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FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
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“There was no lack of wares
Fairy ‘Tales,
Far and Near
RE-TOLD BY
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WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HOR MIEEAR
CASSELL ann COMPANY, Limirep
LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE
1895
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS.
RAC,
PAGE
THe Turee Roses or WonpEer. : : : 11
Tue Vauianr. Taiton : : : : pee)
Carnation, Wurtz, axp Brack : : : : 62
Heart or Hare 75
Prince Harr uyper rux Barri; or, THe Turn
Sineinc Leaves. : 3 : ; VEOH:
Buvue Brarp . : : : : : : elo:
Tue Bottauns : : e : j : Ay
Tue Goose-Girn. : : : i . Loe
Lirrte Cuicken Ciuck . : : : i el
Truny-Tiny . : ; é : : ; . 183
APPENDIX ; : : : ; : : . 186
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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“There was no lack of wares’ : : . Lrontis.
‘He hurled the javelin with so true an aim as to wound
it severely †.
“His brothers ran off, drapging the three princesses with
themâ€
“The Kine of the Baslos, eprend his Braga wingsâ€
“The princess had flung herself upon his neckâ€
“The young man drew from them three marvelloue Popes?
“So the giant had to carry stem, branches, and tailor
into the bargainâ€
“A bloody battle beganâ€. -
“ Again there stood before him a lady of eee bonuey 7:
“There now stood a most gorgeous palaceâ€â€™ :
“Her complexion was of carnation and brilliant w hite â€
“The old witch crept up to the ue ®
“The knight spurred his horseâ€
“She did nothing all day long but caress and care for nee
children â€â€™
“Drawing close to the Wed, ae let ihe light sine fone n
on him†: ,
“Prince Hatt vanished in cane air’
““* Good-evening, dear mother,’ said sheâ€
“He puffed and swelled himself till he was terete iS see’
“Tt swung to and fro in the wind like a great cucumber â€
“She flung herself at her husband’s feetâ€
“They ran their swords through his bodyâ€
“And dipped a little piggin into the pitcherâ€
“The princess bent over the running waterâ€
“Then a puff came and blew away his hatâ€
“ The poor girl looked up at Falada’s head â€
“She began to sob and lamentâ€
“¢ Ty-hrumph !’â€
“So the teeny-tiny woman n pat tiie fears bone in her
teeny-tiny pocketâ€
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THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER.
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER.
oe
In the garden of a certain king there grew
a wonderful apple-tree, which year by year
bore three glorious golden apples. But as yet
neither the king nor his three sons had ever
tasted one of these apples: for every year, as
soon as they were ripe, a dragon came and
devoured them.
‘How comes it that we can never taste
the golden fruit?†the three princes asked,
one day. The king then told them, how that
a monster came every year on three following
nights and carried the apples off.
‘Tf that is the case,†said the princes, “we
will keep watch under the apple-tree and
prevent him.â€
‘Do so by all means, my sons.â€
So that evening the eldest prince hid
12 LATRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
himself in the garden and waited for the dragon.
As soon as midnight sounded from the palace
clock, a terrible bellowing was heard. It fright-
ened the heart out of the prince, and he took
to his heels, half-dead with terror.
Next day the second prince kept watch.
But he, like his brother, lost heart and ran
away.
The third evening the youngest prince
seated himself at the foot of the apple-tree
and waited for midnight to strike. Not at
all upset by the bellowing and. hissing that
followed, he jumped on his feet, took a good
look at the monster, and hurled his javelin with
so true an aim as to wound it severely. The
monster lay sprawling for a moment, and then
took to flight, uttering the most frightful howls.
Satisfied with his success, the prince with-
drew to his own room and went tranquilly to
sleep.
‘‘Well,†said his brothers, next morning,
‘did you wound the monster ?â€
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 13
‘““No be sure I did; a little more and I
should have killed him. Come and see.â€
He led the way to the garden, and his
“He hurled his javelin with so true an aim as to wound it severely.â€
brothers followed, laughing, for they did
not believe him. But when they came to
the apple-tree they found it true enough.
The ground was dyed crimson, and a long
trail of blood showed which way the wounded
14 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
beast had taken. ‘Let us follow these tracks,â€
said the youth; ‘and we shall find out the
dragon’s den.â€
They followed his advice, and came to a
deep, black well, on the edge of which the
tracks stopped short.
‘“We must search this well,†said the eldest
prince. ‘ Tie a rope round my waist, and let
me down. As long as I call out ‘Cold!’ let
the rope out; but when I say ‘Hot!’ you
must draw me up at once.â€
This was agreed upon, and the eldest
brother began to descend into the hole. But
he had scarcely gone half-way down when he
began to ery ‘‘Hot! hot!†So they drew him
up again.
“Now it’s my turn,†said the second
brother. So they let him down. But he had
hardly gone deeper than his brother before
he was seized with terror and pulled up to
the surface. .
‘Let me go down,†said the youngest ;
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 16
‘and when I call out ‘Cold! cold!’ you can
pull me up.â€
He went down, down, down, till at last he
reached the bottom of the well. But there, to
his surprise, he found himself in wonderful
country, full of woods and meadows and
streams, with a bright light shining over
all. After walking up and down for some
time he came to a magnificent palace, the
doors of which stood open. He entered it,
and passing through many rooms, each more
splendid than the last, at length he came to
one in which sat three maidens as lovely as
angels. |
“ Young sir, what make you hither?†they
asked.
‘‘T am come to seek the monster who lives
hereabouts.â€
“Tt is he who keeps us in prison here.
Have you no fear at all?â€
‘Nothing frightens me,†answered the
prince.
16 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
‘“Then listen. The monster takes his
sleep in the room beyond this. Go and find
him. If his eyes are closed, then he is wide
awake, and it is all up with you: but if his
eyes are open, you may know he is asleep.
Deal him a stroke with your javelin, and you
will wound him mortally. But take care that
you do not strike a second blow; for in that
case he will come to life again and you will
be lost.â€
The prince ran at once to the inner room,
and found the monster stretched out there
asleep, with his eyes wide open and staring.
With a single blow of his javelin he dealt the
beast a mortal wound.
“Oh! oh!†cried the dyimg monster,
‘for pity’s sake give me a second blow and
put me out of my pain.â€
‘Where one is enough, two is too many,â€
answered the prince, and almost immediately
the monster expired. The prince ran off to
tell the good news to the captive princesses.
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 17
“T have two princes—my brothers—with
me,†he said, “and you shall be our brides.
Here are three rings for tokens,†.
He led the maidens to the opening of the
well, and tying the eldest to his rope, he called
up “Cold! cold!†The princes pulled at
the rope, and drew up the princess. Then
our hero made fast the second sister, and she,
too, was drawn up.
‘““Now, beloved,†said he to the youngest,
“it is your turn. ’Tis you shall be my
bride.â€
‘ Blithe will I be, then,†said the maiden,
‘‘for I love you dearly. But I am thinking—
if your brothers should leave you here, under-
ground, what would become of you? ‘Take
these three nuts; in each you will find a robe.
On the first are embroidered the heavens and
their stars; on the second, the earth with its
flowers; on the third, the sea with its fishes.
Keep them; for they may turn out of great
service to you.â€
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18 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
As soon as the two princes set eyes on their
brother’s bride they began to quarrel for her.
‘His brothers ran off, dragging the three princesses with them.â€
All the while the prince at the bottom of the
well was shouting up ‘‘Cold! cold! cold!â€
but his brothers, paying no heed to his cries,
left him there and ran off, dragging the three
princesses with them.
‘THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 19
At last the prince perceived that his
brothers had treacherously abandoned him,
and that there was nobody to help him out
of the pit. He wandered about the country
below, seeking help, and at length came on
an old gardener digging in a flower-bed.
‘‘Good-day, good fellow,†said the prince.
‘“‘Good-day, my lord,†replied the gardener.
‘““T have lost my way in this country of
yours. Can you tell me any means of getting
up to earth again ?â€
“Certainly. You have only to pass through
the plantation yonder. Ina meadow beyond
it you will find two rams—one white as
snow, the other black as pitch. You must
shut your eyes, and run after them. If you
catch the white ram, he will lead you back to
the earth’s surface; but if you are unlucky
enough to catch the black one, you will sink
into another country, much further from the
sun than this.†.
The prince thanked the gardener, and,
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20 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
passing through the plantation, found the two
rams. He shut his eyes, and gave chase; but
unluckily it was the black one that he seized.
In an instant he felt himself sinking, sinking.
When he opened his eyes he was standing
in a green valley, beside a fountain that
trickled gently past his feet. A maiden was
standing close by and weeping.
‘“Who are you, fair maiden?†asked the
prince.
“Alas! noble stranger, have pity on my
fate! This land is ravaged by a terrible
dragon that lives on human flesh and blood.
The fountain here is the only one in all the
country; and the monster only permits the
folk to draw water on the condition that they
sacrifice to him every day a maiden of the
land. Woeis me! To-day my turn has come,
and I am here awaiting the seven-headed
beast who will surely devour me.â€
‘¢ And who is your father?â€
“T am the king’s daughter, and his only
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 2d
child. My father in despair has shut himself
in his palace, and no doubt already believes
me dead.â€
‘Be of good cheer, princess. I have a
stout heart: perhaps I may be able to deliver
you from this dragon.â€
He had scarcely spoke when he heard
horrible hissmg behind the rocks, and the
monster came forth, lifting its seven heads
to devour the maiden. It stopped short for
a moment as it caught sight of our hero, and
the prince seized this moment to let fly a
javelin straight at its heart. A torrent of
flame burst from the seven maws of the beast,
and it yelled horribly. But that was the end
of it. The next mstant it rolled over on its
side and lay dead.
The prince pulled out his dagger, cut out
the dragon’s seven tongues, and wrapped them
up, to bear witness to his exploit. Then a
drowsiness seized him and, stretching him-
self at the foot of a tree, he fell fast asleep.
22 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
He was awakened by a fresh hissing and,
looking up, saw a serpent opening its jaws to
swallow a nest of young eaglets perched on
the topmost branch of the tree. He sprang
“The King of the Eagles spread his broad wings.â€
up, cast his javelin and, killing the serpent as
he had killed the dragon, lay down again to
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sleep.
Soon after the King of the Eagles came
5 oD
flying back to his nest. Catching sight of
ying g sig
aman stretched in sleep, so close to his eyrie,
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 23
le was swooping down on the prince to tear
him in pieces with his beak and talons, when
the eaglets began to cry—
‘Father! father! let him alone, and do
not hurt him!â€
‘““ Why not, my dears?â€
‘A serpent was going to eat us when this
young man killed it with his javelin.â€
Thereupon the King of the Eagles spread
his broad wings over the prince and shielded
him, till he awoke, from the burning rays of
’ said he, when the
the sun. ‘Young man,’
prince’s eyes opened, ‘‘you have saved the
life of my little ones. How can I show my
gratitude ?â€
‘““T do not deserve much gratitude. Any-
one in my place would have killed the
serpent.â€
“Tut-tut; you are a hero, I tell you!
Speak. How shall I repay you?â€
“Well, since you insist, you might carry
me up to the surface of the earth.â€
24 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
‘Alas! I wish I could: but it is so long a
journey that I should die of hunger and thirst
before I got there.â€
‘Could we not take provisions for the
way ?â€
“Yes, but I should want forty sheep and
forty bottles of water. Where can you get
them? Nobody but the king of the country
can furnish you with all these.â€
“As it happens, I have just delivered his
daughter from a monstrous dragon that was
going to devour her. JI am sure he won’t
refuse me anything we need for the journey.
Shall I seek him?â€
“Yes, go: I will wait here for you.â€
The prince walked off to the king’s capital
and asked his way to the palace. The whole
town was full of rejoicing. The news had spread
like lightning that a young hero had killed the
dragon and delivered the princess. Heralds
were sent into every street to proclaim that
the king desired handsomely to reward his
HRA =
“The princess had flung herself upon his neck†(p. 27).
26 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
daughter's deliverer. Already certain knights
had arrived who falsely pretended to have slain
the dragon: and besides these there was a band
of charcoal-burners who had happened to be
working in the forest near the fountain, and,
finding the dead monster, had cut off his seven
heads and brought these with them to prove
their story.
‘“‘ We are the slayers of the dragon,†they
declared. ‘‘ Look at these seven heads if you
doubt us!â€
“No,†shouted the knights, ‘we fought
the beast and left him dead beside the foun-
tain. The reward should be ours.â€
‘One story is as false as the other,†said
the princess. ‘‘My deliverer is a champion
handsome and young. He comes from a foreign
country.â€
At this moment the true deliverer of the
princess entered. the palace-court.
“Your Majesty,†said he, “it is I who
slew the dragon to which you have been
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 27
paying this horrible tribute. For proof of
what I say behold the beast’s seven tongues.â€
But already the princess had flung herself
upon his neck.
“Yes, father: this is he who slew the
dragon. The men are impostors, every one.â€
The king had the false lords and the
charcoal-burners driven forth from the palace,
and, falling on the young prince’s neck, em-
braced him affectionately.
‘“‘Choose,†he said. ‘Which will you have?
my treasures? or the half of my kingdom ?
Or will you marry my daughter and reign
after me?â€
“Your Majesty,†replied our hero, “I, too,
am of royal birth: but my kingdom is far
away. I thank you for your offers: but give
me only forty sheep and forty bottles of water;
that is all I ask.â€
“Tf that’s all, you shall have it with
pleasure,†said the king: and gave orders
that the prince should be supplied with all
28 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
that he asked. The prince returned to the
eagle, and stowed the sheep and the water-
bottles on the bird’s back.
‘“‘Now we’re ready to start,†said the King
of the Birds. ‘When I cry out ‘Crick!’ you
must give me some mutton to eat; and when
I cry ‘Crack!’ it’s water I shall want. If
you don’t keep me supplied, I shall drop back
to this country at once. Do you understand ?â€
“* Perfectly.â€
“Very well, then: climb up, sit astride my
neck, and off we go!â€
The eagle flew up, up, up. ‘ Crick!†said
he, and the prince gave him food; “ Crack!â€
and the prince handed him drink. Up, up, up
they went, and at last all the provisions were
spent. They were close to the great opening
that would let them through to the ecarth’s
surface.
Crick! vomclo 2a Once 5 Cries
said the eagle.
The prince took his dagger, cut a piece
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 29
of flesh off his own leg, and passed it to the
bird.
“This is man’s flesh,†thought the eagle to
himself: and he kept it under his tongue. At
last he set down the prince on the surface of
the earth. ‘Here you are at last,†he said;
‘and now you had better run home.â€
But the prince could not move, his leg
pained him so.
“Run, I tell you!†said the eagle again.
And now the prince had to confess that when
there was no food left he had cut a piece of
flesh from his own leg and given it to his guide.
‘“T knew it, and therefore I have kept it under
my tongue. Here itis.†And, so saying, the
eagle fitted the piece in its place, and the leg
was wellin a moment. Then he took leave of
his friend and flew off.
‘What shall I do now?†the young man
asked himself. After considering for some
time, he set off towards the capital. Arrived
at the town, he sought the king’s tailor: but
30 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
first disguised himself so that the tailor should
not recognise him.
“T am a working tailor, and I should like
employment with you,†said the prince.
‘As it happens, my apprentice is dead.
You can take his place at once,†the tailor
replied. The young man set to work, and
applied himself so steadily to his trade that
the tailor was soon delighted with his bargain.
Meanwhile at the palace the prince’s two
brothers were still disputing for the hand of
the beautiful princess of the enchanted palace.
At last the king decided that she must marry
the elder. |
“T consent,†said the maiden, ‘‘but on
three conditions.â€
“What are they ?â€
“That you make me a present of three
robes. The first robe must represent the sky
with all its stars; the second, the earth with
all its trees and flowers; the third, the sea
with all the fishes that habit it.â€
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 31
For a moment the king was dumbfounded:
but he promised to fulfil the princess’s demand.
He summoned his royal tailor and gave the
order for the three robes. The unhappy tailor
was frightened out of his wits, and asked
himself how he could ever accomplish such a
task. He thought of it all day and dreamed
of it all night. Time passed on, and the
robes were not even begun. The tailor saw
that it was impossible.
His apprentice, seeing his dejected look,
at length asked him the cause of his trouble.
“Alas! the king has ordered me make three
robes upon which he has set his heart. But
with all my art I cannot do what he demands.
Beyond a doubt his Majesty desires my dis-
grace.†And he told his apprentice what was
required of him.
“Ts that all?†cried the sham tailor, laugh-
ing. ‘Why that is child’s play!â€
“Have you lost your wits, young
man ?â€
382 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
“Not a bit of it. You had better let me
make these three robes.â€
‘Come, do you mean to say that you,
a mere ap-
oprenimee,
i pretend to
‘be a more
| skilful work-
‘man than
I? I, your
master—the
king’s tailor
—and the
cleverest
outfitter in
the coun-
* PP
“The young man drew from them three try !
marvellous robes.†bc
I only
mean to say that I can turn out these three
robes for you.â€
“But when? In twenty years, I suppose,
at the shortest ?â€
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 33
‘No; to-night. To-morrow morning they
shall be ready.â€
‘‘ But where will you find the stuff ?â€
“JT want neither stuff, nor thread, nor
needles. I only ask for a bottle of wine and a
plateful of nuts. Shut me up in my room,
and come to me to-morrow morning.â€
“This apprentice of mine wants taking
down,†said the king’s tailor. Still he gave
the prince what he asked and locked him up
in his room. The young man spent the
night in sipping his wine and cracking his
nuts, without troubling himself about the
three robes. As soon as the sky grew light
the tailor knocked at the door.
“Are the robes ready ?†he asked, laugh-
ing.
“ Not yet. Come again when the sun has
risen.â€
As soon as his master was gone the
“young man cracked the three nuts which the
princess had given to him and drew from
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34 PAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
them three marvellous robes representing
the sky, the earth, and the sea.
‘Well, can I come in?†cried the tailor.
“Yes; comein. They are quite ready.â€
The master stood still and rubbed his eyes,
dazzled by the resplendent. robes which his
apprentice held up. The good man asked
himself, “Am I dreaming? Or is this work-
man of mine one of those genii of which I
have heard tell?†He fingered the robes, and,
being convinced at length that they were real,
departed full of joy to present them to the
princess.
“Who was clever enough to make these
lovely robes?†she asked.
†said the tailor, who was an
“‘T will own,
honest fellow, “that I could never have per-
formed such a task. But luckily my apprentice
succeeded alone, and in a single night.â€
““T should be happy to see this clever
workman. Go, seek him and bring him to
me.â€
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER. 35
In a few minutes the apprentice was
brought before the princess. ‘‘So ’t was thou,â€
he cried, “‘ my beloved.â€
“Yes, ’t was I: for I would marry no one
but thee alone,†answered the princess.
“JT. will seek my father and tell him all,
and we will be married.â€
The prince sought his father and told the
story of his brothers’ treachery. The old king
' flew into a terrible passion when he heard, and
~ had a mind to put his two sons to death. But
the youngest interceded and begged that he
would banish them only, which he did.
Next day our prince was married with the
princess of the enchanted castle amid great
festivity: and lived happily to a great age
and had many children.
THE VALIANT TAILOR.
THE VALIANT TAILOR.
OnE summer’s morning Master Snip the tailor,
who was a very little man, sat on his table by
the window in the best of spirits and sewed for
dear life. A market-woman came down the
street, crying ‘“ Good jam to sell! Good jam
to sell!†The sound tickled the tailor’s ears:
he popped his shaky little head out of the win-
dow and called, ‘“‘Up here, my good woman!
Up here, if you want a good customer!†The
woman climbed up the three flights of stairs
with her heavy basket to Master Snip’s room,
and he made her unpack every one of her pots
for him. He pried into all, weighed them in
his hand, put his nose to them, and said at
last, “This jam seems good. Weigh me out
four ounces, my good woman; and even if it’s
_a quarter of a pound I won’t stick at it.†The
40 FAIRY WALES, FAR AND NEAR.
woman, who had looked for a good purchaser,
weighed out what he wanted, but went away
quite angry and grumbling. ‘Now heaven
shall bless this jam to my use,†cried
Master Snip, ‘‘and give me strength and sus-
tenance:†so he fetched a loaf from the
cupboard, cut off a round and spread some
jam over it. “That won't taste amiss,†he
said; ‘but I will finish this waistcoat before I
take a bite.’ He laid the bread beside him,
sewed on, and in the joy of his heart made the
stitches bigger and bigger.
Meanwhile the smell of the jam rose up to
the ceiling, where many clusters of flies were
sitting, and enticed them down in swarms.
“yh? Who invited you?†said Master Snip,
and drove them off. But the flies didn’t under-
stand plain English, and came back again in
bigger swarms. At last the little man lost all
patience, reached out for a duster and, crying
1»
‘Wait a bit, my hearties!†flapped at them
without mercy. When he left off and counted
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 41
the slain, no fewer than seven lay dead before
him, with their legs in the air. ‘Ha! am I
such a desperate fellow as all this?†said he,
and could not help admiring his own bravery.
“The whole town shall hear of it.†And in
great haste he cut out a belt, hemmed it, and
embroidered on it in big letters—
“SEVEN AT A BLOW!â€
“What did I say, the town? The whole
world shall hear of it!†he went on: and his
heart beat for joy like a lamb wagging its
tail.
He girded on his belt, cocked his hat, and
took up his walking-stick, for he thought the
workshop too small for a man of such valour.
But before setting forth into the wide world,
he looked round about the house to see if there
was anything he could take with him. He
found only an old cheese, but that was better
than nothing, so he took it off the shelf: and
just outside the door he discovered a bird that
42 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
had entangled itself in the gooseberry bushes,
so he packed her too into his wallet with the
cheese.
Then off he set boldly, and being light and
nimble he felt no fatigue. He followed the
road till he perceived in the distance a steep
hill, and on the top of it a tower that reached
right up into the clouds. ‘Thunder and
lightning, what’s that?†cried the little man,
and went boldly towards it. But what made
him open his eyes and mouth, when he came
near, was to see that the tower had legs, and
was indeed a giant sitting on the hill and
picking his teeth with a kitchen poker. “* Good-
day, comrade,†said Snip; ‘‘ there you sit and
view the world at your ease, like a gentleman.
I’ve a mind to go and try my luck in that same
world. What do you say to going with me?â€
The giant looked down, turned up his nose,
and, said he, very contemptuously, ‘“ Fly’s
Leg!†“Oh, indeed?†answered Snip, and,
unbuttoning his coat, he showed the giant his
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 43
belt. ‘‘ There, if you want to know what sort
of fellow I am, read for yourself!â€
“Seven at one blow! Good gracious!â€
exclaimed the giant, and began to be more
respectful at once. ‘‘ Very well,†he said,
“well try what you can do.†So he took up
a stone in his hand and squeezed it till some
drops of water ran out. ‘ Do that,†said he,
“if you have a mind to be thought a strong
man.†‘Ts that all?†cried the tailor; “‘ that’s
> so he dived his hand into
child’s play to me:’
his wallet, pulled out the cheese, and squeezed
it till the whey ran out. That’s a better
squeeze than you, eh?†7
The giant, not seeing it was only a cheese,
didn’t know what to say for himself. At last
he picked up a stone and flung it so high that
the eye could hardly follow it. ‘‘ Now then,
my manikin, do that, if you can.†“ H’m,
you throw pretty well,†said Snip, ‘but, after
all, your stone fell to the ground: now I’ll
throw one that shan’t come down at all.†He
44 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
dived his hand into his wallet again, and,
grasping the bird in his hand, flung her up into
the air. Whiz! Whirrrr! Up and up
she went, and flew clean out of sight. ‘ How
does that throw please you, comrade?†‘ You
can certainly throw,†said the giant; ‘‘but let’s
see how you can work.â€
He then led the little man into a wood,
where a fine oak-tree lay felled. ‘‘ Come, help
me to carry this tree out of the wood.†‘Oh,
very well,†said Snip; ‘“‘do you take hold of
the trunk, and I will carry all the top and the
branches, which are decidedly the heavier
part.†So the giant hoisted the trunk on his
shoulder. ‘Further forward, further for-
ward!†called the little man; “you’ll get a
better poise if you move it further forward.â€
The giant obeyed, and at last had the whole
tree balanced on his shoulder. Then Snip,
instead of carrying anything, jumped up and
perched himself at ease among the branches.
So the giant, who couldn’t see what was going
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 45
on behind him, had to carry stem, branches,
and tailor into the bargain. All the way Snip,
behind, was whistling a tune as merrily as you
“So the giant had to carry stem, branches, and tailor into
the bargain.â€
please, as if carrying the tree were mere sport.
The giant, after he had borne it a good way,
paused and groaned ‘‘ Hi, there! I shall have to
let it fall: upon which the little man skipped
(lown and seized the tree as if he were carrying
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46 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
it, saying, “Fancy a big lout like you not
being able to carry a tree like this!â€
On they went together till they came to a
tall cherry-tree. The giant took hold of the
top stem and bent it down to pluck the ripest
fruit. ‘Here, catch hold,†said he; but the
little man was much too weak to hold the tree
down, and up he went with it, dangling in the
air like a scarecrow. ‘‘ Hulloa!†said the giant,
as he tumbled back to earth again; ‘‘what
now? Can’t you hold that twig?†‘ To be
~ sure I could,†said the other; ‘ but don’t you
see that sportsman taking aim at the bush
where you are standing. I took a jump over
the tree to be out of his way, and you had
better do the same, if you can.†The giant
tried to follow, but the tree was much too high
to jump over, and he only stuck fast in the
branches, for the tailor to laugh at him.
“Well, you’re a fine fellow, I must admit,†said
the giant: ‘‘so come home and spend a night
with me and a friend of mine in the mountains,
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 47
and you shall have a hot supper and a good
bed.â€
The tailor had no business upon his hands,
so he consented: and the giant gave him a
good supper and a bed to sleep upon. But
the tailor found the bed too big, and crept off
to a corner of the room instead. When mid-
night came, the giant stepped softly in with his
iron walking-stick and gave the bed such a
blow that he broke it in two. ‘It’s all up
now with that grasshopper; I shall have no
more of his tricks,†he said to himself.
In the morning the giant and his companion
went off to the wood and quite’forgot Snip,
till all on a sudden they met him trudging
along as merry as a grig: and so frightened
were they at the sight that they both ran away
as fast as they could.
Then on went the little tailor, following his
thin little nose, till he came to the courtyard of
a royal palace, and, feeling tired, he stretched
himself on the grass and fell asleep. Whilst he
48 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
lay there the people came and gathered round
him, and stared and read the writing on his
belt. ‘Seven at a blow! Oh dear! what can
this hero of a hundred fights want in our
peaceful land?†And they ran off and told the
king, and said that here was a hero who in
time of war would be worth his weight in gold,
and that his services ought to be secured at any
price—such an opportunity must not be missed.
So the king sent one of his courtiers down to
wait until the little man awoke and then ask
him politely to step up to the palace. ‘The
very thing!†said Master Snip when he heard
the invitation; ‘I shall be pleased to enter
his Majesty’s service and kill his Majesty’s
enemies for him, seven ata blow. Seven at a
BLOW! Lead on!â€
But when he reached the palace he bragged
so outrageously of his mighty deeds that the
king resolved to put him to the proof. “In
?
a distant part of my kingdom,†said he, “in a
thick wood, there live two giants, who are the
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 49
terror of all the country round, for they rob,
burn, and murder without end. Nobody can
go near them without endangering his life:
but if you will meet and overcome these giants
for me you shall marry my only daughter, and
have half of my kingdom into the bargain.
You may take a hundred soldiers, too, to help
you.†‘That’ll suit me very well,†answered
Snip; ‘one isn’t offered a beautiful princess
and half a kingdom every day of the week.
Done with you!—but as for your hundred
horsemen, I believe I shall do just as well
without ’em.â€
Off he set, however, with the hundred
horsemen at his back, and came to the wood.
“Wait here, my friends,†said he, “I’l just
manage these giants myself:†and into the
wood he went, casting his sharp little eyes
here, there, and everywhere around him. After
a while he spied the pair lying under a tree
and snoring away till the very boughs whistled
with the breeze. ‘The game’s mine for a
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50 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
crown!†said the little man, as he filled his
wallet with stones and climbed up the tree
under which they lay.
As soon as he was safely up, he threw one
stone after another at the nearest giant, till at
last he woke up im a rage and shook his com-
panion, crying out, ‘What did you hit me
for?†‘Nonsense, you are dreaming,†said
the other; ‘I didn’t hit you.†They both lay
down to sleep again, and the little man threw
a stone at the second giant that hit him on the
tip of his nose. Up he sprung, crying,
‘What is the meaning of this? You ‘struck
me.†‘JT did not!†“Yes, youdid!†They
wrangled on for a while till, as both were
tired, they made up the matter and fell asleep
again. But then the tailor began his game
once more, and flung the largest stone he had
in his wallet with all his force, and hit the
first giant in the eye. ‘This is too bad,â€
cried he, roaring as if he were mad: “I won’t
stand it!†So he struck the other a mighty
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52 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
blow. He, of course, was not pleased with
this, and returned him a box on the ear, and a
bloody battle began ; up flew the trees by the
roots, the rocks and stones flew banging to and
fro, and in the end both the giants lay dead
on the spot. ‘It’s a mercy,â€
said the tailor,
“that they let my tree stand, or I must have
made a fine jump.â€
Then down he ran, and took his sword and
gave each of them two or three fine thrusts in
the breast, and set off to look for the horse-
men. ‘‘ There lie the giants,†said he; ‘I
have killed them: but it was no small job, for
they even tore up trees in their struggle.â€
‘Weren't you wounded?†asked they.
‘Wounded! They could not touch a hair
of my head!†But the horsemen would not
believe him until they rode into the wood and
found the giants weltering in their blood, and
the trees lying around torn up by the roots.
But when Master Snip demanded his re-
ward the king was not satisfied. ‘“‘ Before
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 53
you obtain my. daughter and half my king-
dom,†said he, ‘‘-you must catch the unicorn
that roams about in my wood and does so
much mischief.†‘That is a trifle,†answered
Snip; ‘I fear one unicorn still less than two
giants. ‘Seven at a blow!’—that is my motto.â€
So he took a rope and an axe, went out into the
wood, and again told the horsemen to remain
outside. This time he had not long to search,
for the unicorn soon came by and, catching
sight of the tailor, dashed straight at him to
spit him on his horn without more ado.
“Softly, softly, my friend,†said Snip; ‘it
can’t be done as quickly as that:†and, stand-
ing still until the beast was quite close, he
suddenly popped behind a tree. The unicorn
ran against the tree with all its force, and stuck
its horn so fast in the trunk that no efforts
could get it loose. ‘“‘Now I’ve caught my
bird,†said the little man, and, stepping from
behind the tree, he put his rope round the
unicorn’s neck, then struck the horn out of
54 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
the tree with his axe, and led the beast off to
the king.
Still the king was not satisfied and made a
third demand. The tailor was to catch a wild
boar for him that made great havoc in the
wood; and he might have the huntsmen to
help. ‘ That, too, is a trifle,†said Snip, “for
a man whose motto is ‘Seven at a blow!’â€
He again left the huntsmen outside the wood,
and went in himself on tip-toe. As soon as
the boar caught sight of him it gave chase,
with foaming mouth and gleaming tusks, and
tried to knock him over: but the sprightly
little man ran into a chapel that stood near,
jumped on to a window-ledge and out of the
window again as quick as thought. The boar
was close at his heels and followed him into
the chapel; but Master Snip darted round
outside and slammed the door upon him and
turned the key. So the raging beast was
caught in a trap, being much too cumbersome
and awkward to jump out of window. Then
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 55
the tailor called the huntsmen to look, and
went off to the king to claim his reward.
This time his Majesty did not dare to
refuse, but called his daughter and said, ‘‘ My
dear, I have chosen this warrior to be your
husband. Will you marry hin?†The prin-
cess was not greatly taken with the little man’s
appearance, and answered, ‘‘ Willingly, on one
condition.†‘Name it,†said Snip, “and let
it be a hard one: for ‘Seven at a blow!’ is my
motto.†‘Below, in the stable is a bear, with
which you must pass the night. If you are
still alive when I geet up to-morrow morning,
I will marry you.â€
Well, of course, she thought that m this
way she would easily get rid of him, for the
bear had never yet let anyone who had come
within reach of his claws go away alive.
Gas Very well,†said the tailor, and smacked
the inscription on his belt; “JT am willing:
who’s afraid ?â€
So, when evening came, Master Snip was
56 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
led out and shut up in the court with the bear,
who rose at once to give him a friendly
welcome with his paw. “Softly, softly my
friend; I know a way to please you!†said
Snip. Then, at his ease, as if he were quite at
home, he pulled some fine walnuts out of his
pocket, cracked them, and munched the ker-
nels. The bear, seeing this, took a great
fancy to have some nuts too; so the tailor
felt in his pocket and gave him a handful, not
of walnuts, but of nice round pebbles. The
bear snapped them up, but could not crack
one of them, do what he would. “ Tut-tut,
I must be very clumsy to-day,†muttered
the beast, and then said aloud to the tailor,
“Friend, I wish you would crack these nuts
for me.†‘Why, what a lout you must be to
have such big jaws and not be able to crack
a little nut! Well, I suppose I must help
you.â€
them for nuts, put them in his mouth, and
So he took the stones and slily changed
crack they went. ‘I must try for myself,
THE VALIANT TAILOR. 57
however,†said the bear; ‘now I see how
you manage, I am sure I can do it myself.â€
So the tailor gave him the pebbles again, and
the bear lay down and worked away as hard as
he could, and bit and bit with all his might, till
he broke all his teeth and lay down quite tired.
But the tailor began to think that this
would not last long; so he pulled out a fiddle
from under his jacket and played him a tune.
As soon as the bear heard it, he could not
help jumping up and beginning to dance;
and when he had jigged away for a while
the thing pleased him so much that he said,
‘‘Hark ye, friend, is the fiddle hard. to play
upon?†‘No, not at all,†said the other;
“look ye, I lay my left hand here—then I
take the bow with my right hand, thus—and
then I scrape it over the strings there—and
away it goes merrily—hop, sa, sa! fa, la, la!
vivalla lera!†‘Will you teach me,†begged
the bear, ‘‘so that I may have music when-
ever I want to dance?†‘ With all my heart,
58 FATRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
if you have a talent that way: but let me look
at your claws; they are terribly long, and I
must first clip your nails a little.â€
Then Bruin lifted his paws one after
another, and the tailor screwed them down
tight and said, ‘‘Now wait till I come with
scissors.†So he left the bear to growl, as loud
and as long’as he liked, and laid himself down on
a heap of straw in the corner and slept like a top.
When the princess heard the bear growling
so fiercely through the night, she felt sure he
must have made an end of the tailor. So in
the morning she arose, careless and happy,
and went down to the stable with her father
and peeped in: and there they saw the tailor
eating his breakfast merrily and Master Bruin
looking very much as if he had had a bad
night’s rest. So the king, when he saw all
this, burst out laughing and could no longer
help keeping his word. And the princess had
to keep hers too.
And thus a little man became a great one.
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK.
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK.
—+o4
One winter’s day the eldest son of a power-
ful king was walking out alone, with bow
and arrows in his hand. The country round
was covered with snow, and on the white
plain ahead of him he saw a raven stalking.
He ran forward and shot an arrow at the
bird, which fell dead, stainmg the snow with
its blood. ‘‘What beautiful colours!†thought
Prince Otto (for that was his name), as he
observed the white snow, the black of the
bird’s plumage and its red blood. Turning
his steps homeward, he went to his own
room, shut himself up, and thought about
these three colours until he fell into a deep
melancholy. The king, his father, and the
courtiers could not guess the reason of his
strange conduct, and Prince Otto hardly liked
62 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
to confess that what he desired was a bride
whose cheeks should be of carnation and
dazzling white and her hair as black as a
raven’s wing. He had never seen such a
maiden; but the image had grown suddenly
in his heart, and he was passionately in love
with it,
He sat at his window, one day, dreaming
of this fanciful love, when he heard a voice
outside which said, ‘‘ Go, prince, to the King-
dom of Marvels, to the biggest forest in the
kingdom, and to the very centre of the biggest
forest: there you will find a tree laden with
apples ruddier and larger than ever you saw.
Pluck three and bring them away with you,
and you shall have the bride you desire. But
beware that you do not open these apples until
you are safe at home.â€
The prince ran to the window and looked
out, but nobody was to be seen. Yet he felt
so certain the voice had really spoken that he
determined to follow its instructions without
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK. 63
delay. The Kingdom of Marvels, as he knew,
lay far away, across seven times seven coun-
tries, and a cock’s crow beyond that; but
nothing could hinder his purpose. He set
out that very night, a little before dawn,
crossed the sea and the seven times seven
countries, reached the Kingdom of Marvels,
found the big forest, and then searched it
thoroughly until he came upon the tree.
He plucked the three apples, and in the
first transport of joy could not resist open-
ing one with his knife.
No sooner was the apple parted in two than
there stepped out of it a lady of ‘marvellous
beauty. Prince Otto, smitten with admiration,
fell on his knees before her. But the lady
frowned: on him and said: ‘‘Why have you
taken me from my home?†And before the
prince could answer, she had vanished into the
air. :
Prince Otto was greatly distressed, but
comforted himself with the thought that he
64 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
had still two apples left. ‘I will not open
them,†he said to himself, ‘until I reach
home.†Burning with impatience, he travelled
“Again there stood before him a lady of extreme beauty.â€
back as fast as he could across the seven times
seven countries and at last came to the sea-
shore, where he took ship for his own land.
But on board ship the prince’s impatience
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK. 64
again proved stronger than his prudence. ‘The
time dragged slowly, he felt exceedingly dull,
and it suddenly struck him that by covering
the vessel’s deck with an awning, and fastening
this awning securely all along the bulwarks,
he might open another apple without fear of
losing its contents. The awning was made
and fastened: the prince took a fruit-knife
and opened the second apple. Again there
stood before him a lady of extreme beauty;
but while Prince Otto stretched out his arms
to her she frowned as her sister had done,
and saying “‘Why have you taken me from
my home?†vanished through the awning,
which seemed to open and close again behind
her.
These two lessons taught the prince wis-
dom. He waited until he reached his own
home before he opened the third apple; and
then there stepped forth and stood before him
a maiden even more lovely than her sisters,
and far more gentle of face. Her complexion
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66 HAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
was of mingled carnation and dazzling white,
and her long tresses shone like the raven’s wing.
Instead of vanishing, she held out her hands
to Prince Otto, who took them joyfully, and
kissed her and had the wedding bells rung on
the spot.
There was only one person in the land who
did not love the new bride, and that was the
Queen Mother; but she made up for it by
hating the Princess Carnation (as she was
called) like poison. The truth is, she wanted
to marry the prince to a niece of her own,
called the Princess Nettle, who was then stay-
ing on a visit at the palace. So one evening,
a few months after the wedding, this wicked
woman invited Prince Otto and his wife to
supper, and while entertaining them handed
a cup to each. But no sooner had their lips
touched the drink than they both fell down on
the floor. Now the drink in the princess’s
cup was deadly poison, and the Queen Mother
ordered her body to be lifted and cast over the
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK. 67
walls into the palace moat: which was done.
But the drink in Prince Otto’s cup was a magic
draught that flung him into a trance for a little
while and robbed him of his memory: so that
when he woke up and his mother led forward
the Princess Nettle, saying “ This is your
bride,†he only smiled and answered .“‘ Much
obliged to you,†and kissed Nettle on the lips,
with never a thought of poor Carnation, who
lay in the moat below. —
But though the prince could not remember,
and though he was contented enough with
Nettle’s behaviour, he was not happy. With-
out knowing what he was longing for, he
would sit for hours together at his window,
looking out in the deepest dejection, which did
not grow less when he told himself that it was
quite without cause.
One day, as he sat thus, he looked down
and saw in the moat below a fish swimming
there whose shining scales were of three
‘colours
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carnation, white, and ‘black. He
68 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
began to watch it, idly at first, but after a
while with such interest that he could hardly
drag himself away from the window. Day
after day he looked out and watched the fish,
which was always plain to see. But one day
he looked and the fish was there no longer.
The fact was, the Queen Mother had given
orders that it should be taken in a net, cooked.
and its bones thrown away. Prince Otto
knew nothing of this: but his melancholy
grew deeper and deeper now that the fish
was gone.
A few weeks after, however, he saw a little
tree growing beneath his window, on the edge
of the moat. The tree was of a kind he had
never seen before, nor could he find that any-
one had planted it there. And by-and-by it
grew amazingly and put forth leaves; and
these leaves were of three colours—carnation,
white, and black. As he watched it, the prince
forgot his dejection and called his wife and
his mother to look. But the old mother was
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK. 69
furious in her heart, and that very night she
gave orders that the tree was to be cut down,
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“There now stood a most gorgeous palace.â€
taken across the moat, and there burnt. She
watched all this being done, and when the tree
was a heap of ashes she went off to bed in
high spirits.
70 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR. -
Prince Otto rose early next morning and
went to the window to take a look at his tree.
But no sooner had he peeped out than he gave
a shout of amazement and pleasure, and began
to rub his eyes. At the sound of his voice
Nettle and her aunt came running from their
rooms and looked out too. The tree had gone,
to be sure. But across the moat, in the place
where its ashes had been sprinkled, there now
stood a most gorgeous palace, all built of
marble in three colours carnation, white, and
black; and on the top of its tower a flag of
these same three colours waved out merrily in
the sun.
The Queen Mother, when she saw this,
could not repress'a bad word; but before it
was out of her mouth Prince Otto was out of
the room. ‘Stop! stop!†she cried: but he
tore down-stairs and across the drawbridge and
towards the enchanted building. As he ap-
proached, the doors opened of their own accord
and closed behind him. He ran from room to
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Her complexion was of carnation
72 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
to room. All were empty, and each was more
magnificent than the last. He passed through
twenty, and was beginning to think that nobody
lived in this charming palace; but when he
came to the threshold of the twenty-first he
stood still, and his heart began to beat quicker
and quicker. For at the end of the room,
on a pile of rich cushions, there sat a lady, who
rose to welcome him. Her complexion was of
carnation and brilliant white, and her hair as
dark and glossy as arvaven’s plumes. At the
sight of her Prince Otto’s enchantment was
snapped, and he knew her.
“ Carnation!†he cried.
And they fell into each other’s arms and
wept and laughed; and I have heard say they
were happy ever after. But nobody has told
me, nor could I ever find out, what became of
Princess Nettle and the Queen Mother.
HEART OF HARE.
HEART OF. HARE.
Once upon a time there stood, on an island
in the Vistula, a great square castle surrounded
by astrong rampart. At each corner was a
tower, and from these many a flag waved in
the wind. A bridge. connected the island with
the river-bank: and on bridge and tower and
rampart a hundred sentinels kept guard and
called to one another with hoarse voices.
In this castle lived a knight, a brave and
famous fighter. Whenever he returned from
victory, great waggons laden with booty
rumbled over the bridge into the castle: the
trumpets along the battlements blew Funfara /
fanfara! and all the people who dwelt along
the river-bank shook in their shoes.
There were deep dungeons beneath the
castle, and in them many prisoners were shut
76 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
up. Every day these prisoners were led out to
work, some to keep the ramparts in repair,
\
“The old witch crept up to the knight.â€
others to dig in the castle garden. Among
them was an old woman who was a sorceress.
She had sworn to be revenged on the knight
HEART OF HARE. 77
for his ill treatment of her, and waited year
after year for her opportunity.
One day, as she was working in the garden,
the knight came walking along and sat him-
self down ona bench. He was tired, for he
had just returned from a toilsome campaign.
So presently his eyes closed, and in a little
while he fell fast asleep.
The old witch, who had been watching hin,
went to a bed of poppies, and, gathering some
poppy-seed in her hand, crept up to the knight.
She scattered the poppy-seed over his eyes to
make him sleep the sounder, and then she took
an aspen branch and struck him on the breast
over his heart. At once his breast opened, so
that you could look in and see his heart as
it lay there and beat. Then the old witch
laughed an evil laugh, stretched out her bony
arm, and with her hooked fingers drew out the
knight’s heart so quietly that he never even
stirred. Next she took a hare’s heart, which
she kept hidden under her cloak, put it into the
78 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
breast, and closed up the opening. _ Creeping
away on tip-toe,.she hid herself behind a clump
of bushes to see the effect of her wicked work.
The knight was not long in finding out the
change the hare’s heart was making in him.
He began to shiver in his sleep and turn un-
easily from side to side: for he, who had never
known fear, was beginning to dream horribly.
He woke with a shudder and sat up. -His fore-
head was damp with sweat, and he felt as if
his armour were crushing him. Over the wall
came the voices of his hounds barking in their
‘kennels. Once he had delighted in the sound,
and dearly he had loved their deep baying as
he followed them through the forest after the
wild boar. But now he quaked from head to
heel, and fled out of the garden for his life.
As he ran up the stairs to his room, the clang
of his armour, the jingle of his silver spurs,
the clatter of his sword, possessed him with
such terror that he tore them off and, flinging
them from him, sank upon his bed.
HEART OF HARE: 79
Fear followed him even in his sleep. Night
after night the challenge of his sentries upon
the ramparts, the barking of his watch-dogs
in the court, kept him shuddering as he lay
on his bed, and he buried his face, like a
frightened child, in the pillow. Night after
night he wept to think he was such a coward,
and paused in the midst of his tears to shudder
and shake at the wind that sang around the
castle-roof or the sound of the river as it
lapped the foundation walls far below.
At length a body of his enemies took heart
and came to besiege him in his castle. The
knight’s soldiers eyed their master, and waited
for him to give the word and lead them forth.
They could not understand why he delayed.
But he—whose heart had uscd to swell at the
sound—when he heard the clash of arms, the
shouts of men, and the tramp of horses’ hoofs,
fled up and up to the topmost chamber of his
castle. From there he looked down upon the
enemy’s force. And when he remembcred his
80 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
deeds in times past, his campaigns and combats
and victories, he fell on his knees and clasped
his hands together, and cried out aloud —
‘‘O God! give me back my courage: give
me the old strength and vigour of heart.
Already my men have taken the field, and I
who used to lead them now peer out upon the
enemy, like a girl, through the highest loop-
hole. Give my old self back to me, and send
me forth a man again.â€
As he prayed he seemed to awake from a
dream. He ran down to his chamber, buckled
on his armour, leapt upon his horse, and rode
out at the castle gate. His soldiers shouted as
he came, and sounded the trumpets. The
knight spurred his horse and dashed forward
with fury. But in his secret heart he was
afraid; and when his men pressed after him
and gallantly engaged the enemy his fear
grew and grew, and he turned and-fled.
‘Even when he was back in his fortress, safe
behind the thick walls, the fear did. not leave
“The knight spurred his horse†(y. 80).
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82 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
him. He tottered down from his horse, ran to
an inner chamber, and there, quite unmanned,
sat down and waited for a shameful death.
But, as it happened, he was safe, for his
men had turned the foe and chased them off _
the field. The guards cheered as they returned
victorious, and the trumpets sounded along the
battlements. But when they came to look for
their chief they found him hiding, half-dead,
in a deep cellar.
The unhappy knight did not live long after
this. During the winter he tried to warm his
limbs by the big fireside of his castle. But
they shivered and shook all the time. When
spring came he would open his window to the
sunshine and fresh air; and one day a swal-
low that had built its nest under the eaves of
the roof came swooping by and brushed the
knight’s face with its wing. As if struck by
lightning, the poor man fell down upon the
ground, and in a short while died.
All his men mourned for their master: for
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they knew that nothing but enchantment could
have changed so good a knight. And about a
year after, when some sorceresses were under-
going the ordeal for keeping off the rain, one
of them confessed that she had stolen the
knight’s heart and put a hare’s heart in its
place. Then they understood why a man who
had once been so bold had become so fearful :
and, dragging the witch to his grave, they
burned her there alive.
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH.
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH:
OR, THE THREE SINGING LEAVES.
Once upon a time there lived a king who
had three daughters, all beautiful as the day,
and so amiable that their like was not to be
found far or near. But the youngest princess
excelled her sisters, not only in beauty, but
in gentleness and goodness of heart. Every-
body loved her, and the king, her father,
was more fondly attached to her than to
either of his other daughters.
It happened, one autumn, that there was
a fair in a town not far from the royal palace,
and the king resolved on going: to it with his
attendants. Before setting out, he summoned
his daughters and asked them what they
would like for fairings; for it was his custom
always to bring them home some. present.
88 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
Said the eldest princess, ‘‘I should like a
necklace of rubies, and slippers of satin, and
a canary in a silver cage.â€
And the second said, ‘I should like a
necklace of emeralds, and some new strings
for my harp, and a little white kitten, so
small that it can curl up and sleep in my
hand.â€
But when it came to the turn of the
youngest she said she wished for nothing.
The king was surprised at this, and asked
her whether she would not like some ornament
or other; but she answered that she had
plenty of gold and jewels. When he con-
tinued, however, to urge her, she said, ‘‘There
is one thing I would gladly have, if only I
dared to ask.â€
‘‘ What may that be?†her father asked.
“Tell me; and if it be in my power, you
shall have it.†-
‘Tt is this,†said the princess; ‘‘I have
heard talk of Tue THREE Srverne Leaves, and
PRINCE HATYT UNDER THE EARTH. 89
them I wish to have before all things in the
world.â€
The king laughed. ‘That is no great
request,†said he; “but since you desire
these leaves, and no greater gift, you shall
have them.†So he kissed his daughter, and
rode away.
When he reached the town where the fair
was held, he found a vast multitude of people,
and many foreign merchants uncording their
bales and displaying their wares in the
streets and market-places. There was no
lack of wares; and he very soon made pur-
chases for his two elder daughters. But
although he went from booth to booth, and
inquired of the traders, both from the east
-and the west, he could learn nothing of the
three singing leaves; but all shook their heads
and shrugged their shoulders. At length the
king was tired out. Evening was drawing
on, and though much disappointed, for he
would gladly have gratified: his best-loved
90 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.’
daughter, he ordered his horse to be saddled,
summoned his attendants, and rode home-
wards in very low spirits.
But a very few miles beyond the town, as
he rode along deep in thought, he suddenly
lifted his head and reined up his horse. By
this time it was twilight, and the hedges were
dim on either hand; but over the hedgerow
to his nght sounds were floating, as of harps
and lutes and dulcimers, so. exquisitely sweet
that it seemed to him he had never heard the
like in his whole life. As he listened, the
music grew sweeter and sweeter. He rose
in his stirrups and tried to peer over the
hedge; but it was too dark to see whence
the sounds proceeded. Without hesitating
longer, he rode on to the nearest gate and
entered a spacious green meadow; and here
the concert became louder and clearer the
further he went, till at last he came to a hazel-
bush, on the top of which three golden leaves
were swaying to and fro in the breeze, and as
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they swayed they sang in the most delicious
harmony.
The king was now not a little glad; for
he knew, of course, that these must be the
leaves of which his daughter had spoken. He
was just about to pluck them, when, as he
stretched out his hand, they drew back from
his grasp, and at the same instant a voice cried
out of the hazel-bush—
“ ToucH NOT MY LEAVES!â€
As soon as the king could find his speech,
he asked, ‘Who are you? And will you sell
me your leaves for gold or good words?â€
The voice answered (and this time it
seemed to come from the roots of the bush),
“T am Perce Harr unper tHe Harts, and
neither with bad nor good will you buy my
leaves, but with one promise only.â€
“What is that?†asked the king, eagerly.
“Tt is,†replied the voice, ‘‘that you will
give me the first livmg thing you meet when
you return home to your palace.â€
92 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
The king thought this a singular demand;
but he remembered the promise he had made
to his youngest daughter, and gave his word.
The leaves now no longer shrank back from
his touch, and he easily gathered them, and
went on his way again, full of joy.
We must now run ahead of him and look
into the royal palace, where the three prin-
cesses had been sitting the whole livelong
day, sewing silk on their knees and talking
of the presents their father was to bring home
from the fair. As the sun sank, the youngest
laid down her needle and said, “‘ Let us go
down the hill and along the road and meet
our father on his way.â€
But ‘‘ No,†said her two sisters; ‘the road
is dusty, and will spoil our gold-embroidered
shoes.â€
So they sat and sewed on for a little while
longer: and then the youngest set down her—
needle again and said, ‘‘ It would be pleasant
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 93
to run down the hill and along the road and
meet him.â€
But “No,†said her sisters again; ‘why
should we? The dew is falling and will spoil
our silk-embroidered stockings.â€
A little while yet the youngest stitched on,
and then she laid her needle by the third time.
‘‘Stay you here and sew,†said she, ‘and
I will go alone and meet my father.â€
So she tied on her cloak, and ran down the
hill and along the road: and very soon she
heard the tramp of horses and the noise of
men and the clashing of arms. But above all
these sounds she heard another, and this was
the sweetest song ever listened to by mortal
ears. And, hearing this, she ran faster: for
now she knew it was her father coming and
that he was bringing with him the three sing-
ing leaves. And, coming upon the cavalcade
around a corner of the road, she ran to him
and sprang up to throw her arms about him
and kiss him. ,
94 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
But the king trembled as he stooped in his
saddle towards her: for he remembered his
oath, and now saw that he had promised away
his own child. For a long time he could not
speak, and the princess begged him in vain
to tell her the cause of his sorrow: but at
length he related all that had befallen him on
his journey, and how he had promised the
first living creature he should meet on his re-
turn. And with this he burst into tears, and
the princess, too, wept bitterly, and all the
courtiers wept with them. Never was there
such lamentation.
But there was no help for it, since the king
had given his oath. And the end was that he
returned to the meadow and left his daughter
by the hazel-bush, and rode away broken-
hearted.
A long time the princess stood weeping
by the green hazel-bush, following her father
with her eyes; for the moon had risen by this
time, and the country for miles around was
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 94
clear to see. But when the king and his
cavalcade had passed out of sight, and while
she was still listening to the tramp of their
horses, suddenly the bush against which she
was leaning, opened its green arms gently
and enclosed her, and sank softly with her,
down, down, and under the ground.
Then the princess looked about her, and
was amazed to find herself in a spacious hall,
the roof of which stood on glittering pillars
and was ornamented with gold and silver and
precious stones. Each of these precious stones
was a tiny lamp, and together they gave the
most exquisite soft light, by which she was
able to see all about her. There was not a
living soul in the hall; but a beautiful bed
stood all ready in the corner, with sheets and
coverlet whiter than driven snow: and on this
the princess flung herself when she grew
weary of exploring. The light of the lamps
died out, and presently she fell into a delicious
sleep.
96 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
She had not rested long, when the door
opened and a man entered, who walked
straight to the bed, welcomed her with many
loving words, and said that he was the master
of the place and that his name was Prince
Hatt.
‘Por the present, dearest,†he went on,
‘‘you cannot see me; for I live under a spell
which a wicked Tvoll-wife has cast upon me,
and must not be seen by any living being.
Therefore I can-come to you only by night.
But if you will be faithful to me, her spell
will be broken in time.â€
He then lay down on the bed and slept
by the side of the princess; but rose before
day dawned, and left his young bride. Nor
until the night had fallen again did he revisit
her.
A long time passed thus. The princess sat
in her beautiful chamber, and everything she
wished for she had. If she felt melancholy,
she had only to listen to the three singing
BR ny lla gr
“She did nothing all day long but caregs and care for
her children†(7. 98)
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98 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
leaves and she grew cheerful again. And by-
and-by she gave up feeling melancholy, for
three of the loveliest children were born to her:
first two little sons and then a little daughter.
And now she was perfectly happy, and did
nothing all day long but caress and care for
her children and watch them at their play,
and long for her beloved Prince Hatt.
But one evening it happened that the
prince returned home later than usual. |
‘“‘ Dearest of my heart,†said the princess,
‘“‘where have you been so long? For my
heart has been troubled about you.â€
““T come,â€
he answered, ‘from your
father’s court, and I have news for you. The
king is about to marry again, and if it will
give you pleasure you shall go to the wedding
and take the children with you.â€
The princess was delighted, and thanked
her husband over and over. But he added —
‘“One thing, however, you must promise
me—that you will never tell my secret. But
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if your stepmother takes you by the hand and
wants to lead you into a room to talk with you —
alone, you must refuse. For otherwise evil
will come upon us both.â€
‘No, indeed,†said the princess, “I will
never tell our secret.â€
So next morning she prepared her richest
clothes and ornaments for the wedding. When
all was ready there came forth a gilt coach, in
which she seated herself with her children,
and was whisked over hill and dale, and in
the twinkling of an eye drew up before her
father’s palace. The wedding guests were
already assembled, and the wedding beer was
being drunk amid much mirth and revelry.
You can fancy the joy of all at the princess’s
unexpected arrival. The king rose from his
throne and embraced her with delight, and so
did his bride and both the princesses. All
crowded around her and bade her heartily
welcome.
When the first greetings were over, the king
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100 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
and queen began to ask the princess many
questions, but above all the queen was anxious
to know about Prince Hatt, who he was and
how he behaved to her. The princess an-
swered very sparingly, so that it was easy to
see she spoke on the subject with reluctance:
but the queen’s curiosity only rose the higher.
At length her continued questions vexed the
king. ‘ Wife,†he said, ‘‘ what is all this to
us? It is enough that my daughter is con-
tented and happy.†This silenced her for a
while: but presently she went up slily and
took the princess by the hand and whispered—
‘Come with me, and we can talk alone in
my own chamber.â€
The princess remembered Prince Hatt’s
warning and answered, “‘What we have to say
can be said now as well as any time, and here
as well as anywhere.â€
So the stepmother was baffled. But being
a crafty woman, she waited and watched an
opportunity to take the princess off her guard.
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 101
So a day or two after, as they sat and watched
the princess’s children, who were playing about
the room, she began to speak in praise of
them, how quick they were, and how fortu-
nate it was to have such children, and that
no doubt they took after their father, who
must be a very comely young man.
‘‘That I do not know, for I have never
seen him,†said the princess, all unawares.
The next moment she could have bitten her
tongue out: for the queen clasped her hands
together and almost screamed—
‘You have never seen him? Oh, oh, oh!
I do believe you are married to some ugly,
nasty Troll!â€
Well, the princess was indignant enough ;
but how could she prove that this was untrue?
The stepmother then went on to exclaim and
inveigh so bitterly against Prince Hatt for
deceiving his wife that at length the whole
story came out. .
‘“‘T must say,†said the quéen, ‘that you
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haven’t much spirit. Depend upon it, your hus-
band is a Troll. But I will teach you a way to
find out. Take this box: it contains a ring, a
flint and steel, and a taper. If you wish to see
your husband as he really is, you must rise in
the night, strike fire through the ring and light
the taper. Only be careful not to wake him.â€
The princess thanked her for the gift, and
promised to follow her instructions. When the
wedding-feast was over the princess began to
long for home. Instantly the gilt coach came
forth and, seating herself in it with her chil-
dren, she was whisked over hill and dale, and
in a few seconds arrived at the green bush.
There she alighted and descended to her
underground chamber; and the three singing
leaves played so sweetly that it seemed to her
far more pleasant beneath the earth than in the
king’s court. Nevertheless, her heart was ill
at ease...
When it grew late and dark the prince
returned as usual, and great was the joy of
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 103
their meeting: ‘“ For,†said Prince Hatt, ‘‘my
thoughts have been with you night and day.â€
But the princess lay long awake that night,
and when she heard that her husband was
asleep she got up, struck fire through the ring,
lit the taper and, drawing close to the bed,
let the light shine down on him. And lo!
there lay the handsomest young man that eyes
had seen, so that only to look at him was to
forget everything in the world besides; and
she loved him so much that she must kiss him
or die. So she kissed him; but as she stooped
a hot drop fell from the taper on his shirt, and
he opened his eyes.
‘“ Best beloved,†he said, ‘‘this is an evil
thing thou hast done.â€
And as he spoke the three singing leaves
were silent, the beautiful chamber shook, and
was changed into a cavern of serpents and
toads, and the prince and princess, with their
children, stood there in darkness. But Prince
Hatt was—blind.
104 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
The princess fell on her knees, and with
bitter tears implored his forgiveness. The
prince answered, ‘‘I forgive thee; but choose
““Drawing close to the bed, she let the light shine down on him.’{
now. Wilt thou follow thy blind husband, or
turn and go back to thy father’s house?â€
At these words the princess wept more
bitterly, so that her tears trickled down on
the earth. ‘Now I know thou hast not for-
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given me from the heart, to ask this question:
for I will follow thee so long as I live on
earth.â€
Then she took the prince by the hand, and
they forsook their home under the green
bush, and walked forward through the wild
forest. After wandering a long way they
came to a green pathway, and here the prince
stopped.
‘‘ Best beloved, dost thou see anything ? for
I am blind.â€
“T see only the forest with its green trees,â€
said she.
“ Look again.â€
“Yes, now I see a great palace, the roof of
which shines like gold.â€
“That is my sister’s house. Go in and
greet her from me, and pray her to receive
our little children, and rear them till they are
grown up. She will do what I ask. But
suffer her not to come out to me, for then we
must be parted for ever.â€
106 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
The princess did as she was told, though
with a very heavy heart. She met with the
kindest reception from the prince’s sister, and
was about to return; but when she came to
part from her children her heart was. ready
to burst with grief, and she forgot the prince’s
warning and everything besides. She let her
sister-in-law walk back with her without a
word to hinder; and the sister flung herself
upon Prince Hatt’s neck, and wept to find him
blind. But Prince Hatt went pale as death,
and turned his face towards his wife.
“ Best beloved,†said he, ‘‘ this, again, is an
evil thing thou hast done.â€
At the same moment a cloud swept down
from the sky, and Prince Hatt vanished in
the air as a bird flies.
A long time the princess and her sister-in-
law mingled their tears and would not be
comforted. When their eyes were weary of
weeping, the prince’s sister said, ‘‘Come into
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my house and live with me, and we will
mourn all our days for him who is lost.â€
“No,†said the prin-
cess, “I will not come
with you; and I will not
cease from seeking him,
even should I wander over
all the wide world.â€
“JT cannot give you
any advice,†said the
other, ‘“‘except that you
go to the tall mountain
you see beyond the forest.
There dwells an old Troll-
wife, named Old Bertha,
who is very wise; and
perhaps she can tell you
how to find Prince Hatt.â€
So they parted, and
the princess went forward on her way,
and walked for many days, until she came
to the mountain. Half-way up the mountain-
108 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
side was a big cave, the entrance of which
stood open; and within the princess saw a
company of little Trolls, gathered round
a fire, and in the midst of them an old
woman spinning with a golden spinning-
wheel. She was very ugly, and her nose
and chin almost touched, and the princess
guessed at once that this must be Old
Bertha. So she entered the cave and greeted
her.
‘“‘Good-evening, dear mother!â€
At this all the small Trolls sprang up in
surprise to see a Christian woman. But Old
Bertha answered, ‘‘Good-evening. Who are
you that come and greet me so kindly? I
have now sat here for five hundred years,
but no one before has ever called me ‘ dear
mother.’â€
The princess then told her errand, and
asked the old dame if she knew anything
concerning Prince Hatt. ‘ No,†was the
answer, ‘I do not; but because you called
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me ‘dear mother’ you shall sleep the night
here, and to-morrow one of my little Trolls
shall lead you to a sister of mine, who is twice
as old as I am, and may be able to give you
some information.â€
So the princess slept that night in the
cavern, and set out early next day, with the
little Troll to guide her. But as she was
starting Old Bertha said, ‘‘ Good luck go
with you; and since you called me ‘dear
mother,’ I pray you accept this spinning-
wheel. As long as you possess it, want shall
never come nigh you, for it alone spins as
much yarn as nine others.â€
The princess thanked her, and went her
way over hills and valleys, stocks and stones;
and late in the evening her guide brought her
to a high mountain, on the top of which there
glimmered a light like a little star. ‘ There,â€
said the Troll; ‘‘ yonder lies your way, and
it’s now time for me to be getting home.â€
Saying this, he left her; but -the princess
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climbed over stock and stone till she found
herself high up on’ the mountain, before a
cave, the door of which stood open, so that the
light of the fire inside shone red through the
darkness. Around this fire sat a company of
Trolls, and among them a very, very old crone,
winding yarn on a golden reel. She was very
ugly, and her head shook to and fro, and the
princess guessed at once that this must be
Old Bertha’s sister.
‘‘Good-evening, dear mother,†said she.
The crone looked up, and said, ‘“‘ Good-
evening. Who are you that greet me so
kindly? I have sat here for a thousand years,
but no one before has called me ‘dear
mother.†The princess told her, but the
crone shook her head. ‘JI have no tidings
of Prince Hatt,†she said, but my elder sister
may give you some; for she’s twice as old as
I.†So the princess remained in the cave that
night, and when morning dawned there was a
little Troll in readiness to show her the way.
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At parting the old woman said, ‘‘ Good luck
go with you; and because you called me ‘ dear
mother,’ I pray you to accept this golden reel.
While you possess it, want will never come
nigh you, for it will of itself wind all the yarn
that your wheel can spin.â€
The princess thanked her, and travelled on
a wearisome way that day, and at nightfall
reached the foot of a high mountain, at the
top of which a great light shone. Thereupon
the little Troll who accompanied her, said,
‘Tt is time for me to return. My aunt’s sister
dwells up yonder; you can find the way
alone.†He then ran off; but the princess
went on and on, over stock and stone, till she
reached a cave, the entrance of which stood
open, so that the firelight streamed out
through the coal-black darkness. On enter-
ing, she found a company of Trolls, and a
very, very aged woman, who was counting
gold into a long purse; her nose had grown
almost into her chin, and her head nodded
112 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
backwards and forwards till it seemed about
to tumble off.
‘“‘Good-evening, dear mother,†said the
princess.
‘“‘Good-evening. Who are you that greet
“*Good-evening, dear mother,’ said she.â€
me so kindly? I have sat here for two thou-
sand years, but no one before has called me
‘dear mother.’ â€
Then the princess told her name and all
her trouble.
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‘““T have heard of Prince Hatt,†said the
crone. “He dwells now in a castle east of the
Sun and west of the Moon, and you will be
a long time getting to it, if ever you get to
it at all. A Troll-queen has enchanted him,
and means to marry him to her daughter,
who has a nose which is three ells long;
and so deep is his enchantment that he
has forgotten all about you and everything
else.â€
The princess would have asked more ques-
tions, but the old crone added, ‘Stay here
to-night. We will talk of the matter im the
morning.â€
When the day began to break, the princess
arose from sleep, and saw the old woman stand-
ing beside her. ‘I have been considering,â€
she said, ‘‘and the best thing for you is to go
to the Cave of the Four Winds; perhaps one
of them has seen the castle on his travels, and
may be able to blow you thither. You must
follow the sun, and that will bring you to the
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cave; and since you called me ‘dear mother,’
I pray you to accept this purse. While you
have it, want cannot come nigh you; for,
however much you take out, this purse is
always full of silver money.â€
So the princess thanked her, and followed
the sun for many weary days: and at last
came to a deep cavern, at the entrance of
which sat the East Wind and whistled be-
tween his fingers.
‘“ Kast Wind,†said she, “‘can you tell me
the way to Prince Hatt, who is shut up in a
castle east of the Sun and west of the Moon ?â€
““T have heard of the prince,†said he,
‘and of the castle; but I have never seen
them, for I have never blown so far.â€
Then he whistled more loudly between his
fingers, and his two brothers, the South Wind
and the West Wind, came running out of the
cave. |
“Does either of you,†said he, ‘ know
how to find Prince Hatt, who is shut up in
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH, 118
a castle east of the Sun and west of the
Moon ?â€
But the South Wind and the West Wind
shook their heads. ‘‘We have heard tell of
the prince and of the castle, but we have not
seen either. We are pretty stout, to be sure,
but we have never blown so far as that.
Better wait till our brother, the North Wind,
comes home. He is the oldest and strongest
of us all; and if he does not know, nobody
can tell you.â€
So they waited at the mouth of the cave;
and after a while there came a roar and an
icy blast, and the terrible North Wind stood
before them and shook the icicles from his
hair. ;
“Hullo! What do you want?†he bellowed,
and the princess rose as she heard.
‘This is she,†answered the Kast Wind,
“that should have Prince Hatt, who is shut
up in a castle east of the Sun and west of
the Moon: and she wishes to ‘ask you if
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116 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
you have ever been there, and can tell her
the way.â€
“Yes,†said the North Wind, “I know
where it is. I once blew an aspen leaf there,
but I was so tired that I could not blow at all
for many days after. However, if you are not
afraid, I will take you on my back and try
if I can carry you there.â€
‘“‘T have no fear,†said the princess.
“Very well,†said the North Wind; “but
you must sleep here to-night: for I must
collect my strength, and we shall want a
whole long day for the journey.â€
So the princess slept that night in the Cave
of the Winds; and just before dawn the North
Wind came and woke her. He puffed and
swelled himself till he was terrible to see,
and off they went, swooping across earth and
sea as if they never would stop. The air sang
in the princess’s ears, and her golden locks
streamed out behind her, and when she looked
down she saw the trees bending and snapping,
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 117
far below, and the roofs torn from the houses,
and the ships on the sea wrecked by scores;
and now and again the North Wind clapped
“Ee puffed and swelled himself till he was terrible to see.â€
his hands, and at each clap there fell a white
shower of snow on the mountain-tops. They
raced on and on, hour after hour; and now
there was no land in sight, and the North
Wind grew tired, and more tired, and then
utterly weary. Down he sank,’ lower and_
118 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
lower, as his breath came thick and_ short;
and at last they were so close to the sea
that its waves dashed over the poor prin-
cess’s feet. “ Art thou afraid?†asked the
North Wind.
‘‘T have no fear,†the princess answered ;
for she thought only of reaching her dear
husband. But now they were nearing land
again, and the North Wind had just strength
to throw her on the shore above the breakers
and under the windows of a tall castle that
stood facing the sea. So weary was he that
he had to rest for many days before he
recovered strength enough to return.
But when the princess had rested she
walked up the beach towards the castle, and
the first person she met was the maiden with
the long nose who was to have Prince Hatt.
‘“Who are you,†asked the Troll’s daughter,
‘and where do you come from?†The prin-
cess replied, “I am only a poor stranger
seeking service.†‘ What can you do?†“J
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 119
can spin,†said the princess, and she seated
herself before her golden spinning-wheel and
began. The eyes of the long-nosed girl began
to open very wide indeed; and by-and-by
she called her mother out, and together they
watched the wonderful wheel as it flew round
and round. ‘How much do you want for
that wheel?†the Troll asked. ‘‘ Gold nor
money can buy: it, but one thing only,†said
the princess. ‘And what is that?†asked the
old Troll-queen.
“Well,†the princess answered, “if I may
go to the prince who is here, and speak with
him alone to-night, you shall have the wheel.â€
“You may do that,†said the Troll-queen after
whispering to her daughter. So the princess
gave up her spinning-wheel. But when she
entered Prince Hatt’s room that night and fell
on his neck and sobbed with joy, alas! the
prince neither woke nor stirred: for the Troll-
queen had mixed a sleeping-potion with his
wine, and he was dead-asleep. All the long
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night the princess called
to him and shook him ;
and at times she begged
his forgiveness and wept
so that it might have
melted a stone to pity.
But he never heard.
And at dawn the long-
nosed girl came and
drove her out.
For a long while the
princess sat on the
beach and mourned, but
towards evening she
took her golden reel
and sat down under the
windows of the castle
and began to wind the
yarn she had spun
yesterday. After a time
two of the windows opened above her and out
popped the heads of the Troll-queen and her
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 121
daughter, though the daughter had much ado
to get her nose out, and when it was out it
swung to and fro in the wind like a great
cucumber. ‘What will you take for that
reel?†they asked. The princess answered
as before that neither gold nor money could
buy it, but that if she could get leave to
pass another night with the prince they
should have it. And so it was agreed.
But again, when she went up to Prince
Hatt’s room, he was asleep, and for all her
entreaties and all her tears he would not
wake. When daylight came the long-nosed
girl entered as before and drove her out.
The third day the princess went up to
the castle and boldly knocked, and when
the Troll-queen came out showed her the
purse that was always full of silver moncy.
“This also you shall have,†said she, “if
I may spend a third night in the prince’s
room.†‘Well, I have no objection to that,’
said the Troll-queen.
122 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
But it happened that, besides Prince Hatt,
there were many Christian folk shut up in
this castle by the spells of the old Troll:
and these prisoners slept in the chamber
which lay next to that of the prince, and
had heard a woman weeping and calling
two nights running; and they told Prince
Hatt. ‘Why, that is what I have been
1†said he. So that
evening, when the Troll-queen handed him
dreaming about, too
his cup of wine, he only pretended to
drink and cast the liquor over his shoulder.
Then, throwing himself back, he appeared to
sink into a deep sleep.
When, therefore, the princess was alone
that night with her beloved, and fell on his
neck and called him by name, he heard her.
But at first it bewildered him, and he had no
clear memory of her. ‘Then she wrung her
hands and besought his forgiveness for the
injuries she had done him, and recounted all
the story of their former love and all the
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE HEARTH. 128
miseries through which she had sought him
over the wide world. And as she spoke
Prince Hatt’s memory came back, and he
knew her and drew her to him: and now
there was gladness where before had been
weeping and sorrow, and they thought little
of their afflictions in the joy of each other’s
company. But when day drew near it was
time to consult how they might outwit the
old Troll and her daughter: ‘For I will
never marry her,†said Prince Hatt, ‘and
bis you alone can help me. The wedding
is fixed a few days hence, and I will say
I want to see what my bride can do, and
will bid her wash the shirt on which the
drop of tallow fell. She will consent to this,
for she does not know that it was you that
let it fall: but nobody can wash it out
who is not born of Christian folk. So
she will scrub and scrub, and do no good:
and I will declare that nobody shall be my
bride but the woman who can. do this, and
124 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
I know that you can.†So it was agreed
on, and when the long-nosed girl came in
as usual to drive the princess out, Prince
Hatt pretended to be fast asleep.
But now there was great bustle and tumult
in the castle as the wedding-day drew near,
and a vast multitude of Trolls were invited
from far and wide to the feastings. ‘“ But I
cannot marry a wife,†said Prince Hatt, when
all were assembled, ‘until I have seen what
she can do.†‘That is fair enough,†every-
body agreed. “Well,†said he, “I have a
fine shirt that I want to wear as my wedding-
shirt, but somebody has spilt tallow upon it.
I will marry the woman who can wash my
shirt clean. Ifa woman cannot do that, she is
not worth having.â€
Well, this did not seem much of a stipu-
lation; so it was agreed to. The Troll’s
daughter with the long nose stepped up
full of confidence to the washing-tub and
began to wash; but the harder she rubbed
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 125
the larger and dirtier grew the spot of
tallow. ‘*Ah! I see I shall have to marry
the prince myself,†cried the mother. “ Give
the shirt to me: you can’t wash at all.â€
But she had no better luck. Indeed, the
shirt began to look dirtier and dirtier, and
for all her labour the spot grew larger and
larger. So all the other Trolls had to come
and help, and a pretty mess they made
of it. Before long they were gnashing their
teeth and hopping about with rage. The
prince began to laugh. ‘‘ Why,†said he,
“there’s not one of you that’s any good
at all! Ill be bound that poor beggar: girl
I see yonder, outside the window, can wash
better than all of you put together. Come
in, you beggar girl!†he cried. So im she
came. ‘Can you wash this shirt white?â€
he asked. “It’s dirty enough, to be sure,â€
said she; “but I can try.†And with
that she dipped it into the water, and lo
and behold! it was whiter .than driven
126 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
snow. “ That’s the wife for me,†said
Prince Hatt.
Then the old Troll-queen flew into such
a rage that she burst; and whether the long-
nosed daughter and the other Trolls burst too:
or whether Prince Hatt soused them head over
heels into the hot water (which is an excellent
treatment for Trolls), I don’t know. But I do
know that they have never been heard of
since; and that Prince Hatt and his dear wife
set free all the Christian folk imprisoned in the
castle, and took the golden spmning- wheel and
the golden reel and the purse, and set their
faces towards home. And after long journey-
ing they came to a magnificent castle that lay
glittering in the sunshine. In the courtyard
of the castle there stood a green bush, from
which, as they drew near, they heard the
sweetest music issuing, as of harps mingled
with the song of birds. Glad was the princess,
for she recognised the three singing leaves ;
but you may believe that her joy was greater
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH. 127
far when a door opened and out walked her
three children with Prince Hatt’s sister and
welcomed them. Thus the prince and prin-
cess, after many sorrows, received the reward
of true love, and were happy ever after.
And so is the story told.
BLUE BEARD.
BLUE BEARD.
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THERE was once a man who had fine houses,
in town and country, much silver and gold
plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches
gilded all over with gold. But unluckily
this man had a blue beard, which made him
so frightfully ugly that all the women and
girls ran away at the sight of him.
One of his neighbours, a lady of quality,
had two daughters of the rarest beauty. He
went to her and asked for one of them in
marriage, leaving her to choose which of the
two she would bestow on him. They would
neither of them have him, but sent him to
and fro from one to the other, not being able
to make up their minds to marry a man who
had ablue beard. And what increased their
disgust, too, was that he had already married
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132 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
several wives, and nobody knew what had be-
come of them.
Blue Beard, to make their acquaintance
thoroughly, invited them, with their mother
and three or four of their best friends and
other young people of the neighbourhood, to
one of his country houses. They stayed there
a whole week. There was nothing, all this
time, but parties of pleasure—hunting, fishing,
dancing, revelry, and feasting. Nobody went
to bed, but all passed their nights in joking
and rallying one another. In short, every-
thing succeeded so well that the younger
daughter began to think their host’s beard
not so blue after all, and that he himself
was a mighty pleasant gentleman.
As soon as they returned home the mar-
riage was concluded. A month afterwards
Blue Beard told his wife that he must take a
country journey, and be away six weeks at
least on an important matter of business: and
desired her to divert herself in his absence by
BLUE BEARD. 133
sending for her friends—to carry them into
the country, if she pleased, and to make good
cheer wherever she was.
‘“‘Ffere,†said he, ‘are the keys of the two
great storechambers which hold my best fur-
niture; these are the keys of my gold and
silver plate which is only used on great occa-
sions; these open the coffers where I keep my
money, both gold and silver; these are of my
jewel boxes; and this is the master key to all
my apartments. But this little one, here, is
the key of the closet at the end of the great
gallery on the ground floor. Open them all;
go into all and every one of them except that
little closet. Into that I forbid you to go;
and I forbid it so strongly that if you should
happen to open it, there is nothing you may
not expect from my wrath.â€
She promised to obey all his orders exactly:
and he, after embracing her, got into his coach
and was driven off.
Her neighbours and dear friends hardly
134 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
waited to be invited by the bride, so impatient
were they to see all the riches of the house,
having never dared to come whilst. her hus-
band was at home, because of his blue beard,
which terrified them. They ran at once
through all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes,
each of which seemed richer than the last.
They went up-stairs to the. two great store
chambers, and could not sufficiently admire the
number and beauty of the tapestries, beds,
couches, cabinets, stands, tables, and looking-
glasses in which you could see yourself from
head to foot, with their frames of glass and
silver and silver-gilt, the finest and most
magnificent ever seen. They ceased not to
extol and envy their friend’s good fortune.
She, meanwhile, was not in the least amused
by the sight of all these rich things, because of
the impatience she felt to go and open the closet
down-stairs. So pressed was she with curiosity
that, without considering that it was uncivil to
leave her guests, she ran down a little back
BLUE BEARD, 135
staircase, and in such haste that two or three
times she was nearly breaking her neck.
When she reached the closet door she
paused for a minute or so, thinking upon her
husband’s command and considering what un-
happiness might follow if she disobeyed it.
But the temptation was too strong for her
to overcome. She took the little key and,
trembling, opened the door.
At first she could see nothing, because the
windows were shut. But after a moment or
two she began to perceive that the floor was all
covered with clotted blood, in which lay the
bodies of several dead women ranged along
the walls. And these were all the wives whom
Blue Beard had married and murdered, one
after another.
She thought she should have died of fear,
and the key, which she had pulled out of the
lock, fell from her hand. When she had
regained her senses a little, she picked up the
key, locked the door again, and went up-stairs
136 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
to her own room to recover herself, but she
could not; the shock was too great. She now _
found that the key of the closet was stained
with blood, and tried two or three times to wipe
it: but the blood would not come off. In vain
did she wash it, and even scrub it with soap and
sand: the blood still remained, for it was a
magic key, and there was no way of making it
quite clean; as fast as the blood was gone off
one side it came again on the other.
That very evening Blue Beard returned
from his journey, saying he had received
letters upon the road which told him that the
business he went about was settled, and to his
advantage. His wife did all she could to
make him believe she was delighted at his
speedy return. Next morning he asked her
for the keys, which she gave him, but with
such a trembling hand that he easily guessed
what had happened.
“How is this?†said he. ‘Why is not the
key of my closet among the rest ?â€
BLUE BEARD. 137
‘“‘T must have left it up-stairs on my table,â€
said she.
‘‘ Fetch it to me at once,†said Blue Beard.
‘“* At once, and without fail.â€
After going backwards and forwards several
times she was forced to bring the key. Blue
Beard examined it closely, and said to his
wife—
‘“‘ How comes this blood upon the key ?â€
“T do not know,†answered the poor
woman, paler than death.
“You do not know!†cried Blue Beard.
‘“‘ But I know well enough. You have chosen
to enter that closet. Mighty well, madam:
you shall go in, and take your place among
the ladies you saw there!â€
She flung herself at her husband’s feet, and
wept and begged his pardon with all the signs
of true repentance for her disobedience. She
would have melted a rock, so beautiful and
sorrowful she was: but Blue Beard had a heart
harder than any rock.
138 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
“You must die, madam,†said he, ‘‘ and
that presently.â€
‘‘Since I must die,†she answered, look-
ing at him with
her eyes all
bathed in tears,
“oive mea little
time to say my
prayers.â€
“‘T will give
you,†replied
Blue Beard,
‘‘half a quarter
of an hour, and
not a second
more.â€
When she
was alone, she called her sister and said:
“She flung herself at her husband's feet.â€
‘“‘ Dear sister Anne†(for that was her name),
“go up, I pray you, upon the top of the
tower and look if my brothers are not coming.
They promised to come and see me to-day, and
BLUE BEARD. 139
if you see them give them a signal to make
haste.â€
Her sister Anne went up upon the roof of
the tower; and from time to time the unhappy
lady cried out to her—
““ Anne, sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?â€
And sister Anne answered her—
‘““T see nothing but the noon dust a-blowing
and the green grass a-growing.â€
Meanwhile Blue Beard, with a great sabre
in his hand, was shouting to bis wife as loud as
he could bawl—
‘“Come down quickly, or I will come up to
you!â€
‘“A moment—give me a moment longer,â€
she answered, and called softly to her sister,
‘ Anne, sister Anne, do you see anyone coming ?â€
And sister Anne answered—
“ T see nothing but the noon dust a-blowing and
the green grass a-growing.â€
‘Come down quickly,†shouted Blue Beard,
‘or I will come up to you!â€
140 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
“JT am coming,†answered his wife; and
then she cried, ‘‘ Anne, sister Anne, do you not see
anyone coming ?â€
‘“‘T see,†answered sister Anne, ‘‘ yonder a
great cloud of dust coming.â€
“ Are they my brothers?â€
“Alas! no, sister: ‘‘I see a flock of
sheep.â€
“Will you not come down ?†shouted Blue
Beard.
‘‘ Just a moment longer,†said his wife, and
then cried out, ‘ Anne, sister Anne, do you see
nobody coming 2?â€
“T see,†she answered, “ yonder two
knights a-riding: but they are yet a great
way off. God be praised,†she cried, a moment
after, ‘they are our brothers! I am making
signs to them, as well as I can, to hasten.â€
Then Blue Beard bawled out so loud that
he made the whole house tremble. The poor
lady came down and threw herself at his feet,
all in tears, with her hair about her shoulders.
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142 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
“This shall not help you,†says Blue
Beard; “you must die!†Then taking hold
of her hair with one hand, and swinging up his
sabre with the other, he was going to chop off
her head. The poor lady turned about to him
and, looking at him with dying eyes, entreated
him to grant her just a moment more to fix her
thoughts on devotion.
‘No, no,†said he; ‘‘recommend thyself to
God:†and lifted his arm to strike.
At that very instant there came so loud a
knocking at the gate that Blue Beard made a
sudden stop. The gate opened and two horse-
men ran in, who drew their swords and rushed
upon Blue Beard. He saw at once they were
his wife’s brothers—one a dragoon, the other a
musketeer, and ran away to save himself: but
the two brothers pursued so close that they
overtook him before he could get to the steps
of the porch, and ran their swords through his
body and left him dead. The poor wife was
almost as dead. as her husband, and had not
BLUE BEARD. 143
strength enough to rise and give her brothers
welcome.
Blue Beard had no heirs, and so his wife
became mistress of all his estate. She made use
of one part of it to marry her sister to a young
gentleman who had loved her a long while:
another part to buy captain’s commissions for
her two brothers: and the rest to marry her
self to a very worthy gentleman who made
her forget the il time she had passed with
Blue Beard.
THE BOLIAUNS.
THE BOLIAUNS.
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Tom Frrzpatrick was the eldest son of a
comfortable farmer who lived nigh-hand to
Morristown-Lattin, not far from the Liffey.
One fine day in harvest—it was a holiday—
Tom was taking a ramble through the land,
and went sauntering along the sunny side of
the hedge and thinking to himself; when all
of a sudden he heard a clacking sort of a noise
in the hedge, a little way in front. ‘Dear
me,†said Tom, ‘but isn’t it now really sur-
prising to hear the stone-chatters singing so
late in the season?†So Tom stole on, going
on the tops of his toes, to try if he could get
sight of what was making the noise, to see if
he was right in his guess. The noise stopped ;
but, as Tom looked sharp through the bushes,
what did he see in a nick of the hedge but a
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148 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
brown pitcher, that might hold about a gallon
and a half of liquor; and by-and-by he spied
a little wee teeny-tiny bit of an old man, with
a little scrap of a cocked-hat stuck upon the
top of his head, a deeshy daushy leathern
apron hanging before him, who pulled out a
little wooden stool and stood up upon it and
dipped a little piggin into the pitcher, and
took out the full of it, and put it beside the
stool, and began to work at putting a heel-
piece on a bit of a brogue just fit for
himself.
“Well, by the powers,†said Tom to
_ himself, “I often heard tell of the Lep-
recauns, and, to tell the truth downright, I
never rightly believed in them: but here’s
one in real earnest. If I go knowingly to
work, I’m a made man. They say a body
must never take his eyes off them, or they ’ll
escape.â€
Tom now stole on a little further, with his
eye fixed on the little man just as a cat does
THE BOLIAUNS. 14
with a mouse. So when he got up quite close
to him, ‘God bless your work, honest man,â€
says ‘Tom. 7
The little man raised up his head, and
“Thank you kindly,†says he.
“And dipped a little piggin into the pitcher.’
‘‘T wonder you’d be working on the holi-
day,†says Tom.
‘‘'That’s my own business, not yours,†was
the reply, short enough.
‘Well, may be you’ll be civil enough to
tell us what you’ve got in the pitcher there?â€
said Tom.
150 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
“Ay, that I will with pleasure,†answered
the little man; “it’s good beer.â€
“Beer!†said Tom. “Thunder and turf!
where did you get it ?â€
“Where did I get it, is it? Why, I made
it, to be sure. And what do you think I. made
orp?
“Not a one of me knows,†said Tom: ‘but
of malt, I suppose; what else?â€
“There you’re out, then. I made it of
heath.â€
“Of heath!†said Tom, bursting out
laughing; ‘sure you don’t take me to be
fool enough to believe that!â€
‘Ag you please,†said he, ‘ but what I tell
you is the real truth, Did you never hear tell
of the Danes ?â€
“Well, what about them ?†said Tom.
“Why, all the story about them is, that
when they were here they taught us to make
beer out of the heath, and the secret is in my
family ever since.â€
THE BOLIA UNS. 161
‘Will you give a body a taste of your
beer to try?†said Tom..
“Tl tell you what it is, young man: it
would be better for you to be looking after
your father’s property than to be bothering
decent people with your foolish questions.
There now, while you’re idling away your
time here, there’s the cows have broke into
the oats and are knocking the corn all
about.â€
Tom was taken so by surprise with this,
that he was just on the very point of turning
round, when he recollected himself: so, afraid
that the like might happen again, he made a
grab at the Leprecaun, and caught him up in
his hand; but in his hurry he overset the
pitcher and spilled all the beer, so that he
could not get a taste of it to tell what sort it
was. He then swore what he would not do to
him if he did not show where his money was.
Tom looked so wicked and so bloody-minded
that the little man was quite frightened; so
152 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
says he, ‘Come along with me a couple of
fields off, and Il show you a crock of gold.â€
So they went, and Tom held the Leprecaun
fast in his hand, and never took his eyes off
him, though they had to cross hedges and
ditches, and a crooked bit of bog, till at last
they came to a great field all full of boliauns,*
and the Leprecaun pointed to a big boliaun,
and says he, ‘Dig under that boliaun, and
you ’Il get a crockful of golden guineas.â€
Tom, in his hurry, hadn’t remembered to
bring a spade with him, so he thought to run
home and fetch one: and that he might know
the place again he took off one of his red
garters, and tied it round the boliaun.
“Swear you won’t take that garter off
from that boliaun,†says he. And the Lepre-
caun took oath he wouldn’t touch it so much
as with his little finger.
‘‘T suppose,†said the Leprecaun, very
* Literally, “ Yellow-stick,†the ragwort, which grows to a great
size in Ireland.
THE BOLIAUNS, 153
civilly, “you’ve no further occasion for
me?â€
“No,†says Tom, “you may go away now,
if you like, and God speed you, and may good
luck attend you wherever you go.â€
“Well, good-bye to you, Tom Fitzpatrick,â€
said the Leprecaun; ‘‘and much good may it
do ye, what you’re going to get.â€
So Tom ran for the bare life, till he came
home and got a spade, and then away with
him as hard as he could pelt back to the field
of boliauns. But when he got there, lo and
behold! not a boliaun in the field but had a
red garter, the very model of his own, tied
about it; and as to digging up the whole field,
that was all nonsense, for there were more
than forty good Irish acres im it. So Tom
came home again, with his spade on his
shoulder, a little cooler than he went; and
many’s the hearty curse he gave the Lepre-
caun every time he thought of the neat turn
he served him.
THE GOOSE-GIRL.
THE GOOSE-GIRL.
Tue king of a great land died, and left his
queen to take care of their only child. This
child was a daughter who grew up to be a
most beautiful woman, and was betrothed to a
prince who lived a great way off. When the
time drew near for her to be married and to
depart into a foreign kingdom, her old mother
packed up a great many costly things: jewels
and‘ gold and silver; trinkets and cups and
fine dresses, and, in short, everything that
became a royal bride. And she gave her a
waiting-maid to ride with her and give her
into the bridegroom’s hands; and each had a
horse for the journey. Now the princess’s
horse was called Falada, and could speak.
When the time came for parting, the old
queen-mother went into her bed-chamber and
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took a little knife and cut her finger until it
bled; then she held a white handkerchief
under the cut, and, letting three drops of
blood fall upon it, she gave the handkerchief
to her daughter and said, ‘“‘ Take care of it,
dear child ; for it may be useful to you on the
road.†Then they took a sorrowful leave of
each other; and the princess put the handker-
chief into her bosom, mounted her horse, and set
off on her journey to her bridegroom’s kingdom.
After she had ridden for a while the
princess began to feel very thirsty; and,
coming to a brook, she said to her maid,
“Pray get down and fetch me some water
in my golden cup from the stream yonder:
for I long to drink.†“Nay,†said the maid,
‘if you are thirsty, get off yourself and stoop
down by the water and drink; I will not be
your waiting-maid any longer.†So in her
great thirst the princess alighted and knelt
over the little brook and drank; for she was
frightened and dared not drink out of her
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golden cup. As she drank she murmured:
“Ah, Heaven! what am I todo?†And the
three drops of blood answered her and said:
“ Alas! alas! if thy mother knew,
Sure her heart would break in two.
But the princess was very gentle and meek,
so she said nothing about her maid’s ill-be-
haviour, but got upon her horse again.
They rode further on their way, till the day
grew so warm and the sun so scorching that
the bride began to feel very thirsty again.
And as they came to another brook she called
once more to her waiting-maid: ‘ Pray get
down and fetch me some water to drink from
my golden cup:†for she had forgotten the
girl’s rude words. But the waiting-maid
answered her, and even spoke more haughtily
than before: ‘‘Dismount and drink, if you
will: but I will not be your servant.†Then
the princess was compelled by her thirst to get
down, and bent over the running water and
wept and said, ‘Ah, Heaven! what shall I
160 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
do?†And the three drops of blood answered
her again:
* Alas! alas! if thy mother knew,
Sure her heart would break in two
“The princess bent over the running water.â€
And as she
leaned down to
drink, the hand-
kerchief with the
three drops of
blood fell from
her bosom and
floated down the
stream, and she
in her distress
never even saw
it: but her maid
saw it and was
very glad; for
she knew the charm, and that she would
now have power over the princess, who by
losing the drops of blood had become weak
and helpless. So when the princess had done
THE GOOSE-GIRL. 161
drinking and would have mounted her horse
again, the one that was called Falada, the
maid said, ‘‘I shall ride upon Falada, and you
may have my horse instead:†and this the
bride had to submit to. Then the waiting-
maid, with many hard words, ordered her to
take off her royal clothes and put on her own
shabby ones. And last of all this treacherous
servant made her mistress swear by heaven not
to tell what had happened when they came to
the royal court: and if she had not taken this
oath she would have been killed on the spot.
But Falada saw all this, and laid it all to heart.
Then the waiting-maid mounted Falada,
and the true bride rode upon the other horse,
and thus they rode on till at length they cage
to the royal court. There was great joe at
their coming, and the prince flew to meet
them and lifted the maid from her horse,
thinking she must be his bride: and she was
led up-stairs to the royal chamber: but the real —
princess was left standing in the court below.
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162 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
Now the prince’s father, the old king,
happened just then to have nothing particular
to do: so he amused himself by sitting in his
window and looking at what was going on:
and he saw her in the courtyard, and it struck
him how dainty, and delicate, and beautiful
she was. ‘Too delicate for a waiting-maid,â€
he thought, and went up to the royal chamber
and asked the new bride who it was she had
brought with her, that was now left standing .
‘in the court below. ‘ Oh!†said she, “I
brought her with me for company on the road:
pray give the girl some work to do, that she
may not stand idle.†The old king could not
for some time think of any work to give her:
but at last he said, “‘I have a boy who looks
after the geese: she may go and help him.â€
Now the name of this youth, that the princess
was to help in watching the king’s geese, was
Curdken.
But the false bride said to the prince,
‘Dear husband, I pray you grant me a
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favour.†‘ That I will,†heanswered. ‘‘ Then
tell one of your slaughterers to cut off the
head of the horse I rode upon, for it was
very unruly and plagued me sadly on the
road;†but the truth was, she was afraid lest
Falada should speak, some day or other, and
tell all she had done to the princess. She had
her way, and the faithful Falada was killed;
but when the true princess heard of it, she
wept and went to the slaughterer and secretly
promised him a piece of gold if he would do
something for her. There was in the town
a high dark gateway through which she had
to pass every morning and evening with her
geese: would he be so good as to.nail Falada’s
head over this gateway, that she might still see
it sometimes? The slaughterer promised to do
that, and cut off the head and nailed it fast
over the dark gate.
~ Karly next morning, as she and Curdken
were driving their flock through the gate, ® she
looked up and said sorrowfully :
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164 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
“ Fatlada, Falada, there thou hangest !â€
And the head spoke and answered her:
“« Bride, bride, there thou gangest!
But and of thy mother knew,
Sure her heart would break in two.â€
Then they passed under the dark gateway
and drove their geese into the country. And
when they came to the common where the
geese fed, she sat down on a bank there and
unloosed her hair, which was all of pure gold,
and began to comb it: and when Curdken saw
it glitter in the sun, he ran up and would have
pulled some of the locks out, but she cried—
“ Blow, wind, blow to-day !
Biow Curdhen’s hat away!
Let him chase it here and there,
Here and there and everywhere,
While I braid my golden hair.’
Then there came a wind so strong that it
blew off Curdken’s hat, and away it flew over
the hills; and he had to chase it and chase it,
and by the time he came back she had done
braiding and binding up her hair, and his
THE GOOSE-GIRL, 165
chance of getting any was gone. Then Curd-
ken was very angry and sulky, and would not
speak a word to her: but they watched the
geese until it grew dark in the evening, and
then drove them homewards.
Next morning, as they went under the
dark gateway, the poor girl looked up at
Falada’s head and cried:
“ Fulada, Falada, there thou hangest !â€â€™
And it answered :
“ Bride, bride, there thou gangest !
But and if thy mother knew,
Sure her heart would break in two.’
Then she drove on the geese, and sat down
again on the common and began to comb out
her hair as before: and Curdken ran up to her
and wanted to take hold of it, but she cried
out quickly :
““ Blow wind, blow to-day !
Blow Curdken’s hat away !
Let him chase it here and there,
Here and there and everywhere,
While I braid my golden hairâ€
166 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR,
Then a puff came and blew away his hat; and
off it flew, over the hills and far away, with
Curdken in chase; and when he came back
““Then a puff came and blew
away his hat.â€
she had bound up her
hair again and all was
safe. So they watched the geese till it grew
dark.
But in the evening, after they came home,
Curdken went to the old king and said, “I
won't herd the geese with that girl any
longer!†“Why?†said the king. “Be.
cause she does nothing but tease me all day
THE GOOSE-GIRL. 167
long.†Then the king made him tell what
had happened. And Curdken said, ‘‘ When
we go out in the morning through the dark
gateway with our geese, she cries and talks
with the head of a horse that hangs upon the
wall, and says:
“* Falada, Falada, there thou hangest !?
And the head answers:
. “<* Bride, bride, there thou gangest ! —
But and if thy mother knew,
Sure her heart would break in two.’
And Curdken went on to tell the king what
had happened upon the common where the
geese fed; how his hat was blown away;
and how he was forced to run after it and
leave his geese to themselves. But the old
king told the boy to go and drive out his flock
as usual next day: and when morning came,
he himself hid behind the dark gate and heard
how the goose-girl spoke to Falada, and how
Falada answered. Then he ran across the
fields and hid behind a bush on the common ;
163 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
and he soon saw with his own eyes the goose-
gurl and the goose-boy bringing their flock,
and how after a while she sat down and un-
loosed her hair that glittered in the sun. And
then he heard her say—
“ Blow, wind, blow to-day !
Blow Curdken’s hat away |
Let him chase it here and there,
Here and there and everywhere,
While I braid my golden hairâ€
Then came a blast of wind and carried off
Curdken’s hat, and away went Curdken after
it, while the girl went on quietly combing and
plaiting her hair. All this the old king saw,
and returned to the palace without being seen.
In the evening, when the goose-girl came
home, he called her aside and asked her why
she did these things. But she burst into tears
and said, “ That I may not tell to you, nor to
any man: for I swore by heaven I would not,
and if I had not sworn I should have lost
my life.’
ee
at Falada’s head†(. 165).
“The poor girl looked up
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Then the old king begged hard that she
would tell him, but could draw nothing from
her. At last he said, ‘ Well, if you have
sworn to tell it to no man or woman, whisper
your trouble to the oven here;†and he went
away. Then she crept into the oven, and
began to sob and lament and pour out her
sorrowful heart, saying, ‘‘ Here sit I, with no
one to help, who am a king’s daughter, and
a false waiting-maid has forced me to take off
my royal clothes and has taken my place with
my bridegroom, while I have to drudge as a
goose-girl.
“* But and if my mother knew,
Ah! her heart would break in two.â€
But the old king was standing by the oven
chimney, outside, and listening; and he heard
every word. So he came back to the room
again and bade her come out of the oven, and
ordered royal robes to be put on her and gazed
on her with wonder, so beautiful was she.
Then he called his son, and told him that he
THE GOOSE-GIRL. 171
had only the false bride, who was only a
waiting-maid, while the real bride stood be-
fore him. And the prince rejoiced when he
‘saw her beauty, and heard how meek and
Sy
“She began to sob and lament.â€
patient she had been: and, without saying
anything to the false bride, the king ordered
a great feast to be got ready for all his court.
The bridegroom sat at the head of the table,
with the princess on one side and the false
princess on the other: but the waiting-maid
172 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
was so dazzled that she did not recognise the
princess in her glittering garments.
When they had eaten and drunk, and were
merry, the old king said he would tell them
a tale. So he began, and told them the tale,
much as I have told it to you, only with
different names, pretending it was a story he
had heard long ago. And when it was ended
he asked the false princess what sentence
ought to be passed on a woman who had
behaved so wickedly. Then the false bride
answered, ‘“‘She deserves nothing better than
to be stripped naked and thrown into a cask
stuck round with sharp nails, and that two white
horses should be harnessed to it, and should
drag it from street to street till she was dead.â€
“Thou art that woman!†said the old
king in a terrible voice: and as thou hast
judged, so shall it be done to thee.†And so
it was. But the prince was married to his
true bride, and they reigned together in peace
and lived happy ever after. .
LITTLE CHICKEN CLUCK.
LITTLE CHICKEN CLUCK.
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THERE was once a little chicken called Cluck.
He was picking up corn one day under the
filbert-tree, when—whack!—a nut fell on his
back and knocked him over. ‘ Lawks-a-daisy
me!†said little chicken Cluck; “the sky’s
a-falling ! â€
So he ran to the Hen and said, ‘“‘ Henny-
penny, run: I think the sky’s a-falling!â€
“Who has told you that, little chicken
Cluck?†‘Oh, a nut fell on my _ back
and knocked me over.†‘Then let us run,â€
said Henny-penny.
So they ran, and they ran, and they kept
on running, and they came to the Cock and
said, ‘‘Cocky-locky, run: I think the sky’s
a-falling!†‘Who has told you that, Henny-
penny?†‘Little chicken Cluck.†“Who
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told you that, little chicken Cluck?†“Oh,
a nut fell on my back and knocked me over.â€
“Then let us run,†said Cocky-locky.
So they ran, and they ran, and they kept
on running, till they came to the Duck.
‘“‘Ducky-daddles, run: I think the sky’s a-
falling!†“Who has told you that, Cocky-
locky?†‘“Henny-penny.†“ Who told
you that, Henny-penny?†‘Little chicken
Cluck.†“Who told you that, little chicken
Cluck?†‘Oh, a nut fell on my back and
knocked me over.†‘Then let us run,†said
Ducky-daddles.
So they ran, and they ran, and they kept
on running, till they came to the Goose.
‘“‘Goosey-poosey, run: I think the sky’s a-
falling!†‘Who has told you that, Ducky-
-daddles?†‘Cocky -locky.†‘Who told
you that, Cocky-locky?†‘ Henny-penny.â€
“Who told you that, Henny-penny?†“Little
chicken Cluck.†‘Who told you that, little
chicken Cluck?†‘Oh, a nut fell on my back
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and knocked me over.†‘Then let us run,â€
‘said Goosey-poosey.
So they ran, and they ran, and they kept
on running, till they came to the Turkey.
“'Turkey-lurkey run: I think the sky’s a-
falling!†“Who has told you that, Goosey-
poosey?†‘ Ducky-daddles.†“Who _ told
you that, Ducky-daddles?†‘ Cocky-locky.â€
‘Who told you that, Cocky-locky?†‘Henny-
penny.†‘Who told you that, Henny-penny ?â€
“Tattle chicken Cluck.†‘Who told you that,
little chicken Cluck?†“Oh, a nut fell on
my back and knocked me over.†“Then let
us run,†said Turkey-lurkey.
So they ran, and they ran, and they kept
on running, till they came to the Fox. ‘“Foxy-
woxy, run: I think the sky’s a-falling?â€
‘Who has told you that, Turkey-lurkey ?â€
‘‘Goosey-poosey.†‘Who told you that,
Goosey-poosey ?†‘ Ducky-daddles.†‘Who
told you that, Ducky-daddles?†‘‘Cocky-
locky.†‘Who told you that, Cocky-locky ?’
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178 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
“Fenny - penny.†‘Who told you that,
Henny-penny?†‘Little chicken Cluck.â€
“Who told you that, little chicken Cluck?â€
“Oh, a nut fell on my back and knocked me
over.†‘Then let us run,†said Foxy-woxy ;
‘shall I show the way?†‘Why, to be sure,
certainly, of course: why not?†said 'Turkey-
lurkey, Goosey-poosey, Ducky-daddles, Cocky-
locky, Henny-penny, and little chicken Cluck.
So they ran, and they ran, and they kept
on running, till they came to the wood. There
the Fox said, ‘‘I must count and see if I’ve
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got you all here. Turkey-lurkey, one; Goosey-
poosey, two; Ducky-daddles, three; Cocky-
locky, four; Henny-penny, five; little chicken
Cluck, six; Hi! that one I’ll snap up—
Hr-hrumph !â€
Then they ran, and they ran, and they ran
a little further, and the Fox said, “I must
count and see if I’ve got you all here.
Turkey-lurkey, one; ‘ Goosey-poosey, two;
Ducky-daddles, three; Cocky-locky, four ;
Henny-penny, five; Hi! that one I’ll snap
up—Hr-hrumph !â€
And so he went on, till he had gobbled
them all up !
TEENY-TINY.
TEENY-TINY.
Oncr upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman
who lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny
village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman
put on her teeny-tiny bonnet and went out of
her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk.
And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a
teeny-tiny way she came to a teeny-tiny gate,
so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny
gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard.
And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into
the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-
tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the
teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self,
“This teeny-tiny bone will make me some
teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.â€
So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny
bone in her teeny-tiny pocket, and went home
to her teeny-tiny house.
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Now when the teeny-tiny woman got home
to her teeny-tiny house she was a teeny-tiny
bit tired: so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs
to her teeny-tiny bed,
and put the teeny-tiny
bone into a teeny-tiny
cupboard. And when
this teeny-tiny woman
had been to sleep a
teeny-tiny time, she
was awakened by a
teeny-tiny voice from
the teeny-tiny cup-
board, which said:
« Give me my bone !?
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny
bit frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head
under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep
again. And when she had been to sleep again
a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again
cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a
teeny-tiny bit louder:
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« Give me my bone!â€
This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-
tiny bit more frightened, so she hid her teeny-
tiny head a teeny-tiny bit further under the
teeny-tiny clothes. And when the teeny-tiny
woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny
time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny
cupboard said again, a teeny-tiny bit louder :
“Give me my bone!â€
And this teeny-tiny woman was a_ teeny-
tiny bit more frightened, but she put her
teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes,
and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice—
SAKE (e
APPENDIX.
THE THREE ROBES OF WONDER.
Isle of Lesbos. From “ Traditions Populaires de |’ Asie Mineure,â€
par, E. Henry Carnoy et Jean! Nicolaides. Paris: Maison-neuve,
1889. ‘Translated with M. Carnoy’s kind permission.
THE VALIANT TAILOR.
Souree.—Grimm, No. 20: combined with No. 114, “The Cun-
ning Little Tailor.†In the telling, free use has been made of
“Master Snip,†in Taylor’s “Gammer Grethel.â€â€™ The exact device by
which the giant is made to carry the tree is introduced from a variant
in Cavallius—“ The Herd-boy and the Giant;†some of its clever-
ness is lost in Grimm’s account. The tale itself is widespread,
especially along the North of Europe.
Samuel Lover’s ‘‘ Little Weaver of Duleek Gate†is a delightful
variant, and I cannot refrain from adding it. The dialect has been
simplified and the whole condensed :—
The Litile Weaver of Duleek Gate.
You see, there was a weaver lived once upon a time in Duleek,
hard by the gate, and a very honest, industrious man he was, by all
accounts. He had a wife and children in plenty, so that he was
forced to work his fingers to the bone almost to get them bite and
sup: It he didn’t begrudge that, for he was an industrious creature,
as I said before, and ‘twas up early and down late with him, and the
loom never standing still. Well, it was one morning that his wife
called to him, and he sitting very. busy throwing the shuttle; and
says she “Come here, jewel, and eat your breakfast, now that it’s
ready.’ But he never minded her, but went on working. So ina
minute or two she calls him again: “Arrah, leave off slaving
yourself, my darlin’, and eat your bit o’ breakfast while it is hot.â€
“ Leave me alone,†says he, and drove the shuttle faster than before.
Well, in « little time more, she goes over and coaxes him: ‘“ Thady
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dear, the stirabout will be stone cold if you don’t give over that weary
work and come and eat it quickly.’ “I’m busy with a pattern
here that’s breaking my heart,†says the weaver; “and until I
complete it I won’t quit.†‘Oh, think of the ilegant stirabout,
that’ll be spoilt entirely.†“To the devil with the stirabout!â€
“Now may you be forgiven,†says she, “for cursing your good
breakfast. Troth, Thady, you’re as cross as two sticks this blessed
morning, and it’s a heavy handful I have of you when you are
crooked in your temper: but stay there, if you like, and let your
stirabout grow cold, and not a one of me will ax you again.†And
with that off she went.
Well, the weaver left the loom at last, and went over to the
stirabout, and what would you think but when he looked at it it was
as black as a crow; for, you see, it was the height of summer, and
the flies lit upon it to that degree that the stirabout was fairly covered
with them, “Why, then, bad luck to your impudence,†says the
weaver; “would no place serve you but that, you dirty beasts?â€â€ And
with that, being altogether crooked-tempered at the time, he lifted
his hand and he made one great slam at the dish of stirabout: and
killed no less than three score and ten flies at the one blow. It was
three score and ten exactly, for he counted the carcasses one by one
and laid them out on a clean plate, for to view them.
Well, he felt a powerful spirit rising in him, when he saw the
slaughter he’d done at one blow; and with that he got as conceited
as the very dickens, and not a stroke more work he’d do that day;
but out he went, and was fractious and impudent to everyone he
met, and was squaring up into their faces and saying, “ Look at that
fist! that’s the fist that killed three score and ten at one blow—
Whoo!†With that all the neighbours thought he was crack’d; and,
faith, the poor wife herself thought the same when he came home in
the evening, after spending every rap he had on the drink, and
swaggering about the place, and looking at his hand every minute.
“Indeed, and your hand is very dirty, sure enough, Thady
jewel,†says the poor wife; and true for her, for he had rolled into
a ditch coming home. “ You had better wash it, darlin’.â€â€ ‘“ How
dare you say dirty to the greatest hand in Ireland?†says he, going
to beat her. ‘Well it’s not dirty,†says she. ‘“Itis throwing away
my time I have been all my life,†says he, “living: with you all and
188 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
stuck at a loom, when it is St. George or the Dragon I ought to be,
which is two of the Seven Champions of Christendom: and now Ill
be going, to be a knight-arrant.â€â€ “Oh, Thady dear, and what’ll
the children do then?†‘Let them go play marbles,†says he.
Well, sure enough, he went about among his neighbours next day,
and he got an old kettle from one, and a saucepan from another ;
and he took them to the tailor, and he sewed him up a suit of tin
clothes like any knight-errant; and he borrowed a pot lid, and that
he was very particular about, because it was his shicld, and he went
to a friend of his, a painter and glazier, and made him paint on the
shield in big letters—
“T’m the Man of all Men,
That Killd Three Score and Ten
At a Blow!â€
His helmet he made of an iron pot, and he took the miller’s horse
hard by—though it didn’t belong to him—and off he rode to Dubiin,
to see if the King of Dublin would give him work. Well, he was
four days going to Dublin (for the horse was not the best, and the
roads worse), and he went straight to the palace. When he got there
the king was looking out of the drawing-room window, for diversion ;
but the weaver pretended not to see him, but turned his horse to feed,
and went over to a stone seat under the window—for, you see, there
were stone seats all about the place for the accommodation of the people
—for the king was a decent, obliging man. Well, as I said, the
weaver went over and lay down on one of the seats and pretended to
go to sleep; but he took care to turn out the front of his shield that
had the letters on it. Well, my dear, with that the king calls out
to one of the lords of his court that was standing behind him, holding
up the skirts of his coat, according to reason, and says he: ‘ Look
here, who’s that vagabone that’s sleeping under my nose and turning
my palace into a hotel?’ “Not a one of me knows, please your
Majesty.†‘‘I’ll go down myself and take a look at him,†says the
king; so down he went accordingly, followed by the lord; and when
he went over to where the weaver was lying, sure the first thing he
saw was the shield with the big letters upon it. “ Bedad,†says he,
“this is the very man I want, to kill that scoundrelly dragon that’s
eating up my land.â€
So he went up to the weaver and shook him by the shoulder ; and
APPENDIX. , 189
the weaver sat up and rubbed his eyes. ‘“ What brings you here?â€
says the king. “I’m in want of work, please your reverence.â€
“ Well, suppose I give you work. You killed three score and ten at
a blow, I understand.†“Yes, that was the last trifle o’ work I done,
and I’m afear’d my hand’ll go out of practice if I don’t get some job
to do at once.†‘You shall have a job immediately,†says the king ;
‘it’s not three score and ten or any fine thing like that: it’s only a
blackguardly dragon that’s disturbing the country and ruinating my
tenantry with eating their poultry, and I’m lost for want of eggs,â€
says the king. “I'll doit,†says the weaver. “It’ll be no trouble
to you,†says the king; ‘‘and I am only sorry it isn’t better worth
your while, for he isn’t worth fearing at all. Only I must tell you,
that he lives in the County Galway in the middle of a bog, and he
has an advantage in that.†“Ob, I don’t value that in the least,â€
says the weaver; ‘for the last three score and ten I killed was in a
soft place. Let me at him, at once.â€
The king was delighted and gave him a stockingful of money
for his travelling charges, and a new horse to ride. But the king
was clever, too, and if the weaver thought to fob the gold, and ride
home to Duleek without looking at the dragon, he was mistaken: for
the horse he was put on was learned on purpose, and the minute he
was mounted away the beast powdered, and never a toe he’d go but
right down to Galway. For four days he was going evermore, and
then the weaver saw a crowd of people running and shouting a
thousand murders, and crying, ‘The dragon, the dragon!†And he
couldn’t stop the horse, but away he pelted right up against the
terrible beast, and there was a most nefarious smell of sulphur.
Faith, the weaver saw he had no time to lose, so he threw himself off
the horse and made for a tree that was growing nigh, and up he
clambered as nimble asa cat. He hadn't a minute to spare; for up
came the dragon in a powerful rage and devoured the horse, body and
bones, in less than no time; and then he began to scent about for
the weaver, and at last clapped eye on him, where he was, up in the
tree, and says he, “You might as well come down out of that; for I’
have you, sure as eggs is meat.†“Not a foot will I stir,†says the
weaver. ‘Sorra care, I care,†says the dragon; “for you're as good
as ready money in my pocket this minute. I’ sit down here and
wait for you:†and sure enough down he sat and, began to pick his
190 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
teeth with his tail, after the heavy breakfast he made that morning
(for he ate a whole village, let alone the horse), and he got drowsy
at last, and fell asleep: but before he went to sleep he wound
himself all round about the tree, like a lady winding ribbon round
her finger, so that the weaver couldn’t escape.
Well, as soon as the weaver knew he was fast asleep, by his
snoring like thunder, down he begins to creep, as cautious as a fox:
and he was very nigh the bottom when, bad Inck to it! a branch
broke, and down he fell right on top of the dragon. But if he did,
good luck was on his side: for where should he fall but with his two
legs right across the dragon’s neck, and, my jewel! he Jaid hold of the
beast’s ears, and there he kept his grip, notwithstanding the brute
woke and tried to bite and shake him off and lashed out like mad
with his tail. Not a stir could he stir the weaver, though he shook
all the scales on his body. ‘‘ By the hokey,†says he, ‘if you won’t
let go, I’ll give you a ride that will astonish your seven small senses,
my boy!†And with that off he flew, and where do you think he did
fly ?-why, straight for Dublin! The weaver being on his neck was
a great distress to him, and he would rather have had him an inside
passenger ; but anyway, he flew and he flew till he came slap up
against the king’s palace ; for he never saw it, being blind with rage,
and he knocked his brains out—that is, the small trifle he had—and
down he fell speechless.
And, you see, as good luck would have it, the King of Dublin was
looking out of his drawing-room window, for diversion, that day also:
and when he saw the weaver coming astride the dragon, he cried
‘« By the powders of war, here comes the knight-arriant!� But when
they saw the dragon fall outside, they ran down-stairs for to circum-
spect the curiosity. “Please, your holiness,†said the weaver, getting
off, “I did not think myself worthy of killing this facetious beast, so
I brought him to yourself for to do him the honour of decripitation
by your own royal five fingers.†And with that the king drew out
his sword and took the dirty brute’s head off as clean as a new pin.
“T’m delighted with you,†says the king to the weaver: “and what’s
more, I’ll make a lord of you. And as you’re the first man I ever
heard tell of that rode a dragon, you shall be called Lord Mount-
dragon,â€â€™ says he.
“And where’s my estates, please, your holiness?†says the weaver,
APPENDIX. 191
with his eye on the main chance, “Oh, I didn’t forget that,†says
the king ; “it’s my royal pleasure to provide well for you, and for
that reason I make you a present of all the dragons in the world,
and give you power over them from this out.†‘Is that all?†says.
the weaver. “All!†says the king. “Why, you ungrateful. vaga-
bone, was the like ever given to any man before?†‘TI believe not,
indeed,†says the weaver, “and many thanks to your Majesty.â€
‘All the dragons you shall have, ivclooding my daughter,†says the
king, with a twinkle in his eye: and he was right, for by all ac-
counts the princess was the greatest dragon ever seen, with no end
of a tongue and a beard a yard long, which she pretended was put on
her by way of penance by Father Mulcahy, her confessor; but it
was well known it was in the family for ages, and no wonder it was
so long, by reason of that same. ,
CARNATION, WHITE, AND BLACK.
Source :—“ Nouveaux Contes des Fées.†“ Incarnat, Blanc, et Noir.â€
HEART OF HARE.
Polish.
PRINCE HATT UNDER THE EARTH.
Souree.—A South Smaland tale, given by Cavallius and
Stephens, It is translated in Thorpe’s “ Yule-tide Stories.†The
episode of the North Wind and the washing of thé shirt comes from
a Norse variant, “East of the Sun and West of the Moon†(Asb-
jornsen and Moe), In the Swedish version the old Tioll is popped
into a boiling cauldron, and her daughter turns out to be an enchanted
Christian princess, who sympathises with the lovers and helps to de-
liver them, and the whole story is condensed somewhat. It is as old as
“Cupid and Psyche,†and seems common to every nation almost.
Among its variants are such famous tales as “ Beauty and the Beast â€
and ‘*The Black Bull of Norroway.†In a Magyar tale the youngest
sister’s wish is for “speaking grapes, a smiling apple, and a tinkling
apticotâ€â€™â€”a delicious mouthful of syllables. The princess in the
“Arabian Nights†(as everybody knows) wanted “the speaking
bird, the singing tree, and the yellow water.â€
192 FAIRY TALES, FAR AND NEAR.
BLUE BEARD.
Translated from Charles Perrault.
THE BOLIAUNS.
Leprecaun = the shoemaker. This particular Irish imp is usually
found working on a single shoe, and indeed only discovered by
the sound of his hammer. He is very rich and miserly, but can be
made to disclose the place where his treasure lies, if only you keep
a tight grasp and never take your eyes off him. THis dress, according
to the best authorities, consists of a red coat, with seven buttons on
each row, knee-breeches, worsted stockings, a leathern apron, and a
little cocked-hat, on the point of which he sometimes spins like a top.
The source is,T. Crofton Croker’s “ Fairy Legends of the South
of Ireland,†to which it was contributed by Thomas Keightley,
who heard it in his boyhood from the peasantry of Kildare. In
Croker the manikin is a Claricaun; but Keightley makes him a
Leprecaun in his “ Fairy Mythology,†p. 373. This tale is the
third in Mr. Joseph Jacobs’s charming book, “Celtic Fairy Tales.â€
(London: David Nutt.)
THE GOOSE-GIRL.
Grimm. In rendering this tale I have freely used the language
of ““Gammer Grethel.†Taylox’s very turns of speech must retain
a sort of sanctity for everyone whose childhood was fed on that
delightiul work.—Ep.
LITTLE CHICKEN CLUCK.
This rigmarole I have given much as I heard it in the year
1869, or thereabouts; with some help from a Danish variant in
Thorpe's “ Yule-tide Stories.†Somewhat different versions in our
language may be found in Halliwell, in Chambers’s ‘ Popular
Rhymes of Scotland,†and in Mr. Joseph Jacobs’s ‘“‘ English Fairy
Tales,â€
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