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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nks, and the crops of rice stood in water.Towns and villages were destroyed by the power of therain, only the great rock on the mountain side remainedunmoved. The cloud was amazed at the sight, and criedin wonder : Is the rock, then, mightier than I ? Oh,if I were only the rock ! And the mountain spirit answered : * Your wish isheard ; the rock you shall be ! And the rock he was, and gloried in his power.Proudly he stood, and neither the heat of the sun nor theforce of the rain could move him. * This is better thanall! he said to himself. But one day he heard a strangenoise at his feet, and when he looked down to see what itcould be, he saw a stone-cutter driving tools into his sur-face. Even while he looked a trembling feeling ran allthrough him, and a great block broke off and fell upon theground. Then he cried in his wrath : * Is a mere child ofearth mightier than a rock ? Oh, if I were only a man ! And the mountain spirit answered: Your wish isheard. A man once more you shall be !
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THE >STONE-C\JTTE(^BCCQinE3 HIHSELF AGAIN TEE STONE-GUTTEB 197 And a man he was, and in the sweat of his brow hetoiled again at his trade of stone-cutting. His bed washard and his food scanty, but he had learned to be satis-fied with it, and did not long to be something or some-body else. And as he never asked for things he had notgot, or desired to be greater and mightier than otherpeople, he was happy at last, and heard the voice of themountain spirit no longer. (From Japmiische Mdhrchen.) 198 THE GOLD-BEARDED MAN Once upon a time there lived a great king who had awife and one son whom he loved very much. The boywas still young when, one day, the king said to his wife : I feel that the hour of my death draws near, and I wantyou to promise that you will never take another husbandbut will give up your life to the care of our son. The queen burst into tears at these words, and sobbedout that she would never, never marry again, and that hersons welfare should be her first thought as

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