Identifier: crimsonfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The crimson fairy book
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
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Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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te of affairs lasted some time, till one day amessenger arrived from the Sultan bearing a letter for theking, and also three canes. * My master bids me say, saidthe messenger, bowing low, that if you cannot tell himwhich of these three canes grows nearest the root, whichin the middle, and which at the top, he will declare waragainst you. The king was very much frightened when he heardthis, and though he took the canes and examined themclosely, he could see no difference between them. Helooked so sad that his daughter noticed it, and inquiredthe reason. * Alas! my daughter, he answered, * how can I helpbeing sad ? The Sultan has sent me three canes, andsays that if I cannot tell him which of them grows nearthe root, which in the middle, and which at the top, hewill make war upon me. And you know that his army isfar greater than mine. * Oh, do not despair, my father, said she. We shallbe sure to find out the answer; and she ran away to thetower, and told the young man what had occurred.
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THE PRINCESS FEEDS THE BOY THE BOY WHO COULD KEEP A SECBET 73 Go to bed as usual, replied he, * and when you wake,tell your father that you have dreamed that the canesmust be placed in warm w^ater. After a little while onewill sink to the bottom ; that is the one that grows nearestthe root. The one which neither sinks nor comes to thesurface is the cane that is cut from the middle; and theone that floats is from the top. So, the next morning, the princess told her father ofher dream, and by her advice he cut notches in each ofthe canes when he took them out of the water, so that hemight make no mistake when he handed them back tothe messenger. The Sultan could not imagine how hehad found out, but he did not declare war. The following year the Sultan again wanted to pick aquarrel with the king of the Magyars, so he sent anothermessenger to him with three foals, begging him to saywhich of the animals was born in the morning, which atnoon, and which in the evening. If an answer was notre

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