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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.
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ng, replied the young man, * your offeris very tempting ! But at the end of six hundred years weshould have to die, so we should be no better off! No, Imust go on till I find the country where there is no deathat all. Then the princess spoke, and tried to persuade the guestto change his mind, but he sorrowfully shook his head. Atlength, seeing that his resolution was firmly fixed, shetook from a cabinet a little box which contained herpicture, and gave it to him saying: * As you will not stay with us, prince, accept this box,which will sometimes recall us to your memory. If youare tired of travelling before you come to the Land ofImmortality, open this box and look at my picture, andyou will be borne along either on earth or in the air,quick as thought, or swift as the whirlwind, THE PBINCE SEEKS IMMORTALITY 181 The prince thanked her for her gift, which he placedin his tunic, and sorrowfully bade the eagle and hisdaughter farewell. Never was any present in the world as useful as that
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182 THE PBINGE SEEKS IMMORTALITY little box, and many times did he bless the kind thoughtof the princess. One evening it had carried him to thetop of a high mountain, where he saw a man with a baldhead, busily engaged in digging up spadefuls of earth andthrowing them in a basket. When the basket was full hetook it away and returned with an empty one, which helikewise filled. The prince stood and watched him for alittle, till the bald-headed man looked up and said to him : Dear brother, w^hat surprises you so much ? * I was wondering why you were filling the basket,replied the prince. Oh ! replied the man, I am condemned to do this,for neither I nor any of my family can die till I have dugaway the whole of this mountain and made it level withthe plain. But, come, it is almost dark, and I shall workno longer. And he plucked a leaf from a tree close by,and from a rough digger he was changed into a statelybald-headed king. Come home with me, he added ; * youmust be tired and hungry, and m

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