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028 - Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God · Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales & Short Stories Vol. 1

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Speaker 1: Section twenty eight of Hons klistan Andersen's Fairy Tales and
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Speaker 1: Short Stories Volume IE. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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Speaker 1: Christine G. Hans Klisten Andersen Fairy Tales and Short Stories,
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Speaker 1: Volume one, eighteen thirty five to eighteen forty two by
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Speaker 1: Hans kistan Onishen, translated by H. P. Paul Ula Lugea
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Speaker 1: the dream God. There is nobody in the world who
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Speaker 1: knows so many stories as ul Lugeia, or who can
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Speaker 1: relate them so nice. In the evening, while the children
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Speaker 1: are seated at the table or in their little chairs,
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Speaker 1: he comes up the stairs very softly, for he walks
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Speaker 1: in his socks. Then he opens the doors without the
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Speaker 1: slightest noise, and throws a small quantity of very fine
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Speaker 1: dust in their eyes, just enough to prevent them from
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Speaker 1: keeping them open and so they do not see him.
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Speaker 1: Then he creeps behind them and blows softly upon their
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Speaker 1: necks till their heads begin to droop. But Ulilouka does
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Speaker 1: not wish to hurt them, for he is very fond
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Speaker 1: of children, and only wants them to be quiet that
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Speaker 1: he may relate to them pretty stories. And they never
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Speaker 1: are quiet until they are in bed and asleep. As
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Speaker 1: soon as they are asleep, Ulilukaya seats himself upon the bed.
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Speaker 1: He is nicely dressed. His coat is made of silken stuff.
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Speaker 1: It is impossible to say of what color, for it
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Speaker 1: changes from green to red, and from red to blue
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Speaker 1: as he turns from side to side. Under each arm
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Speaker 1: he carries an umbrella, one of them with pictures on
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Speaker 1: the inside. He spreads over the good children and then
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Speaker 1: they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But
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Speaker 1: the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he haulds
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Speaker 1: over the naughty children, so that they sleep heavily and
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Speaker 1: wake in the morning without having dreamed at all. Now
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Speaker 1: I shall hear how Ulukee came every night during a
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Speaker 1: whole week to the little boy named Yelmad and what
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Speaker 1: he told him. There were seven stories, and there are
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Speaker 1: seven days in the week Monday. Now pay attention, said
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Speaker 1: Ulilukah in the evening when Yolma was in bed, and
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Speaker 1: I will decorate the room immediately. All the flowers in
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Speaker 1: the flower pots became large trees, with long branches reaching
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Speaker 1: to the ceiling and stretching along the walls, so that
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Speaker 1: the whole room was like a greenhouse. All the branches
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Speaker 1: were loaded with flowers. Each flower as beautiful and as
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Speaker 1: fragrant as a rose, and had any one tasted them,
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Speaker 1: he would have found them sweeter even than jam. The
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Speaker 1: fruit glittered like gold, and there were cakes so full
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Speaker 1: of plums that they were nearly bursting. It was incomparably beautiful.
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Speaker 1: At the same time sounded dismal moans from the table
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Speaker 1: drawer in which lay Ylmud's school books. What can that be? Now,
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Speaker 1: said Ule lucare going to the table and pulling out
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Speaker 1: a drawer. It was a slate in such distress because
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Speaker 1: of a false number in the sum that it had
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Speaker 1: almost broken itself to pieces. The pencil pulled and tugged
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Speaker 1: at its string, as if it were a little dog
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Speaker 1: that wanted to help but could not. And then came
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Speaker 1: a moan from Yalmer's copy book. Oh, it was quite
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Speaker 1: terrible to hear. On each leaf stood a row of
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Speaker 1: capital letters, every one having a small letter by its side.
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Speaker 1: This formed the copy. Under these were other letters, which
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Speaker 1: Yalma had written. They fancied they looked like the copy,
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Speaker 1: but they were mistaken, for they were leaning on one
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Speaker 1: side as if they intended to fall over the pencil lines.
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Speaker 1: See this is the way you should hold yourself, said
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Speaker 1: the copy. Look here, you should slope thus with a
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Speaker 1: graceful curve. And we are very willing to do so.
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Speaker 1: But we cannot, said Yaalma's letters. We are so wretchedly made.
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Speaker 1: He must be scratched out. Then said ulilukiir oh no,
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Speaker 1: they cried, and then they stood up so gracefully. It
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Speaker 1: was quite a pleasure to look at them. Now we
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Speaker 1: must give up past stories and exercise these letters, said
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Speaker 1: ula Lukaya one ti one ti. So he drilled them
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Speaker 1: till they stood out gracefully and looked as beautiful as
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Speaker 1: Kopi could look. But after Ula Lukie was gone and
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Speaker 1: Yalmud looked at them in the morning, they were as
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Speaker 1: wretched and awkward as ever. Tuesday, as soon as Yalma
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Speaker 1: was in bed, Ula Lukie touched with his little magic
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Speaker 1: wand all the furniture in the room, which immediately began
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Speaker 1: to chatter, and each article only talked of itself. Over
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Speaker 1: the chest of drawers hung a large picture in a
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Speaker 1: gilt frame, representing a landscape with fine old trees, flowers
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Speaker 1: in the grass, and a broad stream which flowed through
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Speaker 1: the wood, passed several castles far out into the wild ocean.
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Speaker 1: Uliluk touched the picture with his magic wand, and immediately
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Speaker 1: the birds commenced singing. The branches of the trees rustled,
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Speaker 1: and the clouds moved across the sky, casting their shadows
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Speaker 1: on the landscape beneath them. Then uliluka A lifted little
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Speaker 1: Yalmud up to the frame and placed his feet in
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Speaker 1: the picture jest on the high grass, and there he stood,
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Speaker 1: with the sun shining down upon him through the branches
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Speaker 1: of the trees. He ran to the water and seated
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Speaker 1: himself in a little boat which lay there, and which
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Speaker 1: was painted red and white. The sails glittered like silver,
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Speaker 1: and six ones, each with a golden circlet round its
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Speaker 1: neck and a bright blue star on its forehead. Drew
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Speaker 1: the boat past the green wood, where the trees talked
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Speaker 1: of robbers and witches, and the flowers of beautiful little
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Speaker 1: elves and fairies whose history the butterflies had related to them.
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Speaker 1: Brilliant fish with scales like silver and gold, swam out
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Speaker 1: the boat, sometimes making a spring and splashing the water
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Speaker 1: round them, while birds red and blue, small and great,
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Speaker 1: flew after him in two long lines. The gnats danced
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Speaker 1: around them, and the cock chieffers cried buzz buzz. They
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Speaker 1: all wanted to follow Yelmud, and all had some story
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Speaker 1: to tell him. It was a most pleasant sail. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: the forests were thick and dark, sometimes like a beautiful garden,
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Speaker 1: gay with sunshine and flowers. Then he passed great palaces
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Speaker 1: of glass and marble, and on the balconies stood princesses,
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Speaker 1: whose faces were those of little girls whom Yalma knew
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Speaker 1: well and had often played with. One of them held
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Speaker 1: out her hand, in which was a heart mate of sugar,
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Speaker 1: more beautiful than any confectioner ever sold as Yalmard said bill.
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Speaker 1: He caught hold of one side of the sugar heart
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Speaker 1: and held it fast, and the princess held fast also,
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Speaker 1: so that it broke into two pieces. Yalmud had one piece,
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Speaker 1: and the princess the other, but Yalmus was the largest.
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Speaker 1: At each castle stood little princes, acting as sentinels. They
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Speaker 1: presented arms and had golden swords, and made it rain
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Speaker 1: plums and tin soldiers, so that they must have been
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Speaker 1: real princes. Yalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes,
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Speaker 1: as it were, through large halls, and then by large cities.
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Speaker 1: At last he came to the town where his nurse lived,
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Speaker 1: who had carried him in her arms when he was
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Speaker 1: a very little boy, and had always been kind to him.
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Speaker 1: She nodded and beckoned to him, and then sang the
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Speaker 1: little verses she had herself composed, and said to him,
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Speaker 1: how after my memory turns to the.
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Speaker 2: Mayon yamarever dear, when I could watch thine infant glee
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Speaker 2: a kiss away Harperlita, twas in my arms, thy lisping
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Speaker 2: tongue first spoke the half free Merehamburg word, while over
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Speaker 2: thy tater ring stirhaps. I hung my fond protection to
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Speaker 2: a fought farewell. I prayed heavenly power to keep it
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Speaker 2: till thy dying hour.
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Speaker 1: And all the birds sang the same tune. The flowers
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Speaker 1: danced on the stems, and the old trees nodded, as
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Speaker 1: if all Alukia had been telling them stories as well. Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: how the rain did pour down? Yelmud could hear it
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Speaker 1: in his sleep, And when Alaukia opened the window. The
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Speaker 1: water flowed quite up to the window sill. It had
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Speaker 1: the appearance of the large lake outside, and a beautiful
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Speaker 1: ship lake close to the house. Wilt thou sail with
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Speaker 1: me to night? Little almad said, all look air, then
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Speaker 1: we shall see foreign countries, and thou shalt return here
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Speaker 1: in the morning. All in a moment there stood Almer
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Speaker 1: in his best clothes, on the deck of the noble ship.
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Speaker 1: And immediately the weather became fine. They sailed through the
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Speaker 1: streets round by the church, and on every side rolled
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Speaker 1: the wide great sea. They sailed to the land disappeared,
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Speaker 1: and then they saw a flock of storks who had
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Speaker 1: left their own country and were traveling to warmer climates.
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Speaker 1: The storks flew one behind the other, and had already
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Speaker 1: been a long long time on the wing. One of
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Speaker 1: them seemed so tired that his wings could scarcely carry him.
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Speaker 1: He was the last of the row, and was soon
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Speaker 1: left very far behind. At length, he sunk lower and lower,
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Speaker 1: with outstretched wings flapping them in vain till his feet
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Speaker 1: touched the rigging of the ship, and he slided from
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Speaker 1: the sails to the deck and stood before them. Then
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Speaker 1: a sailor boy caught him and put him in the
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Speaker 1: hen house with the fowls, the ducks, and the turkeys,
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Speaker 1: while the poor stork stood quite bewildered amongst them. Just
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Speaker 1: look at that fell, said the chickens. Then the turkey
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Speaker 1: cock puffed himself out as large as he could and
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Speaker 1: inquired who he was, And the ducks waddled backwards, crying
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Speaker 1: quack quack. Then the stork told them all about warm Africa,
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Speaker 1: of the pyramids, and of the ostrich, which like a
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Speaker 1: wild horse runs across the desert. But the ducks did
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Speaker 1: not understand what he said, and quaked among themselves. We
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Speaker 1: are all of the same opinion, namely that he is stupid. Yes,
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Speaker 1: to be sure, he is stupid, said the turkey cock, engobbled.
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Speaker 1: Then the stork remained quite silent and thought of his
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Speaker 1: home in Africa. Those are handsome thin legs of yours,
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Speaker 1: said the turkey cock. What do they cost the yard? Qua?
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Speaker 1: Qua quack in the ducks, But the stork pretended not
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Speaker 1: to hear. He may as well laugh, said the turkey,
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Speaker 1: for that remain was rather witty. Or perhaps it wasn't
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Speaker 1: bad you aha? Is he not clever? He will be
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Speaker 1: a great amusement to us while he remains here. And
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Speaker 1: then he gobbled, and the duck squawked, come gobble qua quack.
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Speaker 1: What a terrible opera there made while they were having
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Speaker 1: such fun among themselves. Then ye Almud went to the
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Speaker 1: hen house, and, opening the door, called to the stalk.
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Speaker 1: Then he hopped out on the deck. He had rested
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Speaker 1: himself now, and he looked happy, and seemed as if
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Speaker 1: he nodded to Yelmud, as if to thank him. Then
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Speaker 1: he spread his wings and flew away to warmer countries,
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Speaker 1: while the hens clocked, the duck squawked, and the turkey
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Speaker 1: cock turned quite scarlet in the head. To morrow you
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Speaker 1: shall be made into soup, said y Almud to the fowls.
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Speaker 1: And then he awoke and find himself lying on his
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Speaker 1: little bed. It was a wonderful journey with uleluk Air
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Speaker 1: that made him take this night Thursday. What do you
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Speaker 1: think I have got here? Said Ululukire. Do not be frightened,
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Speaker 1: and you shall see a little mouse. And then he
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Speaker 1: held out his hand to him, in which lay a
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Speaker 1: lovely little creature. It has come to invite you a wedding.
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Speaker 1: Two little mice are going to enter into the marriage
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Speaker 1: stake to night. There reside under the floor of your
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Speaker 1: mother's storeroom, and that must be a fine dwelling place.
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Speaker 1: But how can I get through the little mouse hole
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Speaker 1: in the floor, asked Yielmer. Leave me to manage that,
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Speaker 1: said Ula luk Ere, I will soon make you small enough,
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Speaker 1: And then he touched Yomer with his magic wand whereupon
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Speaker 1: he became less and less, until at last he was
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Speaker 1: not longer than a little finger. Now you can borrow
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Speaker 1: the dress of the tin soldier. I think it will
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Speaker 1: just fit you. It looks well to wear our uniform
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Speaker 1: when you go into company. Yes, certainly, said y Olmer,
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Speaker 1: and in a moment he was dressed as neatly as
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Speaker 1: the neatest of all tinned soldiers. Will you be so
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Speaker 1: good as to seek yourself in your mamma's thimble, said
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Speaker 1: the little mouse, that I may have the pleasure of
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Speaker 1: drawing you to the wedding. Will you really take so
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Speaker 1: much trouble, young lady, said they almud, And so in
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Speaker 1: this way he rode to the mouse's wedding. First they
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Speaker 1: went under the floor, and then passed through a long
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Speaker 1: passage which was scarcely high enough to allow the thimble
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Speaker 1: to drive under, and the whole passage was lit up
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Speaker 1: with a phosphorescent light of rotten wood. Does it not
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Speaker 1: smell delicious? Asked the mouse as she drew him along
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Speaker 1: The wall, and the floor have been smeared with bacon rined,
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Speaker 1: nothing can be nicer. Very soon they arrived at the
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Speaker 1: bridle hall. On the right stood all the little lady mice,
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Speaker 1: whispering and giggling as if they were making game of
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Speaker 1: each other. To the left were the gentlemen mice, stroking
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Speaker 1: their whiskeys with their fore paws. And in the center
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Speaker 1: of the hall could be seen the bridle pair, standing
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Speaker 1: hide by side in a hollow, cheese wrint and kissing
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Speaker 1: each other. While all eyes were upon them, for they
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Speaker 1: had already been betrothed and were soon to be married.
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Speaker 1: More and more friends kept arriving, till the mice were
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Speaker 1: nearly treading each other to death, for the bridle pair
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Speaker 1: now stood in the doorway, and none could pass in
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Speaker 1: or out. The room had been rubbed over with bacon rind,
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Speaker 1: like the passage, which was all the refreshment offered to
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Speaker 1: the guests. But for dessert they produced a pea on
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Speaker 1: which a mouse belonging to the bridle pail had bitten
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Speaker 1: the first letters of their names. This was something quite uncommon.
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Speaker 1: All the mice said it was a very beautiful wedding,
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Speaker 1: and that they had been very agreeably entertained. After this,
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Speaker 1: Yelma returned home. He had certainly been in grand society,
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Speaker 1: but he had been obliged to creep under a room
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Speaker 1: and to make himself small enough to wear the uniform
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Speaker 1: of a tin soldier. Friday. It is incredible how many
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Speaker 1: old people there are who would be glad to have
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Speaker 1: me at night, said Ululuk Air, especially those who have
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Speaker 1: done something wrong. Good little Ulla, say they to me.
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Speaker 1: We cannot close our eyes and will lie awake the
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Speaker 1: whole night and see all our evil deeds, sitting on
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Speaker 1: our beds like little imps, and sprinkling us with hot water.
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Speaker 1: Will you come and drive them away that we may
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Speaker 1: have a good, nice rest. And then they sigh so
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Speaker 1: deeply and say we would gladly pay you for it.
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Speaker 1: Good night, Ulluluk. The money lies on the window, but
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Speaker 1: I never do anything for gold. What shall we do
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Speaker 1: to night, asked they, Almer, I do not know whether
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Speaker 1: you would care to go to another wedding, he replied,
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Speaker 1: although it is quite a different affair to the one
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Speaker 1: we saw last night. Your sister's large stall that is
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Speaker 1: dressed like a man and is called Hammond. It is
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Speaker 1: also the doll's birthday, and they will receive many presents. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I know that already, said the Almud. My sister always
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Speaker 1: allows her dolls to keep their birthdays or to have
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Speaker 1: a wedding when they require new clothes. That has happened
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Speaker 1: already a hundred times. I am quite sure. Yes, so
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Speaker 1: it may. But to night is the hundred and first wedding,
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Speaker 1: and when that has taken place, it must be the last. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: this is to be extremely beautiful. Only look y, Alma
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Speaker 1: looked at the table, and there stood a little cardboard
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Speaker 1: doll's house with lights in all the windows, and drawn
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Speaker 1: up before it were the tin soldiers presenting alms. The
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Speaker 1: bridal pair was seated on the floor, leaning against the
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Speaker 1: leg of the table, looking very thoughtful and with good reason.
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Speaker 1: Then ole Lukaya, dressed up in grandmother's black gown, married
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Speaker 1: them as soon as the ceremony was concluded, while the
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Speaker 1: furniture in the room joined in singing a beautiful song.
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Speaker 1: Which had been composed by the lead pencil, and which
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Speaker 1: went to the melody of a military tattoo. What Mayory's
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Speaker 1: sounds are on the wind arrow stripes? Together the wind
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Speaker 1: a quieter and a larving pair, though formed of kid
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Speaker 1: get smooth and fair, who are if they are deaf
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Speaker 1: and blind, will sing the word to proven kind? And
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Speaker 1: now came the present. But the bridle pair had nothing
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Speaker 1: to eat, for love was to be their food. Shall
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Speaker 1: we go to a country house or travel, asked the bridegroom.
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Speaker 1: Then they consulted the swallow, who had traveled so far,
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Speaker 1: and the old hen in the yard. We had brought
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Speaker 1: up fine broods of chickens, And the swallow talked to
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Speaker 1: them of warm countries, where the grapes hang in large
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Speaker 1: clusters on the wines, and the air is soft and mild,
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Speaker 1: and about the mountains glowing with collars more beautiful than
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Speaker 1: we can think of. But they have no red cabbage,
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Speaker 1: like we have said the hand. I was once in
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Speaker 1: the country with my chickens for a whole summer. There
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Speaker 1: was a large sand pit in which we could walk
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Speaker 1: about and scratch as we liked. Then we got into
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Speaker 1: a garden in which grew red cabbage. How nice it was.
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Speaker 1: I can not think of anything more delicious. But one
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Speaker 1: cabbage stalk is exactly like another, said the swallow. And hair.
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Speaker 1: We have often bad weather, yes, but we are accustomed
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Speaker 1: to it, said the hen. But it is so cold
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Speaker 1: hair and freezes. Sometimes cold weather is good for cabbages,
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Speaker 1: said the hen. Besides, we do have it warm hair. Sometimes.
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Speaker 1: Four years ago we had the summit had lasted more
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Speaker 1: than five weeks, and it was so hot one could
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Speaker 1: scarcely breathe. And then, in this country we have no
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Speaker 1: poisonous animals, and we are free from robbers. He must
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Speaker 1: be wicked who does not consider our country the finest
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Speaker 1: of all lands. He ought not to be allowed to
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Speaker 1: live hair. And then the hen wept very much and said,
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Speaker 1: I have also traveled. I once went twelve miles in
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Speaker 1: a coop, and it was not a pleasant traveling at all.
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Speaker 1: The hen is a sensible woman, said the doll Bertha.
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Speaker 1: I don't care for traveling all the mountains just to
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Speaker 1: go up and come down again. No, let us go
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Speaker 1: to the sand pit in front of the gate, and
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Speaker 1: then take a walk in the cabbage garden. And so
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Speaker 1: they settled in Saturday. Am I to hear more stories?
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Speaker 1: Asked littly Olmar, as soon as Ulilukier had sent him
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Speaker 1: to sleep. We shall have no time this evening, said he,
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Speaker 1: spreading out his prettiest umbrella over the child. Look at
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Speaker 1: these Chinese, and then the whole umbrella appeared like a
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Speaker 1: large china bowl with blue trees and pointed bridges, upon
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Speaker 1: which stood the little Chinamen, nodding their heads. We must
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Speaker 1: make all the world beautiful for to morrow morning, said
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Speaker 1: Uli Lukuir, for it will be a holiday. It is Sunday.
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Speaker 1: I must now go to the church steeple and see
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Speaker 1: if the little sprites who live there have polished the
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Speaker 1: bells so that they may sound sweetly. Then I must
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Speaker 1: go into the fields and see if the wind has
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Speaker 1: blown the dust from the grass and the leaves. And
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Speaker 1: the most difficult task of all which I have to
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Speaker 1: do is to te take down all the stars and
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Speaker 1: brighten them up. I have to number them first before
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Speaker 1: I put them in my apron and also to number
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Speaker 1: the places from which I take them, so that they
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Speaker 1: may go back into the right holes, or else they
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Speaker 1: would not remain. And we should have a number of
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Speaker 1: falling stars for they will all tumble down, and one
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Speaker 1: after the other. Hark ye, mister luk Eyre, said an
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Speaker 1: old portrait which hung on the wall of Almud's bedroom.
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Speaker 1: Do you know me? I am y Almud's great grandfather.
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Speaker 1: I thank you for telling the boys stories, but you
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Speaker 1: must not confuse his ideas. The stars cannot be taken
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Speaker 1: down from the sky and polished. They are swares like
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Speaker 1: our earth, which is a good thing for them. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: old great grandfather, said uleluk Are. I thank you. You
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Speaker 1: may be the head of the family, as no doubt
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Speaker 1: you are, but I am older than you. I am
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Speaker 1: an ancient heathen. The old Romans and Greeks named me
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Speaker 1: the dream god. I have visited the noblest houses, and
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Speaker 1: continue you do so. Still I know how to conduct
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Speaker 1: myself both too high and low. And now you may
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Speaker 1: tell the stories yourself. And so Ula Lukie walked off,
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Speaker 1: taking his umbrella with him. Well, well, one is never
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Speaker 1: to give an opinion. I suppose, grumbled the portrait, and
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Speaker 1: it woke Yelmud some day. Good evening, said Ula luk Ere.
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Speaker 1: The alman nodded and then sprang out her bed and
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Speaker 1: turned his great grandfather's portrait to the wall so that
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Speaker 1: he might not interrupt them as it had done yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Now said he, you must tell me some stories about
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Speaker 1: five green peas that lived in one pod, or of
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Speaker 1: the chick sea that caughted the chickweed, or of the
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Speaker 1: darning needle who acted so proudly because she fancied herself
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Speaker 1: an embroidery needle. You may have too much of a
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Speaker 1: good thing, said ulaluk Ere. You know that I like
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Speaker 1: best to show you something, So I will show you
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Speaker 1: my brother. He is also called Ula luk Ere, but
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Speaker 1: he never visits any one but once, and when he
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Speaker 1: does come, he takes them away on his horse and
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Speaker 1: tells some stories as they ride along. He knows only
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Speaker 1: two stories. One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, and
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Speaker 1: no one in the world can imagine anything at all
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Speaker 1: like it. But the other is just as ugly and frightful,
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Speaker 1: so that it would be impossible to describe it. Then
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Speaker 1: Ula Lukay lifted yelmer up to the window. There now
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Speaker 1: you can see my brother, the other Ula Lukaya. He
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Speaker 1: is also called Death. You perceive he is not so
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Speaker 1: bad as they represent him in picture books. There is
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Speaker 1: a skeleton where now his coat is embroidered with silver,
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Speaker 1: and he wears a splendid uniform of a huzza, and
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Speaker 1: a mantle of black velvet flies behind him over the horse.
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Speaker 1: Look how he galloped along. Y Alma saw that as
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Speaker 1: this ul Lukaya rode on, he lifted up all and
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Speaker 1: young and carried them away on his horse. Some he
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Speaker 1: is seated in front of him, and some behind. But
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Speaker 1: always inquired first, how dands the mark book good? They
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Speaker 1: all answered yes, But let me see for myself, he replied,
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Speaker 1: and they were obliged to give him the books. Then
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Speaker 1: all those who had very good or exceedingly good came
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Speaker 1: in front of the horse and heard the beautiful story,
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Speaker 1: while those who had middling or tolerably good in their
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Speaker 1: books were obliged to sit behind and listened to the
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Speaker 1: frightful tale. They trembled and cried and wanted to jump
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Speaker 1: from the horse, but they could not get free, for
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Speaker 1: they seemed fastened to deceit. Why death is a most
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Speaker 1: splendid Look here, said the Almud. I am not in
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Speaker 1: the least afraid of him. You need have no fare
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Speaker 1: of him, said Uliluk. Here, if you take care and
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Speaker 1: keep a good conduct book. Now I call that very instructive,
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Speaker 1: murmured the great grandfather's portrait. It is useful some time
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Speaker 1: to express an opinion, so he was quite satisfied. These
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Speaker 1: are some of the doings and sayings of uliluk ere. I.
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Speaker 1: Hope he may visit you himself this evening and relate
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Speaker 1: some more. End of Section twenty eighth. Ula Lugea The
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Speaker 1: Dream God. Recording by Christine g in Oslo, Norway, the
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Speaker 1: fifteenth of January two thousand and twelve.