  Speaker 1: he was riding up, she was sitting thinking, oh, how
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  Speaker 1: I hope he may be able to come up to
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  Speaker 1: the top. And when she saw that he was turning
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  Speaker 1: his horse back, she threw one of the golden apples
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  Speaker 1: down after him, and it rolled into his shoe. But
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  Speaker 1: when he had come down from off the hill, he
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  Speaker 1: rode away, and that so fast that no one knew
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  Speaker 1: what had become of him. So all the princes and
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  Speaker 1: knights were bidden to present themselves before the king that night,
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  Speaker 1: so that he who had ridden so far up the
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  Speaker 1: glass hill, might show the golden apple which the king's
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  Speaker 1: daughter had thrown down. But no one had anything to show.
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  Speaker 1: One knight presented himself after the other, and none could
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  Speaker 1: show the apple at night too, cinder Lad's brothers came
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  Speaker 1: home again and had a long story to tell about
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  Speaker 1: riding up the Glass Hill. At first they said there
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  Speaker 1: was not one who was able to get even so
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  Speaker 1: much as one step up. But then came a knight
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  Speaker 1: who had armor of copper and a bridle of copper,
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  Speaker 1: and his armor and trappings were so bright that they
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  Speaker 1: shone to a great distance, and it was something like
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  Speaker 1: a sight to see him riding. He rode one third
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  Speaker 1: of the way up the glass hill, and he could
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  Speaker 1: easily have ridden the whole of it if he had liked.
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  Speaker 1: But he had turned back, for he had made up
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  Speaker 1: his mind that that was enough for once. Oh I
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  Speaker 1: should have liked to see him too, that I should,
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  Speaker 1: said cinder Ladd, who was as usual sitting by the
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  Speaker 1: chimney among the cinders. You, indeed, said the brothers, you
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  Speaker 1: look as if you were fit to be among such
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  Speaker 1: great lords. Nasty beast that you are to sit there.
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  Speaker 1: Next day, the brothers were for setting out again, and
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  Speaker 1: this time too cinder Lad begged them to let him
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  Speaker 1: go with them and see who rode. But no, they
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  Speaker 1: said he was not fit to do that, for he
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  Speaker 1: was much too ugly and dirty well, well, then I
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  Speaker 1: will go all alone by myself, said cinder Lad. So
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  Speaker 1: the brothers went to the glass hill, and all the
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  Speaker 1: princes and knights began to ride again, And this time
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  Speaker 1: they had taken care to rough in the shoes of
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  Speaker 1: their horses, but that did not help them. They rode,
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  Speaker 1: and they slipped as they had done the day before,
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  Speaker 1: and not one of them could get even so far
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  Speaker 1: as a yard up the hill. When they had tired
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  Speaker 1: out their horses so that they could do no more,
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  Speaker 1: they again had to stop altogether. But just as the
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  Speaker 1: King was thinking that it would be well to proclaim
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  Speaker 1: that the riding should take place next day for the
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  Speaker 1: last time, so that they might have one more chance,
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  Speaker 1: he suddenly bethought himself that it would be well to
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  Speaker 1: wait a little longer to see if the Knight and
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  Speaker 1: Copper Armor would come on this day too. But nothing
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  Speaker 1: was to be seen of him. Just as they were
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  Speaker 1: still looking for him, however, came a knight riding on
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  Speaker 1: a steed that was much much finer than that which
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  Speaker 1: the Knight and Copper Armor had ridden. And this knight
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  Speaker 1: had silver armor, and a silver saddle and bridle, and
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  Speaker 1: all were so bright that they shone and glistened. When
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  Speaker 1: he was a long way off, so again the other
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  Speaker 1: knights called to him and said that he might just
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  Speaker 1: as well give up the attempt to ride up the
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  Speaker 1: glass hill, for it was useless to try. But the
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  Speaker 1: knight paid no heed to that, but rode straight away
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  Speaker 1: to the glass hill and went still farther up than
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  Speaker 1: the knight in copper armor had gone. But when he
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  Speaker 1: had ridden two thirds of the way up, he turned
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  Speaker 1: his horse around and rode down again. The princess liked
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  Speaker 1: this knight still better than she had the other, and
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  Speaker 1: sat longing that he might be able to get up above,
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  Speaker 1: And when she saw him turning back, she threw the
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  Speaker 1: second apple after him, and it rolled into his shoe,
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as he had got down the glass hill,
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  Speaker 1: he rode away so fast that no one could see
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  Speaker 1: what had become of him. In the evening, when everyone
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  Speaker 1: was to appear before the King and Princess in order
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  Speaker 1: that he who had the golden apple might show it,
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  Speaker 1: one night went in after the other, but none of
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  Speaker 1: them had a golden apple to show. At night, the
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  Speaker 1: two brothers went home as they had done the night before,
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  Speaker 1: and told how things had gone, and how every one
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  Speaker 1: had ridden, but no one had been able to get
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  Speaker 1: up the hill. But last of all, they said, came
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  Speaker 1: one in silver armor, and he had a silver bridle
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  Speaker 1: on his horse and a silver saddle, and oh, but
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  Speaker 1: he could ride. He took his horse two thirds of
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  Speaker 1: the way up the hill, but then he turned back.
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  Speaker 1: He was a fine fellow, said the brothers, and the
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  Speaker 1: princess threw the second golden apple to him. Oh, how
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  Speaker 1: I should have liked to see him too, said cinder Lad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh indeed he was a little brighter than the ashes
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  Speaker 1: that you sit grubbing among you, dirty black creature, said
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  Speaker 1: the brothers. On the third day, everything went just as
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  Speaker 1: on the former days. Cinder Lad wanted to go with
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  Speaker 1: them to look at the riding, but the two brothers
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  Speaker 1: would not have him in their company. And when they
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  Speaker 1: got to the glass hill, there was no one who
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  Speaker 1: could ride even so far as a yard up it.
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  Speaker 1: And every one waited for the knight in silver armor,
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  Speaker 1: but he was neither to be seen nor heard of.
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  Speaker 1: At last, after a long time came a knight riding
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  Speaker 1: upon a horse that was such a fine one its
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  Speaker 1: equal had never yet been seen. The knight had golden armor,
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  Speaker 1: and the horse a golden saddle and bridle, and these
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  Speaker 1: were all so bright that they shone and dazzled every one.
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  Speaker 1: Even while the Knight was still at a great distance.
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  Speaker 1: The other princes and knights were not able even to
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  Speaker 1: call to him, to tell him how useless it was
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  Speaker 1: to try to ascend the hill, so amazed were they
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  Speaker 1: at the sight of his magnificence. He rode straight away
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  Speaker 1: to the glass hill and galloped up it as if
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  Speaker 1: it were no hill at all, so that the princess
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  Speaker 1: had not even time to wish that he might get
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  Speaker 1: up the whole way. As soon as he had ridden
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  Speaker 1: to the top, he took the third golden apple from
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  Speaker 1: the lap of the princess, and then turned his horse
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  Speaker 1: about and rode down again, and vanished from their sight
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  Speaker 1: before any one was able to say a word to him.
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  Speaker 1: When the two brothers came home again at night, they
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  Speaker 1: had much to tell of how the riding had gone
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  Speaker 1: that day, And at last they told about the Knight
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  Speaker 1: in the golden armor too. He was a fine fellow,
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  Speaker 1: that was such Another splendid knight is not to be
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  Speaker 1: found on earth, said the brothers. Oh, how I should
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  Speaker 1: have liked to see him too, said cinder Lad. Well
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  Speaker 1: he shone nearly as brightly as the coal heaps that
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  Speaker 1: thou art always lying raking among dirty black creature, that
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  Speaker 1: thou art said the brothers. Next day, all the knights
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  Speaker 1: and princes were to appear before the King and princess
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  Speaker 1: it had been too late for them to do it
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  Speaker 1: the night before, in order that he who had the
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  Speaker 1: golden apple might produce it. They all went in turn,
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  Speaker 1: first princes and then knights, but none of them had
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  Speaker 1: a golden apple. But somebody must have it, said the king,
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  Speaker 1: for with our own eyes we all saw a man
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  Speaker 1: ride up and take it. So he commanded that every
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  Speaker 1: one in the kingdom should come to the palace and
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  Speaker 1: see if he could show the apple. And one after
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  Speaker 1: the other, they all came, but no one had the
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  Speaker 1: golden apple. And after a long long time cinder Lad's
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  Speaker 1: two brothers came. Likewise, they were the last of all.
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  Speaker 1: So the King inquired of them if there was no
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  Speaker 1: one else in the kingdom left to come. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we have a brother, said the two, But he never
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  Speaker 1: got the golden apple. He never left the cinder heap
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  Speaker 1: on any of the three days. Never mind that, said
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  Speaker 1: the king. As every one else has come to the palace,
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  Speaker 1: let him come too. So cinder Lad was forced to
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  Speaker 1: go to the King's palace. Hast thou the golden apple,
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  Speaker 1: asked the king. Yes, here is the first, and here
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  Speaker 1: is the second, and here is the third, too, said
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  Speaker 1: cinder Lad, and he took all three apples out of
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  Speaker 1: his pocket, and with that drew off his sooty rags,
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  Speaker 1: and appeared there before them in his bright golden armor,
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  Speaker 1: which gleamed as he stood. Thou shalt have my daughter
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  Speaker 1: and the half of my kingdom, and thou hast well
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  Speaker 1: earned both, said the king. So there was a wedding,
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  Speaker 1: and sinder Lad got the King's daughter, and everyone made
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  Speaker 1: merry at the wedding, for all of them could make mary,
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  Speaker 1: though they could not ride up the glass Hill. And
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  Speaker 1: if they have not left off their merrymaking, they must
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  Speaker 1: be at it still as Biirnsen and moa End of
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  Speaker 1: the Princess on the Glass Hill recording by Jeanette's Selake