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012 - The Master-Maid · Blue Fairy Book

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  Speaker 1: The Master Maid of The Blue Fairy Book. This is
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  Speaker 1: This reading by Lucy Burgoyne The Blue Fairy Book by
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Lang, Chapter twelve, The Master Maid. Once upon a
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  Speaker 1: time there was a king who had many sons. I
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  Speaker 1: do not exactly know how many there were, But the
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  Speaker 1: youngest of them could not stay quietly at home and
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  Speaker 1: was determined to go out into the world and try
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  Speaker 1: his luck. And after a long time, the king was
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  Speaker 1: forced to give him leave to go. When he had
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  Speaker 1: traveled about for several days, he came to a giant's
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  Speaker 1: house and hired himself to the giant as a servant.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning, the giant had to go out to
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  Speaker 1: pasture his goats, and as he was leaving the house,
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  Speaker 1: he told the king's son that he must clean out
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  Speaker 1: the stable. And after you have done that, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you need not do any more work to day, for
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  Speaker 1: you have come to a kind master, and that you
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  Speaker 1: shall find. But what I set you to do must
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  Speaker 1: be done both well and thoroughly, and you must, on
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  Speaker 1: no account go into any of the rooms which lead
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  Speaker 1: out of the room in which you slept last night.
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  Speaker 1: If you do, I will take your life well to
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  Speaker 1: be sure. He is an easy master, said the prince
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  Speaker 1: to himself, as he walked up and down the room,
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  Speaker 1: humming and singing. For he thought there would be plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time left to clean out the stable. But it
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  Speaker 1: would be amusing to steal a glance into his other
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  Speaker 1: rooms as well, thought the prince, for there must be
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  Speaker 1: something that he is afraid of my seeing as I
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  Speaker 1: am not allowed to enter them. So he went into
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  Speaker 1: the first room. A coldron was hanging from the walls.
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  Speaker 1: It was boiling, but the Prince could see no fire
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  Speaker 1: under it. I wonder what is inside it, he thought,
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  Speaker 1: and dipped a lock of his hair in, and the
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  Speaker 1: hair became just as if it were all made of copper.
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  Speaker 1: That's a nice kind of soup. If any one were
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  Speaker 1: to taste that, his throat would be gilded, said the youth,
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  Speaker 1: And then he went into the next chamber. There, too,
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  Speaker 1: a coldron was hanging from the wall, bubbling and boiling,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no fire under this either. I will
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  Speaker 1: just try what this is like, too, said the prince,
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  Speaker 1: thrusting another lock of his hair into it, and it
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  Speaker 1: came out silvered over. Such costly soup is not to
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  Speaker 1: be had in my father's palace, said the prince. But
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  Speaker 1: everything depends on how it tastes. And then he went
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  Speaker 1: into the third room. There too, a colgron was hanging
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  Speaker 1: from the wall, boiling exactly the same as in the
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  Speaker 1: two other rooms. And the Prince took pleasure in trying
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  Speaker 1: this also, So he dipped a lock of hair in,
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  Speaker 1: and it came out so brightly gilded that it shone again.
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  Speaker 1: Some talk about going from bad to worse, said the prince,
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  Speaker 1: But this is better and better. If he boils gold here,
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  Speaker 1: what can he boil in? There? He was determined to see,
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  Speaker 1: and went through the door into the fourth room. No
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  Speaker 1: coldron was to be seen there, but on a bench
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  Speaker 1: some one was seated who was like a king daughter.
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  Speaker 1: But whosoever she was, she was so beautiful that never
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  Speaker 1: in the Prince's life had he seen her equal. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: in Heaven's name, what are you doing here? Said she
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  Speaker 1: who sat upon the bench. I took the place of
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  Speaker 1: servant here yesterday, said the prince. May you soon have
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  Speaker 1: a better place if you have come to serve here,
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  Speaker 1: said she. Oh, but I think I have got a
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  Speaker 1: kind master, said the prince. He has not given me
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  Speaker 1: hard work to do to day. When I have cleaned
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  Speaker 1: out the stable, I shall be done. Yes, But how
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  Speaker 1: will you be able to do that? She asked again.
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  Speaker 1: If you clean it out as other people do, ten
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  Speaker 1: pitchforksful will come in for every one you throw out.
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  Speaker 1: But I will teach you how to do it. You
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  Speaker 1: must turn your pitchfork upside down and work with the handle,
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  Speaker 1: and then all will fly out of its own accord. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I will attend to that, said the Prince, and stayed
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  Speaker 1: sitting where he was the whole day, for it was
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  Speaker 1: soon settled between them that they would marry each other,
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  Speaker 1: he and the king's daughter. So the first day of
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  Speaker 1: his service with the Giant did not seem long to him.
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  Speaker 1: But when evening was drawing near, she said that it
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  Speaker 1: would now be better for him to clean out the
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  Speaker 1: stable before the Giant came home. When he got there,
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  Speaker 1: he had a fancy to try if what she had
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  Speaker 1: said was true, So he began to work in the
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  Speaker 1: same way that he had seen the stable boys doing
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  Speaker 1: in his father's stables. But he soon saw that he
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  Speaker 1: must give up that, for when he had worked a
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  Speaker 1: very short time, he had scarcely any room left to stand.
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  Speaker 1: So he did what the princess had taught him, turned
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  Speaker 1: the pitchfork round and worked with the handle, and in
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  Speaker 1: the twinkling of an eye, the stable was as clean
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  Speaker 1: as if it had been scoured. When he had done that,
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  Speaker 1: he went back again into the room in which the
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  Speaker 1: Giant had given him leave to stay, and there he
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  Speaker 1: walked backward and forward on the floor and began to
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  Speaker 1: hum and sing. Then came the Giant home with the goats.
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  Speaker 1: Have you cleaned the stable, asked the giant. Yes, now
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  Speaker 1: it is clean and sweet, master, said the king's son.
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  Speaker 1: I shall see about that, said the Giant, and went
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  Speaker 1: round to the stable. But it was just as the
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  Speaker 1: Prince had said. You have certainly been talking to my
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  Speaker 1: master maid, for you never got that out of your
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  Speaker 1: own head, said the giant. Master maid, What kind of
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  Speaker 1: a thing is that, master, said the prince, making himself
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  Speaker 1: look as stupid as an ass. I should like to
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  Speaker 1: see that. Well, you will see her quite soon enough,
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  Speaker 1: said the giant. On the second morning, the giant had
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  Speaker 1: again to go out with his goats. So he told
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  Speaker 1: the Prince that on that day he was to fetch
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  Speaker 1: home his horse, which was out on the mountain side,
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  Speaker 1: and when he had done that, he might rest himself
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  Speaker 1: for the remainder of the day. For you have come
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  Speaker 1: to a kind master, and that you shall find, said
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  Speaker 1: the giant once more. But do not go into any
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  Speaker 1: of the rooms that I spoke of yesterday, or I
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  Speaker 1: will wring your head off, said he, and then went
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  Speaker 1: away with his flock of goats. Yes, indeed you are
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  Speaker 1: a kind master, said the prince. But I will go
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  Speaker 1: in and talk to the master maid again. Perhaps before
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  Speaker 1: long she may like better to be mine than yours.
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  Speaker 1: So he went to her. Then she asked him what
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  Speaker 1: he had to do that day. Oh, not very dangerous work,
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  Speaker 1: I fancy, said the King's son. I have only to
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  Speaker 1: go up the mountain side after his horse. Well how
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  Speaker 1: do you mean to set about it, asked the master maid.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there is no great art in riding a horse home,
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  Speaker 1: said the King's son. I think I must have ridden
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  Speaker 1: friskier horse as before. Now. Yes, but it is not
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  Speaker 1: so easy a thing as you think to ride the
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  Speaker 1: horse home, said the master maid. But I will teach
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  Speaker 1: you what to do. When you go near it, fire
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  Speaker 1: will burst out of its nostrils like flames from a
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  Speaker 1: pine torch. But be very careful and take the bridle
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  Speaker 1: which hanging by the door there, and fling the bit
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  Speaker 1: straight into his jaws. And then it will become so
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  Speaker 1: tame that you will be able to do what you
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  Speaker 1: like with it. He said he would bear this in mind,
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  Speaker 1: and then he again sat there the whole day by
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  Speaker 1: the master maid, and they chatted and talked of one
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  Speaker 1: thing and another. But the first thing and the last now,
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  Speaker 1: was how happy and delightful it would be if they
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  Speaker 1: could but marry each other and get safely away from
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  Speaker 1: the giant. And the prince would have forgotten both the
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  Speaker 1: mountain side and the horse, if the master maid had
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  Speaker 1: not reminded him of them, as evening drew near, and
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  Speaker 1: said that now it would be better if he went
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  Speaker 1: to fetch the horse before the giant came. So he
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  Speaker 1: did this, and took the bridle, which was hanging on
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  Speaker 1: a crook, and strode up the mountain side. And it
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  Speaker 1: was not long before he met with the horse, and
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  Speaker 1: fire and red flames stream forth out of its nostrils.
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  Speaker 1: But the youth carefully watched his opportunity, and just as
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  Speaker 1: it was rushing at him with open jaws, he threw
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  Speaker 1: the bit straight into its mouth, and the horse stood
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  Speaker 1: as quiet as a young lamb, and there was no
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  Speaker 1: difficulty at all in getting it home to the stable.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Prince went back into his room again and
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  Speaker 1: began to hum and to sing. Toward evening, the giant
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  Speaker 1: came home. Have you fetched the horse back from the
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  Speaker 1: mountain side? He asked that I have, Master, It was
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  Speaker 1: an amusing horse to ride, But I rode him straight
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  Speaker 1: home and put him in the stable too, said the prince.
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  Speaker 1: I will see about that, said the giant, and went
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  Speaker 1: out to the stable. But the hor for standing there,
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  Speaker 1: just as the Prince had said, you have certainly been
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  Speaker 1: talking with my master maid, for you never got that
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  Speaker 1: out of your own head, said the giant again. Yesterday, Master,
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  Speaker 1: you talked about this master maid, and to day you
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  Speaker 1: are talking about her. Ah, Heaven bless you. Master. Why
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  Speaker 1: will you not show me the thing? For it would
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  Speaker 1: be a real pleasure to me to see it, said
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  Speaker 1: the Prince, who again pretended to be silly and stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you will see her quite soon enough, said the giant.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of the third day, the giant again
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  Speaker 1: had to go into the wood with the goats. To day,
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  Speaker 1: you must go underground and fetch my taxes, he said
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  Speaker 1: to the prince. When you have done this, you may
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  Speaker 1: rest for the remainder of the day, for you shall
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  Speaker 1: see what an easy master you have come to. And
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  Speaker 1: then he went away. Well, however easy a master you
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  Speaker 1: may be, you set me very hard work to do,
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  Speaker 1: thought the prince. But I will see if I cannot
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  Speaker 1: find your master maid. You say she is yours, But
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  Speaker 1: for all that, she may be able to tell me
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  Speaker 1: what to do now, and he went back to her. So,
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  Speaker 1: when the master maid asked him what the giant had
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  Speaker 1: set him to do that day, he told her that
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  Speaker 1: he was to go underground and get the taxes. And
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  Speaker 1: how were you set about that, said the master maid.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you must tell me how to do it, said
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  Speaker 1: the prince, for I have never yet been underground, and
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  Speaker 1: even if I knew the way, I do not know
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  Speaker 1: how much I am to demand. Oh yes, I will
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  Speaker 1: soon tell you that. You must go to the rock
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  Speaker 1: thereonunder the mountain ridge and take the club that is
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  Speaker 1: there and knock on the rocky wall, said the master maid.
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  Speaker 1: Then some one will come out who will sparkle with fire.
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  Speaker 1: You shall tell him your errand, and when he asks
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  Speaker 1: you how much you want to have, you are to
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  Speaker 1: say as much as I can carry. Yes, I will
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  Speaker 1: keep that in mind, said he. And then he sat
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  Speaker 1: there with the master maid the whole day until night
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  Speaker 1: drew near, And he would gladly have stayed there till
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  Speaker 1: now if the master maid had not reminded him that
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  Speaker 1: it was time to be off to fetch the taxes
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  Speaker 1: before the giant came. So he set out on his
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  Speaker 1: way and did exactly what the master maid had told him.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the rocky wall and took the club
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  Speaker 1: and knocked on it. Then came one so full of
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  Speaker 1: sparks that they flew both out of his eyes and
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  Speaker 1: his nose. What do you want? Said he. I was
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  Speaker 1: to come here for the giant and demand the tax
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  Speaker 1: for him, said the king's son. How much are you
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  Speaker 1: to have, then, said the other. I asked for no
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  Speaker 1: more than I am able to carry with me, said
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  Speaker 1: the prince. It is well for you that you have
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  Speaker 1: not asked for a horse load, said he who had
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  Speaker 1: come out of the rock, but now come in with me.
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  Speaker 1: This the prince did, and what a quantity of gold
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  Speaker 1: and silver he saw. It was lying inside the mountain
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  Speaker 1: like heaps of stones in a waste place. And he
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  Speaker 1: got a load that was as large as he was
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  Speaker 1: able to carry, and with that he went his way.
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  Speaker 1: So in the evening, when the giant came home with
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  Speaker 1: the goats, the Prince went into the chamber and hummed
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  Speaker 1: and sung again, as he done on the other two evenings.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been for the tax, said the giant. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that I have, Master, said the prince. Where have you
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  Speaker 1: put it? Then, said the giant again. The bag of
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  Speaker 1: gold is standing there on the bench, said the prince.
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  Speaker 1: I will see about that, said the giant, and went
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  Speaker 1: away to the bench. But the bag was standing there,
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  Speaker 1: and it was so full that gold and silver dropped
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  Speaker 1: out when the giant untied the string. You have certainly
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  Speaker 1: been talking with my master Maid, said the giant. And
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  Speaker 1: if you have, I will wring your neck. Master Made,
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  Speaker 1: said the prince. Yesterday my master talked about this Master Made,
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  Speaker 1: and to day he is talking about her again. And
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  Speaker 1: the first day of all it was talk of the
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  Speaker 1: same kind. I do wish I could see the thing myself,
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  Speaker 1: said he yes, yes, wait till to morrow, said the giant,
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  Speaker 1: and then I myself will take you to her. Ah, Master,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you, but you are only mocking me, said
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  Speaker 1: the king's son. Next day the giant took him to
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  Speaker 1: the master maid. Now you shall kill him and boil
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  Speaker 1: him in the great, big colgron you know of. And
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  Speaker 1: when you have got the broth, ready, give me a call,
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  Speaker 1: said the giant. Then he lay down on the bench
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  Speaker 1: to sleep, and almost immediately began to snore, so that
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  Speaker 1: it sounded like thunder among the hills. So the master
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  Speaker 1: maid took a knife and cut the prince's little finger,
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  Speaker 1: and dropped three drops of blood upon a wooden stool.
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  Speaker 1: Then she took all the old rags and shoe soles,
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  Speaker 1: and all the rubbish she could lay hands on, and
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  Speaker 1: put them in the colgron. And then she filled a
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  Speaker 1: check with gold dust and a lump of salt, and
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  Speaker 1: a water flask which was hanging by the door. And
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  Speaker 1: she also took with her a golden apple and two
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  Speaker 1: gold chickens. And then she and the prince went away
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  Speaker 1: with all the speed they could, And when they had
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  Speaker 1: gone a little way, they came to the sea. And
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  Speaker 1: then they sailed, But where they got the ship from
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  Speaker 1: I have never been able to learn. Now, when the
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  Speaker 1: giant had slept a good long time, he began to
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  Speaker 1: stretch himself on the bench on which he was lying.
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  Speaker 1: Will it soon boil? Said he. It is just beginning,
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  Speaker 1: said the first drop of blood on the stool. So
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  Speaker 1: the giant lay down to sleep again and slept for
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  Speaker 1: a long long time. Then he began to move about
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  Speaker 1: a little again. Will it soon be ready? Now? Said he.
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  Speaker 1: That he did not look up this time any more
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  Speaker 1: than he had done the first time, for he was
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  Speaker 1: still half asleep. Half done, said the second drop of blood,
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  Speaker 1: And the giant believed it was the master Maid again,
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  Speaker 1: and turned himself on the bench and lay down to
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  Speaker 1: sleep once more. When he had slept again for many hours,
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  Speaker 1: he began to move and stretch himself. Is it not
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  Speaker 1: done yet? Said he. It is quite ready, said the
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  Speaker 1: third drop of blood. Then the giant began to sit
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  Speaker 1: up and rub his eyes. That he could not see
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  Speaker 1: who it was who had spoken to him. So he
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  Speaker 1: asked for the master Maid and called her, but there
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  Speaker 1: was no one to give him an answer. Ah, well,
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  Speaker 1: she has just stolen out for a little thought the giant,
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  Speaker 1: and he took a spoon and went off to the
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  Speaker 1: caldron to have a taste. But there was nothing in
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  Speaker 1: it but shoe soles and rags and such trumpery as that,
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  Speaker 1: and all was boiled up together so that he could
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  Speaker 1: not tell whether it was porridge or milk pottage. When
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  Speaker 1: he saw this, he understood what had happened, and fell
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  Speaker 1: into such a rage that he hardly knew what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing. Away he went after the Prince, and the
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  Speaker 1: master made so fast that the wind whistled behind him,
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  Speaker 1: and it was not long before he came to the
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  Speaker 1: water that he could not get over it. Well, well,
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  Speaker 1: I will soon find a cure for that. I have
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  Speaker 1: only to call my river succor, said the giant, And
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  Speaker 1: he did call him. So his river succor came and
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  Speaker 1: lay down and drunk one, two, three drafts, and with
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  Speaker 1: that the water in the sea fell so low that
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  Speaker 1: the giants saw the master Maid and the Prince out
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  Speaker 1: on the sea in their ship. Now you must throw
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  Speaker 1: out the lump of salt, said the master Maid, and
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  Speaker 1: the Prince did so, and it grew up into such
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  Speaker 1: a great high mountain right across the sea that the
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  Speaker 1: giant could not come over it, and the River Succor
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  Speaker 1: could not drink any more water. Well, well, I will
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  Speaker 1: soon find a cure for that, said the giant. So
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  Speaker 1: he called to his hill borer to come and bore
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  Speaker 1: through the mountain so that the River Succor might be
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  Speaker 1: able to drink up the water again. But just as
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  Speaker 1: the whole was made and the River Succor was beginning
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  Speaker 1: to drink, the master maid told the Prince to throw
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  Speaker 1: one or two drops out of the flask, And when
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  Speaker 1: he did this, the sea instantly became full of water again,
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  Speaker 1: and before the River Succor could take one drink, they
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  Speaker 1: reached the land and were in safety. So they determined
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  Speaker 1: to go home to the prince's father. But the Prince would,
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  Speaker 1: on no account permit the master maid to walk there,
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  Speaker 1: for he thought that it was unbecoming either for her
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  Speaker 1: or for him to go on foot. Wait here the
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  Speaker 1: least little bit of time, while I go home for
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  Speaker 1: the seven horses which stand in my father's stable, said he.
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  Speaker 1: It is not far off, and I shall not be
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  Speaker 1: long away. But I will not let my betrothed bride
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  Speaker 1: go on foot to the palace. Oh, no, do not
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  Speaker 1: go for if you go home to the King's Palace,
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  Speaker 1: you will forget me. I foresee that how could I
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  Speaker 1: forget you? We have suffered so much evil together and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: love each other so much, said the prince. And he
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: insisted on going home for the coach with the seven horses,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and she was to wait for him there by the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: sea shore. So at last the master maid had to yield,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: for he was so absolutely determined to do it. But
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: when you get there, you must not even give yourself
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: time to greet anyone, but go straight into the stable
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and take the horses and put them in the coach,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and drive back as quickly as you can, for they
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: will all come round about you. But you must behave
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: just as if you did not see them. And on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: no account must you taste anything, for if you do,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: it will cause great misery, both to you and to me,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: said she. And this he promised. But when he got
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: home to the King's Palace, one of his brothers was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: just going to be married, and the bride and all
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: her kith and kin had come to the palace. So
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: they are all thronged round him, and questioned him about
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: this and that, and wanted him to go in with them,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: but he behaved as if he did not see them,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and went straight to the stable and got out the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: horses and began to harness them. When they saw that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: they could not, by any means prevail on him to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: go in with them, they came out to him with
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: meat and drink and the best of everything that they
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: had prepared for the wedding. But the prince refused to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: touch anything, and would do nothing but put the horses
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in as quickly as he could. At last, however, the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: bride's sister rolled an apple across the yard to him
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and said, as you won't eat anything else, you may
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like to take a bite of that, for you must
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: be both hungry and thirsty after your long journey. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: he took up the apple and bit a piece out
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of it. But no sooner had he got the piece
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of apple in his mouth than he forgot the master
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: maid and that he was to go back in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: coach to petch Her. I think I must be mad.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: What do I want with this coach and horses, said he,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And then he put the horses back into the stable
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and went into the King's palace, and there it was
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: settled that he should marry the bride's sister, who had
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: rolled the apple to in. The master maid sat by
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the sea shore for a long long time waiting for
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the prince, But no prince came, so she went away,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and when she had walked a short distance, she came
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to a little hut which stood all alone in a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: small wood hard by the king's palace. She entered it
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and asked if she might be allowed to stay there.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: The hut belonged to an old crone, who was also
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: an ill tempered and malicious troll. At first she would
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: not let the master maid remain with her, but at last,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: after a long time, by means of good words and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: good payment, she obtained leave. But the hut was as
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: dirty and black inside as a pig stye, So the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: little master maid said that she would smarten it up
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a little, that it might look a little more like
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: what other people's houses look inside. The old crone did
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: not like this either. She scowled and was very cross,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: But the master maid did not trouble herself about that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: She took out her chest of gold and flung a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: handful of it or so into the fire, and the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: gold boiled up and poured out over the whole of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the hut, until every part of it, both inside and out,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: was gilded. But when the gold began to bubble up,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the old hag grew so terrified that she fled as
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: if the evil one himself were pursuing her, And she
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: did not remember to stoop down as she went through
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the doorway, and so she split her head and died.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Next morning the sheriff came traveling by there. He was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: greatly astonished when he saw the gold hut shining and
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: glittering there in the copse, And he was still more
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: astonished when he went in and caught sight of the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: beautiful young maiden who was sitting there. He fell in
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: love with her at once, and straightway on the spot
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: he begged her, both prettily and kindly, to marry him. Well,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: but have you a great deal of money, said the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: master maid. Oh yes, so far as that is concerned,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I am not ill off, said the sheriff. So now
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he had to go home to get the money, And
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in the evening he came back, bringing with him a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: bag with two bushels in it, which he set down
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: on the bench. Well, as he had such a fine
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: lot of money, the master maid said she would have him.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So they sat down to talk. But scarcely had they
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: sat down together before the master maid wanted to jump
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: up again. I have forgotten to see to the fire,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: she said. Why should you jump up to do that,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: said the sheriff, I will do that. So he jumped
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: up and went to the chimney in one bound. Just
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: tell me when you have got hold of the shovel,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: said the master maid. Well I have hold of it now,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: said the sheriff. Then you may hold the shovel and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the shovel you, and pour red hot coals over you
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: till day dawns, said the master maid. So the sheriff
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: had to stand there the whole night and pour red
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: hot coals over himself, And no matter how much he
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: cried and begged and entreated, the red hot coals did
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: not grow the colder. For that when the day began
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to dawn and he had power to throw down the shovel,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: he did not stay long where he was, but ran
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: away as fast as he possibly could. And everybody who
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: met him stared and looked after him, for he was
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: flying as if he were mad, And he could not
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: have looked worse if he had been both flayed and tanned,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and every one wondered where he had been, but for
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: very shame, he would not tell nothing. The next day
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the attorney came riding by the place where the master
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: made dwelt. He saw how brightly the hut shone and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: gleamed through the wood, and he too went into it
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to see who lived there. And when he entered and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: saw the beautiful young maiden, he fell even more in
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: love with her than the sheriff had done, and began
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: to wheel her at once. So the master maid asked him,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: as she had asked the sheriff, if he had a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: great deal of money, and the attorney said he was
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: not ill off for that, and would at once go
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: home to get it. And at night he came with
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a great big sack of money, this time it was
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a four bushel sack, and set it on the bench
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: by the master maid. So she promised to have him,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and he sat down on the bench by her to
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: arrange about it. But suddenly she said that she had
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: forgotten to lock the door of the porch that night
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and must do it. Why should you do that, said
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the attorney, sit still, I will do it. So he
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he was on his feet in a moment and out
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: in the porch. Tell me when you have got hold
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: of the door latch, said the master maid. I have
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: hold of it now, cried the attorney. Then you may
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: hold the door, and the door you, and may you
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: go between maul and wall till day dawns. What a
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: dance the attorney had that night. He had never had
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: such a waltz before, and he never wished to have
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: such a dance again. Sometimes he was in front of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the door, and sometimes the door was in front of him,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and it went from one side of the porch to
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the other till the attorney was well nigh beaten to death.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: At first he began to abuse the master maid, and
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: then to beg and pray. But the door did not
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: care for anything but keeping him where he was till
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: break of day. As soon as the door let go
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: its hold him, off went the attorney. He forgot who
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: ought to be paid off for what he had suffered.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: He forgot both his sack of money and his wooing,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: for he was so afraid lest the house door should
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: come dancing after him. Every one who met him stared
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and looked after him, for he was flying like a madman,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and he could not have looked worse if a herd
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of rams had been butting at him all night long.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: On the third day, the bayliff came by, and he
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: too saw the gold house in the little wood, and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he too felt that he must go and see who
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: lived there. And when he caught sight of the master maid,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he became so much in love with her that he
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: wooed her almost before he greeted her. The master maid
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: answered him, as she had answered the other two, that
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: if he had a great deal of money, she would
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: have him, so far as that is concerned, I am
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: not ill off, said the bailiff. So he was at
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: once told to go home and fetch it, and this
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: he did. At night. He came back and he had
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a still larger sack of money with him than the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: attorney had brought. It must have been at least six bushels,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and he set it down on the bench. So it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was settled that he was to have the master made.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: But hardly had they sat down together before she said
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: that she had forgotten to bring in the calf, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: must go out to put it in the buyer. No, indeed,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you shall not do that, said the bailiff, I am
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the one to do that. And big and fat as
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: he was, he went out as briskly as a boy.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Tell me when you have got hold of the calf's tail,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: said the master maid. I have hold of it now,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: cried the bailiff. Then may you hold the calf's tail,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and the calf's tail hold you, and may you go
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: round the world together till day dawns, said the master maid.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: So the bailiff had to bestir himself, for the calf
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: went over rough and smooth, over hill and dale, And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the more the bailiff cried and screamed, the faster the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: calf went. When daylight began to appear, the bailiff was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: half dead, And so glad was he to leave loose
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of the calf's tail, that he forgot the sack of
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: money and all else. He walked now slowly, more slowly
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: than the sheriff and the attorney had done. But the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: slower he went, the more time had everyone to stare
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and look at him. And they used it too, And
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: no one can imagine, and how tired out and ragged
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: he looked after his dance with the calf. On the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: following day, the wedding was to take place in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: King's Palace, and the elder brother was to drive to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: church with his bride, and the brother who had been
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: with the giant with her sister. But when they had
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: seated themselves in the coach and were about to drive
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: off from the palace, one of the trace pins broke,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and though they made one two and three to put
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: in its place, that did not help them, for each
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: broke in turn, no matter what kind of wood they
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: used to make them off. This went on for a
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: long time, and they could knock it away from the palace,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: so they were all in great trouble. Then the sheriff said,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: for he too had been bidden to the wedding at court.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Yonder away in the thicket, dwell the and if you
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: can get her to lend you the handle of the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: shovel that she uses to make up her fire, I
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: know very well that it will hold fast. So they
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: sent off a messenger to the thicket and begged so
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: prettily that they might have the loan of her shovel
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: handle of which the sheriff had spoken that they were
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: not refused. So now they had a trace pin which
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: would not snap in two but all at once, just
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: as they were starting, the bottom of the coach fell
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: in pieces. They made a new bottom as fast as
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: they could, but no matter how they nailed it together,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: or what kind of wood they used, no sooner had
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: they got the new bottom into the coach and were
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: about to drive off, than it broke again, so that
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: they were still worse off than when they had broken
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the trace pin. Then Ernie said, for he too was
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: at the wedding in the palace. Away there in the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: thicket dwells a maiden, And if you could but get
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: her to lend you one half of her porch door,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I am certain that it will hold together. So they
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: again sent a messenger to the thicket and begged so
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: prettily for the loan of the gilded porch door, of
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: which the attorney had told them that they got it
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: at once. They were just setting out again, But now
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the horses were not able to draw the coach. They
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: had six horses already, and now they put in eight,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and then ten, and then twelve. But the more they
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: put in, and the more the coachman whipped them, the
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: less good it did. And the coach never stirred from
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: the spot. It was already beginning to be late in
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the day, and to church they must go, and would go.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: So everyone who was in the palace was in a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: state of distress. Then the bailiff spoke up and said,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: out there in the gilded cottage in the thicket dwells
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the girl, and if you could but get her to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: lend you her calf, I know it could draw the coach,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: even if it were as heavy as a mountain. They
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: all thought that it was ridiculous to be drawn to
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: church by a calf, but there was nothing else for
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it but to send a messenger once more and beg
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: as prettily as they could on behalf of the King
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: that she would let them have the loan of the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: calf that the bailiff had told them about. The master
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: maid let them have it immediately. This time also she
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: would not say no. Then they harnessed the calf to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: see if the coach would move, and away it went
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: over rough and smooth, over stock and stone, so that
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: they could scarcely breathe, And sometimes they were on the ground,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: and sometimes up in the air. And when they came
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to the church, the coach began to go round and
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: round like a spinning wheel. And it was with the
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: utmost difficulty and danger that they were able to get
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: out of the coach and into the church. And when
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: they went back again, the coach went quicker still, so
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that most of them did not know how they got
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: back to the palace at all. When they had seated
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: themselves at the table, the prince, who had been in
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: service with the giant, said that he thought they ought
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to have invited the maiden, who had lent them the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: shovel handle and the porch door and the calf up
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: to the palace, For said he, if we had not
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: got these three things, we should never have got away
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: from the palace. The King also thought that this was
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: both just and proper, so he sent five of his
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: best men down to the Gilded Heart to greet the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: maiden courteously from the king, and to beg her to
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: be so good as to come up to the palace
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: to dinner at midday, greet the King and tell him
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: that if he is too good to come to me,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I am too good to come to him, replied the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: master maid. So the King had to go himself, and
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the master maid went with him immediately, And as the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: king believed that she was more than she appeared to be.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: He seated her in the place of honor by the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: youngest bridegroom. When they had sat at the table for
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: a short time, the master maid took out the cock
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and the hen and the golden apple, which she had
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: brought away with her from the Giant's house, and set
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: them on the table in front of her, And instantly
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: the cock and the hen began to fight with each
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: other for the golden apple. Oh look how those two
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: there are fighting for the golden apple, said the king's son. Yes,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and so did we two fight to get out that
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: time when we were in the mountain, said the master maid.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So the prince knew her again, and you may imagine
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: how delighted he was. He ordered the troll witch, who
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: had rolled the apple to him, to be torn in
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: pieces between four and twenty horses, so that not a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: bit of her was left. And then for the first
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: time they began really to keep the wedding, and weary
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: as they were, the sheriff, the attorney and the bailiff
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: kept it up too. Footnote as Bounson and mow end
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: of story three