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<v Speaker 1>The emperor's new clothes. Many years ago, there was an

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<v Speaker 1>emperor who was so excessively fond of new clothes that

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<v Speaker 1>he spent all his money in dress. He did not

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<v Speaker 1>trouble himself in the least about his soldiers, nor did

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<v Speaker 1>he care to go either to the theater or the chase,

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<v Speaker 1>except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his

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<v Speaker 1>new clothes. He had a different suit for each hour

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<v Speaker 1>of the day. And as of any other king or emperor,

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<v Speaker 1>one is accustomed to say he is sitting in council,

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<v Speaker 1>it was always said of him, the Emperor is sitting

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<v Speaker 1>in his wardrobe. Time passed merrily in the large town

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<v Speaker 1>which was his capital. Strangers arrived every day at the court.

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<v Speaker 1>One day, two rogues, calling themselves weavers, made their appearance.

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<v Speaker 1>They gave out that they knew how to weave stuffs

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<v Speaker 1>of the most beautiful colors and elaborate patterns, the clothes

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<v Speaker 1>manufactured from which should have the wonderful property of remaining

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<v Speaker 1>invisible to every one who was unfit for the office

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<v Speaker 1>he held, or who was extraordinarily simple in character. These

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<v Speaker 1>must indeed be splendid clothes, thought the emperor had I

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<v Speaker 1>such a suit, I might at once find out what

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<v Speaker 1>men in my realms are unfit for their office, and

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<v Speaker 1>also be able to distinguish the wise from the foolish.

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<v Speaker 1>This stuff must be woven for me immediately, and he

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<v Speaker 1>caused large sums of money to be given to both

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<v Speaker 1>the weavers in order that they might begin their work directly.

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<v Speaker 1>So the two pretended weavers set up two looms and

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<v Speaker 1>affected to work very busily, though in reality they did

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<v Speaker 1>nothing at all. They asked for the most delicate silk

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<v Speaker 1>and the purest gold thread, put both into their own knapsacks,

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<v Speaker 1>and then continued their pretended work at the empty looms

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<v Speaker 1>until late at night. I should like to know how

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<v Speaker 1>the weavers are getting on with my cloth, said the

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<v Speaker 1>emperor to himself, after some little time had elapsed. He was, however,

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<v Speaker 1>rather embarrassed when he remembered that a simpleton, or one

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<v Speaker 1>unfit for his office, would be unable to see the manufacture.

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<v Speaker 1>To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk

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<v Speaker 1>in his own person, But yet he would prefer sending

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<v Speaker 1>somebody else to bring him intelligence about the weavers and

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<v Speaker 1>their work. Before he troubled himself in the affair. All

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<v Speaker 1>the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful

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<v Speaker 1>property the cloth was to possess, and all were anxious

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<v Speaker 1>to learn how wise or how ignorant their neighbors might

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<v Speaker 1>prove to be. I will send my faithful old minister

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<v Speaker 1>to the weavers, said the Emperor, at last, after some deliberation,

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<v Speaker 1>he will be best able to see how the cloth looks,

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<v Speaker 1>for he is a man of sense, and no one

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<v Speaker 1>can be more suitable for his office than he is.

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<v Speaker 1>So the faithful old minister went into the hall, where

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<v Speaker 1>the knaves were working with all their might at their

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<v Speaker 1>empty looms. What can be the meaning of this? Thought

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<v Speaker 1>the old man, opening his eyes very wide, I cannot

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<v Speaker 1>discover the least bit of thread on the looms. However,

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<v Speaker 1>he did not express his thoughts aloud. The impostors requested

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<v Speaker 1>him very courteously to be so good as to come

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<v Speaker 1>nearer their looms, and then asked him whether the design

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<v Speaker 1>pleased him, and whether the colors were not very beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time, pointing to the empty frames. The

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<v Speaker 1>poor old minister looked and looked. He could not discover

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<v Speaker 1>anything on the looms for a very good reason, viz.

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<v Speaker 1>There was nothing there. What thought he again. Is it

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<v Speaker 1>possible that I am a simpleton? I have never thought

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<v Speaker 1>so myself, and no one must know it.

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<v Speaker 2>Now.

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<v Speaker 1>If I am so, can it be that I am

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<v Speaker 1>unfit for my office? No, that must not be said either.

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<v Speaker 1>I will never confess that I could not see the stuff. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>sir minister, said one of the knaves, still pretending to work.

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<v Speaker 1>You do not say whether the stuff pleases you. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>it is excellent, replied the old minister, looking at the

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<v Speaker 1>loom through his spectacles, the pattern and the colors. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>I think them. We shall be much obliged to you,

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<v Speaker 1>said the impostors, and then they named the different colors

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<v Speaker 1>and described the pattern of the pretended stuff. The old

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<v Speaker 1>minister listened attentively to their words in order that he

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<v Speaker 1>might repeat them to the Emperor. And then the knaves

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<v Speaker 1>asked for more silk and gold, saying that it was

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<v Speaker 1>necessary to complete what they had been gun. However, they

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<v Speaker 1>put all that was given them into their knapsacks and

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<v Speaker 1>continued to work with as much apparent diligence as before

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<v Speaker 1>at their empty looms. The Emperor now sent another officer

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<v Speaker 1>of his court, to see how the men were getting on,

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<v Speaker 1>and to ascertain whether the cloth would soon be ready.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just the same with this gentleman as with

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<v Speaker 1>the minister. He surveyed the looms on all sides, but

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<v Speaker 1>could see nothing at all but the empty frames. Does

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<v Speaker 1>not the stuff appear as beautiful to you as it

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<v Speaker 1>did to my lord? The minister asked, the impostors of

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<v Speaker 1>the Emperor's second ambassador, at the same time, making the

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<v Speaker 1>same gestures as before, and talking of the design and

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<v Speaker 1>colors which were not there. I certainly am not stupid,

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<v Speaker 1>thought the messenger. It must be that I am not

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<v Speaker 1>fit for my good, profitable office. That is very odd. However,

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<v Speaker 1>no one shall know anything about it. And accordingly he

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<v Speaker 1>praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that

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<v Speaker 1>he was delighted with both colors and patterns. Indeed, please,

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<v Speaker 1>your Imperial Majesty, said he to his sovereign, when he returned.

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<v Speaker 1>The cloth which the weavers are preparing is extraordinarily magnificent.

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<v Speaker 1>The whole city was talking of the splendid cloth which

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<v Speaker 1>the Emperor had ordered to be woven at his own expense,

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<v Speaker 1>And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture,

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<v Speaker 1>while it was still in the loom, accompanied by a

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<v Speaker 1>select number of officers of the court, among whom were

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<v Speaker 1>the two honest men who had already admired the cloth,

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<v Speaker 1>he went to the crafty impostors, who, as soon as

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<v Speaker 1>they were aware of the Emperor's approach, went on working

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<v Speaker 1>more diligently than ever, although they still did not pass

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<v Speaker 1>a single thread through the looms. Is not the work?

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely magnificent, said the two officers of the crown already mentioned,

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<v Speaker 1>if your Majesty will only be pleased to look at it?

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<v Speaker 1>What a splendid design, what glorious colors. And at the

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<v Speaker 1>same time they pointed to the empty frames, for they

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<v Speaker 1>imagined that everyone else could see this exquisite piece of workmanship.

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<v Speaker 1>How is this, said the emperor to himself. I can

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<v Speaker 1>see nothing. This is indeed a terrible affair. Am I

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<v Speaker 1>a simpleton? Or am I unfit to be an emperor?

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<v Speaker 1>That would be the worst thing that could happen. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>the cloth is charming, said he aloud. It has my

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<v Speaker 1>complete approbation. And he smiled most graciously and looked closely

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<v Speaker 1>at the empty looms, for on no account would he

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<v Speaker 1>say that he could not see what two of the

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<v Speaker 1>officers of his court had praised so much. All his

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<v Speaker 1>retinue now strained their eyes, hoping to discover something on

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<v Speaker 1>the looms, but they could see no more than the others. Nevertheless,

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<v Speaker 1>they all exclaimed, oh, how beautiful, and advised his Majesty

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<v Speaker 1>to have some new clothes made from this splendid material

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<v Speaker 1>for the approaching procession. Magnificent, charming, excellent resounded on all sides,

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<v Speaker 1>and every one was uncommonly gay. The Emperor shared in

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<v Speaker 1>the general satisfaction, and presented the impostors with the ribband

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<v Speaker 1>of an order of knighthood to be worn in their

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<v Speaker 1>button holes, and the title of gentlemen weavers. The rogues

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<v Speaker 1>sat up the whole of the night before the day

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<v Speaker 1>on which the procession was to take place, and had

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen lights burning so that every one might see how

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<v Speaker 1>anxious they were to finish the Emperor's new suit. They

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<v Speaker 1>pretended to roll the cloth off the looms, cut the

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<v Speaker 1>air with their scissors, and sewed with needles without any

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<v Speaker 1>thread in them. See, cried they. At last, the Emperor's

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<v Speaker 1>new clothes are ready. And now the Emperor, with all

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<v Speaker 1>the grandees of his court, came to the weavers, and

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<v Speaker 1>the rogues raised their arms as if in the act

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<v Speaker 1>of holding something up, saying, here are your Majesty's trousers,

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<v Speaker 1>Here is the scarf, Here is the mantle. The whole

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<v Speaker 1>suit is as light as a cobweb. One might fancy

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<v Speaker 1>one has nothing at all on when dressed in it. That, however,

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<v Speaker 1>is the great virtue of this delicate cloth. Yes, indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>said all the courtiers, although not one of them could

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<v Speaker 1>se see anything of this exquisite manufacture. If your Imperial

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<v Speaker 1>Majesty will be graciously pleased to take off your clothes,

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<v Speaker 1>we will fit on the new suit in front of

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<v Speaker 1>the looking glass. The Emperor was accordingly undressed, and the

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<v Speaker 1>rogues pretended to array him in his new suit. The

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<v Speaker 1>Emperor turning round from side to side before the looking glass.

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<v Speaker 1>How splendid his Majesty looks in his new clothes, and

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<v Speaker 1>how well they fit? Everyone cried out, what a design?

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<v Speaker 1>What colors these are? Indeed royal robes. The canopy, which

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<v Speaker 1>is to be borne over your Majesty in the procession,

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<v Speaker 1>is waiting, announced the chief Master of the ceremonies. I

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<v Speaker 1>am quite ready answered the Emperor. Do my new clothes

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<v Speaker 1>fit well, asked he turning himself round again before the

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<v Speaker 1>looking glass in order that he might appear to be

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<v Speaker 1>examining his handsome suit. The lords of the bed chamber,

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<v Speaker 1>who were to carry his majesty's train, felt about on

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<v Speaker 1>the ground as if they were lifting up the ends

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<v Speaker 1>of the mantel, and pretended to be carrying something, for

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<v Speaker 1>they would, by no means betray anything like simplicity or

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<v Speaker 1>unfitness for their office. So now the Emperor walked under

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<v Speaker 1>his high canopy in the midst of the procession through

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<v Speaker 1>the streets of his capital, and all the people standing

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<v Speaker 1>by and those at the windows cried out, Oh, how

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes. What a magnificent train

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<v Speaker 1>there is to the mantle, and how gracefully the scarf hangs.

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<v Speaker 1>In short, no one would allow that he could not

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<v Speaker 1>see these much admired clothes, because in doing so, he

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<v Speaker 1>would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for

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<v Speaker 1>his office. Certainly, none of the Emperor's various suits had

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<v Speaker 1>ever made so great an impression as these invisible ones.

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<v Speaker 1>But the Emperor has nothing on at all, said a

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<v Speaker 1>little child. Listen to the voice of innocence, exclaimed his father,

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<v Speaker 1>And what the child had said was whispered from one

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<v Speaker 1>to another. But he has nothing on at all. At last,

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<v Speaker 1>cried out all the people. The emperor was vexed, for

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<v Speaker 1>he knew that the people were right, but he thought

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<v Speaker 1>the procession must go on now. And the lords of

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<v Speaker 1>the bedchamber took greater pains than ever to appear holding

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<v Speaker 1>up a train, although in reality there was no train

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<v Speaker 1>to hold, and of the emperor's new clothes the swineherd.

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<v Speaker 3>There was one poor prince who had a kingdom. His

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<v Speaker 3>kingdom was very small, but still quite large enough to

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<v Speaker 3>marry upon, and he wished to marry. It was certainly

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<v Speaker 3>rather cool of him to say to the Emperor's daughter,

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<v Speaker 3>will you have me? But so he did, for his

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<v Speaker 3>name was renowned far and wide, and there were a

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<v Speaker 3>hundred princesses who would have answered yes, and thank you kindly.

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<v Speaker 3>We shall see what this princess said. Listen. It happened

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<v Speaker 3>that where the prince's father lay buried, there grew a

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<v Speaker 3>rose tree, a most beautiful rose tree, which blossomed only

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<v Speaker 3>once in every five years, and even then bore only

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<v Speaker 3>one flower. But that was a rose it smelt so

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<v Speaker 3>sweet that all cares and sorrows were forgotten by him

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<v Speaker 3>who inhaled its fragrance. And furthermore, the prince had a

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<v Speaker 3>nightingale who could sing in such a manner that it

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<v Speaker 3>seemed as though all sweet melodies dwelt in her little throat.

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<v Speaker 3>So the princess was to have the rose and the nightingale,

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<v Speaker 3>and they were accordingly put into large silver caskets and

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<v Speaker 3>sent to her. The Emperor had them brought into the

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<v Speaker 3>large hall where the princess was playing visiting with the

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<v Speaker 3>with the presents, she clapped her hands for joy. Ah,

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<v Speaker 3>if it were but a little pussy cat, said she.

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<v Speaker 3>But the rose tree, with its beautiful rose, came to view.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh how prettily it is made, said all the court ladies.

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<v Speaker 3>It is more than pretty, said the Emperor. It is charming.

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<v Speaker 3>But the princess touched it and was almost ready to cry. Fie, Papa,

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<v Speaker 3>said she, It is not made at all. It is natural.

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<v Speaker 3>Let us see what is in the other casket before

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<v Speaker 3>we get into a bad humor, said the Emperor. So

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<v Speaker 3>the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at

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<v Speaker 3>first no one could say anything. Ill humored of her

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<v Speaker 3>superb charmant, exclaimed the ladies, for they all used to

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<v Speaker 3>chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor. How much

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<v Speaker 3>the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged

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<v Speaker 3>to our blessed Empress, said an old knight. Oh, yes,

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<v Speaker 3>these are the same tones, the same execution. Yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 3>said the Emperor, and he wept like a child at

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<v Speaker 3>the remembrance. I will still hope that it is not

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<v Speaker 3>a real bird, said the princess. Yes, it is a

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<v Speaker 3>real bird, said those who had brought it. Well, then

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<v Speaker 3>let the bird fly, said the princess, and she positively

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<v Speaker 3>refused to see the prince. However, he was not to

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<v Speaker 3>be discouraged. He daubed his face over brown and black,

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<v Speaker 3>Good day to my lord, the Emperor, said he. Can

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<v Speaker 3>I have employment at the palace? Why, yes, said the Emperor.

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<v Speaker 3>I want some one to take care of the pigs,

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<v Speaker 3>for we have a great many of them. So the

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<v Speaker 3>Prince was appointed Imperial swineherd. He had a dirty little

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<v Speaker 3>room close by the pig stye, and there he sat

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<v Speaker 3>the whole day and worked. By the evening he had

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<v Speaker 3>made a pretty little kitchen pot. Little bells were hung

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<v Speaker 3>all round it, and when the pot was boiling, these

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<v Speaker 3>bells tinkled in the most charming manner and played the

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<v Speaker 3>old melody Ah to liba Augustine, alys is weg weg vec,

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<v Speaker 3>which translates us ah dear Augustine, or lose gone, gone gone.

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<v Speaker 3>But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger

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<v Speaker 3>in the smoke of the kitchen pot immediately smelt all

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<v Speaker 3>the dishes that were cooking on every hearth in the city. This,

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<v Speaker 3>you see, was something quite different from the rose.

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<v Speaker 4>Now.

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<v Speaker 3>The princess happened to walk that way, and when she

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<v Speaker 3>heard the tune, she stood quite still and seemed pleased,

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<v Speaker 3>for she could play Liba Augustine. It was the only

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<v Speaker 3>piece you knew, and she played it with one finger.

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<v Speaker 3>Why there is my piece, said the princess. That swineherd

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<v Speaker 3>must certainly have been well educated. Go in and ask

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<v Speaker 3>him the price of the instrument. So one of the

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<v Speaker 3>court ladies must run in. However, she drew on wooden slippers. First,

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<v Speaker 3>what will you take for the kitchen pot, said the lady.

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<v Speaker 3>I will have ten kisses from the princess, said the swineherd. Yes, indeed,

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<v Speaker 3>said the lady. I cannot sell it, for less, rejoined

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<v Speaker 3>the swineherd. He is an impudent fellow, said the princess.

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<v Speaker 3>And she walked on. But when she had gone a

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<v Speaker 3>little way, the bells tinkled so prettily. Ah to leave

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<v Speaker 3>Augustin aulis ist tvegvecvec stay, said the princess. Ask him

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<v Speaker 3>if you will have ten kisses from the ladies of

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<v Speaker 3>the court. No, thank you, said the swineherd. Ten kisses

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<v Speaker 3>from the princess. Or I keep the kitchen pot myself.

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<v Speaker 3>That must not be either, said the princess. But do

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<v Speaker 3>you all stand before me that no one may see us?

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<v Speaker 3>And the court ladies placed themselves in front of her

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<v Speaker 3>and spread out their dresses. The swineherd got ten kisses,

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<v Speaker 3>and the princess the kitchen pot. That was delightful. The

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<v Speaker 3>pot was boiling the whole evening and the whole of

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<v Speaker 3>the following day. They knew perfectly well what was cooking

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<v Speaker 3>at every fire throughout the city, from the chamberlains to

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<v Speaker 3>the cobblers, the court ladies danced and clapped their hands.

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<v Speaker 3>We know who has soup, and who has pancakes for

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<v Speaker 3>dinner to day, who has cutlets and who has eggs?

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<v Speaker 3>How interesting, yes, but keep my secret, for I am

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<v Speaker 3>an emperor's daughter, the swineherd, that is to say the prince,

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<v Speaker 3>for no one knew that he was other than an

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<v Speaker 3>ill favored swineherd. Let not day pass without working at something.

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<v Speaker 3>He at last constructed a rattle, which, when it was

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<v Speaker 3>swung around, played all the waltzs and jig tunes which

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<v Speaker 3>have ever been heard since the creation of the world. Ah,

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<v Speaker 3>that is superb, said the princess when she passed by.

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<v Speaker 3>I have never heard prettier compositions. Go in and ask

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<v Speaker 3>him the price of the instrument. But mind he shall

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<v Speaker 3>have no more kisses. He will have a hundred kisses

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<v Speaker 3>from the princess, said the lady who had been to ask.

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<v Speaker 3>I think he is not in his right senses, said

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<v Speaker 3>the princess, and walked on. But when she had gone

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<v Speaker 3>a little way, she stopped again. One must encourage art,

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<v Speaker 3>said she, I am the Emperor's daughter. Tell him you shall,

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<v Speaker 3>as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me. And may

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<v Speaker 3>take the rest from the ladies of the court. Oh

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<v Speaker 3>but we should not like that at all, said they.

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<v Speaker 3>What are you muttering, asked the princess. If I can

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<v Speaker 3>kiss him, surely you can remember that ye owe everything

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<v Speaker 3>to me. So the ladies were obliged to go to

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<v Speaker 3>him again. A hundred kisses from the princess, said he,

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<v Speaker 3>or else, let every one keep his own stand around,

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<v Speaker 3>said she, and the ladies stood round her whilst the

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<v Speaker 3>kissing was going on. What can be the reason for

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<v Speaker 3>such a crowd closed by the pigstye, said the emperor,

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<v Speaker 3>who happened just then to step out on the balcony.

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<v Speaker 3>He rubbed his eyes and put on his spectacles. They

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<v Speaker 3>are the ladies of the court. I must go down

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<v Speaker 3>and see what they are about. So he pulled up

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<v Speaker 3>his slippers at the heel, for he had trodden them

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<v Speaker 3>down as soon as he had got into the courtyard.

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<v Speaker 3>He moved very softly, and the ladies were so much

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<v Speaker 3>engrossed with counting the kisses that all might go on fairly,

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<v Speaker 3>that they did not perceive the emperor. He rose on

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<v Speaker 3>his tiptoes.

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<v Speaker 4>What is all this? Said he?

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<v Speaker 3>When he saw what was going on, and he boxed

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<v Speaker 3>the princess's ear with his slipper. Just as the swineherd

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<v Speaker 3>was taking the eighty sixth kiss. March out, said the emperor,

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<v Speaker 3>for he was very angry, and both princess and swineherd

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<v Speaker 3>were thrust out of the city. The princess now stood

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<v Speaker 3>and wept, the swineherd scolded, and the rain poured down.

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<v Speaker 3>Alas unhappy creature that I am, said the princess. If

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<v Speaker 3>I had but married the handsome young prince, ah, how

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<v Speaker 3>unfortunate I am. And the swineherd went behind a tree,

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<v Speaker 3>washed the black and brown color from his face, threw

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<v Speaker 3>off his dirty clothes, and stepped forth in his princely robes.

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<v Speaker 3>He looked so noble that the princess could not help

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<v Speaker 3>bowing before him. I am come to despise, thee said he.

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<v Speaker 3>Thou wouldst not have an honorable prince. Thou couldst not

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<v Speaker 3>prize the rose and the nightingale. But thou wast ready

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<v Speaker 3>to kiss the swineherd for the sake of a trumpery plaything.

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<v Speaker 3>Thou art rightly served. He then went back to his

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<v Speaker 3>own little kingdom and shut the door of his palace

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<v Speaker 3>in her face. Now she might well sing ach to

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<v Speaker 3>Liba algustin alysstvegvec vec end of the swineherd, the real Princess.

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<v Speaker 5>There was once a prince who wished to marry a princess.

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<v Speaker 5>But then she be a real princess. He traveled all

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<v Speaker 5>over the world in hopes of finding such a lady,

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<v Speaker 5>but there was always something wrong. Princesses he found in plenty,

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<v Speaker 5>but whether they were real princesses it was impossible for

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<v Speaker 5>him to decide. For now, one thing now another seemed

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<v Speaker 5>to him not quite right about the ladies. At last,

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<v Speaker 5>he returned to his palace, quite cast down because he

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<v Speaker 5>wished so much to have a real princess for his wife.

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<v Speaker 5>One evening, a fearful tempest arose. It thundered and lightened,

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<v Speaker 5>and the rain poured down from the sky in torrents. Besides,

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<v Speaker 5>it was as dark as pitch. All at once there

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<v Speaker 5>was heard a violent knocking at the door, and the

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<v Speaker 5>old king, the prince's father, went out himself to open it.

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<v Speaker 5>It was a princess who was standing outside the door.

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<v Speaker 5>What with the rain and the wind, she was a

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<v Speaker 5>sad condition. The water trickled down from her hair and

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<v Speaker 5>her clothes clung to her body. She said she was

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<v Speaker 5>a real princess. Ah, we shall soon see that, thought

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<v Speaker 5>the old queen mother. However, she said not a word

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<v Speaker 5>of what she was going to do, but went quietly

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<v Speaker 5>into the bedroom, took all the bedclothes off the bed,

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<v Speaker 5>and put three little peas on the bedstead. She then

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<v Speaker 5>laid twenty mattresses, one upon another over the three peas,

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<v Speaker 5>and put twenty feather beds.

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<v Speaker 4>Over the mattresses.

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<v Speaker 5>Upon this bed the princess was to pass the night.

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<v Speaker 5>The next morning, she was asked how she had slept, Oh,

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<v Speaker 5>very badly, indeed, she replied, I have scarcely closed my

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<v Speaker 5>eyes the whole night through. I do not know what

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<v Speaker 5>was in my bed, but I had something hard under

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<v Speaker 5>me and am all over black and blue. It has

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<v Speaker 5>hurt me so much. Now it was plain that the

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<v Speaker 5>lady must be a real princess, since she had been

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<v Speaker 5>able to feel the three little peas through twenty mattresses

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<v Speaker 5>and twenty feather beds. None but a real princess could

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<v Speaker 5>have had such a delicate sense of feeling. The prince

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<v Speaker 5>accordingly made her, his wife, being now convinced that he

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<v Speaker 5>had found a real Princess. The three peas were, however,

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<v Speaker 5>put into the cabinet of Curiosities, where they are still

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<v Speaker 5>to be seen, provided they are not lost. Wasn't this

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<v Speaker 5>a lady of real delicacy? End of the real Princess?

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<v Speaker 6>The shoes the fortune one a beginning. Every author has

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<v Speaker 6>some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing.

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<v Speaker 6>Those who do not like him magnify it, shrug up

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<v Speaker 6>their shoulders and exclaim, there he is again. I, for

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<v Speaker 6>my part, know very well Hi, I can bring about

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<v Speaker 6>this movement in this exclamation. It would happen immediately if

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<v Speaker 6>I were to begin here as I intended to with

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<v Speaker 6>Rome has its Corso, Naples, its Toledo. Ah that Andersen.

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<v Speaker 6>There he is again, they would cry, Yet, I must

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<v Speaker 6>to please my fancy, continue quite quietly and add, but

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<v Speaker 6>Copenhagen has its East Street here. Then we will stay

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<v Speaker 6>for the present. In one of the houses not far

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<v Speaker 6>from the new market, a party was invited, a very

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<v Speaker 6>large party, in order, as is often the case, to

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<v Speaker 6>get a return invitation from the others. One half of

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<v Speaker 6>the company was already seated at the card table. The

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<v Speaker 6>other half awaited the result of the stereotype, preliminary observation

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<v Speaker 6>of the lady of the house. Now let us see

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<v Speaker 6>what we can do to amuse ourselves. They had got

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<v Speaker 6>just so far, and the conversation began to crystallize, as

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<v Speaker 6>it could but do with the scanty stream which the

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<v Speaker 6>commonplace world supplied. Amongst other things, they spoke of the

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<v Speaker 6>Middle Ages, some praise that periate is far more interesting,

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<v Speaker 6>far more poetical than our own, too sober present. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 6>Councilor Knapp defended this opinion so warmly that the hostess

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<v Speaker 6>declared immediately on his side, and both exerted themselves with

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<v Speaker 6>unwearied eloquence. The Councilor boldly declared the time of King

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<v Speaker 6>Hans to be the noblest and most happy period. Footnote

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<v Speaker 6>a d. Fourteen eighty two to fifteen thirteen end a footnote.

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<v Speaker 6>While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only

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<v Speaker 6>for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal

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<v Speaker 6>that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out

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<v Speaker 6>into the antechamber, where cloaks, macintoshes, sticks, umbrellas and shoes

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<v Speaker 6>were deposited. Here sat two female figures, a young and

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<v Speaker 6>an old one. One might have thought at first they

414
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<v Speaker 6>were servants come to accompany their mistresses home, But on

415
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<v Speaker 6>looking nearer, one soon saw they could scarcely be mere servants.

416
00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:51.920
<v Speaker 6>Their forms were too noble for that, their skin too fine,

417
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.880
<v Speaker 6>the cut of their dresses too striking. Two fairies where

418
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<v Speaker 6>they The younger, it is true, was not Damn Fortune herself,

419
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<v Speaker 6>but one of the waiting maids of her hand maidens,

420
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<v Speaker 6>who carry about the lesser good things that she distributes.

421
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<v Speaker 6>The other looked extremely gloomy.

422
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<v Speaker 7>It was care.

423
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<v Speaker 6>She always attends to her own serious business herself, as

424
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<v Speaker 6>then she is sure of having it done properly. They

425
00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.200
<v Speaker 6>were telling each other, with a confidential interchange of ideas,

426
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<v Speaker 6>where they had been during the day. The Messenger of

427
00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:20.799
<v Speaker 6>Fortune had only executed a few unimportant commissions, such as

428
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<v Speaker 6>saving a new bonnet from a shower of rain, et cetera.

429
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<v Speaker 6>But what she had yet to perform was something quite unusual.

430
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.279
<v Speaker 6>I must tell you, said she that to day is

431
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.359
<v Speaker 6>my birthday, and in honor of it, a pair of

432
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<v Speaker 6>walking shoes or goloshes that have been entrusted to me,

433
00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:38.519
<v Speaker 6>which I am to carry to mankind. These shoes possess

434
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<v Speaker 6>the property of instantly transporting him who has them on

435
00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:43.240
<v Speaker 6>to the place or the period in which he most

436
00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:46.400
<v Speaker 6>wishes to be. Every wish as regards time, or place

437
00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:49.200
<v Speaker 6>or state of being will be immediately fulfilled, and so

438
00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.720
<v Speaker 6>at last man will be happy here below. Do you

439
00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:57.519
<v Speaker 6>seriously believe that, replied care in a severe tone of reproach. No,

440
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:00.319
<v Speaker 6>he will be very unhappy, and will assuredly less the

441
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:02.359
<v Speaker 6>moment when he feels that he has freed himself from

442
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:06.440
<v Speaker 6>the fatal shoes. Stupid nonsense, said the other angrily. I

443
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.559
<v Speaker 6>will put them here by the door. Some one will

444
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:10.680
<v Speaker 6>make a mistake, for certain and take the wrong ones.

445
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:13.640
<v Speaker 6>He will be a happy man. Such was their conversation.

446
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<v Speaker 4>Two.

447
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<v Speaker 6>What happened to the councilor It was late Councilor Knap,

448
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:23.880
<v Speaker 6>deeply occupied with the times of King Hans, intended to

449
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.000
<v Speaker 6>go home, and malicious fate managed matters so that his feet,

450
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.839
<v Speaker 6>instead of finding their way to his own galoshes, slipped

451
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.480
<v Speaker 6>into those of fortune. Thus caparisons. The good man walked

452
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<v Speaker 6>out of the well lighted rooms into East Street. By

453
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:39.400
<v Speaker 6>the magic power of the shoes, he was carried back

454
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<v Speaker 6>to the time of King Hans, on which account his

455
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.400
<v Speaker 6>foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of

456
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<v Speaker 6>the street, there having been in those days no pavement

457
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:51.319
<v Speaker 6>in Copenhagen. Well this is too bad, how dirty it

458
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:54.400
<v Speaker 6>is here, sighed the Councilor as to a pavement, I

459
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:56.400
<v Speaker 6>can find no traces of one, and all the lamps,

460
00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:59.240
<v Speaker 6>it seems, have gone to sleep. The moon was not

461
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.200
<v Speaker 6>yet very high. It was, besides, rather foggy, so that

462
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:05.359
<v Speaker 6>in the darkness all objects seemed mingled in chaotic confusion.

463
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:08.519
<v Speaker 6>At the next corner hung a vote of lamp before Madonna.

464
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<v Speaker 6>But the light it gave was little better than none

465
00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.119
<v Speaker 6>at all. Indeed, he did not observe it before he

466
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.519
<v Speaker 6>was exactly under it, and his eyes fell upon the

467
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.400
<v Speaker 6>bright colors of the pictures, which represented the well known

468
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.559
<v Speaker 6>group of the Virgin and the infant Jesus. That is

469
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.440
<v Speaker 6>probably a waxworks show, thought, He and the people delay

470
00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:26.480
<v Speaker 6>taking down their sign in hopes of a late visitor

471
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.279
<v Speaker 6>or two. A few persons in the costume of the

472
00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:32.720
<v Speaker 6>time of King Hans passed quickly by him. How strange

473
00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.440
<v Speaker 6>they look. The good folks come, probably from a masquerade.

474
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.880
<v Speaker 6>Suddenly was heard the sound of drums and fifes, the

475
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.160
<v Speaker 6>bright blaze of a fire shot up from time to time,

476
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:43.599
<v Speaker 6>and its ready gleams seemed to contend with the bluish

477
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:46.640
<v Speaker 6>light of the torches. The Councilor stood still and watched

478
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:49.720
<v Speaker 6>a most strange procession pass by. First came a dozen

479
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:52.319
<v Speaker 6>drummers who understood pretty well how to handle their instruments.

480
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.079
<v Speaker 6>Then came halberdiers and some armed with crossbows. The principal

481
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.160
<v Speaker 6>person in the procession was a priest. Astonished at what

482
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.119
<v Speaker 6>he saw, the count's ser asked, what was the meaning

483
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:02.000
<v Speaker 6>of all this mummery?

484
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:03.240
<v Speaker 1>And who that man was?

485
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:05.240
<v Speaker 6>That's the Bishop of Zealand?

486
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:06.079
<v Speaker 7>Was the answer?

487
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:09.640
<v Speaker 6>Good heavens, what has taken possession of the bishop? Sighed

488
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:12.559
<v Speaker 6>the Councilor, shaking his head. It certainly could not be

489
00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.160
<v Speaker 6>the Bishop, even though he was considered the most absent

490
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.319
<v Speaker 6>man in the whole kingdom, and people told the drollest

491
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:20.799
<v Speaker 6>anecdotes about him. Reflecting on the matter, and without looking

492
00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:23.640
<v Speaker 6>right or left, the Councilor went through East Street and

493
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.279
<v Speaker 6>across the habroplats, The bridge leading to Palace Square was

494
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.400
<v Speaker 6>not to be found. Scarcely trusting his senses, the nocturnal

495
00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:33.200
<v Speaker 6>wanderer discovered a shallow piece of water and here fell

496
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.519
<v Speaker 6>in with two men who very comfortably were rocking to

497
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.720
<v Speaker 6>and fro in a boat. Does your honor want to

498
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:39.839
<v Speaker 6>cross the ferry to the home?

499
00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:40.400
<v Speaker 8>Asked?

500
00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:43.680
<v Speaker 6>They across to the home, said the councilor, who knew

501
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:45.480
<v Speaker 6>nothing of the age in which he at the moment,

502
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.480
<v Speaker 6>was no. I am going to Christianshaffen to Little Market Street.

503
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:54.039
<v Speaker 6>Both men stared at him in astonishment. Ohly, just tell

504
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:56.559
<v Speaker 6>me where the bridge is, said he. It is really

505
00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:59.039
<v Speaker 6>unpardonable that there are no lamps here, and it is

506
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.240
<v Speaker 6>as dirty as if one had to wade through a morass.

507
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.160
<v Speaker 6>The longer he spoke with the boatmen, the more unintelligible

508
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:08.720
<v Speaker 6>did their language become to him. I don't understand your

509
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:12.119
<v Speaker 6>bornhomish dialect, said he at last, angrily, and turning his

510
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:14.759
<v Speaker 6>back upon them. He was unable to find the bridge.

511
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:18.079
<v Speaker 6>There was no railway either. It is really disgraceful what

512
00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:20.559
<v Speaker 6>a state this place is in, muttered he to himself.

513
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.079
<v Speaker 6>Never had his age, with which however he was always grumbling,

514
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.200
<v Speaker 6>seemed so miserable as on this evening. I'll take a

515
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.920
<v Speaker 6>Hackney coach, thought he. But where were the Hackney coaches?

516
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.880
<v Speaker 6>Not one was to be seen, I must go back

517
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:36.000
<v Speaker 6>to the new Market. There, it is hoped I shall

518
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:38.160
<v Speaker 6>find some coaches, for if I don't, I shall never

519
00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:41.119
<v Speaker 6>get safe to christianshaffen. So off he went in the

520
00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:43.200
<v Speaker 6>direction of East Street, and had nearly got to the

521
00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:46.440
<v Speaker 6>end of it when the moon shone forth. God bless me,

522
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.039
<v Speaker 6>What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?

523
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.319
<v Speaker 6>Cried he involuntarily, as he looked at Eastgate, which in

524
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.400
<v Speaker 6>those days was at the end of East Street. He found, however,

525
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:57.880
<v Speaker 6>a little side door open, and through this he went

526
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.400
<v Speaker 6>and stepped into our new market. Of the place time

527
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.559
<v Speaker 6>it was a huge, desolate plain. Some wild bushes stood

528
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:06.599
<v Speaker 6>up here and there, while across the field flowed a

529
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.320
<v Speaker 6>broad canal or river. Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors,

530
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:13.119
<v Speaker 6>resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named,

531
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:17.079
<v Speaker 6>lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank. I

532
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.519
<v Speaker 6>either behold a fata morgana, or I am regularly tipsy,

533
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:24.679
<v Speaker 6>whimpered out the Councilor but what's this? He turned round anew,

534
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:27.920
<v Speaker 6>firmly convinced that he was seriously ill. He gazed at

535
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.039
<v Speaker 6>the street, formerly so well known to him and now

536
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:33.280
<v Speaker 6>so strange in appearance, and looked at the houses more attentively.

537
00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:36.199
<v Speaker 6>Most of them were of wood, slightly put together, and

538
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:40.320
<v Speaker 6>many had a thatched roof. No, I am far from well,

539
00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:43.360
<v Speaker 6>sighed he And yet I drank only one glass of punch.

540
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:48.159
<v Speaker 6>But I cannot suppose it. It was too really very

541
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.800
<v Speaker 6>wrong to give us punch and hot salmon for supper.

542
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.000
<v Speaker 6>I shall speak about it at the first opportunity. I

543
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:55.679
<v Speaker 6>have half a mind to go back again and say

544
00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.480
<v Speaker 6>what I suffer. But no, that would be too silly.

545
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.519
<v Speaker 6>And Heaven only knows if they are up still. He

546
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:05.480
<v Speaker 6>looked for the house, but it had vanished. It is

547
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:09.920
<v Speaker 6>really dreadful, groaned he, with increasing anxiety. I cannot recognize

548
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:12.480
<v Speaker 6>East Street again. There is not a single decent shop

549
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.000
<v Speaker 6>from one end to the other. Nothing but wretched huts

550
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.400
<v Speaker 6>can I see anywhere, just as if I were at Ringstead. Oh,

551
00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:21.039
<v Speaker 6>I am ill, I can scarcely bear myself any longer.

552
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:24.360
<v Speaker 6>Where the deuce can the house be? It must be here,

553
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.440
<v Speaker 6>on this very spot. Yet there is not the slightest

554
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.400
<v Speaker 6>idea of resemblance. To such a degree has everything changed

555
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:32.079
<v Speaker 6>this night at all events? Here are some people up

556
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.880
<v Speaker 6>and starring. Oh, oh, I am certainly very ill. He

557
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.400
<v Speaker 6>now hit upon a half open door, through a chink

558
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:41.400
<v Speaker 6>of which a faint light shone. It was a sort

559
00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:44.199
<v Speaker 6>of hostelry of those times, a kind of public house.

560
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:47.559
<v Speaker 6>The room had some resemblance to the clay floored halls

561
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:51.679
<v Speaker 6>in Holstein. A pretty numerous company, consisting of seamen, Copenhagen,

562
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.559
<v Speaker 6>burghers and a few scholars sat here in deep converse

563
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.880
<v Speaker 6>over their pewter cans, and gave little heat to the

564
00:35:56.920 --> 00:36:00.519
<v Speaker 6>person who entered. By your leave, said the councilor the hostess,

565
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:03.360
<v Speaker 6>who came bustling towards him, I felt so queer all

566
00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:05.519
<v Speaker 6>of a sudden, would you have the goodness to send

567
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:09.039
<v Speaker 6>for a hackney coach to take me to Christianshaffen. The

568
00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:12.039
<v Speaker 6>woman examined him with eyes of astonishment and shook her head.

569
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:15.119
<v Speaker 6>She then addressed him in German. The councilor thought she

570
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:18.880
<v Speaker 6>did not understand Danish, and therefore repeated his wish in German. This,

571
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:21.480
<v Speaker 6>in connection with his costume, strengthened the good woman in

572
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:24.360
<v Speaker 6>the belief that he was a foreigner, that he was ill,

573
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:27.159
<v Speaker 6>she comprehended directly, so she brought him a pitcher of water,

574
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.239
<v Speaker 6>which tasted certainly pretty strong of the sea, although it

575
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:33.719
<v Speaker 6>had been fetched from the well. The councilor supported his

576
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.920
<v Speaker 6>head on his hand, drew a long breath, and thought

577
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.840
<v Speaker 6>over all the wondrous things he saw around him. Is

578
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:42.639
<v Speaker 6>this the daily news of the evening? He asked mechanically,

579
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:44.880
<v Speaker 6>as he saw the hostess push aside a large sheet

580
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:48.960
<v Speaker 6>of paper. The meaning of this councillorship query remained, of

581
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:51.360
<v Speaker 6>course a riddle to her, yet she handed him the

582
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:55.000
<v Speaker 6>paper without replying. It was a coarse woodcut representing a

583
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:58.719
<v Speaker 6>splendid meteor as seen in the town of Cologne, which

584
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.599
<v Speaker 6>was to be read below, and bright letters. That is

585
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:04.239
<v Speaker 6>very old, said the councilor, whom this piece of antiquity

586
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.679
<v Speaker 6>began to make considerably more cheerful. Pray, how did you

587
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.920
<v Speaker 6>come into possession of this rare print? It is extremely interesting,

588
00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:14.880
<v Speaker 6>Although the whole is a mere fable, Such meteorous appearances

589
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.360
<v Speaker 6>are to be explained in this way that they are

590
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:20.079
<v Speaker 6>the reflections of the Aurora borealis, and it is highly

591
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:24.559
<v Speaker 6>probable they are caused principally by electricity. Those persons who

592
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:26.880
<v Speaker 6>are sitting nearest him and heard his speech stared at

593
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:29.440
<v Speaker 6>him in wonderment, and one of them rose took off

594
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:33.079
<v Speaker 6>his hat respectfully and said, with a serious countenance, you are,

595
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:36.960
<v Speaker 6>no doubt a very learned man. Monsieur oh No, answered

596
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.320
<v Speaker 6>the councilor. I can only join in conversations on this

597
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.360
<v Speaker 6>topic and on that as indeed one must do according

598
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:45.800
<v Speaker 6>to the demands of the world at present. Mojestia is

599
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.960
<v Speaker 6>a fine virtue, continued the gentleman. However, as to your speech,

600
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.079
<v Speaker 6>I must say meeki sekis vititer. Yet I am willing

601
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.679
<v Speaker 6>to suspend my judicial may I ask with whom I

602
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:58.960
<v Speaker 6>have the pleasure of speaking, said the councilor. I am

603
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.480
<v Speaker 6>a bachelor in theoloe OUI answered the gentleman, with a

604
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.320
<v Speaker 6>stiff reverence. This reply I fully satisfied the counselor. The

605
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:08.679
<v Speaker 6>title suited the dress. He is, certainly, thought he some

606
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:12.159
<v Speaker 6>village schoolmaster, some queer old fellow, such as one still

607
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:16.039
<v Speaker 6>meets with in Jutland. This is no locust, descendi, it

608
00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:19.280
<v Speaker 6>is true, began the clerical gentleman. Yet I beg you

609
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.280
<v Speaker 6>earnestly to let his profit by your learning. Your reading

610
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:26.760
<v Speaker 6>in the ancients is signdubiou a vast extent. Oh, yes,

611
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<v Speaker 6>I've read something, to be sure, replied the Councilor. I

612
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:32.280
<v Speaker 6>like reading all useful works, but you do not, on

613
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.000
<v Speaker 6>that account despise the modern ones. Tis only the unfortunate

614
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:39.119
<v Speaker 6>tales of every day life that I cannot bear. We

615
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:42.559
<v Speaker 6>have enough and more than enough such in reality tales

616
00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:46.599
<v Speaker 6>of every day life, said our bachelor inquiringly. I mean

617
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:49.679
<v Speaker 6>those new fangled novels twisting and writhing themselves in the

618
00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:54.559
<v Speaker 6>dust of commonplace, which also expect to find a reading public. Oh,

619
00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:58.519
<v Speaker 6>exclaimed the clerical gentleman, smiling. There is much wit in them. Besides,

620
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<v Speaker 6>they are read at court. The king likes the history

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<v Speaker 6>of Sir Ifven and Sir Gaudian, particularly which treats of

622
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:06.480
<v Speaker 6>King Arthur and his knights of the round table. He

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<v Speaker 6>has more than once joked about it with his high vassals.

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<v Speaker 6>I have not read that novel, said the councilor. It

625
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.400
<v Speaker 6>must be quite a new one that Heiberg has published lately. No,

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<v Speaker 6>answered the theologian of the time of King Hans. That

627
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:21.840
<v Speaker 6>book is not written by a Heiberg, but was imprinted

628
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<v Speaker 6>by Godfrey von Geiman. Oh is that the author's name,

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<v Speaker 6>said the Councilor, it is a very old name, and

630
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<v Speaker 6>as well as I recollect, he was the first printer

631
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<v Speaker 6>that appeared in Denmark. Yes, he is our first printer,

632
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.239
<v Speaker 6>replied the clerical gentleman hastily. So far all went on well.

633
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.079
<v Speaker 6>Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the

634
00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:43.480
<v Speaker 6>dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few

635
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:47.280
<v Speaker 6>years back, meaning that of fourteen eighty four. The Councilor

636
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:49.760
<v Speaker 6>imagined it was the cholera that was meant which people

637
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.440
<v Speaker 6>made so much fuss about, And the discourse passed off

638
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:56.320
<v Speaker 6>satisfactorily enough. The war of the Buccaneers of fourteen ninety

639
00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:58.639
<v Speaker 6>was so recent that it could not fail being alluded

640
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:02.079
<v Speaker 6>to the English pierate, had they said most shamefully taken

641
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:05.239
<v Speaker 6>their ships while in the roadstead And the Councilor, before

642
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.360
<v Speaker 6>whose eyes the herostratic event of eighteen o one still

643
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:11.719
<v Speaker 6>floated vividly, agreed entirely with the others in abusing the

644
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:19.199
<v Speaker 6>rascally English footnote. Herostratus or Erratostratus, an Ephesian who wantonly

645
00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:21.960
<v Speaker 6>set fire to the famous Temple of Diana in order

646
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:25.199
<v Speaker 6>to commemorate his name by so uncommon an action end

647
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:29.199
<v Speaker 6>of footnote with other topics, he was not so fortunate.

648
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:32.079
<v Speaker 6>Every moment brought about some new confusion and threatened to

649
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:35.119
<v Speaker 6>become a perfect babble. For the worthy bachelor was really

650
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:38.239
<v Speaker 6>too ignorant, and the simplest observations of the councilor sounded

651
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:41.519
<v Speaker 6>to him too daring and fantastical. They looked at one

652
00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:43.440
<v Speaker 6>another from the crowd of the head to the soles

653
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.639
<v Speaker 6>of the feet, And when matters grew to too high

654
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:48.159
<v Speaker 6>a pitch, then the bachelor talked Latin, and the hope

655
00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:50.599
<v Speaker 6>of being better understood. But it was of no use.

656
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:53.880
<v Speaker 6>After all, what's the matter? Asked the hostess, plucking the

657
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:57.159
<v Speaker 6>councilor by the sleeve. And now his recollection returned, for

658
00:40:57.239 --> 00:40:59.559
<v Speaker 6>in the course of the conversation he had entirely forgotten

659
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:02.880
<v Speaker 6>all that had preceded it. Merciful God, where am I?

660
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:06.440
<v Speaker 6>He exclaimed in agony. And while he so thought, all

661
00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:09.840
<v Speaker 6>his ideas and feelings of overpowering dizziness against which he

662
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:12.960
<v Speaker 6>struggled with the utmost power of desperation encompassed him with

663
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.239
<v Speaker 6>renewed force. Let us drink claret and mead, and bremen

664
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:18.519
<v Speaker 6>Beier shouted one of the guests, and you shall drink

665
00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:22.039
<v Speaker 6>with us. Two maidens approached. One wore a cap of

666
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:25.119
<v Speaker 6>two staring colors, denoting the class of persons to which

667
00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:27.679
<v Speaker 6>she belonged. They poured out the liquor and made the

668
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:31.719
<v Speaker 6>most friendly gesticulations, while a cold perspiration trickled down the

669
00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:35.199
<v Speaker 6>back of the poor Councilor what's to be the end

670
00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:38.599
<v Speaker 6>of this? What's to become of me? He groaned, But

671
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:41.280
<v Speaker 6>he was forced, in spite of his opposition, to drink

672
00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:44.199
<v Speaker 6>with the rest. They took hold of the worthy man, who,

673
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:47.239
<v Speaker 6>hearing on every side that he was intoxicated, did not

674
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:49.559
<v Speaker 6>in the least doubt the truth of this, certainly not

675
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.039
<v Speaker 6>very polite ascertation, But on the contrary, implored the ladies

676
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:56.440
<v Speaker 6>and gentlemen present to procure him a hackney coach. They, however,

677
00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.159
<v Speaker 6>imagined he was talking Russian. Never before, he thought, had

678
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:03.039
<v Speaker 6>he been in such a coarse and ignorant company, one

679
00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:05.800
<v Speaker 6>might almost fancy the people had turned heathens against him.

680
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.239
<v Speaker 6>It is the most dreadful moment of my life. The

681
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:12.639
<v Speaker 6>whole world is leagued against me. But suddenly it occurred

682
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:14.760
<v Speaker 6>to him that he might stoop down under the table,

683
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.320
<v Speaker 6>and then creep unobserved out of the door. He did so,

684
00:42:18.679 --> 00:42:20.679
<v Speaker 6>but just as he was going the others remarked what

685
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.519
<v Speaker 6>he was about. They laid hold of him by the legs,

686
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.679
<v Speaker 6>and now, happily for him, off fell his fatal shoes,

687
00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:29.320
<v Speaker 6>and with them the charm was at an end. The

688
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.360
<v Speaker 6>councilor saw quite distinctly before him a lantern burning, and

689
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:35.519
<v Speaker 6>behind this a large, handsome house. All seemed to him

690
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.679
<v Speaker 6>in proper order as usual. It was East Street, splendid

691
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:41.079
<v Speaker 6>and elegant as we now see it. He lay with

692
00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:43.800
<v Speaker 6>his feet towards a doorway, and exactly opposite sat the

693
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:47.880
<v Speaker 6>watchman asleep. Gracious Heaven, said he have I lain here

694
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.320
<v Speaker 6>in the street, and dreamed, Yes, tis East Street, how

695
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.239
<v Speaker 6>splendid and light it is. But really it is terrible,

696
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:56.320
<v Speaker 6>what an effect that one glass of punch must have

697
00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:59.280
<v Speaker 6>had on me. Two minutes later he was sitting in

698
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.519
<v Speaker 6>a hackney coat and driving to Frederick Soften. He thought

699
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:05.119
<v Speaker 6>of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised

700
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:07.400
<v Speaker 6>from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality

701
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:11.079
<v Speaker 6>our own time, which, with all its deficiencies, is yet

702
00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:13.519
<v Speaker 6>much better than that in which, so much against his

703
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:21.119
<v Speaker 6>inclination he had lately been three the Watchman's adventure. Why

704
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.159
<v Speaker 6>there is a pair of galoshes, as sure as I

705
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:25.840
<v Speaker 6>am alive, said the watchman, awaking from a gentle slumber.

706
00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:28.400
<v Speaker 6>They belong no doubt to the lieutenant who lives over

707
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:31.960
<v Speaker 6>the way. They lie close to the door. The worthy

708
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:34.119
<v Speaker 6>man was inclined to ring and deliver them at the house,

709
00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:36.119
<v Speaker 6>for there was still a light in the window. But

710
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:38.559
<v Speaker 6>he did not like disturbing the other people in their beds,

711
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:42.480
<v Speaker 6>and so very considerately he left the matter alone. Such

712
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:44.679
<v Speaker 6>a pair of shoes must be very warm and comfortable,

713
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:48.079
<v Speaker 6>said he. The leather is so soft and supple. They

714
00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:50.159
<v Speaker 6>fitted his feet as though they had been made for him.

715
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:54.119
<v Speaker 6>Tis a curious world we live in, continued he, soliloquizing.

716
00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:57.440
<v Speaker 6>There's the lieutenant now, who might go quietly to bed

717
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.159
<v Speaker 6>if he chose where, no doubt, he could stretch himself

718
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:00.719
<v Speaker 6>at his ease.

719
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:01.800
<v Speaker 2>But does he do it.

720
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:05.519
<v Speaker 6>No, His saunters up and down his room, because probably

721
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:07.679
<v Speaker 6>he has enjoyed too many of the good things of

722
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:10.800
<v Speaker 6>this world at his dinner. That's a happy fellow. He

723
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:13.280
<v Speaker 6>is neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of

724
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.880
<v Speaker 6>Everlastingly hungry children to torment him. Every evening he goes

725
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:19.119
<v Speaker 6>to a party, where his nice supper costs him nothing.

726
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:21.880
<v Speaker 6>Would to heaven, I could but change with him? How

727
00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:26.119
<v Speaker 6>happy should I be? While expressing his wish, the charm

728
00:44:26.159 --> 00:44:28.159
<v Speaker 6>of the shoes which he had put on, began to work.

729
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.519
<v Speaker 6>The watchman entered into the being and nature of the lieutenant.

730
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:34.719
<v Speaker 6>He stood in the handsomely furnished apartment, and held between

731
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.559
<v Speaker 6>his fingers a small sheet of rose colored paper, on

732
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:41.119
<v Speaker 6>which some verses were written, written indeed by the officer himself,

733
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:43.440
<v Speaker 6>for who has not at least once in his life

734
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:46.440
<v Speaker 6>had a lyrical moment. And if one then marks down

735
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:50.440
<v Speaker 6>one's thoughts, poetry is produced. But here it was written,

736
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:53.159
<v Speaker 6>Oh were I rich?

737
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:56.360
<v Speaker 2>Oh were I rich?

738
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:00.000
<v Speaker 6>Such was my wish? Yea such when hardly three feet high,

739
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.079
<v Speaker 6>I longed for much?

740
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:02.719
<v Speaker 5>Oh were I rich?

741
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:03.519
<v Speaker 6>An officer?

742
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:03.880
<v Speaker 9>Were I?

743
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.679
<v Speaker 6>With sword and uniform and plumes so high? And the

744
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:11.360
<v Speaker 6>time came and officer was I? But yet I grew

745
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:15.320
<v Speaker 6>not rich, alas poor me have pity thou, who all

746
00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:20.079
<v Speaker 6>man's wants dost see. I sat one evening, sunk in

747
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:23.039
<v Speaker 6>dreams of bliss. A maid of seven years old gave

748
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:25.719
<v Speaker 6>me a kiss. I at that time was rich in

749
00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:29.320
<v Speaker 6>poesy and tales of old, though poor as poor can be.

750
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.960
<v Speaker 6>But all she asked for was this poesy. Then was

751
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:35.719
<v Speaker 6>I rich but not in gold? Poor me, as thou

752
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:38.320
<v Speaker 6>dost know who all men's hearts canst see?

753
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:40.440
<v Speaker 10>Oh?

754
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:43.360
<v Speaker 6>Were I rich oft? Asked I for this boon? The

755
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:46.760
<v Speaker 6>child grew up to womanhood full soon. She is so pretty,

756
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:50.159
<v Speaker 6>clever and so kind. Oh did she know what's hidden

757
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:53.039
<v Speaker 6>in my mind? A tale of old which she to

758
00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:56.320
<v Speaker 6>me were kind, But I am condemned to silence? Oh,

759
00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:59.920
<v Speaker 6>poor me, as thou dost know who all men's heart

760
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:00.960
<v Speaker 6>canst see?

761
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:02.599
<v Speaker 11>Oh?

762
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:05.840
<v Speaker 6>Were I rich in calm and peace of mind? My grief?

763
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:08.840
<v Speaker 6>You then would not here written? Find o thou to

764
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:12.119
<v Speaker 6>whom I do my heart devote? Oh, read this page

765
00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:15.440
<v Speaker 6>of glad days now remote, a dark, dark tale which

766
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.280
<v Speaker 6>I to night devote. Dark is the future now alas

767
00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:23.599
<v Speaker 6>poor me have pity thou, who all men's pains dost

768
00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:27.519
<v Speaker 6>see such verses as these people write when they are

769
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.159
<v Speaker 6>in love. But no man in his senses ever thinks

770
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:33.119
<v Speaker 6>of printing them. Hear one of the sorrows of life

771
00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:36.280
<v Speaker 6>in which there is real poetry gave itself vent, not

772
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:38.840
<v Speaker 6>that barren grief which the poet may only hint at

773
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:42.800
<v Speaker 6>but never depict in its detail. Misery and want, that

774
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.199
<v Speaker 6>animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a

775
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:48.960
<v Speaker 6>fallen leaf of the bread fruit tree, if not at

776
00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:52.159
<v Speaker 6>the fruit itself. The higher the position in which one

777
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:55.639
<v Speaker 6>finds one self transplanted, the greater is the suffering. Every

778
00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:58.760
<v Speaker 6>day necessity is the stagnant pool of life. No lovely

779
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:02.880
<v Speaker 6>picture reflects itself there in Lieutenant, love and lack of money.

780
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:06.320
<v Speaker 6>That is a symbolic triangle, or much the same as

781
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:09.280
<v Speaker 6>the half of the shattered die of fortune. This the

782
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:12.320
<v Speaker 6>Lieutenant felt most poignantly, and this was the reason he

783
00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.480
<v Speaker 6>leant his head against the window and sighed so deeply.

784
00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:19.960
<v Speaker 6>The poor watchman out there in the street is far

785
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:23.280
<v Speaker 6>happier than I. He knows not what I term privation.

786
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:26.719
<v Speaker 6>He has a home, a wife, and children who weep

787
00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:29.400
<v Speaker 6>with him over his sorrows, who rejoice with him when

788
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:31.840
<v Speaker 6>he is glad. Oh, far happier.

789
00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:32.920
<v Speaker 7>Where I could I.

790
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.039
<v Speaker 6>Exchange with him my being, with his desires and with

791
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.719
<v Speaker 6>his hopes, performed the weary pilgrimage of life. Oh, he

792
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:43.880
<v Speaker 6>is a hundred times happier than I. In the same moment,

793
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:47.119
<v Speaker 6>the Watchman was again watchman. It was the shoes that

794
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:50.320
<v Speaker 6>caused the metamorphosis, by means of which, unknown to himself,

795
00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:52.960
<v Speaker 6>he took upon him the thoughts and feelings of the officer.

796
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:55.519
<v Speaker 6>But as we have just seen, he felt himself in

797
00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:58.440
<v Speaker 6>his new situation much less contented, and now preferred the

798
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:01.280
<v Speaker 6>very thing which but someone is before he had rejected.

799
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:05.639
<v Speaker 6>So then the Watchman was again watchman. That was an

800
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:06.679
<v Speaker 6>unpleasant dream.

801
00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:06.840
<v Speaker 4>Said he.

802
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:10.119
<v Speaker 6>But twas droll enough altogether. I fancy that I was

803
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:12.400
<v Speaker 6>the lieutenant over there, And yet the thing was not

804
00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:15.119
<v Speaker 6>very much to my taste. After all, I missed my

805
00:48:15.199 --> 00:48:17.360
<v Speaker 6>good old mother and the dear little ones who almost

806
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.719
<v Speaker 6>tear me to pieces for sheer love. He seated himself

807
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:23.239
<v Speaker 6>once more and nodded. The dream continued to haunt him,

808
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:25.639
<v Speaker 6>for he still had the shoes on his feet. A

809
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:30.920
<v Speaker 6>falling star shone in the dark firmament. There falls another star,

810
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:34.000
<v Speaker 6>said he, But what does it matter? There are always

811
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:36.880
<v Speaker 6>enough left. I should not much mind examining the little

812
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:40.480
<v Speaker 6>glimmering things somewhat nearer, especially the moon, for that would

813
00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:43.559
<v Speaker 6>not slip so easily through a man's fingers. When we die,

814
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:45.840
<v Speaker 6>so at least as the student for whom my wife

815
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:48.920
<v Speaker 6>does the washing, we shall fly about as light as

816
00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:52.039
<v Speaker 6>a feather, from one such a star to the other. That's,

817
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:54.639
<v Speaker 6>of course not true, but twould be pretty enough if

818
00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:57.320
<v Speaker 6>it were so. If I could but once take a

819
00:48:57.400 --> 00:48:59.599
<v Speaker 6>leap up there, my body might stay here on the

820
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:00.840
<v Speaker 6>steps for what I care.

821
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:02.960
<v Speaker 4>Behold.

822
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:05.000
<v Speaker 6>There are certain things in the world to which one

823
00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:07.599
<v Speaker 6>ought never to give utterance, except with the greatest caution.

824
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:10.400
<v Speaker 6>But doubly careful must one be when we have the

825
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.079
<v Speaker 6>shoes of fortune on our feet. Now, just listen to

826
00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:16.599
<v Speaker 6>what happened to the watchmen as to ourselves. We all

827
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:19.400
<v Speaker 6>know the speed produced by the employment of steam. We

828
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:22.039
<v Speaker 6>have experienced it, either on railroads or in boats when

829
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:24.480
<v Speaker 6>crossing the sea. But such a flight is like the

830
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:27.199
<v Speaker 6>traveling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with

831
00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:31.679
<v Speaker 6>which light moves. It flies nineteen million times faster than

832
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:34.519
<v Speaker 6>the best race horse. And yet electricity is quicker.

833
00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:34.840
<v Speaker 7>Still.

834
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:39.679
<v Speaker 6>Death is an electric shock which our heart receives. The

835
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:43.320
<v Speaker 6>freed's soul soars upwards on the wings of electricity. The

836
00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:46.320
<v Speaker 6>sun's light wants eight minutes and some seconds to perform

837
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:48.719
<v Speaker 6>a journey of more than twenty million of our Danish

838
00:49:48.800 --> 00:49:52.599
<v Speaker 6>miles borne by electricity. The soul wants even some minutes

839
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:57.559
<v Speaker 6>less to accomplish the same flight. Footnote. A Danish mile

840
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:01.480
<v Speaker 6>is nearly four and three quarters English end of footnote

841
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:04.639
<v Speaker 6>to it, the space between the heavenly bodies is not

842
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:06.920
<v Speaker 6>greater than the distance between the homes of our friends

843
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.880
<v Speaker 6>in town is for us, even if they live a

844
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.400
<v Speaker 6>short way from each other. Such an electric shock in

845
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:13.400
<v Speaker 6>the heart or river costs us the use of the

846
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:16.880
<v Speaker 6>body here below, unless, like the watchmen of East Street,

847
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:21.239
<v Speaker 6>we happen to have on the shoes of fortune. In

848
00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.519
<v Speaker 6>a few seconds, the watchman had done the fifty two

849
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.960
<v Speaker 6>thousand of our miles up to that moon, which, as

850
00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:28.400
<v Speaker 6>everyone knows, was formed out of matter much lighter than

851
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.239
<v Speaker 6>our earth, and is so we should say, as soft

852
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.239
<v Speaker 6>as nearly fallen snow. We found himself on one of

853
00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:37.320
<v Speaker 6>the many circumjacent mountain ridges with which we are acquainted

854
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:41.639
<v Speaker 6>by means of doctor Madler's map of the moon. Within

855
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:45.159
<v Speaker 6>down it sunk perpendicularly into a cauldron about a Danish

856
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:48.000
<v Speaker 6>mile and depth, while below lay a town whose appearance

857
00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:50.960
<v Speaker 6>we can, in some measure realized to ourselves by beating

858
00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:52.519
<v Speaker 6>the white of an egg in a glass of water.

859
00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:55.119
<v Speaker 6>The matter of which it was built was just as

860
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:59.079
<v Speaker 6>soft and formed similar towers and domes and pillars, transparent

861
00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.679
<v Speaker 6>and rocking in the thin air. While above his head

862
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:05.239
<v Speaker 6>our earth was rolling like a large fiery ball. He

863
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:08.199
<v Speaker 6>perceived immediately a quantity of beings who were certainly what

864
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:12.039
<v Speaker 6>we call men, Yet they looked different to us, a

865
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:14.880
<v Speaker 6>far more correct imagination than that of the pseudo. Herschel

866
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:17.199
<v Speaker 6>had created them. And if they had been placed in

867
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:20.039
<v Speaker 6>rank and file and copied by some skillful painter's hand,

868
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:24.039
<v Speaker 6>one would without doubt have exclaimed, involuntarily, what a beautiful

869
00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.440
<v Speaker 6>Arabesque footnote. This relates to a book published some years

870
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:31.000
<v Speaker 6>ago in Germany and said to be by Herschel, which

871
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:33.880
<v Speaker 6>contained a description of the moon and its inhabitants, written

872
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.199
<v Speaker 6>with such a semblance of truth that many were deceived

873
00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:40.679
<v Speaker 6>by the imposture, and a footnote probably a translation of

874
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:43.519
<v Speaker 6>the celebrated Moon Hoax, written by Richard A. Locke and

875
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:47.480
<v Speaker 6>originally published in New York. They had a language too,

876
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:49.599
<v Speaker 6>But surely nobody can expect that the soul of the

877
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.119
<v Speaker 6>watchman should understand it be that as it may, it

878
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.880
<v Speaker 6>did comprehend it, For in our souls their germanate far

879
00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:57.920
<v Speaker 6>greater powers than we poor mortals. Despite all our cleverness,

880
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:00.960
<v Speaker 6>have any notion of to do? Not show us she

881
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.800
<v Speaker 6>the queen in the land of Enchantment, her astounding dramatic talent.

882
00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:05.599
<v Speaker 7>In all our dreams.

883
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:09.239
<v Speaker 6>There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage so

884
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:12.079
<v Speaker 6>entirely in character and with the same tone of voice,

885
00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:14.639
<v Speaker 6>that none of us, when awake, were able to imitate it.

886
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:17.840
<v Speaker 6>How well can she recall persons to our mind of

887
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:20.840
<v Speaker 6>whom we have not thought for years, when suddenly they

888
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:24.800
<v Speaker 6>step forth every inch a man resembling the real personages,

889
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:27.719
<v Speaker 6>even to the finest features, and become the heroes or

890
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:32.360
<v Speaker 6>heroines of our world of dreams. In reality, such remembrances

891
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:35.880
<v Speaker 6>are rather unpleasant. Every sin, every evil thought, may, like

892
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:39.280
<v Speaker 6>a clock with alarm or chimes, be repeated at pleasure.

893
00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:42.039
<v Speaker 6>Then the question is if we can trust ourselves to

894
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:44.519
<v Speaker 6>give an account of every unbecoming word in our heart

895
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:49.039
<v Speaker 6>and on our lips. The Watchman's spirit understood the language

896
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.400
<v Speaker 6>of the inhabitants of the moon pretty well. The Sulenites,

897
00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:56.840
<v Speaker 6>dwellers in the Moon, disputed variously about our Earth, and

898
00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.719
<v Speaker 6>expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited. The err

899
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.119
<v Speaker 6>they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any

900
00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:06.559
<v Speaker 6>rational dweller in the Moon the necessary free respiration. They

901
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:09.360
<v Speaker 6>considered the Moon alone to be inhabited. They imagined it

902
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:11.760
<v Speaker 6>was the real heart of the universe or planetary system,

903
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:15.679
<v Speaker 6>on which the genuine cosmopolites or citizens of the world dwelt.

904
00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:20.840
<v Speaker 6>What strange things men, no, what strange things Zelenites sometimes

905
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:25.119
<v Speaker 6>take into their heads about politics. They had a good

906
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:28.000
<v Speaker 6>deal to say. But little Denmark must take care what

907
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.199
<v Speaker 6>it is about, and not run counter to the Moon,

908
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:33.360
<v Speaker 6>that great realm that might, in an ill humor, bestir

909
00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:35.880
<v Speaker 6>itself and dash down a hail storm in our faces,

910
00:53:36.280 --> 00:53:38.400
<v Speaker 6>or force the Baltic to overflow the sides of its

911
00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:42.599
<v Speaker 6>gigantic basin. We will therefore not listen to what was spoken,

912
00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.440
<v Speaker 6>and on no condition run in the possibility of telling

913
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:48.519
<v Speaker 6>tales out of school. But we will rather proceed, like

914
00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:52.280
<v Speaker 6>good quiet citizens, to East Street and observe what happened. Meanwhile,

915
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.679
<v Speaker 6>to the body of the watchman. He sat lifeless on

916
00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:58.360
<v Speaker 6>the steps. The morning star, that is to say, the

917
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.239
<v Speaker 6>heavy wooden staff, headed with iron spikes, and which had

918
00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:03.760
<v Speaker 6>nothing else in common with its sparkling brother in the sky,

919
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:07.039
<v Speaker 6>had glided from his hand, while his eyes were fixed

920
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:09.360
<v Speaker 6>with glassy stare on the moon, looking for the good

921
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:13.159
<v Speaker 6>old fellow of a spirit which still haunted it. Footnote.

922
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.840
<v Speaker 6>The watchmen in Germany had formerly, and in some places

923
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:18.880
<v Speaker 6>they still carry with them on their rounds at night,

924
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:21.800
<v Speaker 6>a sort of mace or club, known in ancient times

925
00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:26.440
<v Speaker 6>by the above denomination and a footnote what's the hour? Watchman?

926
00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:29.400
<v Speaker 6>Asked a passer by, But when the watchman gave no reply,

927
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:32.440
<v Speaker 6>the merry roysterer, who was now returning home from a

928
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:34.960
<v Speaker 6>noisy drinking bout, took it into his head to try

929
00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:37.519
<v Speaker 6>what a tweak of the nose would do, on which

930
00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:40.679
<v Speaker 6>the supposed sleeper lost his balance. The body lay motionless,

931
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:41.800
<v Speaker 6>stretched out on the pavement.

932
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:43.119
<v Speaker 8>The man was dead.

933
00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:47.800
<v Speaker 6>When the patrol came. All his comrades, who comprehended nothing

934
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:50.400
<v Speaker 6>of the whole affair, were seized with a dreadful fright.

935
00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:54.039
<v Speaker 6>For dead he was, and he remained so. The proper

936
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:57.320
<v Speaker 6>authorities were informed of the circumstance, people talked a good

937
00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.320
<v Speaker 6>deal about it, and in the morning the body was

938
00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.239
<v Speaker 6>carried to the hostilepital. Now that would be a very

939
00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:04.519
<v Speaker 6>pretty joke if the spirit, when it came back and

940
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:06.480
<v Speaker 6>looked for the body in East Street, were not to

941
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:10.000
<v Speaker 6>find one. No doubt, it would, in its anxiety, run

942
00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:11.960
<v Speaker 6>off to the police, and then to the Hue and

943
00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:15.760
<v Speaker 6>Cry office to announce that the finder will be handsomely rewarded,

944
00:55:16.079 --> 00:55:18.360
<v Speaker 6>and at last away to the hospital. Yet we may

945
00:55:18.440 --> 00:55:21.119
<v Speaker 6>boldly assert that the soul is shrewdest when it shakes

946
00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:24.360
<v Speaker 6>off every fetter and every sort of leading string, the

947
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:28.320
<v Speaker 6>body only makes it stupid. The seemingly dead body of

948
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:30.800
<v Speaker 6>the Watchman wandered, as we have said, to the hospital,

949
00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:33.360
<v Speaker 6>where it was brought into the general viewing room. And

950
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:35.360
<v Speaker 6>the first thing that was done here was naturally to

951
00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:38.079
<v Speaker 6>pull off the galoshes. When the spirit, that was merely

952
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:40.840
<v Speaker 6>gone out on adventures must have returned with the quickness

953
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:44.559
<v Speaker 6>of lightning to its earthly tenement. It took its direction

954
00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:46.880
<v Speaker 6>towards the body in a straight line, and a few

955
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:49.320
<v Speaker 6>seconds after life began to show itself from the man.

956
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.159
<v Speaker 6>He asserted that the preceding night had been the worst

957
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:54.920
<v Speaker 6>that ever the malice of fate had allotted him. He

958
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:57.440
<v Speaker 6>would not for two silver marks again go through what

959
00:55:57.519 --> 00:56:00.519
<v Speaker 6>he had endured while moon stricken. But now, however, it

960
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:03.599
<v Speaker 6>was over. The same day he was discharged from the

961
00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:07.639
<v Speaker 6>hospital as perfectly cured. But the shoes meanwhile remained behind.

962
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:09.000
<v Speaker 5>Four.

963
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:13.239
<v Speaker 6>A moment of head importance an Evening's dramatic readings, A

964
00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:18.559
<v Speaker 6>most strange journey. Every inhabitant of Copenhagen knows from personal

965
00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:22.039
<v Speaker 6>inspection how the entrance to Frederick's hospital looks. But as

966
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:24.639
<v Speaker 6>it is possible that others who are not Copenhagen people

967
00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:27.599
<v Speaker 6>may also read this little work, we will beforehand give

968
00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:32.360
<v Speaker 6>a short description of it. The extensive building is separated

969
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:34.920
<v Speaker 6>from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick

970
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.159
<v Speaker 6>iron bars of which are so far apart that, in

971
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:40.480
<v Speaker 6>all seriousness, it is said some very thin fellow had

972
00:56:40.519 --> 00:56:43.000
<v Speaker 6>of a knight, occasionally squeezed himself through to go and

973
00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:45.440
<v Speaker 6>pay his little visits in the town. The part of

974
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:47.960
<v Speaker 6>the body most difficult to manage on such occasions was,

975
00:56:48.119 --> 00:56:50.840
<v Speaker 6>no doubt, the head. Here, as is so often the

976
00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:54.039
<v Speaker 6>case in the world, longheaded people get through best. So

977
00:56:54.199 --> 00:56:57.360
<v Speaker 6>much then for the introduction. One of the young men,

978
00:56:57.440 --> 00:56:59.840
<v Speaker 6>whose head in a physical sense only might be said

979
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:02.599
<v Speaker 6>to be of the thickest, had the watch that evening

980
00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:06.599
<v Speaker 6>the rain poured down in Torrents. Yet despite these two obstacles,

981
00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:08.719
<v Speaker 6>the young man was obliged to go out, if it

982
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:11.199
<v Speaker 6>were but for a quarter of an hour, And as

983
00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:13.559
<v Speaker 6>to telling the doorkeeper about it, that he thought was

984
00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:16.519
<v Speaker 6>quite unnecessary. If with a whole skin he were able

985
00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:20.519
<v Speaker 6>to slip through the railing. There on the floor lay

986
00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:23.800
<v Speaker 6>the galoshes, which the watchman had forgotten. He never dreamed

987
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:25.960
<v Speaker 6>for a moment that they were those of fortune, and

988
00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:27.960
<v Speaker 6>they promised to do him good service in the wet

989
00:57:28.320 --> 00:57:31.320
<v Speaker 6>so he put them on. The question now was if

990
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:33.400
<v Speaker 6>he could squeeze himself through the grating, for he had

991
00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:38.880
<v Speaker 6>never tried before. Well, there he stood, would to heaven.

992
00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:42.119
<v Speaker 6>I had got my head through, said he involuntarily, and

993
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:46.119
<v Speaker 6>instantly through it slipped easily and without pain. Notwithstanding it

994
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:48.800
<v Speaker 6>was pretty large and thick. But now the rest of

995
00:57:48.840 --> 00:57:50.159
<v Speaker 6>the body was to be got through.

996
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:52.480
<v Speaker 7>Ah, I am much.

997
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:55.320
<v Speaker 6>Too stout, groaned he aloud, while fixed as in a vice.

998
00:57:55.840 --> 00:57:57.559
<v Speaker 6>I had thought the head was the most difficult part

999
00:57:57.599 --> 00:58:00.719
<v Speaker 6>of the matter. Oh, oh, I really cannot see myself through.

1000
00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:04.440
<v Speaker 6>He now wanted to pull his over hasty head back again,

1001
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:07.559
<v Speaker 6>but he could not. For his neck there was room enough,

1002
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:10.679
<v Speaker 6>but for nothing more. His first feeling was of anger,

1003
00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:14.280
<v Speaker 6>his next that his temper fell to zero. The shoes

1004
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:16.639
<v Speaker 6>of fortune had placed him in the most dreadful situation,

1005
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:20.360
<v Speaker 6>and unfortunately it never occurred to him to wish himself free.

1006
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:23.920
<v Speaker 6>The pitch black clouds poured down their contents in still

1007
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:26.760
<v Speaker 6>heavier torrents. Not a creature was to be seen in

1008
00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:29.079
<v Speaker 6>the streets. To reach up to the bell was what

1009
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:31.480
<v Speaker 6>he did not like. To cry aloud for help would

1010
00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:34.360
<v Speaker 6>have availed him little. Besides, how ashamed would he have

1011
00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:36.440
<v Speaker 6>been to be found caught in a trap like an

1012
00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:40.800
<v Speaker 6>outwitted fox. How was he to twist himself through? He

1013
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:44.039
<v Speaker 6>saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain

1014
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:46.960
<v Speaker 6>a prisoner till dawn, or perhaps even late in the morning.

1015
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:50.440
<v Speaker 6>Then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars.

1016
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:53.119
<v Speaker 6>But all that would not be done so quickly as

1017
00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:55.920
<v Speaker 6>he could think about it. The whole charity school just

1018
00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:58.760
<v Speaker 6>opposite would be in motion, all the new booths with

1019
00:58:58.840 --> 00:59:02.000
<v Speaker 6>their not very courtier eyes like swarm of seamen would

1020
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:04.559
<v Speaker 6>join them out of curiosity, and would greet him with

1021
00:59:04.599 --> 00:59:07.760
<v Speaker 6>the wild Hurrah. While he was standing in his pillory,

1022
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:11.119
<v Speaker 6>there would be a mob, a hissing and rejoicing and jeering,

1023
00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:13.760
<v Speaker 6>ten times worse than in the rows about the Jews

1024
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:17.000
<v Speaker 6>some years ago. Oh my blood is mounting to my

1025
00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:18.800
<v Speaker 6>brain tis enough to drive one mad.

1026
00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:19.880
<v Speaker 10>I shall go wild.

1027
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:21.280
<v Speaker 12>I know not what to do.

1028
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:24.920
<v Speaker 6>Oh were I but loose, my dizziness would then cease? Oh,

1029
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:26.280
<v Speaker 6>were my head but loose?

1030
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:28.360
<v Speaker 13>You see?

1031
00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:31.079
<v Speaker 6>He Oto said that sooner for the moment he expressed

1032
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:33.000
<v Speaker 6>the wish his head was free and cured of all

1033
00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:35.920
<v Speaker 6>his paroxysms of love. He hastened off to his room,

1034
00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:38.280
<v Speaker 6>where the pains consequent on the fright of the shoes

1035
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.039
<v Speaker 6>had prepared for him. Did not so soon take their leave.

1036
00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:44.440
<v Speaker 6>But you must not think that the affair is over.

1037
00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:49.119
<v Speaker 6>Now it grows much worse. The night passed the next

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00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:52.840
<v Speaker 6>day also, but nobody came to fetch the shoes. In

1039
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:55.800
<v Speaker 6>the evening, dramatic readings were to be given at the

1040
00:59:55.840 --> 00:59:59.360
<v Speaker 6>little theater in King Street. The house was filled to suffocation,

1041
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.159
<v Speaker 6>and among other pieces to be recited was a new

1042
01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:06.639
<v Speaker 6>poem by H. C. Andersen, called My Aunt's Spectacles, the

1043
01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:11.440
<v Speaker 6>contents of which were pretty nearly as follows. A certain

1044
01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:14.239
<v Speaker 6>person had an aunt who boasted of particular skill in

1045
01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.480
<v Speaker 6>fortune telling with cards, and who was constantly being stormed

1046
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:19.880
<v Speaker 6>by persons that wanted to have a peep into futurity.

1047
01:00:20.639 --> 01:00:22.920
<v Speaker 6>But she was full of mystery about her art, in

1048
01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:26.360
<v Speaker 6>which a certain pair of magic spectacles did her essential service.

1049
01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:30.159
<v Speaker 6>Her nephew, a merry boy who was his aunt's darling,

1050
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:33.480
<v Speaker 6>begged so long for these spectacles that at last she

1051
01:00:33.639 --> 01:00:36.360
<v Speaker 6>lent him the treasure, after having informed him with many

1052
01:00:36.440 --> 01:00:39.960
<v Speaker 6>exhortations that in order to execute the interesting trick, he

1053
01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:42.079
<v Speaker 6>need only repair it to some place where a great

1054
01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:44.880
<v Speaker 6>many persons were assembled, and then from a higher position,

1055
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:47.840
<v Speaker 6>whence he could overlook the crowd passed the company in

1056
01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:52.280
<v Speaker 6>review before him through his spectacles. Immediately the inner man

1057
01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:55.159
<v Speaker 6>of each individual would be displayed before him, like a

1058
01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:57.880
<v Speaker 6>game of cards, in which he unerringly might read what

1059
01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:01.719
<v Speaker 6>the future of every person presented was to be. Well please,

1060
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:04.159
<v Speaker 6>the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of

1061
01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:07.039
<v Speaker 6>the spectacles in the theater, no place seeming to him

1062
01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:10.480
<v Speaker 6>more fitted for such a trial, He begged the permission

1063
01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:13.159
<v Speaker 6>of the worthy audience, and set his spectacles on his nose.

1064
01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:18.599
<v Speaker 6>A motley phantasmagoria presented itself before him, which he describes

1065
01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:22.440
<v Speaker 6>in a few satirical touches, Yet without expressing his opinion openly,

1066
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:25.039
<v Speaker 6>He tells the people enough to set them all thinking

1067
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:28.039
<v Speaker 6>and guessing, But in order to hurt nobody, he wraps

1068
01:01:28.079 --> 01:01:31.719
<v Speaker 6>his witty oracular judgments in a transparent veil, or rather

1069
01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:35.039
<v Speaker 6>in a lurid thundercloud, shooting forth bright sparks of wit

1070
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:37.519
<v Speaker 6>that they may fall in the powder magazine of the

1071
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:43.159
<v Speaker 6>expectant audience. The humorous poem was admirably recited, and the

1072
01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:46.000
<v Speaker 6>speaker much applauded. Among the audience was the young man

1073
01:01:46.039 --> 01:01:48.440
<v Speaker 6>of the hospital, who seemed to have forgotten his adventure

1074
01:01:48.440 --> 01:01:51.079
<v Speaker 6>of the preceding night. He had on the shoes, for

1075
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:53.719
<v Speaker 6>as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them,

1076
01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:56.000
<v Speaker 6>and besides it was so very dirty out of doors,

1077
01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:58.639
<v Speaker 6>they were just the thing for him, he thought. The

1078
01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:01.679
<v Speaker 6>beginning of the poem he praised with great generosity. He

1079
01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:04.840
<v Speaker 6>even found the idea original and effective, but that the

1080
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:07.880
<v Speaker 6>end of it, like the rhine, was very insignificant. Proved,

1081
01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:10.880
<v Speaker 6>in his opinion, the author's want of invention. He was

1082
01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:14.639
<v Speaker 6>without genius, et cetera. This was an excellent opportunity to

1083
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:18.960
<v Speaker 6>have said something clever. Meanwhile, he was haunted by the

1084
01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:21.440
<v Speaker 6>idea he should like to possess such a pair of

1085
01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:26.000
<v Speaker 6>spectacles himself. Then, perhaps by using them circumspectedly, one would

1086
01:02:26.039 --> 01:02:28.280
<v Speaker 6>be able to look into people's hearts, which he thought

1087
01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:30.360
<v Speaker 6>would be far more interesting than merely to see what

1088
01:02:30.519 --> 01:02:32.840
<v Speaker 6>was to happen next year. For that we should all

1089
01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:33.800
<v Speaker 6>know in proper time.

1090
01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:35.360
<v Speaker 7>But the other never.

1091
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:39.920
<v Speaker 6>I can now, said he to himself. Fancy the whole

1092
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:42.280
<v Speaker 6>row of ladies and gentlemen sitting there in the front row,

1093
01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:44.960
<v Speaker 6>if one could but see into their hearts. Yes, that

1094
01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:46.559
<v Speaker 6>would be a revelation, a.

1095
01:02:46.639 --> 01:02:47.280
<v Speaker 8>Sort of bazaar.

1096
01:02:48.480 --> 01:02:51.119
<v Speaker 6>And that lady Yonder so strangely dressed. I should find

1097
01:02:51.159 --> 01:02:54.119
<v Speaker 6>for certain a large milliner's shop, and that one. The

1098
01:02:54.199 --> 01:02:57.639
<v Speaker 6>shop is empty, but it wants cleaning, plain enough. But

1099
01:02:57.679 --> 01:02:59.960
<v Speaker 6>there would also be some good stately shops among them.

1100
01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:04.679
<v Speaker 6>Alas sighed he, I know one in which all is stately,

1101
01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:07.719
<v Speaker 6>But there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is

1102
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:10.519
<v Speaker 6>the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop. All

1103
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:14.159
<v Speaker 6>would be splendidly decked out, and we should hear. Walk in, gentlemen,

1104
01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:16.840
<v Speaker 6>pray walk in. Here you will find all you please

1105
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:19.760
<v Speaker 6>to want. Ah I wish to heaven. I could walk

1106
01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:21.400
<v Speaker 6>in and take a trip right through the hearts of

1107
01:03:21.480 --> 01:03:25.760
<v Speaker 6>those present, and behold to the shoes of fortune.

1108
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:26.480
<v Speaker 7>This was the cue.

1109
01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:29.960
<v Speaker 6>The whole man shrunk together, and a most uncommon journey

1110
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:32.679
<v Speaker 6>through the hearts of the front rowe the spectators now began.

1111
01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:35.360
<v Speaker 6>The first heart through which he came was that of

1112
01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:38.239
<v Speaker 6>a middle aged lady. But he instantly fancied himself in

1113
01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.840
<v Speaker 6>the room of the Institution for the Cure of the

1114
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:44.559
<v Speaker 6>Crooked and Deformed, where casts of misshapen limbs are displayed

1115
01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:47.199
<v Speaker 6>in naked reality on the wall. Yet there was this

1116
01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:49.920
<v Speaker 6>difference and the institution the casts were taken at the

1117
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:52.360
<v Speaker 6>entry of the patient, but here they were retained and

1118
01:03:52.440 --> 01:03:55.119
<v Speaker 6>guarded in the heart while the sound persons went away.

1119
01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.880
<v Speaker 6>They were, namely casts of female friends whose bodily or

1120
01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:03.280
<v Speaker 6>mental deformities were here most faithfully preserved. With the snakelike

1121
01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:06.800
<v Speaker 6>writhings of an idea, he glided into another female heart,

1122
01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:10.199
<v Speaker 6>but this seemed to him like a large holy fane temple,

1123
01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:13.960
<v Speaker 6>the white dove of innocence fluttered above the altar. How

1124
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:16.400
<v Speaker 6>gladly would he have sunk upon his knees, But he

1125
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:19.119
<v Speaker 6>must away to the next heart. Yet he still heard

1126
01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:21.760
<v Speaker 6>the pealing tones of the organ, and he himself seemed

1127
01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:24.000
<v Speaker 6>to have become a newer and a better man. He

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01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:27.360
<v Speaker 6>felt unworthy to tread the neighboring sanctuary, which poor Garret

1129
01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:32.360
<v Speaker 6>with the sick, bedridden mother revealed. But God's warm sun

1130
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.719
<v Speaker 6>streamed through the open window. Lovely roses nodded from the

1131
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:38.519
<v Speaker 6>wooden flower boxes on the roof, and two sky blue

1132
01:04:38.559 --> 01:04:42.039
<v Speaker 6>birds sang rejoicingly, while the sick mother implored God's richest

1133
01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:46.239
<v Speaker 6>blessings on her pious daughter. He now crept on hands

1134
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.920
<v Speaker 6>and feet through a butcher's shop. At least on every side,

1135
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:51.800
<v Speaker 6>and above and below there was not but flesh, who

1136
01:04:51.880 --> 01:04:54.280
<v Speaker 6>was the heart of a most respectable rich man, whose

1137
01:04:54.360 --> 01:04:58.199
<v Speaker 6>name is certain to be found in the directory. He

1138
01:04:58.360 --> 01:04:59.840
<v Speaker 6>was now in the heart of the wife of the

1139
01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:04.480
<v Speaker 6>worthy gentleman, who was an old, dilapidated, moldering dovecot. The

1140
01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:07.840
<v Speaker 6>husband's portrait was used as a weathercock, which was connected

1141
01:05:07.880 --> 01:05:09.920
<v Speaker 6>in some way or other with the doors, and so

1142
01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:12.239
<v Speaker 6>they opened and shut of their own accord whenever the

1143
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:16.800
<v Speaker 6>stern old husband turned around. Hereupon he wandered into a

1144
01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:20.159
<v Speaker 6>boudoir formed entirely of mirrors, like the one in Castle Rosenberg.

1145
01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:24.000
<v Speaker 6>But here the glasses magnified to an astonishing degree. On

1146
01:05:24.119 --> 01:05:26.159
<v Speaker 6>the floor in the middle of the room sat like

1147
01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:30.000
<v Speaker 6>a dalai lama, the insignificant self of the person. Quite

1148
01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:33.079
<v Speaker 6>confounded at his own greatness, he then imagined he had

1149
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:35.239
<v Speaker 6>got into a needle case full of pointed needles of

1150
01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:38.800
<v Speaker 6>every size. This is certainly the heart of an old maid,

1151
01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:41.599
<v Speaker 6>thought he. But he was mistaken. It was the heart

1152
01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:44.159
<v Speaker 6>of a young military man, a man, as people said,

1153
01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:47.679
<v Speaker 6>of talent and feeling. In the greatest perplexity, he now

1154
01:05:47.800 --> 01:05:49.679
<v Speaker 6>came out of the last heart in the row. He

1155
01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:51.840
<v Speaker 6>was unable to put his thoughts in order, and fancied

1156
01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:54.159
<v Speaker 6>that his too lively imagination had run away with him.

1157
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:58.440
<v Speaker 6>Good heavens sighed he, I have surely a disposition to

1158
01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:02.079
<v Speaker 6>madness tis dreadfully high. Here my blood boils my veins,

1159
01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:04.599
<v Speaker 6>and my head is burning like a coal. And he

1160
01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:07.280
<v Speaker 6>now remembered the important event of the evening before, how

1161
01:06:07.320 --> 01:06:09.440
<v Speaker 6>his head had got jammed in between the iron railings

1162
01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:12.239
<v Speaker 6>of the hospital. That's what it is, no doubt, said he.

1163
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:15.360
<v Speaker 6>I must do something in time. Under such circumstances, A

1164
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:17.800
<v Speaker 6>Russian bath might do me good. I only wish I

1165
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:22.079
<v Speaker 6>were already in the upper bank footnote. In these Russian

1166
01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:25.719
<v Speaker 6>vapor baths, the purson extends himself on a bank or form,

1167
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:28.159
<v Speaker 6>and as he gets accustomed to the heat, moves to

1168
01:06:28.280 --> 01:06:31.039
<v Speaker 6>another higher up towards the ceiling, where, of course the

1169
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:34.079
<v Speaker 6>vapor is warmest. In this manner he ascends gradually to

1170
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:38.039
<v Speaker 6>the highest and a footnote. And so there he lay

1171
01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:40.760
<v Speaker 6>on the uppermost bank in the vapor bath, but with

1172
01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:43.320
<v Speaker 6>all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while

1173
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:46.119
<v Speaker 6>the hot drops fell, scalding from the ceiling on his face.

1174
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:50.679
<v Speaker 6>Hullo cried, he leaping down. The bathing attendant on his

1175
01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:53.320
<v Speaker 6>side uttered a loud cry of astonishment when he beheld

1176
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.039
<v Speaker 6>in the bath a man completely dressed. The other, however,

1177
01:06:57.239 --> 01:07:00.519
<v Speaker 6>retained sufficient presence of mind to whisper to him, tis

1178
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.400
<v Speaker 6>a bet, and I have won it. But the first

1179
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:05.079
<v Speaker 6>thing he did as soon as he got home was

1180
01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:06.920
<v Speaker 6>to have a large blister put on his chest and

1181
01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:10.239
<v Speaker 6>back to draw out his madness. Next morning he had

1182
01:07:10.280 --> 01:07:13.079
<v Speaker 6>a sore chest and a bleeding back, and accepting the fright,

1183
01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:15.119
<v Speaker 6>that was all that he had gained by the shoes

1184
01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:23.719
<v Speaker 6>of fortune. Five metamorphosis of the copying clerk. The watchman,

1185
01:07:23.960 --> 01:07:26.880
<v Speaker 6>whom we have certainly not forgotten, thought meanwhile, of the

1186
01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:29.280
<v Speaker 6>gloshes he had found and taken with him to the hospital.

1187
01:07:29.880 --> 01:07:31.840
<v Speaker 6>He now went to fetch them, and as neither the

1188
01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:34.239
<v Speaker 6>lieutenant nor anybody else in the street claimed them as

1189
01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:38.360
<v Speaker 6>his property, they were delivered over to the police office. Footnote.

1190
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:42.320
<v Speaker 6>As on the continent, in all law and police practices,

1191
01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:45.760
<v Speaker 6>nothing is verbal but any circumstance. However, trifling is reduced

1192
01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:48.320
<v Speaker 6>to writing. The labor, as well as the number of

1193
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:53.079
<v Speaker 6>papers that thus accumulate, is enormous. In a police office, consequently,

1194
01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:57.079
<v Speaker 6>we find copying clerks, among many other scribes of various denominations,

1195
01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.719
<v Speaker 6>of which it seems our hero was one. End of footnote.

1196
01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:03.800
<v Speaker 6>Why I declare the shoes looked just like my own,

1197
01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:06.440
<v Speaker 6>said one of the clerks, eyeing the newly found treasure,

1198
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:09.199
<v Speaker 6>whose hidden powers, even he sharp as he was, was

1199
01:08:09.280 --> 01:08:12.159
<v Speaker 6>not able to discover. One must have more than the

1200
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:14.199
<v Speaker 6>eye of a shoemaker to know one pair from the other,

1201
01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:17.840
<v Speaker 6>said he soliloquizing and putting at the same time, the

1202
01:08:17.920 --> 01:08:20.279
<v Speaker 6>gloshes in search of an owner beside his own in

1203
01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:23.920
<v Speaker 6>the corner here, sir, said one of the men, who, panting,

1204
01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:27.640
<v Speaker 6>brought him a tremendous pile of papers. The copying clerk

1205
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:29.600
<v Speaker 6>turned round and spoke awhile with the man about the

1206
01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:32.840
<v Speaker 6>reports and legal documents in question. But when he had finished,

1207
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:34.840
<v Speaker 6>and his eye fell again on the shoes, he was

1208
01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:36.800
<v Speaker 6>unable to say whether those to the left or those

1209
01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:39.399
<v Speaker 6>to the right belonged to him. At all events, it

1210
01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:41.680
<v Speaker 6>must be those which are wet, thought he. But this time,

1211
01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:44.399
<v Speaker 6>in spite of his cleverness, he guessed quite wrong, for

1212
01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:46.720
<v Speaker 6>it was just those of fortune which played, as it were,

1213
01:08:46.800 --> 01:08:50.079
<v Speaker 6>into his hands, or rather on his feet. And why

1214
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:51.800
<v Speaker 6>I should like to know, are the police never to

1215
01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:55.039
<v Speaker 6>be wrong? So he put them on quickly, stuck his

1216
01:08:55.119 --> 01:08:57.680
<v Speaker 6>papers in his pocket, and took besides a few under

1217
01:08:57.680 --> 01:08:59.520
<v Speaker 6>his arm, intending to look them through at home to

1218
01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:02.680
<v Speaker 6>make them necessary notes. It was noon, and the weather

1219
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:05.319
<v Speaker 6>that had threatened to rain began to clear up. While

1220
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:08.479
<v Speaker 6>gaily dressed holiday folks filled the streets a little trip

1221
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:10.760
<v Speaker 6>to Fredericksburg would do me no great harm, thought he,

1222
01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:13.199
<v Speaker 6>For I, poor beast of burden that I am, have

1223
01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:15.039
<v Speaker 6>so much to annoy me that I don't know what

1224
01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:18.640
<v Speaker 6>a good appetite is. Tis a bitter crust alas at

1225
01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:22.960
<v Speaker 6>which I am condemned to gnaw. Nobody could be more

1226
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:25.840
<v Speaker 6>steady or quiet than this young man. We therefore wish

1227
01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:28.079
<v Speaker 6>him joy of the excursion with all our heart, and

1228
01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:30.520
<v Speaker 6>it will certainly be beneficial for a person who leads

1229
01:09:30.560 --> 01:09:33.239
<v Speaker 6>so sedentary a life. In the park, he met a friend,

1230
01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:35.399
<v Speaker 6>one of our young poets, who told him that the

1231
01:09:35.439 --> 01:09:37.960
<v Speaker 6>following day he should set out on his long intended tour.

1232
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.319
<v Speaker 6>So you are going away again, said the clerk. You

1233
01:09:41.399 --> 01:09:43.800
<v Speaker 6>are a very free and happy being. We others are

1234
01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:47.520
<v Speaker 6>chained by the leg and held fast to our desk. Yes,

1235
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:50.119
<v Speaker 6>but it is a chain, friend, which ensures you the

1236
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:53.800
<v Speaker 6>blessed bread of existence, answered the poet. You need feel

1237
01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:56.079
<v Speaker 6>no care for the coming morrow. When you are old,

1238
01:09:56.199 --> 01:10:00.000
<v Speaker 6>you receive a pension, true, said the clerk, shrugging his should.

1239
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:03.239
<v Speaker 6>And yet you are the better off to sit at

1240
01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:06.720
<v Speaker 6>one's ease and poetise. That is a pleasure. Everybody has

1241
01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:08.920
<v Speaker 6>something agreeable to say to you, and you are always

1242
01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:12.239
<v Speaker 6>your own master. No friend, you should but try what

1243
01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:14.279
<v Speaker 6>it is to sit from one year's end to the other,

1244
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:18.159
<v Speaker 6>occupied with and judging the most trivial matters. The poet

1245
01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:21.159
<v Speaker 6>shook his head. The copying clerk did the same. Each

1246
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:23.600
<v Speaker 6>one kept to his own opinion, and so they separated.

1247
01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:27.600
<v Speaker 6>It's a strange race, those poets, said the clerk, who

1248
01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:31.000
<v Speaker 6>is very fond of soliloquizing. I should like, some day,

1249
01:10:31.239 --> 01:10:33.199
<v Speaker 6>just for a trial, to take such nature upon me

1250
01:10:33.279 --> 01:10:35.520
<v Speaker 6>and be a poet myself. I am very sure I

1251
01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:39.199
<v Speaker 6>should make no such miserable verses as the others. To day, methinks,

1252
01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:42.000
<v Speaker 6>is a most delicious day for a poet. Nature seems

1253
01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:45.279
<v Speaker 6>anew to celebrate her awakening into life. The air is

1254
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:49.039
<v Speaker 6>so unusually clear, the clouds sail on so buoyantly, and

1255
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:52.000
<v Speaker 6>from the green herbage, a fragrance is exhaled that fills

1256
01:10:52.039 --> 01:10:54.680
<v Speaker 6>me with delight. For many a year have I not

1257
01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:58.640
<v Speaker 6>felt as at this moment we see already by the

1258
01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:01.520
<v Speaker 6>foregoing effusion, that he is become a poet. To give

1259
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:04.359
<v Speaker 6>further proof of it, however, would in most cases be insipid,

1260
01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:06.600
<v Speaker 6>For it is a most foolish notion to fancy a

1261
01:11:06.680 --> 01:11:10.520
<v Speaker 6>poet different from other men. Among the latter, there may

1262
01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:13.720
<v Speaker 6>be far more poetical natures than many. An acknowledged poet,

1263
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:17.119
<v Speaker 6>when examined more closely, could boast of the difference only

1264
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:20.119
<v Speaker 6>is that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on

1265
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:22.199
<v Speaker 6>which account he is able to retain the feeling and

1266
01:11:22.279 --> 01:11:24.920
<v Speaker 6>the thought till they can be embodied by means of words,

1267
01:11:25.319 --> 01:11:28.359
<v Speaker 6>a faculty which the others do not possess. But the

1268
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:32.159
<v Speaker 6>transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly

1269
01:11:32.279 --> 01:11:35.680
<v Speaker 6>endowed demands always a more or less breakneck leap over

1270
01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:39.279
<v Speaker 6>certain abyss which yawns threateningly below. And thus must the

1271
01:11:39.319 --> 01:11:43.039
<v Speaker 6>sudden change with the clerk strike the reader the sweet air,

1272
01:11:43.399 --> 01:11:46.560
<v Speaker 6>continued he of the police office in his dreamy imaginings,

1273
01:11:47.359 --> 01:11:49.359
<v Speaker 6>how it reminds me of the violets in the garden

1274
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:52.600
<v Speaker 6>of my aunt Magdalena. Yes, then I was a little

1275
01:11:52.640 --> 01:11:56.079
<v Speaker 6>wild boy who did not go to school very regularly. Oh, heavens,

1276
01:11:56.439 --> 01:11:58.600
<v Speaker 6>tis a long time since I have thought on those times.

1277
01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:02.560
<v Speaker 6>The good old soul she lived behind the exchange. She

1278
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:05.000
<v Speaker 6>always had a few twigs or green shoots and water

1279
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:08.399
<v Speaker 6>let the winter rage without as it might. The violets

1280
01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:11.520
<v Speaker 6>exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the window

1281
01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:14.520
<v Speaker 6>panes covered with fantastic frost work the copper coin I

1282
01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:16.920
<v Speaker 6>had heated on the stove and so made peep holes.

1283
01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:21.119
<v Speaker 6>What splendid vistas were there then opened to my view?

1284
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:25.039
<v Speaker 6>What change, what magnificence? Yonder in the canal lay the

1285
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:27.840
<v Speaker 6>ships frozen up and deserted by their whole crews, with

1286
01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:31.359
<v Speaker 6>a screaming crow for the sole occupant. But when the spring,

1287
01:12:31.479 --> 01:12:34.680
<v Speaker 6>with a gentle stirring motion, announced her arrival, a new

1288
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:38.000
<v Speaker 6>and busy life arose with songs and hurrahs. The ice

1289
01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:41.239
<v Speaker 6>was sawn asunder. The ships were fresh, tarred and rigged

1290
01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:44.560
<v Speaker 6>that they might sail away to distant lands. But I

1291
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:48.399
<v Speaker 6>have remained here, must always remain here, sitting at my

1292
01:12:48.520 --> 01:12:51.199
<v Speaker 6>desk in the office, and patiently see other people fetch

1293
01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:54.880
<v Speaker 6>their passports to go abroad. Such is my fate. Alas

1294
01:12:55.239 --> 01:13:01.800
<v Speaker 6>sighed he again, and was again silent, Great Heaven, what

1295
01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:04.199
<v Speaker 6>is come to me? Never have I thought or felt

1296
01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:06.399
<v Speaker 6>like this before. It must be the summer air that

1297
01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:09.760
<v Speaker 6>affects me with feelings almost as disquieting as they are refreshing.

1298
01:13:11.840 --> 01:13:14.479
<v Speaker 6>He felt in his pockets for the papers. These police

1299
01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:16.720
<v Speaker 6>reports will soon stem the torrent of my ideas and

1300
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:20.039
<v Speaker 6>effectually hinder any rebellious overflowing of the time worn banks

1301
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:23.359
<v Speaker 6>of official duties. He said to himself consolingly, while his

1302
01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:27.199
<v Speaker 6>eye ran over the first page, Dame Tigbreath, Tragedy in

1303
01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:27.840
<v Speaker 6>five acts?

1304
01:13:28.439 --> 01:13:28.880
<v Speaker 4>What is that?

1305
01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:32.199
<v Speaker 6>And yet it is undeniably my own handwriting? Have I written?

1306
01:13:32.239 --> 01:13:32.800
<v Speaker 7>The tragedy?

1307
01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:34.600
<v Speaker 6>Wonderful? Very wonderful?

1308
01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:36.159
<v Speaker 4>And this what have I here?

1309
01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:40.640
<v Speaker 6>Intrigue on the ramparts? Or the day of repentance vaudeville

1310
01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:43.720
<v Speaker 6>with new songs to the most favorite airs the deuce?

1311
01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.359
<v Speaker 6>Where did I get all this rubbish? Some one must

1312
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:48.520
<v Speaker 6>have slipped it slyly into my pocket for a joke.

1313
01:13:49.239 --> 01:13:51.399
<v Speaker 6>There is too a letter to me, a crumpled letter,

1314
01:13:51.479 --> 01:13:54.760
<v Speaker 6>and the seal broken. Yes, it was not a very

1315
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.159
<v Speaker 6>polite epistle from the manager of a theater, in which

1316
01:13:57.199 --> 01:14:02.760
<v Speaker 6>both pieces were flatly refused. Hem ahem, said the clerk breathlessly,

1317
01:14:02.920 --> 01:14:06.159
<v Speaker 6>and quite exhausted, He seated himself on a bank. His

1318
01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:09.960
<v Speaker 6>thoughts were so elastic, his heart so tender, and involuntarily

1319
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:12.680
<v Speaker 6>he picked one of the nearest flowers. It is a

1320
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.479
<v Speaker 6>simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud. What the

1321
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:18.319
<v Speaker 6>botanist tells us. After a number of imperfect lectures, the

1322
01:14:18.399 --> 01:14:21.680
<v Speaker 6>flower proclaimed in a minute it related the mythis of

1323
01:14:21.720 --> 01:14:24.600
<v Speaker 6>its birth, told of the power of the sunlight that

1324
01:14:24.760 --> 01:14:27.439
<v Speaker 6>spread out its delicate leaves and forced them to impregnate

1325
01:14:27.479 --> 01:14:29.960
<v Speaker 6>the air with their incense. And then he thought of

1326
01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:33.119
<v Speaker 6>the manifold struggles of life, which in like manner awakened

1327
01:14:33.119 --> 01:14:36.880
<v Speaker 6>the budding flowers of feeling in our bosom. Light and

1328
01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:39.880
<v Speaker 6>air contended with chivalric emulation for the love of the

1329
01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:42.680
<v Speaker 6>fair flower that bestowed her chief favors. On the latter.

1330
01:14:43.279 --> 01:14:45.800
<v Speaker 6>Full of longing, she turned towards the light, and as

1331
01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:48.640
<v Speaker 6>soon as it vanished, rolled her tender leaves together and

1332
01:14:48.720 --> 01:14:51.640
<v Speaker 6>slept in the embraces of the air. It is the

1333
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:55.560
<v Speaker 6>light which adorns me, said the flower. But tis the

1334
01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:58.239
<v Speaker 6>air which enables thee to breathe said the poet's voice.

1335
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:01.960
<v Speaker 6>Close spy stood a boy who dashed his stick into

1336
01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:04.520
<v Speaker 6>a wet ditch. The drops of water splashed up to

1337
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:06.560
<v Speaker 6>the green leafy roof, and the clerk thought of the

1338
01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:09.039
<v Speaker 6>million of ephemera which in a single drop were thrown

1339
01:15:09.119 --> 01:15:11.439
<v Speaker 6>up to a height that was as great, doubtless for

1340
01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:13.439
<v Speaker 6>their size as for us, if we were to be

1341
01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.199
<v Speaker 6>hurled above the clouds. While he thought of this, and

1342
01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:19.359
<v Speaker 6>of the whole metamorphosis he had undergone, he smiled and said,

1343
01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:22.680
<v Speaker 6>I sleep and dream. But it is wonderful how one

1344
01:15:22.720 --> 01:15:25.880
<v Speaker 6>can dream so naturally, and know besides so exactly that

1345
01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:28.600
<v Speaker 6>it is but a dream. If only tomorrow, on a

1346
01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:31.600
<v Speaker 6>waking I could again call all to mind, so vividly

1347
01:15:32.159 --> 01:15:35.479
<v Speaker 6>I seem in unusually good spirits. My perception of things

1348
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:37.800
<v Speaker 6>is clear. I feel as light and cheerful as though

1349
01:15:37.840 --> 01:15:40.720
<v Speaker 6>I were in heaven. But I know for a certainty

1350
01:15:40.880 --> 01:15:43.159
<v Speaker 6>that if tomorrow a dimmer remembrance of it should swim

1351
01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:46.199
<v Speaker 6>before my mind, it will then seem nothing but stupid nonsense,

1352
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:50.039
<v Speaker 6>as I have often experienced already, especially before I enlisted

1353
01:15:50.119 --> 01:15:52.560
<v Speaker 6>under the banner of the police. For that dispels like

1354
01:15:52.600 --> 01:15:56.520
<v Speaker 6>a whirl when all the visions of unfettered imagination. All

1355
01:15:56.600 --> 01:15:58.399
<v Speaker 6>we hear or say in a dream that is fair

1356
01:15:58.439 --> 01:16:01.159
<v Speaker 6>and beautiful is like the gold of the subterranean spirits.

1357
01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:02.239
<v Speaker 10>It is rich and.

1358
01:16:02.279 --> 01:16:04.920
<v Speaker 6>Splendid when it is given us, but viewed by daylight

1359
01:16:05.039 --> 01:16:09.600
<v Speaker 6>we find only withered leaves. Alas he sighed quite sorrowful,

1360
01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:12.520
<v Speaker 6>and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from

1361
01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:15.279
<v Speaker 6>branch to branch. They are much better off than I

1362
01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:18.000
<v Speaker 6>to fly, I must be a heavenly art and happy.

1363
01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:20.199
<v Speaker 6>Do I prize that creature in which it is innate?

1364
01:16:20.880 --> 01:16:21.079
<v Speaker 11>Yes?

1365
01:16:21.279 --> 01:16:24.279
<v Speaker 6>Could I exchange my nature with any other creature? I

1366
01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:27.399
<v Speaker 6>feign would be such a happy little lark. He had

1367
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:30.239
<v Speaker 6>hardly uttered these hasty words when the skirts and sleeves

1368
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.640
<v Speaker 6>of his coat folded themselves together into wings. The clothes

1369
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:37.399
<v Speaker 6>became feathers, and the gloshos claws. He observed it perfectly

1370
01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:39.920
<v Speaker 6>and laughed in his heart. Now, then there is no

1371
01:16:40.119 --> 01:16:42.479
<v Speaker 6>doubt that I am dreaming. But I never before was

1372
01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.479
<v Speaker 6>aware of such mad freaks as these. And up he

1373
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.800
<v Speaker 6>flew into the green roof and sang. But in the

1374
01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:49.840
<v Speaker 6>song there was no poetry, for the spirit of the

1375
01:16:49.880 --> 01:16:52.119
<v Speaker 6>poet was gone the shoes. As is the case with

1376
01:16:52.199 --> 01:16:54.520
<v Speaker 6>anybody who does what he has to do properly, could

1377
01:16:54.560 --> 01:16:57.279
<v Speaker 6>only attend to one thing at a time. He wanted

1378
01:16:57.319 --> 01:16:59.079
<v Speaker 6>to be a poet, and he was one. He now

1379
01:16:59.159 --> 01:17:01.600
<v Speaker 6>wished to be a marriage bird. But when he was

1380
01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:06.520
<v Speaker 6>metamorphs into one, the former peculiarities ceased immediately. It is

1381
01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:09.159
<v Speaker 6>really pleasant enough, said he. The whole day long, I

1382
01:17:09.239 --> 01:17:11.399
<v Speaker 6>sit in the office amid the driest law papers, and

1383
01:17:11.479 --> 01:17:13.319
<v Speaker 6>at night I fly in my dream as a lark

1384
01:17:13.359 --> 01:17:16.399
<v Speaker 6>in the gardens of Fredericksburg. One might really write a

1385
01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:19.359
<v Speaker 6>very pretty comedy upon it. He now fluttered down into

1386
01:17:19.399 --> 01:17:21.960
<v Speaker 6>the grass, turned, said gracefully, on every side, and with

1387
01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:24.680
<v Speaker 6>his bill pecked the pliant blades of grass, which, in

1388
01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:27.680
<v Speaker 6>comparison to its present size, seemed as majestic as the

1389
01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:32.840
<v Speaker 6>palm branches of northern Africa. Unfortunately, the pleasure lasted but

1390
01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:36.720
<v Speaker 6>a moment. Presently, a black knight overshattered our enthusiast, who

1391
01:17:36.760 --> 01:17:39.560
<v Speaker 6>had so entirely missed his part of copying clerk at

1392
01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:42.760
<v Speaker 6>a police office. Some vast objects seemed to be thrown

1393
01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:45.520
<v Speaker 6>over him. It was a large oil skin cap which

1394
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:47.479
<v Speaker 6>a sailor boy of the quay had thrown over the

1395
01:17:47.479 --> 01:17:50.760
<v Speaker 6>struggling bird. A coarse hand sought its way carefully and

1396
01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:53.359
<v Speaker 6>under the broad rim, and seized the clerk over the

1397
01:17:53.399 --> 01:17:56.600
<v Speaker 6>back and wings. And the first moment of fear he called, indeed,

1398
01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.119
<v Speaker 6>as loud as he could, you impudent, little blackguard. I

1399
01:17:59.199 --> 01:18:01.399
<v Speaker 6>am a copying clerk at the police office, and you

1400
01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:04.680
<v Speaker 6>know you cannot insult any belonging to the constabulary force

1401
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:08.279
<v Speaker 6>without a chastisement. Besides, you good for nothing. Rascal is

1402
01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:11.359
<v Speaker 6>strictly forbidden to catch birds in the royal gardens of Fredericksburg.

1403
01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.680
<v Speaker 6>But your blue uniform betrays where you come from. This

1404
01:18:14.840 --> 01:18:18.159
<v Speaker 6>fine tirade sounded, however, to the ungodly sailor boy like

1405
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:21.800
<v Speaker 6>a mere Pippi pi. He gave the noisy bird a

1406
01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:24.640
<v Speaker 6>knock on its beak and walked on. He was soon

1407
01:18:24.760 --> 01:18:27.359
<v Speaker 6>met by two schoolboys of the upper class, that is

1408
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:30.439
<v Speaker 6>to say, as individuals, for with regard to learning, they

1409
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:32.960
<v Speaker 6>were in the lowest class in the school, and they

1410
01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:35.960
<v Speaker 6>bought the stupid bird. So the copying clerk came to

1411
01:18:36.039 --> 01:18:39.039
<v Speaker 6>Copenhagen ass guest, or rather as prisoner in a family

1412
01:18:39.119 --> 01:18:42.680
<v Speaker 6>living in gother street. Tis well that I am dreaming,

1413
01:18:42.760 --> 01:18:45.319
<v Speaker 6>said the clerk. I really should get angry. First. I

1414
01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:47.640
<v Speaker 6>was a poet, now sold for a few pences a lark.

1415
01:18:48.039 --> 01:18:50.239
<v Speaker 6>No doubt it was that a cursed poetical nature which

1416
01:18:50.239 --> 01:18:53.039
<v Speaker 6>has metamorphsed me into such a poor, harmless little creature.

1417
01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:56.520
<v Speaker 6>It is really pitiable, particularly when one gets into the

1418
01:18:56.560 --> 01:18:58.640
<v Speaker 6>hands of a little blackguard perfect in all sorts of

1419
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:01.039
<v Speaker 6>cruelty to animals. All I should like to know is

1420
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.840
<v Speaker 6>how the story will end. The two schoolboys, the proprietors,

1421
01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:08.039
<v Speaker 6>now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room.

1422
01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:11.039
<v Speaker 6>A stout, stately dame received him with a smile, but

1423
01:19:11.199 --> 01:19:14.239
<v Speaker 6>she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field bird, as

1424
01:19:14.279 --> 01:19:16.800
<v Speaker 6>she called the lark, should appear in such high society.

1425
01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:20.479
<v Speaker 6>For to day, however, she would allow it, and they

1426
01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:22.399
<v Speaker 6>must shut him in the empty cage that was standing

1427
01:19:22.439 --> 01:19:25.479
<v Speaker 6>in the window. Perhaps he will amuse my good Polly,

1428
01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:28.239
<v Speaker 6>added the lady, looking with a benignant smile at the

1429
01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:31.479
<v Speaker 6>large green parrot that swung himself backwards and forwards most

1430
01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:34.960
<v Speaker 6>comfortably in his ring inside a magnificent brass wired cage.

1431
01:19:35.680 --> 01:19:38.720
<v Speaker 6>To day is Polly's birthday, said she, with stupid simplicity,

1432
01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:41.479
<v Speaker 6>and the little brown field bird must wish him joy.

1433
01:19:42.439 --> 01:19:45.239
<v Speaker 6>Mister Polly uttered not a syllable in reply, but swung

1434
01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:49.000
<v Speaker 6>to and fro with dignified condescension. While a pretty canary

1435
01:19:49.039 --> 01:19:51.119
<v Speaker 6>as Yellow's gold, that had lately been brought from his

1436
01:19:51.159 --> 01:19:54.960
<v Speaker 6>sunny fragrant home began to sing aloud. Noisy creature, Will

1437
01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:57.680
<v Speaker 6>you be quiet, screamed the lady of the house, covering

1438
01:19:57.760 --> 01:20:01.239
<v Speaker 6>the cage with an embroidered white pocket handkerchief. Chirp, chirp,

1439
01:20:01.479 --> 01:20:04.760
<v Speaker 6>sighed He that was a dreadful snowstorm. And he sighed

1440
01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:09.039
<v Speaker 6>again and was silent. The copying clerk, or as thoughlady said,

1441
01:20:09.159 --> 01:20:11.760
<v Speaker 6>the brown field bird was put into a small cage

1442
01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:14.920
<v Speaker 6>close to the canary, but not far from my good Polly.

1443
01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:17.960
<v Speaker 6>The only human sounds that the parrot could ball out

1444
01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:21.479
<v Speaker 6>were come, let us be men. Everything else that he

1445
01:20:21.560 --> 01:20:24.279
<v Speaker 6>said was as unintelligible to everybody as the chirping of

1446
01:20:24.319 --> 01:20:26.439
<v Speaker 6>the canary, except to the clerk, who was now a

1447
01:20:26.520 --> 01:20:31.039
<v Speaker 6>bird too, He understood his companion perfectly. I flew about

1448
01:20:31.119 --> 01:20:33.760
<v Speaker 6>beneath the green palms and the blossoming almond trees, sang

1449
01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:37.079
<v Speaker 6>the canary. I flew around my brothers and sisters, over

1450
01:20:37.119 --> 01:20:39.840
<v Speaker 6>the beautiful flowers, and over the glassy lakes with the

1451
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:43.119
<v Speaker 6>bright water plants nodded to me from below. There too,

1452
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:46.680
<v Speaker 6>I saw many splendidly dressed paroquets that told the drollest

1453
01:20:46.720 --> 01:20:48.560
<v Speaker 6>stories and the wildest fairy tales.

1454
01:20:48.560 --> 01:20:49.079
<v Speaker 8>Without end.

1455
01:20:50.520 --> 01:20:54.079
<v Speaker 6>Oh, those were uncouth birds, answered the parrot. They had

1456
01:20:54.159 --> 01:20:56.479
<v Speaker 6>no education and talked of whatever came into their head.

1457
01:20:57.039 --> 01:20:59.079
<v Speaker 6>If my mistress and all her friends can laugh at

1458
01:20:59.119 --> 01:21:01.439
<v Speaker 6>what I say, so may you too. I should think

1459
01:21:01.880 --> 01:21:03.560
<v Speaker 6>it is a great fault to have no taste for

1460
01:21:03.640 --> 01:21:07.720
<v Speaker 6>what is witty or amusing. Come let us be men. Ah,

1461
01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:10.800
<v Speaker 6>have you no remembrance of love for the charming maidens

1462
01:21:10.840 --> 01:21:14.399
<v Speaker 6>that danced beneath the outspread tents beside the bright, fragrant flowers.

1463
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:17.600
<v Speaker 6>Do you no longer remember the sweet fruits and the

1464
01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:19.840
<v Speaker 6>cooling juice in the wild plants of our never to

1465
01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:23.520
<v Speaker 6>be forgotten home, said the former inhabitant of the Canary Isles,

1466
01:21:23.680 --> 01:21:28.159
<v Speaker 6>continuing his dithrambic. Oh, yes, said the parrot. But I

1467
01:21:28.199 --> 01:21:30.479
<v Speaker 6>am far better off here. I am well fed and

1468
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:31.479
<v Speaker 6>get friendly treatment.

1469
01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:32.119
<v Speaker 10>I know.

1470
01:21:32.239 --> 01:21:34.000
<v Speaker 6>I am a clever fellow, and that is all I

1471
01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:37.319
<v Speaker 6>care about. Come let us be men. You are of

1472
01:21:37.399 --> 01:21:40.520
<v Speaker 6>a poetical nature, as it is called. I, on the contrary,

1473
01:21:40.760 --> 01:21:45.600
<v Speaker 6>possess profound knowledge and inexhaustible wit. You have genius, but

1474
01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:49.439
<v Speaker 6>clear sighted, calm discretion does not take such lofty flights

1475
01:21:49.720 --> 01:21:52.640
<v Speaker 6>and utter such high natural tones. For this, they have

1476
01:21:52.800 --> 01:21:55.159
<v Speaker 6>covered you over. They never do the like to me,

1477
01:21:55.520 --> 01:21:58.680
<v Speaker 6>for I cost more. Besides, they are afraid of my beak,

1478
01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:01.239
<v Speaker 6>and I have always a witty answer at hand. Come

1479
01:22:01.560 --> 01:22:05.960
<v Speaker 6>let us be men, O warm spicy land of my birth,

1480
01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:08.760
<v Speaker 6>sang the canary bird. I will sing of thy dark

1481
01:22:08.840 --> 01:22:12.039
<v Speaker 6>green bowers, of the calm bays, where the pendant boughs

1482
01:22:12.159 --> 01:22:14.520
<v Speaker 6>kiss the surface of the water. I will sing of

1483
01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:17.039
<v Speaker 6>the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters, where the

1484
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:22.720
<v Speaker 6>cactus grows in wanton luxuriance. Sparris your elegiac tones, said

1485
01:22:22.720 --> 01:22:25.800
<v Speaker 6>the parrot, giggling. Rather speak of something at which one

1486
01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:28.800
<v Speaker 6>may laugh heartily. Laughing is an infallible sign of the

1487
01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:32.239
<v Speaker 6>highest degree of mental development. Can a dog or a

1488
01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:35.479
<v Speaker 6>horse laugh? No, but they can cry. The gift of

1489
01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:39.560
<v Speaker 6>laughing was given to man alone. Ha ha ha, screamed Polly,

1490
01:22:39.640 --> 01:22:42.760
<v Speaker 6>and added his stereotype witticism. Come let us be men,

1491
01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:46.479
<v Speaker 6>or a little Danish gray bird, said the canary. You

1492
01:22:46.600 --> 01:22:49.000
<v Speaker 6>have been caught too. It is no doubt cold enough

1493
01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:51.159
<v Speaker 6>in your woods, but there at least is the breath

1494
01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:54.199
<v Speaker 6>of liberty. Therefore fly away in the hurry. They have

1495
01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:56.760
<v Speaker 6>forgotten to shut your cage, and the upper window is open.

1496
01:22:56.960 --> 01:23:02.119
<v Speaker 6>Fly my friend, fly away, farewell. Instinctively, the clerk obeyed.

1497
01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:04.039
<v Speaker 6>With a few strokes of his wings. He was out

1498
01:23:04.079 --> 01:23:06.159
<v Speaker 6>of the cage. But at the same moment the door,

1499
01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:08.520
<v Speaker 6>which was only ajar and which led to the next room,

1500
01:23:08.720 --> 01:23:11.560
<v Speaker 6>began to creak and supple and creaking. Came the large

1501
01:23:11.640 --> 01:23:14.359
<v Speaker 6>tom cat into the room and began to pursue him.

1502
01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:17.680
<v Speaker 6>The frightened canary fluttered about in his cage. The parrot

1503
01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:20.000
<v Speaker 6>flapped his wings and cried, come, let us be men.

1504
01:23:20.840 --> 01:23:23.319
<v Speaker 6>The clerk felt a mortal fright and flew through the window,

1505
01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:26.039
<v Speaker 6>far away over the houses in streets. At last he

1506
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:29.199
<v Speaker 6>was forced to rest a little. The neighboring house had

1507
01:23:29.239 --> 01:23:31.479
<v Speaker 6>a something familiar about it. Window stood open.

1508
01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:32.399
<v Speaker 8>He flew in.

1509
01:23:33.279 --> 01:23:35.760
<v Speaker 6>It was his own room. He perched upon the table.

1510
01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:39.479
<v Speaker 6>Come let us be men, said he involuntarily imitating the

1511
01:23:39.560 --> 01:23:41.279
<v Speaker 6>chatter of the parrot. And at the same moment he

1512
01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:43.680
<v Speaker 6>was again a copying clerk, but he was sitting in

1513
01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:46.520
<v Speaker 6>the middle of the table. Heaven help me, cried he

1514
01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:49.079
<v Speaker 6>How did I get up here? And so buried in

1515
01:23:49.159 --> 01:23:52.560
<v Speaker 6>sleep too? After all, that was a very unpleasant, disagreeable

1516
01:23:52.600 --> 01:23:55.399
<v Speaker 6>dream that haunted me. The whole story is nothing but silly,

1517
01:23:55.520 --> 01:24:04.279
<v Speaker 6>stupid nonsense. Six the best the goloshes gave. The following day,

1518
01:24:04.319 --> 01:24:06.399
<v Speaker 6>early in the morning, while the clerk was still in bed,

1519
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:08.840
<v Speaker 6>some one knocked at his door. It was his neighbor,

1520
01:24:08.920 --> 01:24:11.039
<v Speaker 6>a young divine who lived on the same floor.

1521
01:24:11.479 --> 01:24:12.000
<v Speaker 8>He walked in.

1522
01:24:13.279 --> 01:24:15.319
<v Speaker 6>Lend me your goloshes, said he. It is so wet

1523
01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:17.760
<v Speaker 6>in the garden, though the sun is shining most invitingly,

1524
01:24:17.960 --> 01:24:20.079
<v Speaker 6>I should like to go out a little. He got

1525
01:24:20.119 --> 01:24:22.199
<v Speaker 6>the goloshes, and he was soon below in a little

1526
01:24:22.239 --> 01:24:25.680
<v Speaker 6>duodecimo garden, where between two immense walls, a plum tree

1527
01:24:25.720 --> 01:24:28.239
<v Speaker 6>and an apple tree were standing. Even such a little

1528
01:24:28.279 --> 01:24:30.920
<v Speaker 6>garden as this was considered in the metropolis of Copenhagen

1529
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:33.680
<v Speaker 6>as a great luxury. The young man wandered up and

1530
01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:36.159
<v Speaker 6>down the narrow paths, as well as the prescribe, whom

1531
01:24:36.199 --> 01:24:39.640
<v Speaker 6>its would allow. The clock struck six without was heard

1532
01:24:39.680 --> 01:24:43.640
<v Speaker 6>the horn of a postboy. To travel to travel, exclaimed

1533
01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:48.079
<v Speaker 6>he overcome by most painful and passionate remembrances. That is

1534
01:24:48.119 --> 01:24:50.399
<v Speaker 6>the happiest thing in the world. That is the highest

1535
01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:53.000
<v Speaker 6>aim of all my wishes. Then at last would the

1536
01:24:53.079 --> 01:24:57.319
<v Speaker 6>agonizing restlessness be allayed, which destroys my existence. But it

1537
01:24:57.399 --> 01:25:01.279
<v Speaker 6>must be far far away. I would behold magnificent Switzerland.

1538
01:25:01.319 --> 01:25:04.800
<v Speaker 6>I would travel to Italy. And it was a good

1539
01:25:04.840 --> 01:25:07.319
<v Speaker 6>thing that the power of the gloishes worked as instantaneously

1540
01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:10.239
<v Speaker 6>as lightning in a powder magazine would. Otherwise the poor man,

1541
01:25:10.319 --> 01:25:12.720
<v Speaker 6>with his over strained wishes would have traveled about the

1542
01:25:12.760 --> 01:25:14.960
<v Speaker 6>world too much for himself as well as for us.

1543
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:17.960
<v Speaker 6>In short, he was traveling. He was in the middle

1544
01:25:17.960 --> 01:25:20.680
<v Speaker 6>of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in

1545
01:25:20.760 --> 01:25:24.760
<v Speaker 6>the inside of an eternally creaky diligence. His head ached

1546
01:25:24.840 --> 01:25:27.600
<v Speaker 6>till it almost split, His weary neck could hardly bear

1547
01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:30.680
<v Speaker 6>the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots,

1548
01:25:30.720 --> 01:25:34.279
<v Speaker 6>were terribly swollen. He was in an intermediate state between

1549
01:25:34.359 --> 01:25:37.439
<v Speaker 6>sleeping and waking, at variance with his self and with

1550
01:25:37.560 --> 01:25:41.000
<v Speaker 6>his company within the country, and with the government. In

1551
01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:43.119
<v Speaker 6>his right pocket, he had his letter of credit in

1552
01:25:43.199 --> 01:25:45.720
<v Speaker 6>the left, his passport, and in a small love and purse,

1553
01:25:46.039 --> 01:25:49.079
<v Speaker 6>some double Louis d'Or carefully sewn up in the bosom

1554
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:52.159
<v Speaker 6>of his waistcoat. Every dream proclaimed that one or the

1555
01:25:52.199 --> 01:25:55.479
<v Speaker 6>other of these valuables was lost wherefore he started up

1556
01:25:55.520 --> 01:25:58.319
<v Speaker 6>as in a fever, and the first movement which his

1557
01:25:58.399 --> 01:26:01.119
<v Speaker 6>handmade described magic tryump angle from the right pocket to

1558
01:26:01.159 --> 01:26:03.359
<v Speaker 6>the left and then upwards to the bosom, to feel

1559
01:26:03.439 --> 01:26:05.439
<v Speaker 6>if he had all of them safe or not. From

1560
01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:08.600
<v Speaker 6>the roof inside the carriage, umbrellas, walking sticks, hats, and sundry.

1561
01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:11.720
<v Speaker 6>Other articles were depending and hindered the view, which was

1562
01:26:11.760 --> 01:26:15.399
<v Speaker 6>particularly imposing. He now endeavored as well as he was

1563
01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:18.359
<v Speaker 6>able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward

1564
01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:21.880
<v Speaker 6>chance circumstances. Merely and on the bosom of nature, imbibed

1565
01:26:21.880 --> 01:26:26.199
<v Speaker 6>the milk of purest human enjoyment. Grand, solemn and dark

1566
01:26:26.359 --> 01:26:29.720
<v Speaker 6>was the whole landscape around the gigantic pine forests on

1567
01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:32.640
<v Speaker 6>the pointed crags seemed almost like little tufts of heather,

1568
01:26:33.159 --> 01:26:36.279
<v Speaker 6>colored by the surrounding clouds. It began to snow a

1569
01:26:36.399 --> 01:26:39.119
<v Speaker 6>cold wind, blue and roared as though it were seeking

1570
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:43.239
<v Speaker 6>a bride. Ah sighed he where we only on the

1571
01:26:43.319 --> 01:26:45.520
<v Speaker 6>other side of the Alps, then we should have summer

1572
01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:47.840
<v Speaker 6>and I could get my letters of credit cash. The

1573
01:26:47.880 --> 01:26:51.119
<v Speaker 6>anxietydy I feel about them prevents me enjoying Switzerland. Were

1574
01:26:51.159 --> 01:26:53.640
<v Speaker 6>I but on the other side, and so saying he

1575
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:56.319
<v Speaker 6>was on the other side in Italy. Between Florence and Rome.

1576
01:26:57.600 --> 01:27:01.760
<v Speaker 6>Lake Thrasimene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold,

1577
01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:06.239
<v Speaker 6>between the dark blue mountain ridges. Here where Hannibal defeated Flaminius.

1578
01:27:06.640 --> 01:27:08.960
<v Speaker 6>The rivers now held each other in their green embraces.

1579
01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:12.479
<v Speaker 6>Lovely half naked children tended a herd of black swine

1580
01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:15.920
<v Speaker 6>beneath a group of fragrant laurel trees hard by the roadside.

1581
01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:21.399
<v Speaker 6>Could we render this inimitable picture properly? Then, would everybody

1582
01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:25.960
<v Speaker 6>exclaim beautiful, unparalleled Italy. But neither the young divine said so,

1583
01:27:26.439 --> 01:27:28.960
<v Speaker 6>nor any of his grumbling companions. In the coach of

1584
01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:33.199
<v Speaker 6>the veder Reino, the poisonous flies and gnats swarmed around

1585
01:27:33.239 --> 01:27:36.560
<v Speaker 6>by thousands in vain. One waved myrtle branches about like mad.

1586
01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:40.079
<v Speaker 6>The audacious insect population did not cease to sting, nor

1587
01:27:40.199 --> 01:27:42.199
<v Speaker 6>was there a single person in the well crammed carriage

1588
01:27:42.199 --> 01:27:45.000
<v Speaker 6>whose face was not swollen and sore from their ravenous bites.

1589
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:48.319
<v Speaker 6>The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from

1590
01:27:48.359 --> 01:27:51.399
<v Speaker 6>this truly Egyptian plague. The flies alighted upon them in

1591
01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:54.479
<v Speaker 6>large disgusting swarms, and if the coachman got down and

1592
01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:57.039
<v Speaker 6>scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were

1593
01:27:57.079 --> 01:28:02.279
<v Speaker 6>there again. The sun night set, A freezing cold, though

1594
01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:05.800
<v Speaker 6>of short duration, pervaded the whole creation. It was like

1595
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:08.119
<v Speaker 6>a horrid dust coming from a burial vault on a

1596
01:28:08.199 --> 01:28:11.079
<v Speaker 6>warm summer's day. But all around the mountains retained that

1597
01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:13.760
<v Speaker 6>wonderful green tone which we see in some old pictures,

1598
01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:16.640
<v Speaker 6>and which should we not have seen a similar play

1599
01:28:16.680 --> 01:28:18.920
<v Speaker 6>of color in the south, we declare at once to

1600
01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:22.720
<v Speaker 6>be unnatural. It was a glorious prospect, but the stomach

1601
01:28:22.800 --> 01:28:25.600
<v Speaker 6>was empty, the body tired. All that the heart cared

1602
01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:27.960
<v Speaker 6>and longed for was a good night quarters. Yet how

1603
01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:28.439
<v Speaker 6>would they be?

1604
01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:30.319
<v Speaker 4>For these?

1605
01:28:30.439 --> 01:28:33.199
<v Speaker 6>One looked much more anxiously than for the charms of nature,

1606
01:28:33.560 --> 01:28:37.760
<v Speaker 6>which every which wear were so profusely displayed. The road

1607
01:28:37.840 --> 01:28:40.119
<v Speaker 6>let through an olive grove, and here the solitary inn

1608
01:28:40.239 --> 01:28:43.800
<v Speaker 6>was situated. Ten or twelve crippled beggars had encamped outside.

1609
01:28:44.239 --> 01:28:47.279
<v Speaker 6>The healthiest thumb resembled, to use an expression of Mariat's

1610
01:28:47.720 --> 01:28:50.680
<v Speaker 6>Hunger's oldest son when he had come of age. The

1611
01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:53.319
<v Speaker 6>others were either blind, had withered legs, and crept about

1612
01:28:53.359 --> 01:28:56.479
<v Speaker 6>on their hands or withered arms in fingerler's hands. It

1613
01:28:56.600 --> 01:29:03.520
<v Speaker 6>was the most wretched misery dragged from amongst the filthiest rags. Excellenza, miserabili, sighed,

1614
01:29:03.560 --> 01:29:07.920
<v Speaker 6>they thrusting forth their deformed limbs to view. Even the hostess,

1615
01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:10.439
<v Speaker 6>with bare feet, uncombed hair, and dressed in a garment

1616
01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:14.359
<v Speaker 6>of doubtful color, received the guests grumblingly. The doors were

1617
01:29:14.399 --> 01:29:16.560
<v Speaker 6>fastened with a loop of string. The floor of the

1618
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:20.000
<v Speaker 6>rooms presented a stone paving, half torn up. Bats fluttered

1619
01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:23.479
<v Speaker 6>wildly about the ceiling and asked the smell therein? No,

1620
01:29:24.039 --> 01:29:28.399
<v Speaker 6>that was beyond description. You had better lay the cloth

1621
01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:30.920
<v Speaker 6>below in the stable, said one of the travelers. There

1622
01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:34.119
<v Speaker 6>at all offens one knows what one is breathing. The

1623
01:29:34.199 --> 01:29:36.680
<v Speaker 6>windows were quickly opened to let in a little fresh air,

1624
01:29:37.119 --> 01:29:39.880
<v Speaker 6>quicker however, than the breeze. The withered, sallow arms of

1625
01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:42.560
<v Speaker 6>the beggars were thrust in, accompanied by the eternal whine

1626
01:29:42.600 --> 01:29:48.159
<v Speaker 6>of miserabili, miserabili, excellenza. On the walls were displayed innumerable

1627
01:29:48.199 --> 01:29:51.520
<v Speaker 6>inscriptions written in nearly every language of Europe, some in verse,

1628
01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:54.680
<v Speaker 6>some in prose, most of them not a very laudatory

1629
01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:59.600
<v Speaker 6>of Bella, Italia. The meal was served. It consisted of

1630
01:29:59.640 --> 01:30:03.239
<v Speaker 6>a suit of salted water seasoned with pepper and rancid oil.

1631
01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:06.840
<v Speaker 6>The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad.

1632
01:30:07.560 --> 01:30:10.960
<v Speaker 6>Stale eggs and roasted cockscombs furnished the grand dish of

1633
01:30:11.039 --> 01:30:14.840
<v Speaker 6>the repast. The wine even was not without a disgusting taste.

1634
01:30:15.199 --> 01:30:19.000
<v Speaker 6>It was like a medicinal draft. At night, the boxes

1635
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:21.279
<v Speaker 6>and other effects of the passengers were placed against the

1636
01:30:21.359 --> 01:30:24.239
<v Speaker 6>rickety doors. One of the travelers kept watch while the

1637
01:30:24.279 --> 01:30:27.920
<v Speaker 6>others slept. The sentry was our young divine, how close

1638
01:30:27.960 --> 01:30:31.159
<v Speaker 6>it was in the chamber, the heat oppressive to suffocation.

1639
01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:35.880
<v Speaker 6>The gnats hummed and stung unceasingly. The miserability without whined

1640
01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:40.600
<v Speaker 6>and moaned in their sleep. Traveling would be agreeable enough,

1641
01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:44.439
<v Speaker 6>said he groaning, if one only had no body or

1642
01:30:44.479 --> 01:30:46.399
<v Speaker 6>could send it to rest. While the spirit went on

1643
01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:49.920
<v Speaker 6>its pilgrimage unhindered, whether the voice within might call out

1644
01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:52.920
<v Speaker 6>wherever I go. I am pursued by a longing that

1645
01:30:53.039 --> 01:30:55.960
<v Speaker 6>is insatiable that I cannot explain to myself, and that

1646
01:30:56.159 --> 01:30:59.000
<v Speaker 6>tear is my very heart. I want something better than

1647
01:30:59.039 --> 01:31:01.720
<v Speaker 6>what is fled in an instant. But what is it

1648
01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:04.319
<v Speaker 6>and where is it to be found? Yet I know

1649
01:31:04.439 --> 01:31:08.279
<v Speaker 6>in reality what it is I wish for, Oh, most

1650
01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:10.920
<v Speaker 6>happy were I? Could I but reach one aim, could

1651
01:31:10.960 --> 01:31:14.720
<v Speaker 6>but reach the happiest of all. And as he spoke

1652
01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:16.960
<v Speaker 6>the word, he was again in his home. The long

1653
01:31:17.039 --> 01:31:19.439
<v Speaker 6>white curtains hung down from the windows, and in the

1654
01:31:19.479 --> 01:31:22.119
<v Speaker 6>middle of the floor stood the black coffin. In it

1655
01:31:22.239 --> 01:31:25.560
<v Speaker 6>he lay in the sleep of death. His wish was fulfilled.

1656
01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:29.119
<v Speaker 6>The body rested, while the spirit went unhindered on its pilgrimage.

1657
01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:32.760
<v Speaker 6>Let no one deem himself happy before his end were

1658
01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:35.119
<v Speaker 6>the words of Saloon. And here was a new and

1659
01:31:35.199 --> 01:31:39.479
<v Speaker 6>brilliant proof of the wisdom of the old apothegm Every

1660
01:31:39.560 --> 01:31:42.319
<v Speaker 6>corpse is a sphinx of immortality. Here too, on the

1661
01:31:42.319 --> 01:31:44.560
<v Speaker 6>black coffin, the sphinx gave us no answer to what

1662
01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:50.399
<v Speaker 6>he who lay within had written two days before, O

1663
01:31:50.600 --> 01:31:55.000
<v Speaker 6>mighty death, Thy silence teaches not thou leadest only to

1664
01:31:55.079 --> 01:31:58.079
<v Speaker 6>the near Greeve's brink is broken. Now the latter of

1665
01:31:58.159 --> 01:32:03.000
<v Speaker 6>my thoughts do I instead mounting only sink our heaviest

1666
01:32:03.079 --> 01:32:06.399
<v Speaker 6>grief the world oft seeth not our sorest pain. We

1667
01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:09.560
<v Speaker 6>hide from stranger eyes. And for the sufferer there is

1668
01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:12.960
<v Speaker 6>nothing left but the green mound that over the coffin lies.

1669
01:32:14.640 --> 01:32:17.359
<v Speaker 6>Two figures were moving in the chamber. We know them both.

1670
01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:20.239
<v Speaker 6>It was the fairy of care and the emissary of fortune.

1671
01:32:20.600 --> 01:32:24.000
<v Speaker 6>They both bent over the corpse. Do you now see,

1672
01:32:24.199 --> 01:32:27.279
<v Speaker 6>said Caer, what happiness your galoshes have brought to mankind?

1673
01:32:28.640 --> 01:32:30.960
<v Speaker 6>To him at least two slumbers. Here they have brought

1674
01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:35.319
<v Speaker 6>an imperishable blessing, answered the other. Ah No, replied Ker.

1675
01:32:35.880 --> 01:32:38.479
<v Speaker 6>He took his departure himself. He was not called away.

1676
01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:41.159
<v Speaker 6>His mental powers here below were not strong enough to

1677
01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:43.880
<v Speaker 6>reach the treasures lying beyond this life, and which his

1678
01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:47.319
<v Speaker 6>destiny ordained he should obtain. I will now confer a

1679
01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:50.640
<v Speaker 6>benefit on him. And she took the goloshes from his feet.

1680
01:32:51.039 --> 01:32:53.319
<v Speaker 6>His sleep of death was ended, and he who had

1681
01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:55.760
<v Speaker 6>been thus called back again to life, arose from his

1682
01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:59.800
<v Speaker 6>dread couch, and all the vigor of youth care vanished,

1683
01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:02.960
<v Speaker 6>and with her the geboshes. She had no doubt taking

1684
01:33:03.000 --> 01:33:07.279
<v Speaker 6>them for herself, to keep them to all eternity, and

1685
01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:09.039
<v Speaker 6>of the shoes of fortune.

1686
01:33:10.159 --> 01:33:11.079
<v Speaker 14>The fir tree.

1687
01:33:13.720 --> 01:33:16.560
<v Speaker 4>Out in the woods stood a nice little fir tree

1688
01:33:18.000 --> 01:33:21.199
<v Speaker 4>The place he had was a very good one. The

1689
01:33:21.359 --> 01:33:25.000
<v Speaker 4>sun shone on him. As to fresh air, there was

1690
01:33:25.159 --> 01:33:30.159
<v Speaker 4>enough of that, and round him grew many large sized comrades,

1691
01:33:30.439 --> 01:33:34.640
<v Speaker 4>pines as well as furs. But the little fir wanted

1692
01:33:34.760 --> 01:33:39.319
<v Speaker 4>so very much to be a grown up tree. He

1693
01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:42.079
<v Speaker 4>did not think of the warm sun and of the

1694
01:33:42.239 --> 01:33:46.560
<v Speaker 4>fresh air. He did not care for the little cottage

1695
01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:49.439
<v Speaker 4>children that ran about and prattled when they were in

1696
01:33:49.520 --> 01:33:54.319
<v Speaker 4>the woods looking for wild strawberries. The children often came

1697
01:33:54.439 --> 01:33:57.079
<v Speaker 4>with a whole pitcher full of berries, or a long

1698
01:33:57.239 --> 01:34:00.520
<v Speaker 4>row of them threaded on a straw, and so down

1699
01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:03.680
<v Speaker 4>near the young tree, and said, oh, how pretty he is,

1700
01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:08.439
<v Speaker 4>what a nice little fur. But this was what the

1701
01:34:08.520 --> 01:34:13.279
<v Speaker 4>tree could not bear to hear. At the end of

1702
01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:15.800
<v Speaker 4>a year he had shot up a good deal, and

1703
01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:19.840
<v Speaker 4>after another year he was another long bit taller. For

1704
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:22.960
<v Speaker 4>with fir trees one can always tell by the shoots

1705
01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:23.800
<v Speaker 4>how many.

1706
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:24.720
<v Speaker 14>Years old they are.

1707
01:34:26.760 --> 01:34:31.479
<v Speaker 4>Oh, were I but such a high tree as the

1708
01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:32.319
<v Speaker 4>others are?

1709
01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:33.479
<v Speaker 14>Sighed?

1710
01:34:33.520 --> 01:34:37.920
<v Speaker 4>He then I should be able to spread out my

1711
01:34:38.199 --> 01:34:43.279
<v Speaker 4>branches and with the tops to look into the wide world.

1712
01:34:44.439 --> 01:34:49.199
<v Speaker 4>Then would the birds build nests among my branches? And

1713
01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:53.279
<v Speaker 4>when there was a breeze I could bend with as

1714
01:34:53.439 --> 01:35:01.399
<v Speaker 4>much stateliness as the others. Neither the sunbeam, nor the birds,

1715
01:35:02.479 --> 01:35:06.319
<v Speaker 4>nor the red clouds which morning and evening sailed above him,

1716
01:35:06.439 --> 01:35:08.359
<v Speaker 4>gave the little tree any pleasure.

1717
01:35:10.600 --> 01:35:12.960
<v Speaker 14>In winter, when the snow.

1718
01:35:12.800 --> 01:35:15.880
<v Speaker 4>Lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come

1719
01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:19.760
<v Speaker 4>leaping along and jump right over the little tree.

1720
01:35:20.840 --> 01:35:22.920
<v Speaker 14>Oh, that made him so angry.

1721
01:35:24.520 --> 01:35:27.880
<v Speaker 4>But two winters were past, and in the third the

1722
01:35:27.960 --> 01:35:31.079
<v Speaker 4>tree was so large that the hare was obliged to

1723
01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:36.680
<v Speaker 4>go round it, to grow and grow, to get older

1724
01:35:37.279 --> 01:35:42.960
<v Speaker 4>and be tall, thought the tree, that, after all, is

1725
01:35:43.039 --> 01:35:45.079
<v Speaker 4>the most delightful.

1726
01:35:44.600 --> 01:35:45.640
<v Speaker 14>Thing in the world.

1727
01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:52.039
<v Speaker 4>In autumn, the woodcutters always came and felled some of

1728
01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:57.479
<v Speaker 4>the largest trees. This happened every year, and the young

1729
01:35:57.600 --> 01:36:00.359
<v Speaker 4>fir tree, that had now grown to a very comely

1730
01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:05.359
<v Speaker 4>siyhes trembled at the sight. For the magnificent great trees

1731
01:36:05.640 --> 01:36:09.680
<v Speaker 4>fell to the earth with noise and cracking. The branches

1732
01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:13.640
<v Speaker 4>were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare.

1733
01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:19.560
<v Speaker 4>They were hardly to be recognized. And then they were

1734
01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:24.079
<v Speaker 4>laden carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.

1735
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:31.399
<v Speaker 14>Where did they go to? What became of them? In spring?

1736
01:36:32.399 --> 01:36:35.319
<v Speaker 4>When the swallows and storks came, the tree asked them,

1737
01:36:36.479 --> 01:36:39.039
<v Speaker 4>don't you know where they have been taken?

1738
01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:41.920
<v Speaker 14>Have you not met them anywhere?

1739
01:36:44.079 --> 01:36:47.680
<v Speaker 4>The swallows did not know anything about it, but the

1740
01:36:47.800 --> 01:36:54.359
<v Speaker 4>stork looked musing, nodded his head, and said, yes, I

1741
01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:55.399
<v Speaker 4>think I know.

1742
01:36:56.680 --> 01:37:00.319
<v Speaker 12>I met many ships as I was flying hither from

1743
01:37:00.439 --> 01:37:05.720
<v Speaker 12>Egypt on. The ships were magnificent masts, and I venture

1744
01:37:05.760 --> 01:37:09.359
<v Speaker 12>to assert that it was they that smelt so of fur.

1745
01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:14.760
<v Speaker 12>I may congratulate you, for they lifted themselves on the

1746
01:37:14.920 --> 01:37:16.880
<v Speaker 12>high most majestically.

1747
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:24.119
<v Speaker 4>Ho were I but old enough to fly across the sea.

1748
01:37:25.640 --> 01:37:29.239
<v Speaker 4>But how does the sea look in reality? What is

1749
01:37:29.319 --> 01:37:34.399
<v Speaker 4>it like? That would take a long time to explain,

1750
01:37:35.039 --> 01:37:39.000
<v Speaker 4>said the stork, and with these words off he went.

1751
01:37:40.840 --> 01:37:45.520
<v Speaker 4>Rejoice in thy growth, said the sunbeams. Rejoice in thy

1752
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:50.119
<v Speaker 4>vigorous growth, and in the fresh life that moveth within

1753
01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:54.479
<v Speaker 4>thee And the wind kiss'd the tree, and the dew

1754
01:37:54.600 --> 01:37:58.960
<v Speaker 4>wept tears over him. But the fir understood it not.

1755
01:38:01.840 --> 01:38:06.560
<v Speaker 4>When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down, trees

1756
01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:09.560
<v Speaker 4>which often were not even as large or as of

1757
01:38:09.640 --> 01:38:13.279
<v Speaker 4>the same age as this fir tree, who could never rest,

1758
01:38:13.399 --> 01:38:18.439
<v Speaker 4>but always wanted to be off these young trees, and

1759
01:38:18.560 --> 01:38:23.479
<v Speaker 4>they were always the finest looking, retained their branches. They

1760
01:38:23.479 --> 01:38:26.520
<v Speaker 4>were laid on carts, and the horses drew.

1761
01:38:26.399 --> 01:38:27.279
<v Speaker 14>Them out of the wood.

1762
01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:33.960
<v Speaker 4>Where are they going to, asked the fir. They are

1763
01:38:34.079 --> 01:38:37.760
<v Speaker 4>not taller than I. There was one, indeed that was

1764
01:38:37.880 --> 01:38:43.479
<v Speaker 4>considerably shorter. And why do they retain all their branches?

1765
01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:45.560
<v Speaker 4>Whither are they taken?

1766
01:38:47.039 --> 01:38:49.880
<v Speaker 14>We know, we know, chirped the sparrows.

1767
01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:53.279
<v Speaker 8>We have peeped in at the windows in the town below.

1768
01:38:54.039 --> 01:38:58.560
<v Speaker 8>We know whither they are taken. The greatest splendor and

1769
01:38:58.680 --> 01:39:03.039
<v Speaker 8>the greatest magnificence one can imagine await them. We peeped

1770
01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:06.199
<v Speaker 8>through the windows and saw them planted in the middle

1771
01:39:06.239 --> 01:39:10.600
<v Speaker 8>of the warm room, and ornamented with the most splendid things,

1772
01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:17.520
<v Speaker 8>with gilded apples, with gingerbread, with toys and many hundred lights.

1773
01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:22.960
<v Speaker 4>And then asked the fir, tree trembling in every bough,

1774
01:39:23.399 --> 01:39:28.199
<v Speaker 4>and then what happens? Then? We did not see anything more.

1775
01:39:29.039 --> 01:39:35.039
<v Speaker 4>It was incomparably beautiful. I would fain know if I

1776
01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:39.880
<v Speaker 4>am destined for so glorious a career, cried the tree, rejoicing,

1777
01:39:40.760 --> 01:39:44.600
<v Speaker 4>that is still better than to cross the sea. What

1778
01:39:44.760 --> 01:39:46.199
<v Speaker 4>a longing? Do I suffer?

1779
01:39:47.159 --> 01:39:48.560
<v Speaker 14>Were Christmas? But come?

1780
01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:54.439
<v Speaker 4>I am now tall, and my branches spread like the

1781
01:39:54.560 --> 01:39:56.439
<v Speaker 4>others that were carried off last year?

1782
01:39:57.800 --> 01:39:58.000
<v Speaker 10>Oh?

1783
01:39:58.920 --> 01:40:01.840
<v Speaker 4>Were I but all read on the cart? Were I

1784
01:40:02.119 --> 01:40:06.239
<v Speaker 4>in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence? Yes,

1785
01:40:07.039 --> 01:40:12.479
<v Speaker 4>and something better, something still grander, will surely follow? Or

1786
01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:16.800
<v Speaker 4>wherefore should they thus ornament me? Something better, something still

1787
01:40:16.920 --> 01:40:22.119
<v Speaker 4>grander must follow? But what, oh, how I long? How

1788
01:40:22.199 --> 01:40:25.319
<v Speaker 4>I suffer? I do not know myself?

1789
01:40:25.399 --> 01:40:26.479
<v Speaker 14>What is the matter with me?

1790
01:40:28.800 --> 01:40:32.880
<v Speaker 4>Rejoice in our presence, said the air in the sunlight.

1791
01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:40.079
<v Speaker 4>Rejoice in thy own fresh youth. But the tree did

1792
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:44.359
<v Speaker 4>not rejoice at all. He grew and grew, and was

1793
01:40:44.439 --> 01:40:48.840
<v Speaker 4>green both winter and summer. People that saw him said,

1794
01:40:49.640 --> 01:40:53.079
<v Speaker 4>what a fine tree. And towards Christmas he was one

1795
01:40:53.119 --> 01:40:57.039
<v Speaker 4>of the first that was cut down. The axe struck

1796
01:40:57.279 --> 01:40:58.680
<v Speaker 4>deep into the very pith.

1797
01:40:59.720 --> 01:41:01.800
<v Speaker 14>The tree tree fell to the earth with a sigh.

1798
01:41:02.920 --> 01:41:05.760
<v Speaker 14>He felt a pang. It was like a swoon.

1799
01:41:06.760 --> 01:41:10.079
<v Speaker 4>He could not think of happiness, for he was sorrowful

1800
01:41:10.159 --> 01:41:13.119
<v Speaker 4>at being separated from his home, from the place where

1801
01:41:13.119 --> 01:41:16.359
<v Speaker 4>he had sprung up. He well knew that he should

1802
01:41:16.439 --> 01:41:19.680
<v Speaker 4>never see his dear old comrades the little bushes and

1803
01:41:19.800 --> 01:41:23.439
<v Speaker 4>flowers around him any more, perhaps not even the birds.

1804
01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:30.520
<v Speaker 4>The departure was not at all agreeable. The tree only

1805
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:33.680
<v Speaker 4>came to himself when he was unloaded in a courtyard

1806
01:41:33.800 --> 01:41:36.439
<v Speaker 4>with the other trees, and heard a man say that

1807
01:41:36.680 --> 01:41:41.640
<v Speaker 4>one is splendid. We don't want the others. Then two

1808
01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:45.159
<v Speaker 4>servants came in rich livery and carried the fir tree

1809
01:41:45.279 --> 01:41:50.279
<v Speaker 4>into a large and splendid drawing room. Portraits were hanging

1810
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:53.960
<v Speaker 4>on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood

1811
01:41:54.039 --> 01:41:59.279
<v Speaker 4>two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers. There

1812
01:41:59.359 --> 01:42:05.000
<v Speaker 4>too were large easy chairs, silken sofas, large tables full

1813
01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:07.960
<v Speaker 4>of picture books, and full of toys worth hundreds and

1814
01:42:08.159 --> 01:42:13.359
<v Speaker 4>hundreds of crowns at least, the children said so. And

1815
01:42:13.479 --> 01:42:16.439
<v Speaker 4>the fir tree was stuck upright in a cask that

1816
01:42:16.640 --> 01:42:19.279
<v Speaker 4>was filled with sand, but no one could see that

1817
01:42:19.359 --> 01:42:22.439
<v Speaker 4>it was a cask, for green cloth was hung all

1818
01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:27.640
<v Speaker 4>round it, and it stood on a large gaily colored carpet. Oh,

1819
01:42:28.720 --> 01:42:30.279
<v Speaker 4>how the tree quivered.

1820
01:42:31.119 --> 01:42:31.960
<v Speaker 14>What was to happen?

1821
01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:36.760
<v Speaker 4>The servants as well as the young ladies, decorated it.

1822
01:42:37.800 --> 01:42:40.800
<v Speaker 4>On one branch there hung little nets cut out of

1823
01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:44.359
<v Speaker 4>colored paper and each net was filled with sugar plums.

1824
01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:46.560
<v Speaker 14>And among the other.

1825
01:42:46.520 --> 01:42:50.880
<v Speaker 4>Boughs, gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though

1826
01:42:50.960 --> 01:42:54.720
<v Speaker 4>they had grown there, And little blue and white tapers

1827
01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:56.239
<v Speaker 4>were placed among the leaves.

1828
01:42:57.520 --> 01:42:59.560
<v Speaker 14>Dolls that looked for the world like men.

1829
01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:03.680
<v Speaker 4>The tree had never beheld such before were seen among

1830
01:43:03.720 --> 01:43:07.319
<v Speaker 4>the foliage, and at the very top a large star

1831
01:43:07.560 --> 01:43:16.760
<v Speaker 4>of gold tinsel was fixed. It was really splendid, beyond description, splendid.

1832
01:43:18.279 --> 01:43:19.079
<v Speaker 14>This evening.

1833
01:43:19.439 --> 01:43:24.479
<v Speaker 4>They all said, how it will shine this evening, Oh,

1834
01:43:25.560 --> 01:43:30.039
<v Speaker 4>thought the tree. If the evening were but come, if

1835
01:43:30.159 --> 01:43:33.640
<v Speaker 4>the tapers were but lighted, and then I wonder what

1836
01:43:33.640 --> 01:43:37.640
<v Speaker 4>will happen. Perhaps the other trees from the forest will

1837
01:43:37.680 --> 01:43:41.520
<v Speaker 4>come to look at me. Perhaps the sparrows will beat

1838
01:43:41.640 --> 01:43:45.479
<v Speaker 4>against the window panes. I wonder if I shall take

1839
01:43:45.640 --> 01:43:50.880
<v Speaker 4>root here, and winter and summer stand covered with ornaments.

1840
01:43:52.760 --> 01:43:56.079
<v Speaker 4>He knew very much about the matter, for he was

1841
01:43:56.239 --> 01:43:59.119
<v Speaker 4>so impatient that for sheer longing he got a pain

1842
01:43:59.199 --> 01:44:03.279
<v Speaker 4>in his back. And this with trees is the same

1843
01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:08.279
<v Speaker 4>thing as a headache with us. The candles were now lighted.

1844
01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:14.359
<v Speaker 4>What brightness, what splendor. The tree trembled so in every

1845
01:44:14.479 --> 01:44:17.560
<v Speaker 4>bough that one of the tapers set fire to the foliage.

1846
01:44:18.279 --> 01:44:20.119
<v Speaker 14>It blazed up famously.

1847
01:44:20.960 --> 01:44:24.680
<v Speaker 4>Help, Help, cried the young ladies, and they quickly put

1848
01:44:24.720 --> 01:44:28.680
<v Speaker 4>out the fire. Now the tree did not even dare

1849
01:44:28.840 --> 01:44:32.760
<v Speaker 4>tremble what a state he was in. He was so

1850
01:44:33.079 --> 01:44:36.239
<v Speaker 4>uneasy lest he should lose something of his splendor, that

1851
01:44:36.359 --> 01:44:40.600
<v Speaker 4>he was quite bewildered amidst the glare and brightness. When

1852
01:44:40.680 --> 01:44:45.600
<v Speaker 4>suddenly both folding doors opened, and a troop of children

1853
01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:49.279
<v Speaker 4>rushed in as if they would upset the tree. The

1854
01:44:49.399 --> 01:44:53.520
<v Speaker 4>older persons followed quietly. The little one stood quite still,

1855
01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:58.479
<v Speaker 4>but it was only for a moment. Then they shouted

1856
01:44:58.520 --> 01:45:02.479
<v Speaker 4>that the whole place re echoed with their rejoicing. They

1857
01:45:02.600 --> 01:45:06.479
<v Speaker 4>danced round the tree, and one present after the other

1858
01:45:06.760 --> 01:45:10.159
<v Speaker 4>was pulled off. What are they about?

1859
01:45:10.600 --> 01:45:12.840
<v Speaker 14>Thought the tree? What is to happen now?

1860
01:45:14.520 --> 01:45:17.960
<v Speaker 4>And the lights burned down to the very branches. And

1861
01:45:18.079 --> 01:45:21.079
<v Speaker 4>as they burned down, they were put out, one after

1862
01:45:21.239 --> 01:45:24.520
<v Speaker 4>the other. And that the children had permission to plunder

1863
01:45:24.600 --> 01:45:28.319
<v Speaker 4>the tree. So they fell upon it with such violence

1864
01:45:28.439 --> 01:45:32.600
<v Speaker 4>that all its branches cracked. If it had not been

1865
01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:36.560
<v Speaker 4>firmly fixed in the ground, it would certainly have tumbled down.

1866
01:45:38.840 --> 01:45:42.880
<v Speaker 4>The children danced about with their beautiful playthings. No one

1867
01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:45.880
<v Speaker 4>looked at the tree except the old nurse, who peeped

1868
01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:49.520
<v Speaker 4>between the branches, But it was only to see if

1869
01:45:49.560 --> 01:45:51.800
<v Speaker 4>there was a fig or an apple left that had

1870
01:45:51.840 --> 01:45:57.279
<v Speaker 4>been forgotten. A story, a story, cried the children, drawing

1871
01:45:57.319 --> 01:45:59.279
<v Speaker 4>a little fat man towards the tree.

1872
01:46:00.359 --> 01:46:01.920
<v Speaker 14>He seated himself.

1873
01:46:01.680 --> 01:46:04.640
<v Speaker 4>Under it and said, now we are in the shade,

1874
01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:08.239
<v Speaker 4>and the tree can listen too. But I shall tell

1875
01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:12.359
<v Speaker 4>only one story now, which will you have? That about

1876
01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:17.319
<v Speaker 4>ivany Avidy, or about Humpty Dumpty who tumbled downstairs, and

1877
01:46:17.479 --> 01:46:19.680
<v Speaker 4>yet after all came to the throne and married the

1878
01:46:19.720 --> 01:46:25.479
<v Speaker 4>princess ivety Avney cried some Humpty Dumpty, cried the others.

1879
01:46:26.319 --> 01:46:30.199
<v Speaker 4>There was such a bawling in screaming. The fir tree

1880
01:46:30.239 --> 01:46:33.680
<v Speaker 4>alone was silent. And he thought to himself, am I

1881
01:46:34.039 --> 01:46:37.439
<v Speaker 4>not to ball with the rest? Am I to do

1882
01:46:37.640 --> 01:46:41.840
<v Speaker 4>nothing whatever? For he was one of the company and

1883
01:46:42.079 --> 01:46:45.720
<v Speaker 4>had done what he had to do. And the old

1884
01:46:45.800 --> 01:46:50.079
<v Speaker 4>man told about Humpty Dumpty that tumbled down, who notwithstanding,

1885
01:46:50.239 --> 01:46:53.239
<v Speaker 4>came to the throne and at last married the princess.

1886
01:46:54.479 --> 01:46:57.720
<v Speaker 4>And the children clapped their hands and cried, oh, go

1887
01:46:58.000 --> 01:47:02.039
<v Speaker 4>on to go on. They wanted to hear about Ivey

1888
01:47:02.159 --> 01:47:05.880
<v Speaker 4>Aftey too, But the little man only told them about

1889
01:47:05.960 --> 01:47:11.159
<v Speaker 4>Humpty Dumpty. The fir tree stood quite still and absorbed

1890
01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:14.800
<v Speaker 4>in thought. The birds in the wood had never related

1891
01:47:14.920 --> 01:47:20.680
<v Speaker 4>the like of this. Humpy Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet

1892
01:47:20.720 --> 01:47:25.479
<v Speaker 4>he married the princess. Yes, yes, that's the way of

1893
01:47:25.560 --> 01:47:29.399
<v Speaker 4>the world, thought the fir tree, and believed it all

1894
01:47:30.199 --> 01:47:32.239
<v Speaker 4>because the man who told the story.

1895
01:47:32.039 --> 01:47:33.079
<v Speaker 14>Was so good looking.

1896
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:39.319
<v Speaker 4>Well, well, who knows, Perhaps I may fall downstairs too

1897
01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:43.800
<v Speaker 4>and get a princess his wife. And he looked forward

1898
01:47:43.840 --> 01:47:46.560
<v Speaker 4>with joy to the morrow, when he hoped to be

1899
01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:52.239
<v Speaker 4>decked out again with lights, playthings, fruits and tinsel. I

1900
01:47:52.479 --> 01:47:56.479
<v Speaker 4>won't tremble to morrow, thought the fir tree. I will

1901
01:47:56.680 --> 01:48:01.680
<v Speaker 4>enjoy to the full all my splendor. Tomorrow I shall

1902
01:48:01.760 --> 01:48:05.279
<v Speaker 4>hear again the story of Humpty Dumpty, and perhaps that

1903
01:48:05.479 --> 01:48:09.560
<v Speaker 4>of ive de Avdey too, And the whole night the

1904
01:48:09.680 --> 01:48:14.560
<v Speaker 4>tree stood still and in deep thought. In the morning,

1905
01:48:14.760 --> 01:48:19.560
<v Speaker 4>the servant and the housemaid came in. Now the splendor

1906
01:48:19.640 --> 01:48:25.319
<v Speaker 4>will begin again, thought the fir But they dragged him

1907
01:48:25.319 --> 01:48:29.159
<v Speaker 4>out of the room and up the stairs into the loft,

1908
01:48:30.439 --> 01:48:35.319
<v Speaker 4>and here, in a dark corner where no daylight could enter.

1909
01:48:36.720 --> 01:48:37.359
<v Speaker 14>They left him.

1910
01:48:39.359 --> 01:48:40.640
<v Speaker 4>What's the meaning of this?

1911
01:48:41.319 --> 01:48:42.039
<v Speaker 14>Thought the tree?

1912
01:48:42.960 --> 01:48:44.199
<v Speaker 8>What am I to do here?

1913
01:48:45.600 --> 01:48:49.840
<v Speaker 4>What shall I hear? Now? I wonder? And he leaned

1914
01:48:49.880 --> 01:48:54.119
<v Speaker 4>against the wall, lost in reverie. Time enough had he

1915
01:48:54.279 --> 01:48:57.479
<v Speaker 4>too for his reflections. For days and nights passed on,

1916
01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:01.960
<v Speaker 4>and nobody came up. And when at last somebody did come,

1917
01:49:02.039 --> 01:49:04.319
<v Speaker 4>it was only to put some great trunks.

1918
01:49:04.359 --> 01:49:05.760
<v Speaker 14>In a corner out of the way.

1919
01:49:07.279 --> 01:49:11.720
<v Speaker 4>There stood the tree, quite hidden. It seemed as if

1920
01:49:11.760 --> 01:49:18.079
<v Speaker 4>he had been entirely forgotten. Tis now winter out of doors,

1921
01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:22.960
<v Speaker 4>thought the tree. The earth is hard and covered with snow.

1922
01:49:24.600 --> 01:49:29.039
<v Speaker 4>Men cannot plant me now, and therefore I have been

1923
01:49:29.159 --> 01:49:34.000
<v Speaker 4>put up here under shelter till the springtime comes. How

1924
01:49:34.119 --> 01:49:39.800
<v Speaker 4>thoughtful that is, how kind man is after all? If

1925
01:49:41.159 --> 01:49:45.079
<v Speaker 4>it only were not so dark here and so terribly lonely,

1926
01:49:46.119 --> 01:49:49.199
<v Speaker 4>not even a hare, And out in the woods it

1927
01:49:49.359 --> 01:49:52.520
<v Speaker 4>was so pleasant, and the snow was on the ground,

1928
01:49:52.640 --> 01:49:56.800
<v Speaker 4>and the hare leaped by, yes, even when he jumped

1929
01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:00.880
<v Speaker 4>over me. But I did not like it. Then, it

1930
01:50:01.199 --> 01:50:08.000
<v Speaker 4>really is terribly lonely here. Squeak, squeak, said little mouse

1931
01:50:08.199 --> 01:50:11.600
<v Speaker 4>at the same moment, peeping out of his hole. And

1932
01:50:11.760 --> 01:50:15.560
<v Speaker 4>then another little one came, They snuffed about the fir

1933
01:50:15.680 --> 01:50:20.880
<v Speaker 4>tree and rustled among the branches. It is dreadfully cold,

1934
01:50:21.279 --> 01:50:25.920
<v Speaker 4>said the mouse. But for that it would be delightful here,

1935
01:50:26.039 --> 01:50:31.199
<v Speaker 4>old fir, wouldn't it. I am by no means old,

1936
01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:35.920
<v Speaker 4>said the fir tree. There's many a one considerably older

1937
01:50:36.000 --> 01:50:36.640
<v Speaker 4>than I am.

1938
01:50:37.800 --> 01:50:39.039
<v Speaker 8>Where do you come from?

1939
01:50:39.439 --> 01:50:43.600
<v Speaker 4>Asked the mice, And what can you do? They were

1940
01:50:43.720 --> 01:50:45.279
<v Speaker 4>so extremely curious.

1941
01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:49.199
<v Speaker 8>Tell us about the most beautiful spot on the earth.

1942
01:50:49.920 --> 01:50:53.520
<v Speaker 8>Have you ever been there? Were you never in the

1943
01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:55.840
<v Speaker 8>larder where cheeses.

1944
01:50:55.520 --> 01:50:59.479
<v Speaker 2>Lie on the shelves, and hams hang from a pove,

1945
01:51:00.239 --> 01:51:05.439
<v Speaker 2>where one dances about on tallow candles, that place where

1946
01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:11.079
<v Speaker 2>one enters lean and comes out again fat and portly.

1947
01:51:13.079 --> 01:51:17.319
<v Speaker 4>I know no such place, said the tree, But I

1948
01:51:17.520 --> 01:51:20.840
<v Speaker 4>know the wood where the sun shines, and where the

1949
01:51:20.920 --> 01:51:25.560
<v Speaker 4>little birds sing. And then he told all about his youth,

1950
01:51:26.640 --> 01:51:29.039
<v Speaker 4>and the little mice had never heard the like before,

1951
01:51:29.760 --> 01:51:32.239
<v Speaker 4>and they listened and said, well.

1952
01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:35.520
<v Speaker 8>To be sure, how much you have seen?

1953
01:51:36.119 --> 01:51:41.439
<v Speaker 4>How happy you must have been, Aye, said the fir tree,

1954
01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:48.159
<v Speaker 4>thinking over what he had himself related, Yes, in reality,

1955
01:51:49.159 --> 01:51:53.840
<v Speaker 4>those were happy times. And then he told them about

1956
01:51:53.960 --> 01:51:58.560
<v Speaker 4>Christmas Eve, when he was decked out with cakes and candles.

1957
01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:01.760
<v Speaker 14>Oh oh, said the little mice.

1958
01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:05.479
<v Speaker 8>How fortunate you have been, old fir Tree.

1959
01:52:07.000 --> 01:52:11.640
<v Speaker 4>I am by no means old, said he. I came

1960
01:52:11.760 --> 01:52:15.319
<v Speaker 4>from the wood this winter. I am in my prime,

1961
01:52:15.880 --> 01:52:18.079
<v Speaker 4>and am only rather short for my age.

1962
01:52:19.720 --> 01:52:21.760
<v Speaker 8>What delightful stories you know.

1963
01:52:22.279 --> 01:52:22.960
<v Speaker 14>Said the mice.

1964
01:52:23.760 --> 01:52:26.359
<v Speaker 4>And the next night they came with four other little

1965
01:52:26.439 --> 01:52:30.159
<v Speaker 4>mice who were to hear what the tree recounted. And

1966
01:52:30.239 --> 01:52:34.680
<v Speaker 4>the more he related, the more he remembered himself. And

1967
01:52:34.840 --> 01:52:39.840
<v Speaker 4>it appeared as if those times had been happy times.

1968
01:52:41.439 --> 01:52:46.880
<v Speaker 4>But they may still come. They may still come. Humpy

1969
01:52:47.000 --> 01:52:52.119
<v Speaker 4>Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess. And

1970
01:52:52.239 --> 01:52:54.920
<v Speaker 4>he thought, at the moments of a nice little birch

1971
01:52:55.119 --> 01:53:00.119
<v Speaker 4>tree growing out in the woods, to that fir that

1972
01:53:00.399 --> 01:53:06.039
<v Speaker 4>would be a really charming princess. Who is Humpy Dumpy,

1973
01:53:06.680 --> 01:53:09.640
<v Speaker 4>asked the mice. So then the fir tree told the

1974
01:53:09.720 --> 01:53:13.479
<v Speaker 4>whole fairy tale, for he could remember every single word

1975
01:53:13.520 --> 01:53:16.840
<v Speaker 4>of it, and the little mice jumped for joy up

1976
01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:20.439
<v Speaker 4>to the very top of the tree. Next night two

1977
01:53:20.600 --> 01:53:26.279
<v Speaker 4>more mice came, and on Sunday two rats even, but

1978
01:53:26.399 --> 01:53:30.439
<v Speaker 4>they said the stories were not interesting, which vexed the

1979
01:53:30.520 --> 01:53:34.600
<v Speaker 4>little mice and they too, now began to think them

1980
01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:40.279
<v Speaker 4>not so very amusing either. Do you know only one story,

1981
01:53:40.880 --> 01:53:46.399
<v Speaker 4>asked the rats, Only that one, answered the tree. I

1982
01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:50.960
<v Speaker 4>heard it on my happiest evening, but I did not

1983
01:53:51.279 --> 01:53:55.560
<v Speaker 4>then know how happy I was. It is a very

1984
01:53:55.720 --> 01:54:01.039
<v Speaker 4>stupid story, don't you know? One about bacon and fallow candles?

1985
01:54:01.640 --> 01:54:04.079
<v Speaker 4>Can't you tell any ladder stories?

1986
01:54:05.720 --> 01:54:07.359
<v Speaker 14>No, said the tree.

1987
01:54:08.039 --> 01:54:09.800
<v Speaker 4>Then good bye, said the.

1988
01:54:09.880 --> 01:54:14.840
<v Speaker 14>Rats, and they went home. At last the.

1989
01:54:14.880 --> 01:54:21.479
<v Speaker 4>Little mice stayed away also, and the tree sighed. After all,

1990
01:54:22.239 --> 01:54:25.279
<v Speaker 4>it was very pleasant when the sleek little mice sat

1991
01:54:25.399 --> 01:54:29.279
<v Speaker 4>round me and listened to what I told them. Now

1992
01:54:29.560 --> 01:54:33.640
<v Speaker 4>that too is over. But I will take good care

1993
01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:36.800
<v Speaker 4>to enjoy myself when I am brought out again.

1994
01:54:39.239 --> 01:54:40.239
<v Speaker 14>But when was that to be?

1995
01:54:41.640 --> 01:54:41.800
<v Speaker 12>Why?

1996
01:54:41.920 --> 01:54:44.399
<v Speaker 4>One morning there came a quantity of people and set

1997
01:54:44.479 --> 01:54:47.720
<v Speaker 4>to work in the loft. The trunks were moved, The

1998
01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:52.000
<v Speaker 4>tree was pulled out and thrown rather hard, it is true,

1999
01:54:52.479 --> 01:54:56.119
<v Speaker 4>down on the floor. But a man drew him towards

2000
01:54:56.199 --> 01:55:01.319
<v Speaker 4>the stairs, where the daylight shone. Now a merry life

2001
01:55:01.359 --> 01:55:05.520
<v Speaker 4>will begin again, thought the tree. He felt the fresh air,

2002
01:55:05.920 --> 01:55:09.439
<v Speaker 4>the first sunbeam, and now he was out in the courtyard.

2003
01:55:10.159 --> 01:55:13.840
<v Speaker 4>All passed so quickly. There was so much going on

2004
01:55:14.000 --> 01:55:17.920
<v Speaker 4>around him, the tree quite forgot to look to himself.

2005
01:55:19.079 --> 01:55:22.319
<v Speaker 4>The court had joined a garden, and all was in flower.

2006
01:55:23.399 --> 01:55:27.399
<v Speaker 4>The roses hung so fresh and odorous over the balustrade.

2007
01:55:27.880 --> 01:55:31.960
<v Speaker 4>The lindens were in blossom. The swallows flew by and said,

2008
01:55:32.479 --> 01:55:34.680
<v Speaker 4>Kiri it, my husband is come.

2009
01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:38.560
<v Speaker 14>But it was not the fir tree that they meant.

2010
01:55:40.079 --> 01:55:44.880
<v Speaker 4>Now, then I shall really enjoy life, he said exultingly,

2011
01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:50.880
<v Speaker 4>and spread out his branches. But alas they were all

2012
01:55:50.960 --> 01:55:55.399
<v Speaker 4>withered and yellow. It was in a corner that he

2013
01:55:55.560 --> 01:56:01.079
<v Speaker 4>lay among weeds and nettles. The golden star of Tinsel

2014
01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:03.600
<v Speaker 4>was still on the top of the tree and glittered

2015
01:56:03.640 --> 01:56:07.680
<v Speaker 4>in the sunshine. In the court yard, some of the

2016
01:56:07.760 --> 01:56:11.159
<v Speaker 4>merry children were playing, who had danced at Christmas round

2017
01:56:11.279 --> 01:56:13.880
<v Speaker 4>the fir tree, and were so glad at the sight

2018
01:56:13.920 --> 01:56:17.000
<v Speaker 4>of him. One of the youngest ran and tore off

2019
01:56:17.079 --> 01:56:22.159
<v Speaker 4>the golden star. Only luckwood is still on the ugly

2020
01:56:22.279 --> 01:56:26.840
<v Speaker 4>old Christmas tree, said He trampling on the branches so

2021
01:56:27.000 --> 01:56:32.680
<v Speaker 4>that they all cracked beneath his feet, and the tree

2022
01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:36.560
<v Speaker 4>beheld all the beauty of the flowers and the freshness

2023
01:56:36.640 --> 01:56:41.880
<v Speaker 4>in the garden. He beheld himself, and wished he had

2024
01:56:42.000 --> 01:56:46.680
<v Speaker 4>remained in his dark corner in the loft. He thought

2025
01:56:46.720 --> 01:56:49.840
<v Speaker 4>of his first youth in the wood of the merry

2026
01:56:49.960 --> 01:56:53.439
<v Speaker 4>Christmas eve, and at the little mice who had listened

2027
01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:56.439
<v Speaker 4>with so much pleasure to the story of Humpty Dumpty.

2028
01:56:58.760 --> 01:57:05.239
<v Speaker 4>Tis over, tis past, said the poor tree. Had I

2029
01:57:05.560 --> 01:57:09.520
<v Speaker 4>but rejoiced when I had reason to do so. But

2030
01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:16.600
<v Speaker 4>now tis past, tis past. And the gardener's boy chopped

2031
01:57:16.720 --> 01:57:18.560
<v Speaker 4>the tree into small pieces.

2032
01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:21.520
<v Speaker 14>There was a whole heap lying there.

2033
01:57:22.720 --> 01:57:27.760
<v Speaker 4>The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and.

2034
01:57:27.880 --> 01:57:29.720
<v Speaker 14>It sighed so deeply.

2035
01:57:30.880 --> 01:57:36.039
<v Speaker 4>Each sigh was like a shot. The boys played about

2036
01:57:36.079 --> 01:57:40.039
<v Speaker 4>in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star

2037
01:57:40.199 --> 01:57:43.000
<v Speaker 4>on his breast, which the tree had had on the

2038
01:57:43.079 --> 01:57:44.760
<v Speaker 4>happiest evening of his life.

2039
01:57:46.279 --> 01:57:48.479
<v Speaker 14>However, that was over.

2040
01:57:48.640 --> 01:57:53.720
<v Speaker 4>Now the tree gone, the story at an end.

2041
01:57:55.159 --> 01:58:01.920
<v Speaker 14>All all was over. Every tale must end, and at last.

2042
01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:10.880
<v Speaker 11>End of the fir tree the snow queen first story,

2043
01:58:11.640 --> 01:58:15.920
<v Speaker 11>which treats of a mirror and of the splinters. Now,

2044
01:58:16.039 --> 01:58:19.119
<v Speaker 11>then let us begin. When we are at the end

2045
01:58:19.159 --> 01:58:21.479
<v Speaker 11>of the story, we shall know more than we know now.

2046
01:58:22.000 --> 01:58:25.439
<v Speaker 11>But to begin, once upon a time there was a

2047
01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:29.600
<v Speaker 11>wicked sprite. Indeed, he was the most mischievous of all sprites.

2048
01:58:30.600 --> 01:58:33.359
<v Speaker 11>One day he was in a very good humor, for

2049
01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:36.039
<v Speaker 11>he had made a mirror with the power of causing

2050
01:58:36.199 --> 01:58:39.199
<v Speaker 11>all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein,

2051
01:58:39.920 --> 01:58:42.880
<v Speaker 11>to look poor and mean. But that which was good

2052
01:58:42.960 --> 01:58:47.159
<v Speaker 11>for nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased

2053
01:58:47.199 --> 01:58:47.880
<v Speaker 11>in ugliness.

2054
01:58:49.039 --> 01:58:49.800
<v Speaker 14>In this mirror.

2055
01:58:50.079 --> 01:58:54.239
<v Speaker 11>The most beautiful landscapes looked like boiled spinach, and the

2056
01:58:54.359 --> 01:58:58.239
<v Speaker 11>best persons were turned into frights or appeared to stand

2057
01:58:58.319 --> 01:59:01.760
<v Speaker 11>on their heads. Their face were so distorted that they

2058
01:59:01.800 --> 01:59:05.319
<v Speaker 11>were not to be recognized. And if anyone had a mole,

2059
01:59:05.760 --> 01:59:08.119
<v Speaker 11>you might be sure that it would be magnified and

2060
01:59:08.239 --> 01:59:14.199
<v Speaker 11>spread over both nose and mouth. That's glorious, fan said

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01:59:14.239 --> 01:59:17.239
<v Speaker 11>the sprite, For if a good thought passed through a

2062
01:59:17.279 --> 01:59:20.079
<v Speaker 11>man's mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror.

2063
01:59:20.840 --> 01:59:25.319
<v Speaker 11>And the sprite laughed heartily at his clever discovery. All

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01:59:25.399 --> 01:59:28.079
<v Speaker 11>the little sprites who went to his school, for he

2065
01:59:28.199 --> 01:59:31.800
<v Speaker 11>kept a sprite school, told each other that a miracle

2066
01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:36.359
<v Speaker 11>had happened, and that now only as they thought, it

2067
01:59:36.399 --> 01:59:39.279
<v Speaker 11>would be possible to see how the world really looked,

2068
01:59:40.319 --> 01:59:43.000
<v Speaker 11>they ran about with the mirror, and at last there

2069
01:59:43.079 --> 01:59:45.279
<v Speaker 11>was not a land or a person who was not

2070
01:59:45.479 --> 01:59:49.640
<v Speaker 11>represented distorted in the mirror. So then they thought they

2071
01:59:49.680 --> 01:59:52.720
<v Speaker 11>would fly up into the sky and have a joke there.

2072
01:59:53.479 --> 01:59:56.159
<v Speaker 11>The higher they flew with the mirror, the more terribly

2073
01:59:56.239 --> 02:00:00.239
<v Speaker 11>it grinned. They could hardly hold it fast. Higher and

2074
02:00:00.439 --> 02:00:03.760
<v Speaker 11>higher still they flew nearer and nearer to the stars,

2075
02:00:04.239 --> 02:00:07.840
<v Speaker 11>when suddenly the mirror shook so terribly with grinning that

2076
02:00:08.000 --> 02:00:10.600
<v Speaker 11>it flew out of their hands and fell to the earth,

2077
02:00:11.000 --> 02:00:14.279
<v Speaker 11>where it was dashed in a hundred million and more pieces.

2078
02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:18.439
<v Speaker 11>And now it worked much more evil than before. For

2079
02:00:18.560 --> 02:00:21.239
<v Speaker 11>some of these pieces were hardly so large as a

2080
02:00:21.279 --> 02:00:24.520
<v Speaker 11>grain of sand, and they flew about in the wide world,

2081
02:00:25.119 --> 02:00:28.079
<v Speaker 11>and when they got into people's eyes, there they stayed.

2082
02:00:28.800 --> 02:00:31.880
<v Speaker 11>And then the people saw everything perverted, or only had

2083
02:00:31.920 --> 02:00:35.159
<v Speaker 11>an eye for that which was evil. This happened because

2084
02:00:35.199 --> 02:00:38.119
<v Speaker 11>the very smallest bit had the same power which the

2085
02:00:38.199 --> 02:00:42.000
<v Speaker 11>whole mirror had possessed. Some persons even got a splinter

2086
02:00:42.119 --> 02:00:45.319
<v Speaker 11>in their heart, and then it made one shudder, for

2087
02:00:45.439 --> 02:00:48.439
<v Speaker 11>their heart became like a lump of ice. Some of

2088
02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:51.520
<v Speaker 11>the broken pieces were so large that they were used

2089
02:00:51.560 --> 02:00:55.279
<v Speaker 11>for window panes through which one could not see one's friends.

2090
02:00:56.159 --> 02:00:59.479
<v Speaker 11>Other pieces were put into spectacles, and that was a

2091
02:00:59.520 --> 02:01:02.800
<v Speaker 11>sad thing when people put on their glasses to see

2092
02:01:02.840 --> 02:01:06.159
<v Speaker 11>well and rightly. Then the wicked sprite laughed till he

2093
02:01:06.159 --> 02:01:10.399
<v Speaker 11>almost choked, for all this tickled his fancy. The fine

2094
02:01:10.439 --> 02:01:12.279
<v Speaker 11>splinters still flew about.

2095
02:01:12.039 --> 02:01:12.439
<v Speaker 7>In the air.

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<v Speaker 11>And now we shall hear what happened next. Second story.

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<v Speaker 11>A little boy and a little girl. In a large town,

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02:01:22.960 --> 02:01:25.560
<v Speaker 11>where there are so many houses and so many people,

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02:01:25.960 --> 02:01:28.000
<v Speaker 11>that there is no room left for everybody to have

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02:01:28.079 --> 02:01:31.439
<v Speaker 11>a little garden, and where on this account most persons

2101
02:01:31.479 --> 02:01:34.880
<v Speaker 11>are obliged to content themselves with flowers and pots. There

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02:01:34.920 --> 02:01:38.600
<v Speaker 11>lived two little children who had a garden somewhat larger

2103
02:01:38.640 --> 02:01:41.840
<v Speaker 11>than a flower pot. They were no brother and sister,

2104
02:01:42.319 --> 02:01:44.600
<v Speaker 11>but they cared for each other as much as if

2105
02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:50.199
<v Speaker 11>they were. Their parents lived exactly opposite. They inhabited two garrets,

2106
02:01:50.680 --> 02:01:53.159
<v Speaker 11>and where the roof of the one house joined to

2107
02:01:53.239 --> 02:01:55.520
<v Speaker 11>that of the other, and the gutter ran along the

2108
02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:58.199
<v Speaker 11>extreme end of it, there was to each house a

2109
02:01:58.279 --> 02:02:02.039
<v Speaker 11>small window. Needed only to step over the gutter to

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02:02:02.119 --> 02:02:05.479
<v Speaker 11>get from one window to the other. The children's parents

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02:02:05.720 --> 02:02:09.039
<v Speaker 11>had large wooden boxes there in which vegetables for the

2112
02:02:09.079 --> 02:02:13.359
<v Speaker 11>garden were planted, and little rose trees. Besides, there was

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02:02:13.359 --> 02:02:16.840
<v Speaker 11>a rose in each box, and they grew splendidly. They

2114
02:02:16.920 --> 02:02:20.000
<v Speaker 11>now thought of placing the boxes across the gutter, so

2115
02:02:20.119 --> 02:02:22.479
<v Speaker 11>that they nearly reached from one window to the other,

2116
02:02:23.239 --> 02:02:26.920
<v Speaker 11>and looked just like two walls of flowers. The tendrils

2117
02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:29.319
<v Speaker 11>of the peas hung down over the boxes, and the

2118
02:02:29.479 --> 02:02:33.880
<v Speaker 11>rose trees shot up long branches twined round the windows,

2119
02:02:34.399 --> 02:02:37.600
<v Speaker 11>and then bent towards each other. It was almost like

2120
02:02:37.680 --> 02:02:41.479
<v Speaker 11>a triumphant arch of foliage and flowers. The boxes were

2121
02:02:41.640 --> 02:02:44.199
<v Speaker 11>very high, and the children knew that they must not

2122
02:02:44.359 --> 02:02:47.680
<v Speaker 11>creep over them, so that they often obtained permission to

2123
02:02:47.760 --> 02:02:49.920
<v Speaker 11>get out of the windows to each other and to

2124
02:02:50.000 --> 02:02:53.079
<v Speaker 11>sit on their little stools among the roses, where they

2125
02:02:53.119 --> 02:02:57.000
<v Speaker 11>could play delightfully. In the winter, there was an end

2126
02:02:57.079 --> 02:03:00.960
<v Speaker 11>of this pleasure. The windows were often frozen out. But

2127
02:03:01.119 --> 02:03:04.840
<v Speaker 11>then they heated copper farthings on the stove and laid

2128
02:03:04.880 --> 02:03:08.079
<v Speaker 11>the hot farthings on the window pane, And then they

2129
02:03:08.119 --> 02:03:12.199
<v Speaker 11>had a capital people quite nicely rounded, and out of

2130
02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:15.199
<v Speaker 11>each peeped a gentle, friendly eye. It was the little

2131
02:03:15.279 --> 02:03:18.680
<v Speaker 11>boy and the little girl who were looking at His

2132
02:03:18.920 --> 02:03:23.159
<v Speaker 11>name was Kay, hers was Gerda. In summer, with one

2133
02:03:23.279 --> 02:03:25.760
<v Speaker 11>jump they could get to each other. But in the

2134
02:03:25.840 --> 02:03:28.920
<v Speaker 11>winter they were obliged first to go down the long stairs,

2135
02:03:29.319 --> 02:03:32.279
<v Speaker 11>and then up the long stairs again, and out of doors.

2136
02:03:32.319 --> 02:03:35.079
<v Speaker 11>There was quite a snow storm. It is the white

2137
02:03:35.159 --> 02:03:39.399
<v Speaker 11>bees that are swarming, said Kay's old grandmother. Do the

2138
02:03:39.479 --> 02:03:42.760
<v Speaker 11>white bees choose a queen, asked the little boy, for

2139
02:03:42.920 --> 02:03:45.680
<v Speaker 11>he knew that the honey bees always have one. Yes,

2140
02:03:46.479 --> 02:03:50.119
<v Speaker 11>said the grandmother. She flies where the swarm hangs, in

2141
02:03:50.239 --> 02:03:54.000
<v Speaker 11>the thickest clusters. She is the largest of all, and

2142
02:03:54.119 --> 02:03:57.680
<v Speaker 11>she can never remain quietly on the earth, but goes

2143
02:03:57.760 --> 02:04:01.760
<v Speaker 11>up again into the black clouds. Many a winter's night

2144
02:04:01.920 --> 02:04:05.239
<v Speaker 11>she flies through the streets of the town and peeps

2145
02:04:05.319 --> 02:04:09.079
<v Speaker 11>in at the windows, and then they phraze in so

2146
02:04:09.359 --> 02:04:14.159
<v Speaker 11>wondrous a manner that they look like flowers. Yes, I

2147
02:04:14.279 --> 02:04:17.399
<v Speaker 11>have seen it, said both the children, and so they

2148
02:04:17.479 --> 02:04:20.880
<v Speaker 11>knew that it was true. Can the snow queen come in,

2149
02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:25.079
<v Speaker 11>asked the little girl. Only let her come in, said

2150
02:04:25.119 --> 02:04:28.159
<v Speaker 11>the little boy. Then I'd put on the stove and

2151
02:04:28.359 --> 02:04:32.119
<v Speaker 11>she'd knelt. And then his grandmother patted his head and

2152
02:04:32.199 --> 02:04:36.199
<v Speaker 11>told him other stories. In the evening, when little Kay

2153
02:04:36.319 --> 02:04:39.520
<v Speaker 11>was at home and half undressed, he climbed up on

2154
02:04:39.600 --> 02:04:42.079
<v Speaker 11>the chair by the window and peeped out of the

2155
02:04:42.119 --> 02:04:45.840
<v Speaker 11>little hole. A few snow flakes were falling, and one,

2156
02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:48.960
<v Speaker 11>the largest of all, remained lying on the edge of

2157
02:04:49.000 --> 02:04:52.800
<v Speaker 11>a flower pot. The flake of snow grew larger and larger,

2158
02:04:53.640 --> 02:04:56.880
<v Speaker 11>and at last it was like a young lady dressed

2159
02:04:56.920 --> 02:05:00.399
<v Speaker 11>in the finest white gauze, made of a million little flakes,

2160
02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:05.560
<v Speaker 11>like stars. She was so beautiful and so delicate, but

2161
02:05:05.680 --> 02:05:10.159
<v Speaker 11>she was of vice, with dazzling, sparkling eyes. Yet she lived.

2162
02:05:10.960 --> 02:05:14.840
<v Speaker 11>Her eyes gazed fixedly like two stars, but there was

2163
02:05:14.920 --> 02:05:18.439
<v Speaker 11>neither quiet nor repose in them. She nodded towards the

2164
02:05:18.479 --> 02:05:22.319
<v Speaker 11>window and beckoned with her hand. The little boy was

2165
02:05:22.399 --> 02:05:25.640
<v Speaker 11>frightened and jumped down from the chair. It seemed to

2166
02:05:25.760 --> 02:05:28.960
<v Speaker 11>him as if at the same moment a large bird

2167
02:05:29.079 --> 02:05:32.560
<v Speaker 11>flew past the window. The next day, it was a

2168
02:05:32.640 --> 02:05:36.439
<v Speaker 11>sharp frost, and then the spring came. The sun shone,

2169
02:05:36.880 --> 02:05:40.600
<v Speaker 11>the green leaves appeared, the swallows built their nests, The

2170
02:05:40.680 --> 02:05:43.760
<v Speaker 11>windows were opened, and the little children again sat in

2171
02:05:43.840 --> 02:05:46.560
<v Speaker 11>their pretty garden, high up on the LEDs at the

2172
02:05:46.640 --> 02:05:50.079
<v Speaker 11>top of the house. That summer, the roses flowered in

2173
02:05:50.239 --> 02:05:54.159
<v Speaker 11>unwonted beauty. The little girl had learned a hymn in

2174
02:05:54.199 --> 02:05:57.159
<v Speaker 11>which there was something about roses, and then she thought

2175
02:05:57.199 --> 02:05:59.640
<v Speaker 11>of her own flowers, and she sang the verse to

2176
02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:01.880
<v Speaker 11>the little boy, who then sang it with her.

2177
02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:03.560
<v Speaker 8>The rose in the.

2178
02:06:03.600 --> 02:06:07.319
<v Speaker 11>Valley is blooming so sweet. The angels descend there the

2179
02:06:07.479 --> 02:06:10.880
<v Speaker 11>children to greet, and the children held each other by

2180
02:06:10.920 --> 02:06:13.920
<v Speaker 11>the hand, kissed the roses, looked up at the clear

2181
02:06:14.039 --> 02:06:17.600
<v Speaker 11>sunshine and spoke as though they really saw angels there.

2182
02:06:18.279 --> 02:06:21.479
<v Speaker 11>What lovely summer days those were, How delightful to be

2183
02:06:21.560 --> 02:06:24.520
<v Speaker 11>out in the air near the fresh rose bushes that

2184
02:06:24.640 --> 02:06:28.159
<v Speaker 11>seemed as if they would never finish blooming. Kay and

2185
02:06:28.239 --> 02:06:30.800
<v Speaker 11>Gerda looked at the picture book full of beasts and

2186
02:06:30.880 --> 02:06:33.520
<v Speaker 11>of birds, and it was then the clock in the

2187
02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:38.920
<v Speaker 11>church tower was just striking five that Kay said, Oh, oh,

2188
02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:41.840
<v Speaker 11>I feel such a sharp pain in my heart. And

2189
02:06:41.960 --> 02:06:45.319
<v Speaker 11>now something has gotten into my eye. The little girl

2190
02:06:45.439 --> 02:06:48.199
<v Speaker 11>put her arms around his neck. He winked his eyes.

2191
02:06:49.199 --> 02:06:52.079
<v Speaker 11>Now there was nothing to be seen. I think it's

2192
02:06:52.119 --> 02:06:55.680
<v Speaker 11>out now, said he. But it was not. It was

2193
02:06:55.840 --> 02:06:57.880
<v Speaker 11>just one of those pieces of glass from the magic

2194
02:06:58.000 --> 02:07:01.119
<v Speaker 11>mirror that had got into his eye, and poor Kay

2195
02:07:01.199 --> 02:07:03.880
<v Speaker 11>had got another piece right in his heart. It will

2196
02:07:03.960 --> 02:07:07.079
<v Speaker 11>soon become like ice. It did not hurt any longer,

2197
02:07:07.600 --> 02:07:11.720
<v Speaker 11>but there it was. What are you crying for? Asked

2198
02:07:11.760 --> 02:07:17.640
<v Speaker 11>he You look so ugly. There's nothing the matter with me. Ah,

2199
02:07:18.199 --> 02:07:22.199
<v Speaker 11>he said at once That rose is cankered. And look

2200
02:07:22.520 --> 02:07:26.760
<v Speaker 11>this one's quite crooked. After all, these roses are very ugly.

2201
02:07:27.640 --> 02:07:30.319
<v Speaker 11>They're just like the box they're planted in. And then

2202
02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:32.359
<v Speaker 11>he gave the box a good kick with his foot

2203
02:07:32.960 --> 02:07:35.880
<v Speaker 11>and pulled both the roses up. What are you doing,

2204
02:07:36.600 --> 02:07:39.399
<v Speaker 11>cried the little girl, And as he perceived her fright,

2205
02:07:39.720 --> 02:07:42.439
<v Speaker 11>he pulled up another rose, got in at the window,

2206
02:07:42.680 --> 02:07:46.800
<v Speaker 11>and hastened off from dear little Gerda. Afterwards, when she

2207
02:07:46.880 --> 02:07:50.479
<v Speaker 11>had brought her picture book, he asked, what horrid beasts

2208
02:07:50.560 --> 02:07:53.600
<v Speaker 11>have you there? And if his grandmother told them stories,

2209
02:07:53.960 --> 02:07:57.640
<v Speaker 11>he always interrupted her. Besides, if he could manage it,

2210
02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:01.119
<v Speaker 11>he would get behind her, put on her spectacles, and

2211
02:08:01.279 --> 02:08:04.479
<v Speaker 11>imitate a way of speaking. He copied all her ways,

2212
02:08:04.880 --> 02:08:07.760
<v Speaker 11>and then everybody laughed at him. He was soon able

2213
02:08:07.840 --> 02:08:10.039
<v Speaker 11>to imitate the gait and manner of every one in

2214
02:08:10.159 --> 02:08:13.720
<v Speaker 11>the street. Everything that was peculiar and displeasing, in them

2215
02:08:14.279 --> 02:08:17.399
<v Speaker 11>that Kay knew how to imitate. And at such times

2216
02:08:17.800 --> 02:08:21.399
<v Speaker 11>all the people had said, the boy is certainly very clever.

2217
02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:24.279
<v Speaker 11>But it was the glass he had got in his eye,

2218
02:08:24.720 --> 02:08:27.039
<v Speaker 11>the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made

2219
02:08:27.119 --> 02:08:30.680
<v Speaker 11>him tease even little Gerda, whose whole soul was devoted

2220
02:08:30.720 --> 02:08:33.560
<v Speaker 11>to him. His games now were quite different to what

2221
02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:37.319
<v Speaker 11>they had formerly been. There were so very knowing. One

2222
02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:40.399
<v Speaker 11>winter's day, when the flakes of snow were flying about,

2223
02:08:40.920 --> 02:08:43.600
<v Speaker 11>he spread the skirts of his blue coat and caught

2224
02:08:43.680 --> 02:08:47.000
<v Speaker 11>the snow as it fell. Look through this glass, Gerda

2225
02:08:47.479 --> 02:08:51.359
<v Speaker 11>said he, and every flake seemed larger and appeared like

2226
02:08:51.439 --> 02:08:55.520
<v Speaker 11>a magnificent flower or a beautiful star. It was splendid

2227
02:08:55.600 --> 02:08:59.760
<v Speaker 11>to look at. Look how clever, said Kay. That's much

2228
02:09:00.000 --> 02:09:04.119
<v Speaker 11>more interesting than real flowers. They are as exact as possible.

2229
02:09:04.520 --> 02:09:07.399
<v Speaker 11>There's not a fault in them if they did not melt.

2230
02:09:08.840 --> 02:09:11.640
<v Speaker 11>It was not long after this that Kay came one

2231
02:09:11.760 --> 02:09:14.640
<v Speaker 11>day with large gloves on and his little sledge at

2232
02:09:14.680 --> 02:09:18.199
<v Speaker 11>his back, and bawled right into Gerda's ears. I have

2233
02:09:18.319 --> 02:09:21.319
<v Speaker 11>permission to go out into the square where the others

2234
02:09:21.359 --> 02:09:25.359
<v Speaker 11>are playing, and off he was. In a moment there

2235
02:09:25.600 --> 02:09:27.920
<v Speaker 11>in the market place, some of the boldest of the

2236
02:09:28.000 --> 02:09:30.359
<v Speaker 11>boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as

2237
02:09:30.399 --> 02:09:33.800
<v Speaker 11>they passed by, and so they were pulled along and

2238
02:09:33.920 --> 02:09:34.800
<v Speaker 11>got a good ride.

2239
02:09:35.479 --> 02:09:36.560
<v Speaker 8>It was so capital.

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<v Speaker 11>Just as they were in the very height of their amusement,

2241
02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:43.800
<v Speaker 11>a large sledge passed by. It was painted quite white,

2242
02:09:44.399 --> 02:09:46.439
<v Speaker 11>and there was someone in it, wrapped up in a

2243
02:09:46.560 --> 02:09:49.479
<v Speaker 11>rough white mantle of fur, with a rough white fur

2244
02:09:49.600 --> 02:09:53.159
<v Speaker 11>cap on his head. The sledge drove round the square twice,

2245
02:09:53.680 --> 02:09:56.079
<v Speaker 11>and Kay tied on his sledge as quickly as he could,

2246
02:09:56.560 --> 02:09:59.319
<v Speaker 11>and off he drove with it. On they went quicker

2247
02:09:59.399 --> 02:10:01.800
<v Speaker 11>and quicker in to the next street, and the person

2248
02:10:01.840 --> 02:10:04.439
<v Speaker 11>who drove turned round to Kay and nodded to him

2249
02:10:04.479 --> 02:10:07.359
<v Speaker 11>in a friendly manner, just as if they knew each other.

2250
02:10:08.439 --> 02:10:10.880
<v Speaker 11>Every time he was going to untie his sledge, the

2251
02:10:10.960 --> 02:10:14.640
<v Speaker 11>person nodded to him, and then Kay sat quiet, and

2252
02:10:14.760 --> 02:10:17.479
<v Speaker 11>so on they went till they came outside the gates

2253
02:10:17.560 --> 02:10:20.600
<v Speaker 11>of the town. Then the snow began to fall so

2254
02:10:20.800 --> 02:10:23.359
<v Speaker 11>thickly that the little boy could not see an arm's

2255
02:10:23.399 --> 02:10:27.920
<v Speaker 11>length before him, But still on he went, when suddenly

2256
02:10:28.000 --> 02:10:29.680
<v Speaker 11>he let go of the string he held in his

2257
02:10:29.800 --> 02:10:32.640
<v Speaker 11>hand in order to get loose from the sledge, but

2258
02:10:32.720 --> 02:10:35.800
<v Speaker 11>it was of no use. Still, the little vehicle rushed

2259
02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:38.680
<v Speaker 11>on with the quickness of the wind. He then cried

2260
02:10:38.720 --> 02:10:41.239
<v Speaker 11>as loud as he could, but no one heard him.

2261
02:10:41.520 --> 02:10:44.760
<v Speaker 11>The snow drifted, and the sledge flew on, and sometimes

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<v Speaker 11>it gave a jerk, as though they were driving over

2263
02:10:47.439 --> 02:10:50.920
<v Speaker 11>hedges and ditches. He was quite frightened, and he tried

2264
02:10:50.960 --> 02:10:53.319
<v Speaker 11>to repeat the Lord's prayer, but all he could do

2265
02:10:53.680 --> 02:10:57.119
<v Speaker 11>he was only able to remember the multiplication table. The

2266
02:10:57.199 --> 02:11:00.600
<v Speaker 11>snowflakes grew larger and larger, till at last they looked

2267
02:11:00.760 --> 02:11:04.720
<v Speaker 11>just like great white fowls. Suddenly they flew on one side.

2268
02:11:05.239 --> 02:11:08.760
<v Speaker 11>The large sledge stopped, and the person who drove rose up.

2269
02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:10.119
<v Speaker 8>It was a lady.

2270
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<v Speaker 11>Her cloak and cap were a snow. She was tall

2271
02:11:13.720 --> 02:11:17.479
<v Speaker 11>and of slender figure, and of a dazzling whiteness. It

2272
02:11:17.680 --> 02:11:21.319
<v Speaker 11>was the snow Queen. We have traveled fast, said she,

2273
02:11:22.000 --> 02:11:25.239
<v Speaker 11>but it is freezingly cold. Come under my bear skin.

2274
02:11:26.000 --> 02:11:28.439
<v Speaker 11>And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped

2275
02:11:28.439 --> 02:11:30.880
<v Speaker 11>the fur round him, and he felt as though he

2276
02:11:30.960 --> 02:11:34.159
<v Speaker 11>were sinking in a snow wreath. Are you still cold?

2277
02:11:34.680 --> 02:11:35.079
<v Speaker 8>Asked she?

2278
02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:39.279
<v Speaker 11>And then she kissed his forehead ah, it was colder

2279
02:11:39.319 --> 02:11:43.279
<v Speaker 11>than ice. It penetrated to his very heart, which was

2280
02:11:43.359 --> 02:11:46.760
<v Speaker 11>already almost a frozen lump. It seemed to him as

2281
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:49.680
<v Speaker 11>if he were about to die but a moment more,

2282
02:11:50.079 --> 02:11:52.680
<v Speaker 11>and was quite congenial to him, and he did not

2283
02:11:52.800 --> 02:11:55.920
<v Speaker 11>remark on the cold that was around him. My sledge,

2284
02:11:56.199 --> 02:11:59.239
<v Speaker 11>don't forget my sledge. It was the first thing he

2285
02:11:59.359 --> 02:12:01.760
<v Speaker 11>thought of. It was there, tied to one of the

2286
02:12:01.800 --> 02:12:04.439
<v Speaker 11>white chickens, who flew along with it on his back

2287
02:12:04.560 --> 02:12:08.520
<v Speaker 11>behind the large sledge. The snow queen kissed Kay once more,

2288
02:12:09.000 --> 02:12:12.520
<v Speaker 11>and then he forgot little Gerda, grandmother, and all whom

2289
02:12:12.560 --> 02:12:15.159
<v Speaker 11>he left at his home. Now you will have no

2290
02:12:15.319 --> 02:12:18.760
<v Speaker 11>more kisses, said she, or else I should kiss you

2291
02:12:18.840 --> 02:12:22.720
<v Speaker 11>to death. Kay looked at her. She was very beautiful,

2292
02:12:23.199 --> 02:12:26.079
<v Speaker 11>a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could

2293
02:12:26.119 --> 02:12:29.680
<v Speaker 11>not fancy to himself, and she no longer appeared of

2294
02:12:29.800 --> 02:12:33.079
<v Speaker 11>ice as before when she sat outside the window and

2295
02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:36.840
<v Speaker 11>beckoned to him. In his eyes, she was perfect. He

2296
02:12:36.960 --> 02:12:39.439
<v Speaker 11>did not fear her at all, and told her that

2297
02:12:39.520 --> 02:12:42.800
<v Speaker 11>he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even

2298
02:12:43.359 --> 02:12:45.640
<v Speaker 11>that he knew the number of square miles there were

2299
02:12:45.680 --> 02:12:49.000
<v Speaker 11>in the different countries. And how many inhabitants they contained,

2300
02:12:49.680 --> 02:12:53.039
<v Speaker 11>and she smiled while he spoke. It then seemed to

2301
02:12:53.159 --> 02:12:56.199
<v Speaker 11>him as if what he knew was not enough, and

2302
02:12:56.319 --> 02:13:00.239
<v Speaker 11>he looked upwards in the large, huge, empty space above him. Him,

2303
02:13:00.520 --> 02:13:03.520
<v Speaker 11>and on she flew with him, flew high over the

2304
02:13:03.600 --> 02:13:07.079
<v Speaker 11>black clouds, while the storm moaned and whistled as though

2305
02:13:07.119 --> 02:13:10.520
<v Speaker 11>it were singing some old tune. On they flew over

2306
02:13:10.600 --> 02:13:14.600
<v Speaker 11>the woods and lakes, over seas and many lands, and

2307
02:13:14.720 --> 02:13:19.079
<v Speaker 11>beneath them the chilling storms rushed fast, The wolves howled,

2308
02:13:19.560 --> 02:13:24.399
<v Speaker 11>the snow crackled. Above them flew large screaming crows. But

2309
02:13:24.560 --> 02:13:28.840
<v Speaker 11>higher up appeared the moon, quite large and bright. And

2310
02:13:28.920 --> 02:13:31.399
<v Speaker 11>it was on that that Kay gazed during the long

2311
02:13:31.680 --> 02:13:35.079
<v Speaker 11>long winter's night, while by day he slept at the

2312
02:13:35.159 --> 02:13:40.000
<v Speaker 11>feet of the snow queen, third story of the flower garden,

2313
02:13:40.279 --> 02:13:45.279
<v Speaker 11>at the old Woman's who understood witchcraft? But what became

2314
02:13:45.359 --> 02:13:48.439
<v Speaker 11>of Little Gerda when Kay did not return home? Where

2315
02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:52.880
<v Speaker 11>could he be? Nobody knew, nobody could give any intelligence.

2316
02:13:53.560 --> 02:13:56.039
<v Speaker 11>All the boys knew was that they had seen him

2317
02:13:56.079 --> 02:13:59.199
<v Speaker 11>tie his sledge to another, large and splendid one, which

2318
02:13:59.319 --> 02:14:02.720
<v Speaker 11>drove down the street and out of the town. Nobody

2319
02:14:02.800 --> 02:14:06.399
<v Speaker 11>knew where he was. Many sad tears were shed, and

2320
02:14:06.520 --> 02:14:10.079
<v Speaker 11>little Gerda wept long and bitterly. At last she said

2321
02:14:10.399 --> 02:14:12.720
<v Speaker 11>he must be dead, that he'd been drowned in the

2322
02:14:12.800 --> 02:14:16.520
<v Speaker 11>river which flowed close to the town. Oh, those were

2323
02:14:16.640 --> 02:14:20.439
<v Speaker 11>very long and dismal winter evenings. At last the spring

2324
02:14:20.600 --> 02:14:24.840
<v Speaker 11>came with its warm sunshine. Kay is dead and gone,

2325
02:14:25.359 --> 02:14:29.800
<v Speaker 11>said little Gerda. That I don't believe, said the sunshine.

2326
02:14:31.000 --> 02:14:34.039
<v Speaker 11>Kay is dead and gone. She said to the swallows

2327
02:14:34.880 --> 02:14:38.239
<v Speaker 11>that I don't believe, they said, And at last Little

2328
02:14:38.239 --> 02:14:41.640
<v Speaker 11>Gerda did not think so any longer. I'll put on

2329
02:14:41.720 --> 02:14:45.319
<v Speaker 11>my red shoes, said she. One morning Kay has never

2330
02:14:45.439 --> 02:14:47.880
<v Speaker 11>seen them, And then I'll go down to the river

2331
02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:52.000
<v Speaker 11>and ask there. It was quite early. She kissed her

2332
02:14:52.039 --> 02:14:55.119
<v Speaker 11>old grandmother, who was still asleep, put on her red shoes,

2333
02:14:55.560 --> 02:14:59.119
<v Speaker 11>and went alone to the river. Is it true that

2334
02:14:59.239 --> 02:15:02.079
<v Speaker 11>you have taken my little playfellow. I will make you

2335
02:15:02.079 --> 02:15:04.319
<v Speaker 11>a present of my red shoes if he will give

2336
02:15:04.399 --> 02:15:06.840
<v Speaker 11>him back to me. And as it seemed to her,

2337
02:15:07.439 --> 02:15:11.039
<v Speaker 11>the blue waves nodded in a strange manner. Then she

2338
02:15:11.159 --> 02:15:14.600
<v Speaker 11>took off her red shoes, the most precious thing she possessed,

2339
02:15:15.119 --> 02:15:17.520
<v Speaker 11>and threw them into the river. But they fell close

2340
02:15:17.600 --> 02:15:20.159
<v Speaker 11>to the bank, and the little waves bore them immediately

2341
02:15:20.239 --> 02:15:22.680
<v Speaker 11>to land. It was as if the stream would not

2342
02:15:22.960 --> 02:15:26.079
<v Speaker 11>take what was dearest to her, for in reality it

2343
02:15:26.199 --> 02:15:29.359
<v Speaker 11>had not got little Kay. But Gerda thought that she

2344
02:15:29.479 --> 02:15:32.279
<v Speaker 11>must not have thrown the shoes out far enough, so

2345
02:15:32.439 --> 02:15:34.800
<v Speaker 11>she clambered into a boat which lay among the rushes,

2346
02:15:35.279 --> 02:15:38.159
<v Speaker 11>went to the farthest end and threw out the shoes.

2347
02:15:38.880 --> 02:15:41.520
<v Speaker 11>But the boat was not fastened, and the motion which

2348
02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:44.800
<v Speaker 11>she had occasioned made it drift from the shore. She

2349
02:15:44.920 --> 02:15:47.680
<v Speaker 11>observed this and hastened to get back, but before she

2350
02:15:47.720 --> 02:15:49.920
<v Speaker 11>could do so, the boat was more than a yard

2351
02:15:50.000 --> 02:15:54.479
<v Speaker 11>from the land and was gliding quickly onward. Little Gerda

2352
02:15:54.600 --> 02:15:57.520
<v Speaker 11>was very frightened and began to cry. But no one

2353
02:15:57.600 --> 02:16:00.359
<v Speaker 11>heard her except the sparrows, and they could not her

2354
02:16:00.399 --> 02:16:03.319
<v Speaker 11>to land. But they flew along the bank and sang,

2355
02:16:03.359 --> 02:16:06.439
<v Speaker 11>as if to comfort her, here we are, here we are.

2356
02:16:07.520 --> 02:16:10.199
<v Speaker 11>The boat drifted with the stream. Little Gerda sat quite

2357
02:16:10.239 --> 02:16:12.960
<v Speaker 11>still without shoes, for they were swimming behind the boat,

2358
02:16:13.319 --> 02:16:15.640
<v Speaker 11>but she could not reach them because the boat went

2359
02:16:15.800 --> 02:16:17.119
<v Speaker 11>much faster than they did.

2360
02:16:18.359 --> 02:16:18.720
<v Speaker 8>The bank.

2361
02:16:18.800 --> 02:16:22.880
<v Speaker 11>On both sides were beautiful, lovely flowers, venerable trees, and

2362
02:16:23.000 --> 02:16:25.960
<v Speaker 11>slopes with sheep and cows, when not a human being

2363
02:16:26.159 --> 02:16:29.119
<v Speaker 11>was to be seen. Perhaps the river will carry me

2364
02:16:29.159 --> 02:16:32.719
<v Speaker 11>to Little Kay, said she, and then she grew less sad.

2365
02:16:33.479 --> 02:16:36.159
<v Speaker 11>She rose and looked for many hours at the beautiful

2366
02:16:36.200 --> 02:16:40.319
<v Speaker 11>green banks. Presently she sailed by a large cherry orchard,

2367
02:16:40.719 --> 02:16:42.879
<v Speaker 11>where there was a little cottage with curious red and

2368
02:16:42.920 --> 02:16:46.799
<v Speaker 11>blue windows. It was thatched, and before it two wooden

2369
02:16:46.879 --> 02:16:50.680
<v Speaker 11>soldiers stood sentry and presented arms. When anyone went past.

2370
02:16:51.959 --> 02:16:54.840
<v Speaker 11>Gerda called to them, for she thought they were alive,

2371
02:16:55.079 --> 02:16:58.479
<v Speaker 11>but they, of course did not answer. She came close

2372
02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:01.040
<v Speaker 11>to them, for the stream drifted the boat quite near

2373
02:17:01.120 --> 02:17:05.360
<v Speaker 11>the land. Gerda called still louder, and an old woman

2374
02:17:05.520 --> 02:17:08.719
<v Speaker 11>then came out of the cottage, leaning upon a crooked stick.

2375
02:17:09.479 --> 02:17:12.520
<v Speaker 11>She had a large, broad brimmed hat on painted with

2376
02:17:12.600 --> 02:17:17.920
<v Speaker 11>the most splendid flowers. Poor little child, said the old woman,

2377
02:17:18.559 --> 02:17:21.399
<v Speaker 11>How did you get upon the large rapid river to

2378
02:17:21.520 --> 02:17:25.000
<v Speaker 11>be driven about so in the wide world? And then

2379
02:17:25.079 --> 02:17:27.840
<v Speaker 11>the old woman went into the river, caught hold of

2380
02:17:27.879 --> 02:17:30.559
<v Speaker 11>the boat with her crooked stick, drew it to the bank,

2381
02:17:30.879 --> 02:17:34.120
<v Speaker 11>and lifted little Gerda out. And Gerda was so glad

2382
02:17:34.159 --> 02:17:36.840
<v Speaker 11>to be on dry land again, which was rather afraid

2383
02:17:36.879 --> 02:17:40.319
<v Speaker 11>of the strange old woman. But come, tell me who

2384
02:17:40.360 --> 02:17:43.600
<v Speaker 11>you are and how you came to be here, said she,

2385
02:17:44.559 --> 02:17:47.479
<v Speaker 11>and Gerda told her all. The old woman shook her

2386
02:17:47.520 --> 02:17:52.079
<v Speaker 11>head and said ahem, ahem. And when Gerda had told

2387
02:17:52.079 --> 02:17:54.360
<v Speaker 11>her everything, and asked her if she had not seen

2388
02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:57.680
<v Speaker 11>little Kay, the woman answered that he had not passed there,

2389
02:17:58.600 --> 02:18:01.280
<v Speaker 11>but he, no doubt would come. And she told her

2390
02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:04.319
<v Speaker 11>not to be cast down, but taste her cherries and

2391
02:18:04.440 --> 02:18:07.000
<v Speaker 11>look at her flowers, which were finer than any in

2392
02:18:07.079 --> 02:18:10.200
<v Speaker 11>a picture book, each of which could tell a whole story.

2393
02:18:11.159 --> 02:18:13.879
<v Speaker 11>She then took Gerda by the hand, led her into

2394
02:18:13.959 --> 02:18:17.719
<v Speaker 11>the little cottage, and locked the door. The windows were

2395
02:18:17.879 --> 02:18:21.239
<v Speaker 11>very high up, the glass was red, blue and green,

2396
02:18:21.760 --> 02:18:25.319
<v Speaker 11>and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts

2397
02:18:25.360 --> 02:18:29.559
<v Speaker 11>of colors. On the table stood the most exquisite cherries,

2398
02:18:29.959 --> 02:18:32.399
<v Speaker 11>and Gerda ate as many as she chose, for she

2399
02:18:32.520 --> 02:18:36.239
<v Speaker 11>had permission to do so. While she was eating, the

2400
02:18:36.360 --> 02:18:39.239
<v Speaker 11>old woman combed her hair with a golden comb, and

2401
02:18:39.399 --> 02:18:42.280
<v Speaker 11>her hair curled and shone with a lovely golden color.

2402
02:18:42.639 --> 02:18:46.120
<v Speaker 11>Round that sweet little face, which was so round and

2403
02:18:46.280 --> 02:18:49.879
<v Speaker 11>so like a rose. I have often longed for such

2404
02:18:49.920 --> 02:18:53.840
<v Speaker 11>a dear little girl, said the old woman. Now you

2405
02:18:53.920 --> 02:18:57.440
<v Speaker 11>shall see how well we agreed together. And while she

2406
02:18:57.559 --> 02:19:00.719
<v Speaker 11>combed little Gerda's hair, the child forgot her foster brother

2407
02:19:00.879 --> 02:19:04.719
<v Speaker 11>Kay more and more. For the old woman understood magic,

2408
02:19:05.280 --> 02:19:08.600
<v Speaker 11>but she was no evil being. She only practiced witchcraft

2409
02:19:08.639 --> 02:19:11.920
<v Speaker 11>a little for her own private amusement, and now she

2410
02:19:12.079 --> 02:19:16.000
<v Speaker 11>wanted very much to keep little Gerda. She therefore went

2411
02:19:16.120 --> 02:19:19.719
<v Speaker 11>out into the garden, stretched out her crooked stick towards

2412
02:19:19.760 --> 02:19:23.879
<v Speaker 11>the rose bushes, which beautifully as they were blowing, all

2413
02:19:24.120 --> 02:19:26.600
<v Speaker 11>sank into the earth, and no one could tell where

2414
02:19:26.639 --> 02:19:30.280
<v Speaker 11>they had stood. The old woman feared that if Gerda

2415
02:19:30.319 --> 02:19:32.760
<v Speaker 11>should see the roses, she would then think of her

2416
02:19:32.840 --> 02:19:36.200
<v Speaker 11>own and would remember little Kay and run away from her.

2417
02:19:37.360 --> 02:19:40.879
<v Speaker 11>She now led Gerda into the flower garden. Oh what

2418
02:19:41.159 --> 02:19:44.719
<v Speaker 11>odor and what loveliness was there? Every flower that one

2419
02:19:44.760 --> 02:19:47.920
<v Speaker 11>could think of and of every season stood there in

2420
02:19:48.040 --> 02:19:52.440
<v Speaker 11>fullest bloom. No picture book could be gayer or more beautiful.

2421
02:19:52.799 --> 02:19:55.799
<v Speaker 11>Gerda jumped for joy and played till the sun set

2422
02:19:55.920 --> 02:19:59.200
<v Speaker 11>behind the tall cherry tree. She then had a pretty

2423
02:19:59.239 --> 02:20:02.799
<v Speaker 11>bed with the red silken coverlet filled with blue violets.

2424
02:20:03.399 --> 02:20:06.639
<v Speaker 11>She fell asleep and had as pleasant dreams as ever

2425
02:20:06.719 --> 02:20:10.159
<v Speaker 11>a queen on her wedding day. The next morning she

2426
02:20:10.280 --> 02:20:12.879
<v Speaker 11>went to play with the flowers in the warm sunshine,

2427
02:20:13.360 --> 02:20:16.799
<v Speaker 11>and thus passed away a day. Gerda knew every flower,

2428
02:20:17.319 --> 02:20:20.719
<v Speaker 11>and numerous as they were, it still seemed to Gerda

2429
02:20:20.799 --> 02:20:23.719
<v Speaker 11>that one was wanting, though she did not know which.

2430
02:20:24.559 --> 02:20:26.760
<v Speaker 11>One day, while she was looking at the hat of

2431
02:20:26.799 --> 02:20:30.360
<v Speaker 11>the old woman painted with flowers, the most beautiful of

2432
02:20:30.440 --> 02:20:32.959
<v Speaker 11>them all seemed to her to be a rose. The

2433
02:20:33.040 --> 02:20:35.399
<v Speaker 11>old woman had forgotten to take it from her hat

2434
02:20:35.479 --> 02:20:38.159
<v Speaker 11>when she made the others vanish in the earth. But

2435
02:20:38.280 --> 02:20:41.399
<v Speaker 11>so it is when one's thoughts are not collected, what

2436
02:20:42.280 --> 02:20:45.479
<v Speaker 11>said Gerda, are there no roses here? And she ran

2437
02:20:45.559 --> 02:20:49.079
<v Speaker 11>about amongst the flower beds and looked and looked, but

2438
02:20:49.159 --> 02:20:52.399
<v Speaker 11>there was not one to be found. She then sat

2439
02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:55.760
<v Speaker 11>down and wept, But her hot tears fell just where

2440
02:20:55.879 --> 02:20:59.399
<v Speaker 11>rose bush had sunk, And when her warm tears watered

2441
02:20:59.440 --> 02:21:03.159
<v Speaker 11>the ground, the tree shot up suddenly as fresh and

2442
02:21:03.280 --> 02:21:06.680
<v Speaker 11>blooming as when it had been swallowed up. Gerda kissed

2443
02:21:06.680 --> 02:21:09.479
<v Speaker 11>the roses, thought of her own dear roses at home,

2444
02:21:10.079 --> 02:21:13.200
<v Speaker 11>and with them of little Kay. Oh, how long I

2445
02:21:13.280 --> 02:21:16.799
<v Speaker 11>have stayed, said the little girl. I intended to look

2446
02:21:16.840 --> 02:21:20.399
<v Speaker 11>for Kay. Don't you know where he is? She asked

2447
02:21:20.440 --> 02:21:22.639
<v Speaker 11>of the roses, do you think he is dead and

2448
02:21:22.799 --> 02:21:27.520
<v Speaker 11>gone dead? He is certainly not, said the roses. We

2449
02:21:27.680 --> 02:21:29.559
<v Speaker 11>have been in the earth where all the dead are,

2450
02:21:30.040 --> 02:21:34.399
<v Speaker 11>but Kay was not there. Many thanks, said little Gerda,

2451
02:21:35.000 --> 02:21:38.120
<v Speaker 11>And she went to the other flowers, looked into their cups,

2452
02:21:38.520 --> 02:21:42.360
<v Speaker 11>and asked, don't you know where little Kay is? But

2453
02:21:42.520 --> 02:21:45.760
<v Speaker 11>every flower stood in the sunshine and dreamed its own

2454
02:21:45.840 --> 02:21:49.239
<v Speaker 11>fairy tale or its own story. And they all told

2455
02:21:49.319 --> 02:21:53.920
<v Speaker 11>her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay. Well,

2456
02:21:54.319 --> 02:21:58.639
<v Speaker 11>what did the tiger lily say? Hearest thou not the

2457
02:21:58.799 --> 02:22:05.559
<v Speaker 11>drum bum bum? Those are the only two tones, always bomb, bomb,

2458
02:22:06.319 --> 02:22:09.239
<v Speaker 11>hark to the plaintive song of the old woman, to

2459
02:22:09.360 --> 02:22:12.280
<v Speaker 11>the call of the priests. The Hindu woman, in her

2460
02:22:12.319 --> 02:22:16.399
<v Speaker 11>long robe stands upon the funeral pile. The flames rise

2461
02:22:16.520 --> 02:22:19.520
<v Speaker 11>around her and her dead husband. But the Hindu woman

2462
02:22:19.600 --> 02:22:22.680
<v Speaker 11>thinks on the living one in the surrounding circle, on

2463
02:22:22.920 --> 02:22:26.680
<v Speaker 11>him whose eyes burn hotter than the flames on him,

2464
02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:30.200
<v Speaker 11>the fire whose eyes pierces her heart more than the

2465
02:22:30.280 --> 02:22:34.040
<v Speaker 11>flames which will soon burn her body to ashes. Can

2466
02:22:34.120 --> 02:22:37.280
<v Speaker 11>the hearts flame die in the flame of the funeral pile.

2467
02:22:39.079 --> 02:22:43.040
<v Speaker 11>I don't understand that at all, said little Gerda. That

2468
02:22:43.239 --> 02:22:48.200
<v Speaker 11>is my story, said the lily, What did the convolvers say?

2469
02:22:49.479 --> 02:22:53.399
<v Speaker 11>Projecting over a narrow mountain path, there hangs an old

2470
02:22:53.479 --> 02:22:58.360
<v Speaker 11>feudal castle. Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls and

2471
02:22:58.600 --> 02:23:02.360
<v Speaker 11>round the altar, where a lovely maiden is standing. She

2472
02:23:02.559 --> 02:23:05.959
<v Speaker 11>bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.

2473
02:23:06.840 --> 02:23:10.239
<v Speaker 11>No fresher rose hangs on the branches than she. No

2474
02:23:10.399 --> 02:23:13.479
<v Speaker 11>apple blossom carried away by the wind is more buoyant.

2475
02:23:14.680 --> 02:23:18.959
<v Speaker 11>How her silken robe is rustling? Is he not yet come?

2476
02:23:20.280 --> 02:23:23.680
<v Speaker 11>Is it kay that you mean? Asked little Gerda. I

2477
02:23:23.799 --> 02:23:29.120
<v Speaker 11>am speaking about my story, about my dream, answered the convulvers.

2478
02:23:30.680 --> 02:23:35.280
<v Speaker 11>What do the snowdrops say? Between the trees, a long

2479
02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:39.559
<v Speaker 11>board is hanging. It is a swing. Two little girls

2480
02:23:39.639 --> 02:23:43.440
<v Speaker 11>are sitting in it and swing themselves backwards and forwards.

2481
02:23:44.319 --> 02:23:47.680
<v Speaker 11>Their frocks are as white as snow, and long green

2482
02:23:47.840 --> 02:23:52.200
<v Speaker 11>silk ribbons flutter from their bonnets. Their brother, who is

2483
02:23:52.239 --> 02:23:55.639
<v Speaker 11>older than they are, stands up in the swing. He

2484
02:23:55.760 --> 02:23:59.040
<v Speaker 11>twines his arms round the cords to hold himself fast,

2485
02:24:00.159 --> 02:24:02.639
<v Speaker 11>for in one hand he has a little cup and

2486
02:24:02.799 --> 02:24:06.520
<v Speaker 11>in the other a clay pipe. He is blowing soap bubbles.

2487
02:24:07.600 --> 02:24:11.760
<v Speaker 11>The swing moves, and the bubbles float in charming changing colors.

2488
02:24:12.559 --> 02:24:14.680
<v Speaker 11>The last is still hanging to the end of the

2489
02:24:14.799 --> 02:24:20.079
<v Speaker 11>pipe and rocks in the breeze. The swing moves. The

2490
02:24:20.159 --> 02:24:24.040
<v Speaker 11>little black dog, as light as a soap bubble, jumps

2491
02:24:24.159 --> 02:24:26.840
<v Speaker 11>up on his hind legs to try and get into

2492
02:24:26.920 --> 02:24:31.840
<v Speaker 11>the swing. It moves. The dog falls down, barks, and

2493
02:24:32.040 --> 02:24:37.440
<v Speaker 11>is angry. They tease him. The bubble bursts a swing,

2494
02:24:38.399 --> 02:24:43.319
<v Speaker 11>a bursting bubble. Such is my song. What you relate

2495
02:24:43.440 --> 02:24:45.920
<v Speaker 11>may be very pretty, but you tell it in so

2496
02:24:46.120 --> 02:24:51.280
<v Speaker 11>melancholy a manner, and do not mention. Kay, What do

2497
02:24:51.399 --> 02:24:56.239
<v Speaker 11>the hyacinths say? There were once upon a time three sisters,

2498
02:24:56.520 --> 02:25:01.159
<v Speaker 11>quite transparent and very beautiful. The robe of the one

2499
02:25:01.360 --> 02:25:04.799
<v Speaker 11>was red, and that of the second blue, and that

2500
02:25:04.959 --> 02:25:08.879
<v Speaker 11>of the third white. They danced hand in hand beside

2501
02:25:08.920 --> 02:25:12.760
<v Speaker 11>the calm lake, in the clear moonshine. They were not

2502
02:25:12.920 --> 02:25:17.920
<v Speaker 11>elfin maidens, but mortal children. A sweet fragrance was smelt,

2503
02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:21.680
<v Speaker 11>and the maidens vanished in the wood. The fragrance grew

2504
02:25:21.760 --> 02:25:27.840
<v Speaker 11>stronger three coffins, and in them three lovely maidens glided

2505
02:25:27.879 --> 02:25:31.399
<v Speaker 11>out of the forest and across the lake. The shining

2506
02:25:31.440 --> 02:25:36.200
<v Speaker 11>glow worms flew around like little floating lights. Do the

2507
02:25:36.280 --> 02:25:40.319
<v Speaker 11>dancing maidens sleep or are they dead? The odor of

2508
02:25:40.360 --> 02:25:44.680
<v Speaker 11>the flowers says they are corpses. The evening bell tolls

2509
02:25:44.719 --> 02:25:49.520
<v Speaker 11>for the dead. You make me quite sad, said little Gerda.

2510
02:25:50.159 --> 02:25:53.799
<v Speaker 11>I can't help thinking of the dead maidens. Oh, it

2511
02:25:53.879 --> 02:25:57.239
<v Speaker 11>is little Kay really dead. The roses have been in

2512
02:25:57.319 --> 02:25:58.639
<v Speaker 11>the earth and they say no.

2513
02:26:00.159 --> 02:26:01.719
<v Speaker 8>Ding dong.

2514
02:26:03.120 --> 02:26:07.680
<v Speaker 11>Sounded the hyacinth bells. We do not toll for little Kay.

2515
02:26:08.440 --> 02:26:09.479
<v Speaker 4>We do not know him.

2516
02:26:10.319 --> 02:26:13.399
<v Speaker 11>That is our way of singing, the only one we have.

2517
02:26:16.040 --> 02:26:19.399
<v Speaker 11>And Gerda went to the vernunculuses that looked forth from

2518
02:26:19.440 --> 02:26:24.000
<v Speaker 11>among the shining green leaves. You are a little bright sun,

2519
02:26:24.639 --> 02:26:27.159
<v Speaker 11>said Gerda. Tell me if you know where I can

2520
02:26:27.239 --> 02:26:31.680
<v Speaker 11>find my playfellow. And the vernunculuses shone brightly and looked

2521
02:26:31.680 --> 02:26:35.920
<v Speaker 11>again at Gerda. What song could the vernuculus sing? It

2522
02:26:36.079 --> 02:26:39.920
<v Speaker 11>was one that said nothing about Kay either. In a

2523
02:26:40.000 --> 02:26:42.799
<v Speaker 11>small court, the bright sun was shining in the first

2524
02:26:42.920 --> 02:26:46.760
<v Speaker 11>days of spring. The beams glided down the white walls

2525
02:26:46.799 --> 02:26:49.959
<v Speaker 11>of a neighbor's house, and close by, the fresh yellow

2526
02:26:50.000 --> 02:26:54.280
<v Speaker 11>flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun rays.

2527
02:26:55.360 --> 02:26:58.799
<v Speaker 11>An old grandmother was sitting in the air. Her granddaughter,

2528
02:26:59.360 --> 02:27:02.840
<v Speaker 11>the poorly servant, was just coming for a short visit.

2529
02:27:03.760 --> 02:27:08.520
<v Speaker 11>She knows her grandmother. There was gold, pure virgin gold,

2530
02:27:08.600 --> 02:27:12.719
<v Speaker 11>in that blessed kiss there. That is my little story,

2531
02:27:13.399 --> 02:27:19.239
<v Speaker 11>said the vernaculus. My poor old grandmother sighed Gerda. Yes,

2532
02:27:19.479 --> 02:27:22.719
<v Speaker 11>she is longing for me, no doubt she is sorrowing

2533
02:27:22.840 --> 02:27:25.920
<v Speaker 11>for me as she did for little Kay. But I

2534
02:27:25.959 --> 02:27:28.680
<v Speaker 11>will soon come home, and then I will bring Kay

2535
02:27:28.760 --> 02:27:31.879
<v Speaker 11>with me. It is of no use asking the flowers.

2536
02:27:32.319 --> 02:27:34.959
<v Speaker 11>They only know their own old rhymes and can tell

2537
02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:35.559
<v Speaker 11>me nothing.

2538
02:27:36.840 --> 02:27:37.840
<v Speaker 8>And then she tucked up.

2539
02:27:37.760 --> 02:27:40.520
<v Speaker 11>Her frock to enable her to run quicker, But the

2540
02:27:40.639 --> 02:27:43.559
<v Speaker 11>narcissus gave her a knock on the leg just as

2541
02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:46.840
<v Speaker 11>she was going to jump over it. So she stood still,

2542
02:27:47.719 --> 02:27:51.440
<v Speaker 11>looked at a long yellow flower and asked, you perhaps

2543
02:27:51.559 --> 02:27:55.680
<v Speaker 11>know something? And she bent down to the narcissus, And

2544
02:27:55.799 --> 02:27:59.920
<v Speaker 11>what did it say? I can see myself. I can

2545
02:28:00.079 --> 02:28:03.079
<v Speaker 11>see myself. Oh how odorous I.

2546
02:28:03.159 --> 02:28:06.760
<v Speaker 15>Am up in the little gowert there stands half dressed,

2547
02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:11.360
<v Speaker 15>a little dancer. She stands now on one leg, now

2548
02:28:11.479 --> 02:28:15.680
<v Speaker 15>on both. She despises the whole world, Yet she lives

2549
02:28:15.760 --> 02:28:19.879
<v Speaker 15>only in imagination. She pours water out of the teapot

2550
02:28:20.360 --> 02:28:23.440
<v Speaker 15>over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand.

2551
02:28:24.280 --> 02:28:28.559
<v Speaker 11>It is the bodice. Cleanliness is a fine thing. The

2552
02:28:28.639 --> 02:28:31.760
<v Speaker 11>white dress is hanging on the hook. It was washed

2553
02:28:31.799 --> 02:28:35.360
<v Speaker 11>in the teapot and dried on the roof. She puts

2554
02:28:35.440 --> 02:28:38.920
<v Speaker 11>it on, ties a safron colored kerchief round her neck,

2555
02:28:39.639 --> 02:28:43.040
<v Speaker 11>and then the gown looks whiter. I can see myself.

2556
02:28:43.600 --> 02:28:49.079
<v Speaker 11>I can see myself. That's nothing to me, said little Gerda.

2557
02:28:49.639 --> 02:28:53.840
<v Speaker 11>That does not concern me, And then off she ran

2558
02:28:54.000 --> 02:28:57.600
<v Speaker 11>to the further end of the garden. The gate was locked,

2559
02:28:57.959 --> 02:28:59.879
<v Speaker 11>but she shook the rusted bolt till it was loose,

2560
02:29:00.040 --> 02:29:04.000
<v Speaker 11>and the gate opened, and little Gerda ran off, barefooted

2561
02:29:04.120 --> 02:29:07.799
<v Speaker 11>into the wide world. She looked around her thrice, but

2562
02:29:07.959 --> 02:29:11.799
<v Speaker 11>no one followed her. At last, she could run no longer.

2563
02:29:12.239 --> 02:29:14.959
<v Speaker 11>She sat down on a large stone, and when she

2564
02:29:15.000 --> 02:29:17.680
<v Speaker 11>looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed.

2565
02:29:18.360 --> 02:29:21.079
<v Speaker 11>It was late in the autumn. But that one could

2566
02:29:21.120 --> 02:29:24.879
<v Speaker 11>not remark in the beautiful garden, where there was always sunshine,

2567
02:29:25.079 --> 02:29:29.079
<v Speaker 11>and where there were flowers the whole year round. Dear me,

2568
02:29:29.399 --> 02:29:33.799
<v Speaker 11>how long I've stayed said Gerda, autumn has come. I

2569
02:29:33.959 --> 02:29:36.799
<v Speaker 11>must not rest any longer, and she got up to

2570
02:29:36.840 --> 02:29:41.159
<v Speaker 11>go further. Oh, how tender and wearied her little feet were.

2571
02:29:41.840 --> 02:29:45.120
<v Speaker 11>All around it looked so cold and raw. The long

2572
02:29:45.159 --> 02:29:48.520
<v Speaker 11>willowlies were quite yellow, and the fog dripped from them

2573
02:29:48.680 --> 02:29:52.239
<v Speaker 11>like water. One leaf fell after the other, and the

2574
02:29:52.319 --> 02:29:55.799
<v Speaker 11>sloes only stood full of fruit, which set one's teeth

2575
02:29:55.840 --> 02:29:59.079
<v Speaker 11>on edge. Oh, how dark and comfortless it was in

2576
02:29:59.200 --> 02:30:06.280
<v Speaker 11>the dreary world. Fourth story, The Prince and Princess Gerda

2577
02:30:06.360 --> 02:30:09.920
<v Speaker 11>was obliged to rest herself again when exactly opposite to her,

2578
02:30:10.239 --> 02:30:13.840
<v Speaker 11>a large raven came hopping over the white snow. He

2579
02:30:14.000 --> 02:30:16.920
<v Speaker 11>had long been looking at Gerda and shaking his head,

2580
02:30:17.680 --> 02:30:23.079
<v Speaker 11>and now he said, gow caw, good day, good day.

2581
02:30:23.760 --> 02:30:26.079
<v Speaker 11>He could not say it better, but he felt a

2582
02:30:26.120 --> 02:30:28.520
<v Speaker 11>sympathy for the little girl, and asked her where she

2583
02:30:28.639 --> 02:30:29.760
<v Speaker 11>was going all alone.

2584
02:30:30.719 --> 02:30:31.399
<v Speaker 4>The word alone.

2585
02:30:31.479 --> 02:30:35.360
<v Speaker 11>Gerda understood quite well, and felt how much was expressed

2586
02:30:35.399 --> 02:30:38.440
<v Speaker 11>by it. So she told the raven her whole history

2587
02:30:38.840 --> 02:30:42.440
<v Speaker 11>and asked if he had not seen kay. The raven

2588
02:30:42.520 --> 02:30:46.760
<v Speaker 11>nodded very gravely and said, it may be, it may be.

2589
02:30:48.920 --> 02:30:51.840
<v Speaker 11>What do you really think? So cried the little girl

2590
02:30:52.520 --> 02:30:55.440
<v Speaker 11>and she nearly squeezed the raven to death so much

2591
02:30:55.520 --> 02:30:57.719
<v Speaker 11>did she kiss him gently?

2592
02:30:58.200 --> 02:31:03.360
<v Speaker 16>Gently, said the rain I think I know. I think

2593
02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:06.680
<v Speaker 16>that it may be little Kay, but he has forgotten

2594
02:31:06.760 --> 02:31:10.280
<v Speaker 16>you for the princess. Does he live with the princess,

2595
02:31:11.120 --> 02:31:15.159
<v Speaker 16>asked Gerda. Yes, listen, said the raven.

2596
02:31:15.799 --> 02:31:18.760
<v Speaker 11>But it will be difficult for me to speak your language.

2597
02:31:19.799 --> 02:31:24.680
<v Speaker 11>If you understand the raven language, I can tell you better. No,

2598
02:31:25.000 --> 02:31:28.520
<v Speaker 11>I have not learnt it, said Gerda. But my grandmother

2599
02:31:28.680 --> 02:31:32.479
<v Speaker 11>understands it, and she can speak Gibberish too. I wish

2600
02:31:32.520 --> 02:31:33.319
<v Speaker 11>I had learnt it.

2601
02:31:34.319 --> 02:31:38.360
<v Speaker 16>No matter, said the raven. I will tell you as

2602
02:31:38.440 --> 02:31:42.440
<v Speaker 16>well as I can. However it will be bad enough.

2603
02:31:43.639 --> 02:31:47.239
<v Speaker 11>And then he told all he knew. In the kingdom

2604
02:31:47.319 --> 02:31:50.639
<v Speaker 11>where we are now, there lives a princess who is

2605
02:31:50.719 --> 02:31:54.840
<v Speaker 11>extraordinarily clever. For she has read all the newspapers in

2606
02:31:54.920 --> 02:31:59.280
<v Speaker 11>the whole world and has forgotten them again. So clever

2607
02:31:59.479 --> 02:32:03.760
<v Speaker 11>is she. She was lately, it is said, sitting on

2608
02:32:03.879 --> 02:32:08.280
<v Speaker 11>her throne, which is not very musing after all. But

2609
02:32:08.440 --> 02:32:12.760
<v Speaker 11>she began humming an old tune, and it was just, oh,

2610
02:32:13.520 --> 02:32:17.440
<v Speaker 11>why should I not be married? That song is not

2611
02:32:17.639 --> 02:32:21.959
<v Speaker 11>without its meaning, said she, And so then she was

2612
02:32:22.040 --> 02:32:25.760
<v Speaker 11>determined to marry, but she would have a husband who

2613
02:32:25.840 --> 02:32:28.440
<v Speaker 11>knew how to give an answer when he was spoken to,

2614
02:32:29.440 --> 02:32:31.280
<v Speaker 11>not one who looked only as if he were a

2615
02:32:31.360 --> 02:32:36.920
<v Speaker 11>great personage, for that is so tiresome. Then she had

2616
02:32:37.040 --> 02:32:40.719
<v Speaker 11>all the ladies of the court drummed together, and when

2617
02:32:40.799 --> 02:32:45.680
<v Speaker 11>they heard her intention, all were very pleased, and said,

2618
02:32:46.719 --> 02:32:49.479
<v Speaker 11>we are very glad to hear of it. It is

2619
02:32:49.559 --> 02:32:53.280
<v Speaker 11>the very thing we were thinking of. You may believe

2620
02:32:53.360 --> 02:32:57.399
<v Speaker 11>every word I say, said the raven, for I have

2621
02:32:57.559 --> 02:33:01.719
<v Speaker 11>a tame sweetheart that hops about in the palace quite free,

2622
02:33:02.520 --> 02:33:06.079
<v Speaker 11>And it was she who told me all this. The

2623
02:33:06.200 --> 02:33:10.600
<v Speaker 11>newspapers appeared forthwith with a border of hearts and the

2624
02:33:10.680 --> 02:33:15.280
<v Speaker 11>initials of the princess, And therein you might read that

2625
02:33:15.440 --> 02:33:18.639
<v Speaker 11>every good looking young man who was at liberty to

2626
02:33:18.719 --> 02:33:21.920
<v Speaker 11>come to the palace and speak to the princess, and

2627
02:33:22.079 --> 02:33:25.760
<v Speaker 11>he who spoke in such ways as showed he felt

2628
02:33:25.879 --> 02:33:29.280
<v Speaker 11>himself at home there, that one the princess would choose

2629
02:33:29.360 --> 02:33:33.959
<v Speaker 11>for her husband. Yes, yes, said the raven. You may

2630
02:33:34.079 --> 02:33:37.360
<v Speaker 11>believe it. It is as true as I am sitting here.

2631
02:33:38.440 --> 02:33:42.280
<v Speaker 11>People came in crowds. There was a crush and a hurry,

2632
02:33:42.719 --> 02:33:46.319
<v Speaker 11>but no one was successful, either on the first or

2633
02:33:46.520 --> 02:33:50.680
<v Speaker 11>the second day. They could all talk well enough when

2634
02:33:50.719 --> 02:33:53.440
<v Speaker 11>they were out in the street, but as soon as

2635
02:33:53.479 --> 02:33:56.639
<v Speaker 11>they came in sight the palace gates and saw the

2636
02:33:56.760 --> 02:34:00.600
<v Speaker 11>guard richly dressed in silver, and the lackey and gold

2637
02:34:00.719 --> 02:34:05.840
<v Speaker 11>on the staircase, and the large illuminated saloons, then they

2638
02:34:05.879 --> 02:34:10.159
<v Speaker 11>were abashed. And when they stood before the throne on

2639
02:34:10.280 --> 02:34:13.760
<v Speaker 11>which the princess was sitting, all they could do was

2640
02:34:13.840 --> 02:34:16.799
<v Speaker 11>to repeat the last word they had uttered, And to

2641
02:34:16.879 --> 02:34:20.360
<v Speaker 11>hear it again did not interest her very much. It

2642
02:34:20.520 --> 02:34:23.040
<v Speaker 11>was just as if the people within were under a

2643
02:34:23.200 --> 02:34:27.280
<v Speaker 11>charm and had fallen into a trance, till they came

2644
02:34:27.360 --> 02:34:31.719
<v Speaker 11>out again into the street. For then, oh, then they

2645
02:34:31.799 --> 02:34:35.399
<v Speaker 11>could chatter enough. There was a whole row of them

2646
02:34:35.760 --> 02:34:39.360
<v Speaker 11>standing from the town gates to the palace. I was

2647
02:34:39.440 --> 02:34:43.399
<v Speaker 11>there myself to look, said the raven. Then they grew

2648
02:34:43.479 --> 02:34:48.200
<v Speaker 11>hungry and thirsty. But from the palace they got nothing whatever,

2649
02:34:49.239 --> 02:34:53.360
<v Speaker 11>not even a glass of water. Some of the cleverest,

2650
02:34:53.639 --> 02:34:56.600
<v Speaker 11>it is true, had taken bread and butter with them,

2651
02:34:57.319 --> 02:35:01.639
<v Speaker 11>but none shared it with his neighbor. Each thought, let

2652
02:35:01.719 --> 02:35:04.920
<v Speaker 11>him look hungry, and then the princess won't have him.

2653
02:35:05.879 --> 02:35:09.760
<v Speaker 11>But Kay, little kay, said Gerda. When did he come?

2654
02:35:10.399 --> 02:35:15.280
<v Speaker 11>Was he among the lumber? Patience, patience, We are just

2655
02:35:15.399 --> 02:35:19.600
<v Speaker 11>coming to him. It was on the third day when

2656
02:35:19.639 --> 02:35:24.280
<v Speaker 11>a little personage, without horse or equipage, came, marching right

2657
02:35:24.399 --> 02:35:28.120
<v Speaker 11>boldly up to the palace. His eyes shone like yours.

2658
02:35:28.799 --> 02:35:32.920
<v Speaker 11>He had beautiful long hair, but his clothes were very shabby.

2659
02:35:33.879 --> 02:35:37.280
<v Speaker 11>That was Kay, cried Gerda, with a voice of delight.

2660
02:35:37.920 --> 02:35:41.079
<v Speaker 11>Oh no, I found him, and she clapped her hands

2661
02:35:41.120 --> 02:35:44.479
<v Speaker 11>for joy. He had a little knapsack at his back,

2662
02:35:44.840 --> 02:35:49.799
<v Speaker 11>said the raven. No, that was certainly his sledge, said Gerda.

2663
02:35:50.520 --> 02:35:52.559
<v Speaker 11>For when he went away he took a sledge with him.

2664
02:35:53.559 --> 02:35:55.719
<v Speaker 11>That maybe, said the raven.

2665
02:35:56.600 --> 02:35:57.079
<v Speaker 2>I did not.

2666
02:35:57.239 --> 02:36:01.520
<v Speaker 11>Examine him so minutely. But I know from my tame sweetheart,

2667
02:36:02.040 --> 02:36:04.479
<v Speaker 11>that when he came into the courtyard of the palace

2668
02:36:04.879 --> 02:36:08.600
<v Speaker 11>and saw the bodyguard in silver, the lackey's on the staircase,

2669
02:36:09.319 --> 02:36:13.360
<v Speaker 11>he was not the least abashed. He nodded and said

2670
02:36:13.440 --> 02:36:17.479
<v Speaker 11>to them, it must be very tiresome to stand on

2671
02:36:17.559 --> 02:36:21.719
<v Speaker 11>the stairs. For my part, I shall go in. The

2672
02:36:21.799 --> 02:36:26.520
<v Speaker 11>saloons were gleaming with lusters. Privy counselors and excellencies were

2673
02:36:26.559 --> 02:36:31.040
<v Speaker 11>walking about barefooted and wore gold keys, who was enough

2674
02:36:31.120 --> 02:36:36.159
<v Speaker 11>to make anyone feel uncomfortable. His boots creaked too, so loudly,

2675
02:36:36.639 --> 02:36:40.559
<v Speaker 11>but still he was not at all afraid. That's Kate

2676
02:36:40.639 --> 02:36:44.479
<v Speaker 11>for certain, said Gerda. I know he had a new boots.

2677
02:36:45.239 --> 02:36:49.479
<v Speaker 11>I heard them creaking in Grandmamma's room. Yes, they creaked,

2678
02:36:50.239 --> 02:36:53.319
<v Speaker 11>said the raven. And on he went boldly up to

2679
02:36:53.399 --> 02:36:56.680
<v Speaker 11>the princess, who was sitting on a pearl as large

2680
02:36:56.719 --> 02:36:59.959
<v Speaker 11>as a spinning wheel. All the ladies of the court,

2681
02:37:00.360 --> 02:37:04.719
<v Speaker 11>with their attendants and attendants attendants, and all the cavaliers

2682
02:37:04.760 --> 02:37:09.680
<v Speaker 11>with their gentlemen and gentlemen's gentlemen, stood round, And the

2683
02:37:09.799 --> 02:37:12.879
<v Speaker 11>nearer they stood to the door, the prouder they looked.

2684
02:37:14.040 --> 02:37:16.959
<v Speaker 11>It was hardly possible to look at the gentlemen's gentlemen

2685
02:37:17.600 --> 02:37:21.600
<v Speaker 11>so heartily did he stand in the doorway. Oh, it

2686
02:37:21.840 --> 02:37:25.799
<v Speaker 11>must have been terrible, said little Gerda. And did KA

2687
02:37:25.879 --> 02:37:30.200
<v Speaker 11>get the princess? Were I not a raven? I should

2688
02:37:30.200 --> 02:37:34.319
<v Speaker 11>have taken the princess myself, although I am promised.

2689
02:37:34.520 --> 02:37:35.079
<v Speaker 4>It is said.

2690
02:37:35.159 --> 02:37:37.600
<v Speaker 11>He spoke as well as I speak when I talk

2691
02:37:37.799 --> 02:37:42.559
<v Speaker 11>raven language. This I learned from my tame sweetheart. He

2692
02:37:42.760 --> 02:37:46.120
<v Speaker 11>was bold and nicely behaved. He had not come to

2693
02:37:46.159 --> 02:37:50.120
<v Speaker 11>woo the princess, but only to hear her wisdom. She

2694
02:37:50.360 --> 02:37:55.200
<v Speaker 11>pleased him, and he pleased her. Yes, yes, we certain

2695
02:37:55.399 --> 02:37:59.639
<v Speaker 11>that was Kay, said Gerda. He was so clever he

2696
02:37:59.639 --> 02:38:01.559
<v Speaker 11>could our confractions.

2697
02:38:00.959 --> 02:38:01.479
<v Speaker 1>In his head.

2698
02:38:02.639 --> 02:38:06.120
<v Speaker 11>Oh won't you take me to the palace. That is

2699
02:38:06.360 --> 02:38:10.600
<v Speaker 11>very easily, said answered the raven. But how are we

2700
02:38:10.879 --> 02:38:15.040
<v Speaker 11>to manage it? I'll speak to my tame sweetheart about it.

2701
02:38:16.000 --> 02:38:19.559
<v Speaker 11>She must advise us for so much. I must tell you,

2702
02:38:20.440 --> 02:38:23.319
<v Speaker 11>such a little girl as you are will never get

2703
02:38:23.360 --> 02:38:28.399
<v Speaker 11>permission to enter. Oh yes I shall, said Gerda. When

2704
02:38:28.520 --> 02:38:31.200
<v Speaker 11>Kay hears that I'm here, he will come out directly

2705
02:38:31.280 --> 02:38:35.760
<v Speaker 11>to fetch me. Wait for me on these steps, said

2706
02:38:35.760 --> 02:38:39.280
<v Speaker 11>the raven. He moved his head backwards and forwards, and

2707
02:38:39.440 --> 02:38:43.760
<v Speaker 11>flew away. The evening was closing in when the raven returned.

2708
02:38:44.559 --> 02:38:50.440
<v Speaker 11>Caw Caw said he she sends you her compliments, and

2709
02:38:50.600 --> 02:38:50.959
<v Speaker 11>here is.

2710
02:38:51.000 --> 02:38:51.760
<v Speaker 4>A role for you.

2711
02:38:52.680 --> 02:38:55.239
<v Speaker 11>She took it out of the kitchen. Why there is

2712
02:38:55.319 --> 02:38:59.239
<v Speaker 11>bread enough. You are hungry, no doubt. It is not

2713
02:38:59.440 --> 02:39:01.600
<v Speaker 11>possible for you to enter the palace, for you are

2714
02:39:01.719 --> 02:39:05.600
<v Speaker 11>bare footed. The guides in silver and the lackeys in

2715
02:39:05.719 --> 02:39:09.760
<v Speaker 11>gold would not allow it, but do not cry, and

2716
02:39:09.879 --> 02:39:13.639
<v Speaker 11>she'll come in. Still, my sweetheart knows a little back

2717
02:39:13.719 --> 02:39:17.120
<v Speaker 11>stair that leads to the bedchamber, and she knows where

2718
02:39:17.200 --> 02:39:19.920
<v Speaker 11>she can get the key of it. And then they

2719
02:39:19.959 --> 02:39:22.719
<v Speaker 11>went into the garden in the large avenue, where one

2720
02:39:22.799 --> 02:39:25.760
<v Speaker 11>leaf was falling after the other, And when the lights

2721
02:39:25.799 --> 02:39:29.159
<v Speaker 11>in the palace had all gradually disappeared, the Raven led

2722
02:39:29.159 --> 02:39:32.120
<v Speaker 11>little Gerda to the back door, which stood half open.

2723
02:39:33.360 --> 02:39:37.120
<v Speaker 11>Oh how Gerda's heart beat with anxiety and longing. It

2724
02:39:37.280 --> 02:39:38.760
<v Speaker 11>was just as if she had been about to do

2725
02:39:38.879 --> 02:39:41.840
<v Speaker 11>something wrong. And yet she only wanted to find out

2726
02:39:41.840 --> 02:39:45.000
<v Speaker 11>if little Kay was there. Yes, he must be there,

2727
02:39:45.639 --> 02:39:48.799
<v Speaker 11>she called, to mind, his intelligent ways and his long hair,

2728
02:39:49.479 --> 02:39:52.280
<v Speaker 11>so vividly she could quite see him, as he used

2729
02:39:52.280 --> 02:39:55.040
<v Speaker 11>to laugh when they were sitting under the roses at home.

2730
02:39:55.959 --> 02:39:59.159
<v Speaker 16>He will no doubt be glad to see you, to

2731
02:39:59.319 --> 02:40:01.360
<v Speaker 16>hear what a lo long way you have come for

2732
02:40:01.520 --> 02:40:05.639
<v Speaker 16>his sake, to know how unhappy all at home, Or

2733
02:40:05.840 --> 02:40:09.600
<v Speaker 16>when he did not come back, Oh, what a fright

2734
02:40:10.239 --> 02:40:11.280
<v Speaker 16>and a joy it was.

2735
02:40:12.639 --> 02:40:15.440
<v Speaker 11>They were now on the stairs. A single lamp was

2736
02:40:15.479 --> 02:40:18.520
<v Speaker 11>burning there, and on the floor stood the tame Raven,

2737
02:40:19.159 --> 02:40:22.079
<v Speaker 11>turning her head on every side, and looking at Gerda,

2738
02:40:22.479 --> 02:40:24.680
<v Speaker 11>who bowed as her grandmother had taught her to do.

2739
02:40:26.120 --> 02:40:29.159
<v Speaker 11>I intended has told me so much good.

2740
02:40:29.000 --> 02:40:32.639
<v Speaker 17>Of you, my dear young lady, said the tame raven.

2741
02:40:33.600 --> 02:40:37.360
<v Speaker 17>Your tale is very affecting. If you will take the lamp,

2742
02:40:37.959 --> 02:40:41.319
<v Speaker 17>I will go before. We will go straight on, for

2743
02:40:41.520 --> 02:40:42.680
<v Speaker 17>we shall meet no one.

2744
02:40:44.239 --> 02:40:47.159
<v Speaker 11>I think there is somebody just behind us, said Gerda,

2745
02:40:47.639 --> 02:40:51.799
<v Speaker 11>and something rushed past. It was like shadowy figures on

2746
02:40:51.920 --> 02:40:57.120
<v Speaker 11>the wall, Horses with flowing manes and thin legs, huntsmen, ladies,

2747
02:40:57.280 --> 02:41:02.319
<v Speaker 11>and gentlemen on horseback. They really dreams, said the raven.

2748
02:41:02.879 --> 02:41:05.680
<v Speaker 11>They come to fetch the thoughts and the high personages

2749
02:41:05.760 --> 02:41:09.000
<v Speaker 11>to the chase. Tis well, for now you can observe

2750
02:41:09.079 --> 02:41:12.200
<v Speaker 11>them in bed, all the better. But let me find

2751
02:41:12.479 --> 02:41:16.040
<v Speaker 11>when you enjoy honor and distinction, that you possess a

2752
02:41:16.120 --> 02:41:22.159
<v Speaker 11>grateful heart. Tat that's not worth talking about, said the

2753
02:41:22.239 --> 02:41:25.879
<v Speaker 11>raven of the woods. Now they entered the first saloon,

2754
02:41:26.239 --> 02:41:29.760
<v Speaker 11>which was of rose colored satin, with artificial flowers on

2755
02:41:29.840 --> 02:41:34.040
<v Speaker 11>the wall. Here the dreams were rushing past, but they

2756
02:41:34.120 --> 02:41:37.440
<v Speaker 11>hastened by so quickly that Gerda could not see the

2757
02:41:37.520 --> 02:41:42.319
<v Speaker 11>high personages. One hole was more magnificent than the other.

2758
02:41:43.200 --> 02:41:46.399
<v Speaker 11>One might indeed be well abashed. And at last they

2759
02:41:46.440 --> 02:41:50.399
<v Speaker 11>came into the bedchamber. The ceiling of the room resembled

2760
02:41:50.399 --> 02:41:54.280
<v Speaker 11>a large palm tree with leaves of glass of costly glass,

2761
02:41:54.920 --> 02:41:58.079
<v Speaker 11>and in the middle, from a thick golden stem hung

2762
02:41:58.159 --> 02:42:02.360
<v Speaker 11>two beds, each of which resembled a lily. One was white,

2763
02:42:02.600 --> 02:42:05.799
<v Speaker 11>and in this lay the princess. The other was red.

2764
02:42:06.520 --> 02:42:08.200
<v Speaker 11>And it was here that Gerda was to look for

2765
02:42:08.319 --> 02:42:11.520
<v Speaker 11>little Kay. She bent back one of the red leaves

2766
02:42:11.920 --> 02:42:16.159
<v Speaker 11>and saw a brown neck. Oh, that was Kay. She

2767
02:42:16.319 --> 02:42:19.079
<v Speaker 11>called him quite loud by the name, held the lamp

2768
02:42:19.159 --> 02:42:22.559
<v Speaker 11>towards him. The dreams rushed back again into the chamber.

2769
02:42:23.000 --> 02:42:27.000
<v Speaker 11>He awoke, turned his head, and it was not little Kay.

2770
02:42:28.079 --> 02:42:30.399
<v Speaker 11>The prince was only like him about the neck, but

2771
02:42:30.479 --> 02:42:33.200
<v Speaker 11>he was young and handsome, and out of the white

2772
02:42:33.239 --> 02:42:36.879
<v Speaker 11>lily leaves. The princess peeped too, and asked what was

2773
02:42:36.920 --> 02:42:40.479
<v Speaker 11>the matter. Then little Gerda cried and told her her

2774
02:42:40.520 --> 02:42:43.280
<v Speaker 11>whole history and all that the ravens had done for her.

2775
02:42:44.360 --> 02:42:48.520
<v Speaker 11>Poor little thing, said the Prince and princess. They praised

2776
02:42:48.520 --> 02:42:51.079
<v Speaker 11>the ravens very much, and told them they were not

2777
02:42:51.159 --> 02:42:53.520
<v Speaker 11>at all angry with them, but they were not to

2778
02:42:53.639 --> 02:42:58.040
<v Speaker 11>do so again. However, they should have a reward. Will

2779
02:42:58.079 --> 02:43:01.559
<v Speaker 11>you fly about here at liberty, asked the princess, or

2780
02:43:01.600 --> 02:43:04.079
<v Speaker 11>would you like to have a fixed appointment? As caught

2781
02:43:04.239 --> 02:43:08.120
<v Speaker 11>ravens with all the broken bits from the kitchen, and

2782
02:43:08.239 --> 02:43:11.360
<v Speaker 11>both the ravens nodded and begged for a fixed appointment,

2783
02:43:11.840 --> 02:43:14.959
<v Speaker 11>for they thought of their old age, and said, it

2784
02:43:15.079 --> 02:43:17.440
<v Speaker 11>is a very good thing to have a provision for

2785
02:43:17.600 --> 02:43:21.040
<v Speaker 11>our old days. And the Prince got up and let

2786
02:43:21.079 --> 02:43:23.680
<v Speaker 11>Gerda sleep in his bed. And more than this he

2787
02:43:23.760 --> 02:43:26.719
<v Speaker 11>could not do. She folded her little hands and thought

2788
02:43:27.319 --> 02:43:30.920
<v Speaker 11>how good men and animals are, and then fell asleep

2789
02:43:31.000 --> 02:43:34.959
<v Speaker 11>and slept soundly. All the dreams flew in again, and

2790
02:43:35.079 --> 02:43:37.600
<v Speaker 11>they now looked like the angels, and they drew a

2791
02:43:37.639 --> 02:43:41.479
<v Speaker 11>little sledge in which little Kay sat and nodded his head.

2792
02:43:42.200 --> 02:43:44.920
<v Speaker 11>But the whole was only a dream, and therefore it

2793
02:43:45.040 --> 02:43:48.280
<v Speaker 11>all vanished. As soon as she awoke the next day,

2794
02:43:48.319 --> 02:43:50.760
<v Speaker 11>she was dressed from head to foot in silken velvet.

2795
02:43:51.559 --> 02:43:53.639
<v Speaker 11>They offered to let her stay at the palace and

2796
02:43:53.760 --> 02:43:56.280
<v Speaker 11>lead a happy life, but she begged to have a

2797
02:43:56.319 --> 02:43:59.040
<v Speaker 11>little carriage with the horse in front, and for a

2798
02:43:59.120 --> 02:44:02.799
<v Speaker 11>small pair of shoes. Then she said she would again

2799
02:44:02.920 --> 02:44:05.440
<v Speaker 11>go forth in the wide world and look for quay.

2800
02:44:06.200 --> 02:44:08.639
<v Speaker 11>Shoes and a muff were given her, and she was

2801
02:44:08.719 --> 02:44:11.840
<v Speaker 11>too dressed very nicely. And when she was about to

2802
02:44:11.879 --> 02:44:15.200
<v Speaker 11>set off, a new carriage stopped before the door. It

2803
02:44:15.360 --> 02:44:17.959
<v Speaker 11>was of pure gold, and the arms of the Prince

2804
02:44:18.040 --> 02:44:21.680
<v Speaker 11>and Princess shone like a star upon it. The coachman,

2805
02:44:21.879 --> 02:44:25.280
<v Speaker 11>the footmen, and the outriders, for outriders there were too,

2806
02:44:25.920 --> 02:44:29.680
<v Speaker 11>all wore golden crowns. The Prince and Princess assisted her

2807
02:44:29.719 --> 02:44:33.799
<v Speaker 11>into the carriage themselves and wished her all success. The

2808
02:44:33.920 --> 02:44:37.000
<v Speaker 11>Raven of the Woods, who was now married, accompanied her

2809
02:44:37.040 --> 02:44:40.280
<v Speaker 11>for the first three miles. He sat beside Gerda, for

2810
02:44:40.440 --> 02:44:43.760
<v Speaker 11>he could not bear riding backwards. The other ravens stood

2811
02:44:43.799 --> 02:44:46.440
<v Speaker 11>in the doorway and flapped her wings. She could not

2812
02:44:46.520 --> 02:44:50.040
<v Speaker 11>accompany Gerda because she suffered from headache since she had

2813
02:44:50.079 --> 02:44:53.879
<v Speaker 11>had a fixed appointment and ate so much. The carriage

2814
02:44:54.000 --> 02:44:56.879
<v Speaker 11>was lined inside with sugar plums, and in the seats

2815
02:44:56.879 --> 02:45:02.639
<v Speaker 11>were fruits and gingerbread. Farewell, farewell, cried the prince and princess,

2816
02:45:03.159 --> 02:45:06.840
<v Speaker 11>and Gerda wept, and the raven wept. Thus passed the

2817
02:45:06.920 --> 02:45:10.360
<v Speaker 11>first miles and then the raven bade her farewell, and

2818
02:45:10.479 --> 02:45:13.799
<v Speaker 11>this was the most painful separation of all. He flew

2819
02:45:13.920 --> 02:45:16.639
<v Speaker 11>into a tree and beat his black wings as long

2820
02:45:16.680 --> 02:45:19.440
<v Speaker 11>as he could see the carriage that shone from afar

2821
02:45:19.719 --> 02:45:26.520
<v Speaker 11>like a sunbeam. Fifth story, the little robber maiden. They

2822
02:45:26.639 --> 02:45:29.600
<v Speaker 11>drove through the dark wood, but the carriage shone like

2823
02:45:29.639 --> 02:45:32.840
<v Speaker 11>a torch and dazzled the eyes of the robbers so

2824
02:45:32.959 --> 02:45:36.159
<v Speaker 11>that they could not bear to look at it. Tis gold,

2825
02:45:36.280 --> 02:45:40.959
<v Speaker 11>Tis gold, they cried, and they rushed forward, seized the horses,

2826
02:45:41.399 --> 02:45:45.079
<v Speaker 11>knocked down the little postilion, the coachman and the servants,

2827
02:45:45.399 --> 02:45:49.440
<v Speaker 11>and pulled little Gerda out of the carriage. Ow plump.

2828
02:45:49.920 --> 02:45:54.040
<v Speaker 11>How beautiful she is. She must have been fed on

2829
02:45:54.280 --> 02:45:58.360
<v Speaker 11>no colonels, said the old female robber, who had long

2830
02:45:58.520 --> 02:46:02.280
<v Speaker 11>scrubby beard and bush eyebrows that hung down over her eyes.

2831
02:46:03.319 --> 02:46:06.520
<v Speaker 11>She's as good as a fatted lamb. How nice she

2832
02:46:06.639 --> 02:46:09.920
<v Speaker 11>will be. And then she drew out a knife, the

2833
02:46:10.000 --> 02:46:12.559
<v Speaker 11>blade of which shone so that it was quite dreadful

2834
02:46:12.600 --> 02:46:16.680
<v Speaker 11>to behold. Oh, cried the woman. At the same moment

2835
02:46:17.399 --> 02:46:19.200
<v Speaker 11>she had been bitten in the ear by her own

2836
02:46:19.280 --> 02:46:22.120
<v Speaker 11>little daughter, who hung at her back and was so

2837
02:46:22.360 --> 02:46:25.639
<v Speaker 11>wild and unmanageable that it was quite amusing to see her,

2838
02:46:26.520 --> 02:46:30.239
<v Speaker 11>You naughty child, said the mother, And now she had

2839
02:46:30.319 --> 02:46:33.520
<v Speaker 11>not time to kill Gerda. She shall play with me,

2840
02:46:34.360 --> 02:46:37.520
<v Speaker 11>said the little robber child. She shall give me her

2841
02:46:37.639 --> 02:46:40.840
<v Speaker 11>muff and her pretty frock, and she shall sleep in

2842
02:46:41.000 --> 02:46:44.399
<v Speaker 11>my bed. And then she gave her mother another bite,

2843
02:46:44.959 --> 02:46:47.559
<v Speaker 11>so that she jumped and ran around with the pain.

2844
02:46:48.200 --> 02:46:51.639
<v Speaker 11>And the robbers laughed and said, look out his dancing

2845
02:46:51.760 --> 02:46:55.000
<v Speaker 11>with the little one. I will go into the carriage,

2846
02:46:55.559 --> 02:46:58.360
<v Speaker 11>said the little robber maiden, and she would have her will,

2847
02:46:58.760 --> 02:47:02.639
<v Speaker 11>for she was very spoilt and very headstrong. She and

2848
02:47:02.760 --> 02:47:05.639
<v Speaker 11>Gerda got in, and then away they drove over the

2849
02:47:05.680 --> 02:47:09.479
<v Speaker 11>stumps of the felled trees, deeper and deeper into the woods.

2850
02:47:10.440 --> 02:47:13.799
<v Speaker 11>The little robber Maiden was as tall as Gerda, but stronger,

2851
02:47:14.280 --> 02:47:18.760
<v Speaker 11>broader shouldered, and of dark complexion. Her eyes were quite black,

2852
02:47:19.200 --> 02:47:23.159
<v Speaker 11>though looked almost melancholy. She embraced little Gerda and said,

2853
02:47:23.719 --> 02:47:25.840
<v Speaker 11>they shall not kill you, as long as I am

2854
02:47:25.920 --> 02:47:31.120
<v Speaker 11>not displeased with you. You are doubtless a princess. No,

2855
02:47:31.840 --> 02:47:35.079
<v Speaker 11>said little Gerda, who then related all that had happened

2856
02:47:35.120 --> 02:47:37.440
<v Speaker 11>to her and how much she cared about little Kay.

2857
02:47:38.719 --> 02:47:41.440
<v Speaker 11>The little robber maiden looked at her with a serious air,

2858
02:47:42.120 --> 02:47:45.559
<v Speaker 11>nodded her head slightly, and said, they shall not kill you.

2859
02:47:46.159 --> 02:47:49.120
<v Speaker 11>Even if I am angry with you, then I will

2860
02:47:49.159 --> 02:47:53.200
<v Speaker 11>do it myself. And she dried Gerda's eyes and put

2861
02:47:53.239 --> 02:47:55.680
<v Speaker 11>both her hands in the handsome muff, which was so

2862
02:47:55.959 --> 02:48:00.360
<v Speaker 11>soft and warm. At length, the carriage stopped. They were

2863
02:48:00.399 --> 02:48:02.799
<v Speaker 11>in the midst of the courtyard of a robber's castle.

2864
02:48:03.600 --> 02:48:06.399
<v Speaker 11>It was full of cracks from top to bottom, and

2865
02:48:06.520 --> 02:48:09.920
<v Speaker 11>out of the openings. Magpies and rooks were flying, and

2866
02:48:10.000 --> 02:48:12.280
<v Speaker 11>the great bulldogs, each of which looked as if he

2867
02:48:12.319 --> 02:48:15.840
<v Speaker 11>could swallow a man, jumped up, but they did not bark,

2868
02:48:16.239 --> 02:48:19.719
<v Speaker 11>for that was forbidden. In the midst of the large

2869
02:48:19.799 --> 02:48:23.399
<v Speaker 11>old smoking hole, burnt a great fire on the stone floor.

2870
02:48:24.239 --> 02:48:27.440
<v Speaker 11>The smoke disappeared under the stones and had to seek

2871
02:48:27.440 --> 02:48:31.680
<v Speaker 11>its own negress. In an immense caldron, soup was boiling,

2872
02:48:32.000 --> 02:48:34.440
<v Speaker 11>and rabbits and hares were being roasted on a spit.

2873
02:48:35.600 --> 02:48:38.559
<v Speaker 11>You shall sleep with me to night, with all my animals,

2874
02:48:39.120 --> 02:48:42.079
<v Speaker 11>said the little robber maiden. They had something to eat

2875
02:48:42.120 --> 02:48:45.440
<v Speaker 11>and drink, and then went into a corner where straw

2876
02:48:45.520 --> 02:48:49.600
<v Speaker 11>and carpets were lying beside them, and lads and perches

2877
02:48:50.200 --> 02:48:54.520
<v Speaker 11>sat nearly a hundred pigeons, all asleep seemingly, but yet

2878
02:48:54.559 --> 02:48:57.440
<v Speaker 11>they moved a little when the robber maiden came. They

2879
02:48:57.479 --> 02:49:01.239
<v Speaker 11>are all mine, said she, at the same time, seizing

2880
02:49:01.319 --> 02:49:03.479
<v Speaker 11>one that was next to her by the legs in

2881
02:49:03.639 --> 02:49:07.319
<v Speaker 11>shaking it so that its wings fluttered. Kiss it, cried

2882
02:49:07.360 --> 02:49:10.280
<v Speaker 11>the little girl, and flung the pigeon into Gerda's face.

2883
02:49:11.360 --> 02:49:14.000
<v Speaker 11>Up there is the rabble of the wood, continued she,

2884
02:49:14.799 --> 02:49:18.360
<v Speaker 11>pointing to several laughs which were fastened before a hole

2885
02:49:18.520 --> 02:49:22.440
<v Speaker 11>high up in the wall. That's the rabble. They would

2886
02:49:22.440 --> 02:49:25.680
<v Speaker 11>all fly away immediately if they were not well fastened in.

2887
02:49:26.440 --> 02:49:29.840
<v Speaker 11>And here's my dear old back. And she laid hold

2888
02:49:29.920 --> 02:49:32.520
<v Speaker 11>of the horns of a reindeer that had a bright

2889
02:49:32.680 --> 02:49:35.840
<v Speaker 11>copper ring round its neck and was tethered to the spot.

2890
02:49:36.959 --> 02:49:39.920
<v Speaker 11>We are obliged to lock this fellow in too, or

2891
02:49:40.000 --> 02:49:43.159
<v Speaker 11>he would make his escape every evening. I tickle his

2892
02:49:43.280 --> 02:49:46.559
<v Speaker 11>neck with my sharp knife. He is so frightened at it.

2893
02:49:47.079 --> 02:49:49.840
<v Speaker 11>And the little girl drew forth a long knife from

2894
02:49:49.879 --> 02:49:52.200
<v Speaker 11>a crack in the wall and let a glide over

2895
02:49:52.239 --> 02:49:56.239
<v Speaker 11>the reindeer's neck. The poor animal kicked, The girl laughed,

2896
02:49:56.520 --> 02:49:59.760
<v Speaker 11>and pulled Gerda into bed with her. Do you and

2897
02:49:59.799 --> 02:50:02.719
<v Speaker 11>tell and to keep your knife while you sleep, asked Gerda,

2898
02:50:03.159 --> 02:50:07.000
<v Speaker 11>looking at it rather fearfully. I always sleep with the knife,

2899
02:50:07.399 --> 02:50:10.200
<v Speaker 11>said the little robber Maiden. There is no knowing what

2900
02:50:10.399 --> 02:50:14.120
<v Speaker 11>may happen. But tell me now once more all about

2901
02:50:14.159 --> 02:50:17.319
<v Speaker 11>little Kay and why you started off in the wide

2902
02:50:17.360 --> 02:50:21.399
<v Speaker 11>world alone. And Gerda related all from the very beginning.

2903
02:50:22.280 --> 02:50:25.959
<v Speaker 11>The woodpigeons cooed above in their cage, and the others slept.

2904
02:50:27.159 --> 02:50:30.040
<v Speaker 11>The little robber Maiden wound her arm around Gerda's neck,

2905
02:50:30.440 --> 02:50:33.079
<v Speaker 11>held a knife in the other hand, and snored so

2906
02:50:33.319 --> 02:50:36.399
<v Speaker 11>loud that everybody could hear her. But Gerda could not

2907
02:50:36.559 --> 02:50:39.040
<v Speaker 11>close her eyes, for she did not know whether she

2908
02:50:39.200 --> 02:50:42.479
<v Speaker 11>was to live or die. The robbers sat round the fire,

2909
02:50:42.959 --> 02:50:46.040
<v Speaker 11>sang and drank, and the old female robber jumped about,

2910
02:50:46.159 --> 02:50:49.079
<v Speaker 11>so that it was quite dreadful for Gerda to see her.

2911
02:50:50.440 --> 02:50:56.399
<v Speaker 11>Then the woodpigeons said, coo, coo, they have seen little Kay.

2912
02:50:57.200 --> 02:51:01.399
<v Speaker 11>A white hen carries his sledge, and he himself sat

2913
02:51:01.479 --> 02:51:04.719
<v Speaker 11>in the carriage of the snow Queen who passed here

2914
02:51:05.520 --> 02:51:08.399
<v Speaker 11>down just over the wood. As we lay on our nest,

2915
02:51:09.280 --> 02:51:12.719
<v Speaker 11>she blew upon us young ones, and all died except.

2916
02:51:12.440 --> 02:51:13.959
<v Speaker 4>We two cow.

2917
02:51:14.879 --> 02:51:15.120
<v Speaker 2>Cow.

2918
02:51:16.319 --> 02:51:17.319
<v Speaker 13>What is it that you say?

2919
02:51:17.440 --> 02:51:17.719
<v Speaker 18>Up there?

2920
02:51:18.280 --> 02:51:21.200
<v Speaker 11>Cried little Gerda. Where did the snow Queen go to?

2921
02:51:22.040 --> 02:51:25.399
<v Speaker 11>Do you know anything about it? She has no doubt.

2922
02:51:25.479 --> 02:51:29.280
<v Speaker 19>Conte Lapland, for there is always snow and ice there.

2923
02:51:30.120 --> 02:51:34.479
<v Speaker 19>Only ask the reindeer who's tethered there? Ice and snow

2924
02:51:34.639 --> 02:51:39.719
<v Speaker 19>is there there? It is glorious and beautiful, said the reindeer.

2925
02:51:40.440 --> 02:51:44.280
<v Speaker 19>One can spring about in the large shining valleys. The

2926
02:51:44.399 --> 02:51:47.559
<v Speaker 19>snow Queen has her summer tent there, but her fixed

2927
02:51:47.600 --> 02:51:51.479
<v Speaker 19>abode is high up towards the north pole, on the

2928
02:51:51.600 --> 02:51:57.479
<v Speaker 19>island called Spezbergen. O Kay, poor little Kay, sighed Gerda.

2929
02:51:58.639 --> 02:52:01.920
<v Speaker 19>Do you choose to be quiet? Said the robber maiden.

2930
02:52:02.440 --> 02:52:06.639
<v Speaker 11>If you don't, I shall make you in the morning.

2931
02:52:06.920 --> 02:52:09.959
<v Speaker 11>Gerda told her all that the woodpigeons had said, and

2932
02:52:10.079 --> 02:52:13.360
<v Speaker 11>the little maiden looked very serious. But she nodded her

2933
02:52:13.440 --> 02:52:17.799
<v Speaker 11>head and said, that's no matter. That's no matter. Do

2934
02:52:17.840 --> 02:52:21.000
<v Speaker 11>you know where Lapland lies? She asked of the reindeer,

2935
02:52:21.840 --> 02:52:25.079
<v Speaker 11>who should know better than I? Said the animal, His

2936
02:52:25.239 --> 02:52:28.520
<v Speaker 11>eyes rolled in his head. I was born and bred

2937
02:52:28.600 --> 02:52:33.479
<v Speaker 11>there there. I leapt about on the fields of snow. Listen,

2938
02:52:33.879 --> 02:52:36.760
<v Speaker 11>said the robber maiden to Gerda. You see that the

2939
02:52:36.840 --> 02:52:39.319
<v Speaker 11>men are gone, but my mother is still here and

2940
02:52:39.479 --> 02:52:43.639
<v Speaker 11>will remain. However, towards the morning she takes a draft

2941
02:52:43.719 --> 02:52:46.600
<v Speaker 11>out of the large flask, and then she sleeps a little.

2942
02:52:47.280 --> 02:52:50.559
<v Speaker 11>Then I will do something for you. She now jumped

2943
02:52:50.600 --> 02:52:53.920
<v Speaker 11>out of bed flew to her mother, with her arms

2944
02:52:54.000 --> 02:52:56.360
<v Speaker 11>round her neck and pulling her by. The beard said,

2945
02:52:56.879 --> 02:52:59.559
<v Speaker 11>good morrow, my own sweet nanny goat of a mother,

2946
02:53:00.360 --> 02:53:02.920
<v Speaker 11>And her mother took hold of her nose and pinched

2947
02:53:02.959 --> 02:53:05.239
<v Speaker 11>it till it was red and blue. But this was

2948
02:53:05.280 --> 02:53:08.200
<v Speaker 11>all done out of pure love. When the mother had

2949
02:53:08.280 --> 02:53:10.760
<v Speaker 11>taken a sup at her flask and was having a nap,

2950
02:53:11.319 --> 02:53:14.040
<v Speaker 11>the little robber maiden went to the reindeer and said,

2951
02:53:14.799 --> 02:53:17.200
<v Speaker 11>I should very much like to give you still many

2952
02:53:17.280 --> 02:53:20.319
<v Speaker 11>a tickling with the sharp knife, for then you are

2953
02:53:20.479 --> 02:53:25.319
<v Speaker 11>so amusing. However, I will untether you and help you

2954
02:53:25.479 --> 02:53:28.799
<v Speaker 11>out so that you may go back to Lapland. But

2955
02:53:28.959 --> 02:53:31.639
<v Speaker 11>you must make good use of your legs and take

2956
02:53:31.719 --> 02:53:33.879
<v Speaker 11>this little girl for me to the palace of the

2957
02:53:33.959 --> 02:53:37.879
<v Speaker 11>snow Queen, where her playfellow is. You have heard, I

2958
02:53:37.959 --> 02:53:42.319
<v Speaker 11>suppose all she said, for she spoke loud enough, and

2959
02:53:42.479 --> 02:53:46.520
<v Speaker 11>you were listening. The reindeer gave a bound for joy.

2960
02:53:47.479 --> 02:53:50.680
<v Speaker 11>The robber maiden lifted up little Gerda and took the

2961
02:53:50.719 --> 02:53:53.920
<v Speaker 11>precaution to bind her fast on the reindeer's back. She

2962
02:53:54.079 --> 02:53:57.680
<v Speaker 11>even gave her a small cushion to sit on. Here

2963
02:53:57.719 --> 02:54:01.559
<v Speaker 11>are your worsted leggings, for will be cold. But the

2964
02:54:01.680 --> 02:54:04.159
<v Speaker 11>muff I shall keep from myself, for it is so

2965
02:54:04.479 --> 02:54:07.360
<v Speaker 11>very pretty. But I do not wish you to be cold.

2966
02:54:08.200 --> 02:54:10.440
<v Speaker 11>Here is a pair of lying gloves of my mother's.

2967
02:54:11.319 --> 02:54:12.799
<v Speaker 11>They just reach up to your elbow.

2968
02:54:13.159 --> 02:54:13.799
<v Speaker 10>On with them.

2969
02:54:14.440 --> 02:54:16.840
<v Speaker 11>Now you look about the hands just like my ugly

2970
02:54:16.920 --> 02:54:21.600
<v Speaker 11>old mother, and Gerda wept for joy. I can't bear

2971
02:54:21.760 --> 02:54:25.600
<v Speaker 11>to see you fretting, said the little robber maiden. This

2972
02:54:25.799 --> 02:54:27.799
<v Speaker 11>is just the time when you ought to look pleased.

2973
02:54:28.559 --> 02:54:31.200
<v Speaker 11>Here are two loves and a ham for you, so

2974
02:54:31.319 --> 02:54:34.879
<v Speaker 11>that you won't starve. The bread and the meat were

2975
02:54:34.959 --> 02:54:38.520
<v Speaker 11>fastened to the rengeer's back. The little maiden opened the door,

2976
02:54:39.159 --> 02:54:42.200
<v Speaker 11>called in all the dogs, and then with her knife,

2977
02:54:42.440 --> 02:54:45.399
<v Speaker 11>cut the rope that fastened the animal, and said to him,

2978
02:54:46.040 --> 02:54:48.479
<v Speaker 11>now off with you, but take good care of the

2979
02:54:48.520 --> 02:54:51.799
<v Speaker 11>little girl. And Gerda stretched out her hands in the

2980
02:54:51.920 --> 02:54:55.920
<v Speaker 11>large wadded gloves towards the robber maiden and said farewell.

2981
02:54:56.680 --> 02:54:59.719
<v Speaker 11>And the reindeer flew on over a bush and bramble

2982
02:55:00.159 --> 02:55:03.440
<v Speaker 11>through the great wood, over moor and heath, as fast

2983
02:55:03.520 --> 02:55:08.360
<v Speaker 11>as he could go. Che tea was heard in the sky.

2984
02:55:09.200 --> 02:55:12.559
<v Speaker 11>It was just as if somebody was sneezing. These are

2985
02:55:12.639 --> 02:55:16.760
<v Speaker 11>my old northern lights, said the reindeer. Look how they gleam.

2986
02:55:17.600 --> 02:55:21.159
<v Speaker 11>And on he now sped still quicker day and night.

2987
02:55:21.399 --> 02:55:22.000
<v Speaker 4>On he went.

2988
02:55:22.719 --> 02:55:26.159
<v Speaker 11>The loaves were consumed, and the ham too, and now

2989
02:55:26.440 --> 02:55:32.440
<v Speaker 11>they were in Lapland sixth story. The Lapland woman and

2990
02:55:32.520 --> 02:55:37.000
<v Speaker 11>the Finland woman. Suddenly they stopped before a little house

2991
02:55:37.639 --> 02:55:40.920
<v Speaker 11>which looked very miserable. The roof reached to the ground,

2992
02:55:41.319 --> 02:55:43.840
<v Speaker 11>and the door was so low that the family were

2993
02:55:43.879 --> 02:55:46.399
<v Speaker 11>obliged to creep upon their stomachs when they went in

2994
02:55:46.680 --> 02:55:50.559
<v Speaker 11>or out. Nobody was at home except an old Lapland

2995
02:55:50.639 --> 02:55:53.079
<v Speaker 11>woman who was dressing fish by the light of an

2996
02:55:53.120 --> 02:55:56.159
<v Speaker 11>oil lamp. And the reindeer told her the whole of

2997
02:55:56.200 --> 02:55:59.799
<v Speaker 11>Gerda's history, but first of all his own, for that

2998
02:56:00.040 --> 02:56:04.079
<v Speaker 11>seemed to him of greater importance. Gerda was so chill

2999
02:56:04.200 --> 02:56:08.959
<v Speaker 11>that she could not speak. Poor thing, said the Lapland woman,

3000
02:56:10.120 --> 02:56:12.879
<v Speaker 11>you have far to run. Still, you have more than

3001
02:56:12.879 --> 02:56:15.799
<v Speaker 11>a hundred miles to go before you get to Finland.

3002
02:56:16.520 --> 02:56:19.959
<v Speaker 11>There the snow Queen has her country house and burns

3003
02:56:20.000 --> 02:56:23.159
<v Speaker 11>blue lights every evening. I will give you a few

3004
02:56:23.239 --> 02:56:25.680
<v Speaker 11>words from me, which I will write on a dried

3005
02:56:25.719 --> 02:56:27.360
<v Speaker 11>aberdine for paper.

3006
02:56:27.440 --> 02:56:28.079
<v Speaker 4>I have none.

3007
02:56:28.879 --> 02:56:31.040
<v Speaker 11>This you can take with you to the Finland Woman,

3008
02:56:31.559 --> 02:56:33.600
<v Speaker 11>and she will be able to give you more information

3009
02:56:33.799 --> 02:56:37.959
<v Speaker 11>than I can. When Gerda had warmed herself and had

3010
02:56:38.040 --> 02:56:41.159
<v Speaker 11>eaten and drunk, the Lapland Woman wrote a few words

3011
02:56:41.200 --> 02:56:44.799
<v Speaker 11>on a dry haberdine, begged Gerda to take care of them,

3012
02:56:45.239 --> 02:56:48.120
<v Speaker 11>put her on the reindeer bound her fast, and a

3013
02:56:48.200 --> 02:56:52.760
<v Speaker 11>waste from the animal te cha was again heard in

3014
02:56:52.840 --> 02:56:56.200
<v Speaker 11>the air. The most charming blue lights burned the whole

3015
02:56:56.319 --> 02:56:59.399
<v Speaker 11>night in the sky, and at last they came to Finland.

3016
02:57:00.280 --> 02:57:02.639
<v Speaker 11>They knocked at the chimney of the Finland Woman, for

3017
02:57:02.799 --> 02:57:06.159
<v Speaker 11>as to a door, she had none. There was such

3018
02:57:06.200 --> 02:57:09.879
<v Speaker 11>a heat inside that the Finland Woman herself went about

3019
02:57:09.920 --> 02:57:14.799
<v Speaker 11>almost naked. She was diminutive and dirty. She immediately loosened

3020
02:57:14.840 --> 02:57:18.399
<v Speaker 11>little Gerda's clothes, pulled off her thick gloves and boots,

3021
02:57:18.840 --> 02:57:22.159
<v Speaker 11>for otherwise the heat would have been too great, And

3022
02:57:22.280 --> 02:57:24.680
<v Speaker 11>after laying a piece of ice on the reindeer's head,

3023
02:57:25.120 --> 02:57:28.000
<v Speaker 11>read what was written on the fish skin. She read

3024
02:57:28.040 --> 02:57:31.760
<v Speaker 11>it three times. She then knew it by heart. So

3025
02:57:31.879 --> 02:57:34.399
<v Speaker 11>she put the fish into the cupboard, for it might

3026
02:57:34.559 --> 02:57:37.440
<v Speaker 11>very well be eaten, and she never threw anything away.

3027
02:57:38.520 --> 02:57:42.120
<v Speaker 11>Then the reindeer related his own story first, and afterwards

3028
02:57:42.399 --> 02:57:45.440
<v Speaker 11>that of little Gerda, and the Finland woman winked her

3029
02:57:45.479 --> 02:57:50.239
<v Speaker 11>eyes but said nothing. You are so clever, said the reindeer.

3030
02:57:51.040 --> 02:57:53.559
<v Speaker 11>You can, I know, twist all the winds of the

3031
02:57:53.600 --> 02:57:57.639
<v Speaker 11>world together in a knot. If the seaman looses one knot,

3032
02:57:58.120 --> 02:58:01.719
<v Speaker 11>then he has a good wind. Second, then it blows

3033
02:58:01.799 --> 02:58:05.000
<v Speaker 11>pretty stiffly. But if he undoes the third and fourth,

3034
02:58:05.399 --> 02:58:09.159
<v Speaker 11>then it rages, so that the forests are upturned. Will

3035
02:58:09.200 --> 02:58:11.840
<v Speaker 11>you give the little maiden a potion so that she

3036
02:58:11.920 --> 02:58:15.000
<v Speaker 11>may possess the strength of twelve men and vanquish the

3037
02:58:15.079 --> 02:58:19.920
<v Speaker 11>snow queen the strength of twelve men, said the Finland woman.

3038
02:58:20.559 --> 02:58:23.639
<v Speaker 11>Much good that would be. Then she went to a

3039
02:58:23.680 --> 02:58:27.680
<v Speaker 11>cupboard and drew out a large skin, rolled up. When

3040
02:58:27.719 --> 02:58:30.719
<v Speaker 11>she had unrolled it, strange characters were to be seen

3041
02:58:30.840 --> 02:58:33.760
<v Speaker 11>written thereon, and the Finland woman read at such a

3042
02:58:33.879 --> 02:58:37.920
<v Speaker 11>rate that the perspiration trickled down her forehead. But the

3043
02:58:37.959 --> 02:58:41.200
<v Speaker 11>reindeer begged so hard for little Gerda, and Gerda looked

3044
02:58:41.239 --> 02:58:45.040
<v Speaker 11>so imploringly with tearful eyes at the Finland woman that

3045
02:58:45.159 --> 02:58:48.040
<v Speaker 11>she winked and drew the reindeer aside into a corner

3046
02:58:48.399 --> 02:58:51.319
<v Speaker 11>where the whisper together, while the animal got some fresh

3047
02:58:51.360 --> 02:58:55.079
<v Speaker 11>eyes put on his head. Tis true. Little Kay is

3048
02:58:55.120 --> 02:58:58.000
<v Speaker 11>at the snow Queen's and finds everything there quite to

3049
02:58:58.120 --> 02:59:01.120
<v Speaker 11>his taste, and he thinks is the very best place

3050
02:59:01.200 --> 02:59:04.040
<v Speaker 11>in the world. But the reason of that is he

3051
02:59:04.120 --> 02:59:06.719
<v Speaker 11>has a splinter of glass in his eye and in

3052
02:59:06.799 --> 02:59:10.719
<v Speaker 11>his heart. These must be got out first, otherwise he

3053
02:59:10.760 --> 02:59:13.559
<v Speaker 11>will never go back to mankind, and the snow Queen

3054
02:59:13.600 --> 02:59:17.600
<v Speaker 11>will retain her power over him. But can you give

3055
02:59:17.719 --> 02:59:20.360
<v Speaker 11>little Gerdon nothing to take which will endure her with

3056
02:59:20.559 --> 02:59:23.920
<v Speaker 11>power over the whole? I can give her no more

3057
02:59:24.040 --> 02:59:27.239
<v Speaker 11>power than what she has already. Don't you see how

3058
02:59:27.280 --> 02:59:30.319
<v Speaker 11>great it is? Don't you see how men and animals

3059
02:59:30.360 --> 02:59:32.719
<v Speaker 11>are forced to serve her, how well she gets through

3060
02:59:32.760 --> 02:59:36.239
<v Speaker 11>the world barefooted. She must not hear of her power

3061
02:59:36.319 --> 02:59:39.920
<v Speaker 11>from us. That power lies in her heart, because she

3062
02:59:40.040 --> 02:59:43.159
<v Speaker 11>is a sweet and innocent child. If she cannot get

3063
02:59:43.319 --> 02:59:46.159
<v Speaker 11>the snow Queen by herself and rid little kay of

3064
02:59:46.200 --> 02:59:50.399
<v Speaker 11>the glass, we cannot help her two miles. Hence the

3065
02:59:50.520 --> 02:59:53.719
<v Speaker 11>garden of the snow Queen begins. Thither you may carry

3066
02:59:53.760 --> 02:59:56.840
<v Speaker 11>the little girl, set her down by the large bush

3067
02:59:56.920 --> 03:00:01.079
<v Speaker 11>with red berries standing in the snow. Don't stay talking,

3068
03:00:01.600 --> 03:00:05.079
<v Speaker 11>but hastened back as fast as possible. And now the

3069
03:00:05.159 --> 03:00:08.639
<v Speaker 11>Finland woman placed little Gerda on the ranger's back, and

3070
03:00:08.799 --> 03:00:13.319
<v Speaker 11>off he ran with all imaginable speed. Oh, I have

3071
03:00:13.520 --> 03:00:16.280
<v Speaker 11>not got my boots. I have not brought my gloves,

3072
03:00:16.719 --> 03:00:20.040
<v Speaker 11>cried little Gerda. She marked she was without them from

3073
03:00:20.079 --> 03:00:24.000
<v Speaker 11>the cutting frost. But the ranger dared not stand still.

3074
03:00:24.680 --> 03:00:26.760
<v Speaker 11>On he ran till he came to the great bush

3075
03:00:26.920 --> 03:00:30.600
<v Speaker 11>with red berries, and there he set Gerda down, kissed

3076
03:00:30.639 --> 03:00:34.280
<v Speaker 11>her mouth while large bright tears flowed from the animal's eyes,

3077
03:00:34.799 --> 03:00:38.479
<v Speaker 11>and then back he went as fast as possible. There

3078
03:00:38.559 --> 03:00:42.360
<v Speaker 11>stood poor Gerda, now without shoes or gloves, in the

3079
03:00:42.520 --> 03:00:46.639
<v Speaker 11>very middle of dreadful icy Finland. She ran on as

3080
03:00:46.719 --> 03:00:50.360
<v Speaker 11>fast as she could. There then came a whole regiment

3081
03:00:50.440 --> 03:00:54.040
<v Speaker 11>of snowflakes, but they did not fall from above, and

3082
03:00:54.159 --> 03:00:57.280
<v Speaker 11>they were quite bright and shining from the Aurora borealis.

3083
03:00:58.760 --> 03:01:01.879
<v Speaker 11>The flakes ran along then, and the nearer they came,

3084
03:01:02.120 --> 03:01:05.680
<v Speaker 11>the larger they grew. Gerda well remembered how large and

3085
03:01:05.799 --> 03:01:09.239
<v Speaker 11>strange the snowflakes appeared when she once saw them through

3086
03:01:09.239 --> 03:01:12.799
<v Speaker 11>a magnifying glass. But now they were large and terrific.

3087
03:01:12.959 --> 03:01:16.959
<v Speaker 11>In another manner, they were all alive. They were the

3088
03:01:17.000 --> 03:01:20.680
<v Speaker 11>outposts of the snow Queen. They had the most wondrous shapes.

3089
03:01:21.360 --> 03:01:25.879
<v Speaker 11>Some looked like large, ugly porcupines, others like snakes noted

3090
03:01:25.920 --> 03:01:29.959
<v Speaker 11>together with their heads sticking out, and others again like

3091
03:01:30.120 --> 03:01:34.159
<v Speaker 11>small fat bears with the hair standing on end. All

3092
03:01:34.239 --> 03:01:39.399
<v Speaker 11>were of dazzling whiteness. All were living snowflakes. Little Gerda

3093
03:01:39.520 --> 03:01:43.239
<v Speaker 11>repeated the Lord's prayer. The cold was so intense that

3094
03:01:43.360 --> 03:01:46.079
<v Speaker 11>she could not see her own breath, which came like

3095
03:01:46.239 --> 03:01:49.399
<v Speaker 11>smoke out of her mouth. It grew thicker and thicker,

3096
03:01:49.760 --> 03:01:52.879
<v Speaker 11>and took the form of little angels that grew more

3097
03:01:52.920 --> 03:01:55.920
<v Speaker 11>and more when they touched the earth. All had helms

3098
03:01:55.959 --> 03:01:58.879
<v Speaker 11>on their heads, and lances and shields in their hands,

3099
03:01:59.360 --> 03:02:02.719
<v Speaker 11>and they increas eastern numbers. And when Gerda had finished

3100
03:02:02.760 --> 03:02:05.760
<v Speaker 11>the Lord's prayer, she was surrounded by a whole legion.

3101
03:02:06.639 --> 03:02:09.799
<v Speaker 11>They thrust at the horrid snowflakes with their spears, so

3102
03:02:09.959 --> 03:02:13.200
<v Speaker 11>that they flew away into a thousand pieces. And little

3103
03:02:13.239 --> 03:02:17.520
<v Speaker 11>Gerda walked on bravely and in security. The angels patted

3104
03:02:17.600 --> 03:02:20.600
<v Speaker 11>her hands and feet, and then she felt the cold less,

3105
03:02:21.040 --> 03:02:23.840
<v Speaker 11>and went on quickly towards the Palace of the Snow Queen.

3106
03:02:24.520 --> 03:02:27.360
<v Speaker 11>But now we shall see how Kay fared. He never

3107
03:02:27.479 --> 03:02:29.959
<v Speaker 11>thought of Gerda, and least of all that she was

3108
03:02:30.040 --> 03:02:35.840
<v Speaker 11>standing before the palace. Seventh story. What took place in

3109
03:02:35.920 --> 03:02:39.120
<v Speaker 11>the Palace of the Snow Queen, and what happened afterward.

3110
03:02:41.200 --> 03:02:44.000
<v Speaker 11>The walls of the palace were of driving snow, and

3111
03:02:44.120 --> 03:02:47.559
<v Speaker 11>the windows and doors of cutting winds. There were more

3112
03:02:47.600 --> 03:02:51.120
<v Speaker 11>than a hundred holes there, according as the snow was

3113
03:02:51.200 --> 03:02:54.799
<v Speaker 11>driven by the winds. The largest was many miles in extent.

3114
03:02:55.600 --> 03:02:59.079
<v Speaker 11>All were lighted up by the powerful Aurora borealis. And

3115
03:02:59.280 --> 03:03:03.360
<v Speaker 11>all were so large, so empty, so icy, cold, and

3116
03:03:03.600 --> 03:03:08.760
<v Speaker 11>so resplendent. Mirth never rained there. There was never even

3117
03:03:08.799 --> 03:03:12.120
<v Speaker 11>a little bare ball with the storm from music. While

3118
03:03:12.120 --> 03:03:15.079
<v Speaker 11>the polar bears went on their hind legs and showed

3119
03:03:15.120 --> 03:03:19.000
<v Speaker 11>off their steps, never a little tea party of white

3120
03:03:19.079 --> 03:03:23.079
<v Speaker 11>young lady foxes vast, cold and empty with holes of

3121
03:03:23.120 --> 03:03:27.120
<v Speaker 11>the snow Queen. The northern lights shone with such precision

3122
03:03:27.600 --> 03:03:29.719
<v Speaker 11>that one could tell exactly when they were at their

3123
03:03:29.799 --> 03:03:33.680
<v Speaker 11>highest or low's degree of brightness. In the middle of

3124
03:03:33.760 --> 03:03:37.120
<v Speaker 11>the empty, endless hole of snow was a frozen lake.

3125
03:03:37.959 --> 03:03:41.520
<v Speaker 11>It was cracked in a thousand pieces, but each piece

3126
03:03:41.639 --> 03:03:44.239
<v Speaker 11>was so like the other that it seemed the work

3127
03:03:44.319 --> 03:03:47.680
<v Speaker 11>of a cunning artificer. In the middle of this lake

3128
03:03:48.040 --> 03:03:51.000
<v Speaker 11>sat the snow Queen when she was at home. And

3129
03:03:51.159 --> 03:03:54.239
<v Speaker 11>then she said she was sitting in the mirror of understanding,

3130
03:03:54.920 --> 03:03:57.200
<v Speaker 11>and that this was the only one and the best

3131
03:03:57.280 --> 03:04:01.440
<v Speaker 11>thing in the world. Little Kay was quite blue, yes,

3132
03:04:01.559 --> 03:04:04.719
<v Speaker 11>nearly black with cold, but he did not observe it,

3133
03:04:05.200 --> 03:04:07.760
<v Speaker 11>for she had kissed away all feelings of cold from

3134
03:04:07.799 --> 03:04:10.399
<v Speaker 11>his body, and his heart was a lump of ice.

3135
03:04:11.159 --> 03:04:14.079
<v Speaker 11>He was dragging along some pointed, flat pieces of ice,

3136
03:04:14.680 --> 03:04:17.799
<v Speaker 11>which he lay together in all possible ways, for he

3137
03:04:17.879 --> 03:04:21.000
<v Speaker 11>wanted to make something with them, just as we have

3138
03:04:21.159 --> 03:04:23.959
<v Speaker 11>little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with,

3139
03:04:24.399 --> 03:04:28.360
<v Speaker 11>called the Chinese puzzle. Kay made all sorts of figures,

3140
03:04:28.680 --> 03:04:31.680
<v Speaker 11>the most complicated, for it was an ice puzzle. For

3141
03:04:31.760 --> 03:04:36.040
<v Speaker 11>the understanding. In his eyes the figures were extraordinarily beautiful

3142
03:04:36.520 --> 03:04:39.680
<v Speaker 11>and of the utmost importance, for the bit of glass

3143
03:04:39.760 --> 03:04:42.840
<v Speaker 11>which was in his eye caused this. He found whole

3144
03:04:42.879 --> 03:04:46.159
<v Speaker 11>figures which represented a written word, but he never could

3145
03:04:46.200 --> 03:04:49.440
<v Speaker 11>manage to represent just the word he wanted. That word

3146
03:04:49.600 --> 03:04:52.959
<v Speaker 11>was eternity, and the snow Queen had said, if you

3147
03:04:53.040 --> 03:04:55.959
<v Speaker 11>can discover that figure, you shall be your own master,

3148
03:04:56.680 --> 03:04:58.520
<v Speaker 11>and I shall make you a present of the whole

3149
03:04:58.600 --> 03:05:01.799
<v Speaker 11>world and a pair of new skates. But he could

3150
03:05:01.879 --> 03:05:05.719
<v Speaker 11>not find it out. I am going now to warm lands,

3151
03:05:06.200 --> 03:05:09.000
<v Speaker 11>said the snow Queen. I must have a look down

3152
03:05:09.040 --> 03:05:12.600
<v Speaker 11>into the black cauldrons. It was the volcanoes Vesuvius and

3153
03:05:12.680 --> 03:05:15.360
<v Speaker 11>Etna that she meant. I will give them just a

3154
03:05:15.440 --> 03:05:19.159
<v Speaker 11>coating of white, for that is as it ought to be. Besides,

3155
03:05:19.639 --> 03:05:22.159
<v Speaker 11>it is good for the oranges and the grapes. And

3156
03:05:22.280 --> 03:05:25.600
<v Speaker 11>then away she flew, and Kay sat quite alone in

3157
03:05:25.639 --> 03:05:28.920
<v Speaker 11>the empty halls of ice that were miles long, and

3158
03:05:29.079 --> 03:05:32.479
<v Speaker 11>looked at the blocks of ice, and thought and thought

3159
03:05:32.639 --> 03:05:36.559
<v Speaker 11>till his skull was almost cracked. There he sat quite

3160
03:05:36.639 --> 03:05:40.319
<v Speaker 11>benumbed and motionless. One would have imagined he was frozen

3161
03:05:40.399 --> 03:05:44.040
<v Speaker 11>to death. Suddenly, little Gerda stepped through the great portal

3162
03:05:44.120 --> 03:05:47.399
<v Speaker 11>into the palace. The gate was formed of cutting winds,

3163
03:05:47.799 --> 03:05:50.559
<v Speaker 11>but Gerda repeated her evening prayer, and the winds were

3164
03:05:50.600 --> 03:05:53.600
<v Speaker 11>laid as though they slept, and the little maiden entered

3165
03:05:53.639 --> 03:05:58.399
<v Speaker 11>the vast, empty, cold halls. There she beheld Kay. She

3166
03:05:58.559 --> 03:06:02.479
<v Speaker 11>recognized him, flew to embrace him, and cried out her

3167
03:06:02.639 --> 03:06:07.159
<v Speaker 11>arms firmly holding him the while, Kay, sweet, little Kay,

3168
03:06:07.799 --> 03:06:11.000
<v Speaker 11>have I found you at last? But he sat quite still,

3169
03:06:11.159 --> 03:06:15.239
<v Speaker 11>benumbed and cold. Then little Gerda shed burning tears, and

3170
03:06:15.360 --> 03:06:18.440
<v Speaker 11>they fell on his bosom. They penetrated to his heart.

3171
03:06:18.959 --> 03:06:22.079
<v Speaker 11>They thawed the lumps of ice and consumed the splinters

3172
03:06:22.120 --> 03:06:25.200
<v Speaker 11>of the looking glass. He looked at her, and she

3173
03:06:25.319 --> 03:06:28.239
<v Speaker 11>sang the hymn The rose in the valley is blooming

3174
03:06:28.360 --> 03:06:32.079
<v Speaker 11>so sweet, And the angels descend there the children to greet.

3175
03:06:33.079 --> 03:06:36.799
<v Speaker 11>Hereupon Kay burst into tears. He wept so much that

3176
03:06:36.920 --> 03:06:40.000
<v Speaker 11>the splinter rolled out of his eye. And he recognized

3177
03:06:40.040 --> 03:06:44.760
<v Speaker 11>her and shouted, Gerda, sweet, little Gerda, where have you

3178
03:06:44.879 --> 03:06:48.399
<v Speaker 11>been so long? And where have I been? He looked

3179
03:06:48.479 --> 03:06:52.680
<v Speaker 11>round him, How cold it is here, said he, how

3180
03:06:52.799 --> 03:06:56.879
<v Speaker 11>empty and cold? And he held fast by Gerda, who

3181
03:06:57.000 --> 03:07:00.399
<v Speaker 11>laughed and wept for joy. It was so beautiful that

3182
03:07:00.520 --> 03:07:03.559
<v Speaker 11>even the blocks of ice danced about for joy. And

3183
03:07:03.639 --> 03:07:06.639
<v Speaker 11>when they were tired and laid themselves down, they formed

3184
03:07:06.680 --> 03:07:09.319
<v Speaker 11>exactly the letters which the snow Queen had told him

3185
03:07:09.360 --> 03:07:12.360
<v Speaker 11>to find out. So now he was his own master.

3186
03:07:12.959 --> 03:07:15.159
<v Speaker 11>He would have the whole world and a pair of

3187
03:07:15.239 --> 03:07:19.079
<v Speaker 11>new skates into the bargain. Gerda kissed his cheeks, and

3188
03:07:19.200 --> 03:07:22.280
<v Speaker 11>they grew quite blooming. She kissed his eyes, and they

3189
03:07:22.360 --> 03:07:25.520
<v Speaker 11>shone like her own. She kissed his hands and feet,

3190
03:07:26.000 --> 03:07:28.879
<v Speaker 11>and he was again well and merry. The snow Queen

3191
03:07:29.000 --> 03:07:31.760
<v Speaker 11>might come back as soon as she liked. There stood

3192
03:07:31.799 --> 03:07:36.079
<v Speaker 11>his discharge written in resplendent masses of ice. They took

3193
03:07:36.159 --> 03:07:38.920
<v Speaker 11>each other by the hand and wandered forth out of

3194
03:07:39.000 --> 03:07:42.399
<v Speaker 11>the large hall. They talked of their old grandmother, and

3195
03:07:42.520 --> 03:07:45.479
<v Speaker 11>of the roses upon the roof, And wherever they went

3196
03:07:45.719 --> 03:07:49.479
<v Speaker 11>the wind ceased raging, and the sun burst forth. And

3197
03:07:49.559 --> 03:07:51.559
<v Speaker 11>when they reached the bush with the red berries, they

3198
03:07:51.600 --> 03:07:54.680
<v Speaker 11>found the reindeer waiting for them. He had brought another,

3199
03:07:55.159 --> 03:07:58.120
<v Speaker 11>a young one with him, whose utter was filled with milk,

3200
03:07:58.520 --> 03:08:01.239
<v Speaker 11>which he gave to the little ones and kissed their lips.

3201
03:08:02.159 --> 03:08:05.360
<v Speaker 11>They then carried Kay and Gerda first to the Finland woman,

3202
03:08:05.799 --> 03:08:08.799
<v Speaker 11>where they warmed themselves in the warm room and learned

3203
03:08:08.840 --> 03:08:10.719
<v Speaker 11>what they were to do on their journey home. And

3204
03:08:10.840 --> 03:08:13.239
<v Speaker 11>then they went to the Lapland woman, who made some

3205
03:08:13.399 --> 03:08:17.280
<v Speaker 11>new clothes for them and repaired their sledges. The reindeer

3206
03:08:17.319 --> 03:08:20.520
<v Speaker 11>and the young hind leaped along beside them and accompanied

3207
03:08:20.520 --> 03:08:23.239
<v Speaker 11>them to the boundary of the country. Here the first

3208
03:08:23.360 --> 03:08:26.879
<v Speaker 11>vegetation peeped forth. Here Kay and Gerda took leave of

3209
03:08:26.920 --> 03:08:31.879
<v Speaker 11>the Lapland woman. Farewell, farewell, they all said, and the

3210
03:08:31.959 --> 03:08:35.479
<v Speaker 11>first green buds appeared, The first little birds began to chirp,

3211
03:08:35.920 --> 03:08:38.719
<v Speaker 11>and out of the wood came riding on a magnificent horse,

3212
03:08:38.760 --> 03:08:41.159
<v Speaker 11>which Gerda knew. It was one of the leaders in

3213
03:08:41.200 --> 03:08:44.200
<v Speaker 11>the Golden carriage, a young damsel with a bright red

3214
03:08:44.280 --> 03:08:47.399
<v Speaker 11>cap on her head and armed with pistols. It was

3215
03:08:47.479 --> 03:08:50.200
<v Speaker 11>the little robber maiden, who tired of being at home,

3216
03:08:50.399 --> 03:08:52.959
<v Speaker 11>had determined to make a journey to the north and

3217
03:08:53.159 --> 03:08:56.479
<v Speaker 11>afterwards in another direction if that did not please her.

3218
03:08:57.239 --> 03:09:00.719
<v Speaker 11>She recognized Gerda immediately, and Gerda knew her too. It

3219
03:09:00.879 --> 03:09:03.920
<v Speaker 11>was a joyful meeting. You are a fine fellow for

3220
03:09:04.079 --> 03:09:08.079
<v Speaker 11>tramping about, she said to little Kay, I should like

3221
03:09:08.159 --> 03:09:11.120
<v Speaker 11>to know faith. If you deserve that, one should run

3222
03:09:11.200 --> 03:09:13.280
<v Speaker 11>from one end of the world to the other for

3223
03:09:13.440 --> 03:09:17.159
<v Speaker 11>your sake. But Gerda patted her cheeks and inquired for

3224
03:09:17.239 --> 03:09:21.159
<v Speaker 11>the prince and princess. They are gone abroad, said the other.

3225
03:09:21.840 --> 03:09:25.879
<v Speaker 11>But the raven asked little Gerda. Oh, the raven is dead,

3226
03:09:26.520 --> 03:09:30.319
<v Speaker 11>She answered, His tame sweetheart is a widow and wears

3227
03:09:30.360 --> 03:09:33.520
<v Speaker 11>a bit of black worstood round her leg. She laments

3228
03:09:33.639 --> 03:09:37.680
<v Speaker 11>most piteously. But it's all mere talk and stuff. Now

3229
03:09:37.799 --> 03:09:40.159
<v Speaker 11>tell me what have you been doing and how you

3230
03:09:40.319 --> 03:09:43.559
<v Speaker 11>managed to catch him? And Gerda and Kay both told

3231
03:09:43.639 --> 03:09:49.079
<v Speaker 11>their story, and schnip schnap schner bassloor, said the robber maiden,

3232
03:09:49.520 --> 03:09:52.120
<v Speaker 11>And she took the hands of each and promised that

3233
03:09:52.239 --> 03:09:54.360
<v Speaker 11>if she should some day pass through the town where

3234
03:09:54.360 --> 03:09:56.959
<v Speaker 11>they lived, she would come and visit them, And then

3235
03:09:57.000 --> 03:09:59.959
<v Speaker 11>away she rode. Kay and Gerda took each other's hand.

3236
03:10:00.479 --> 03:10:04.120
<v Speaker 11>It was lovely spring weather, with abundance of flowers and

3237
03:10:04.280 --> 03:10:08.440
<v Speaker 11>of burdure. The church bells rang, and the children recognized

3238
03:10:08.440 --> 03:10:11.440
<v Speaker 11>the high towers and the large town. It was that

3239
03:10:11.639 --> 03:10:14.479
<v Speaker 11>in which they dwelt. They entered and hastened up to

3240
03:10:14.520 --> 03:10:18.280
<v Speaker 11>their grandmother's room, where everything was standing as formerly. The

3241
03:10:18.399 --> 03:10:22.680
<v Speaker 11>clocks said tick tack, and the finger moved round. But

3242
03:10:22.840 --> 03:10:25.239
<v Speaker 11>as they entered, they remarked that they were now grown up.

3243
03:10:25.920 --> 03:10:28.000
<v Speaker 11>The roses on the leads hung blooming in at the

3244
03:10:28.079 --> 03:10:32.079
<v Speaker 11>open window. There stood the little children's chairs, and Kay

3245
03:10:32.120 --> 03:10:34.760
<v Speaker 11>and Gerda sat down on them, holding each other by

3246
03:10:34.840 --> 03:10:38.600
<v Speaker 11>the hand. They had both forgotten the cold, empty splendor

3247
03:10:38.639 --> 03:10:41.079
<v Speaker 11>of the snow Queen, as though it had been a dream.

3248
03:10:41.959 --> 03:10:45.120
<v Speaker 11>The grandmother sat in the bright sunshine and read aloud

3249
03:10:45.159 --> 03:10:49.280
<v Speaker 11>from the Bible. Unless ye become as little children, ye

3250
03:10:49.399 --> 03:10:52.799
<v Speaker 11>cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. And Kay and Gerda

3251
03:10:52.840 --> 03:10:55.280
<v Speaker 11>looked in each other's eyes, and all at once they

3252
03:10:55.360 --> 03:10:58.239
<v Speaker 11>understood the old hymn, The rose in the valley is

3253
03:10:58.280 --> 03:11:01.760
<v Speaker 11>blooming so sweet, and the angels descend there the children

3254
03:11:01.840 --> 03:11:05.959
<v Speaker 11>to greet. There sat the two grown up persons, grown

3255
03:11:06.040 --> 03:11:10.000
<v Speaker 11>up and yet children, children at least in heart. And

3256
03:11:10.159 --> 03:11:17.959
<v Speaker 11>it was summertime, summer, glorious summer, end of the snow Queen.

3257
03:11:19.159 --> 03:11:24.440
<v Speaker 1>The leap frog, a flea, a grasshopper and a leap

3258
03:11:24.559 --> 03:11:28.239
<v Speaker 1>frog once wanted to see which could jump highest, And

3259
03:11:28.520 --> 03:11:32.000
<v Speaker 1>they invited the whole world and everybody else besides, who

3260
03:11:32.079 --> 03:11:36.079
<v Speaker 1>chose to come to see the festival. Three famous jumpers

3261
03:11:36.120 --> 03:11:39.440
<v Speaker 1>were they, As everyone would say when they all met

3262
03:11:39.479 --> 03:11:43.239
<v Speaker 1>together in the room. I will give my daughter to

3263
03:11:43.360 --> 03:11:47.200
<v Speaker 1>him who jumps highest, exclaimed the king. For it is

3264
03:11:47.280 --> 03:11:49.760
<v Speaker 1>not so amusing where there is no prize to jump.

3265
03:11:49.879 --> 03:11:54.760
<v Speaker 1>For the flea was the first to step forward. He

3266
03:11:54.920 --> 03:11:59.280
<v Speaker 1>had exquisite manners and bowed to the company on all sides,

3267
03:11:59.680 --> 03:12:03.760
<v Speaker 1>for he had noble blood, and was moreover accustomed to

3268
03:12:03.879 --> 03:12:07.799
<v Speaker 1>the society of man alone. And that makes a great difference.

3269
03:12:09.559 --> 03:12:13.559
<v Speaker 1>Then came the grasshopper. He was considerably heavier, but he

3270
03:12:13.719 --> 03:12:17.200
<v Speaker 1>was well mannered, and wore a green uniform, which he

3271
03:12:17.319 --> 03:12:21.239
<v Speaker 1>had by right of birth. He said moreover that he

3272
03:12:21.360 --> 03:12:25.360
<v Speaker 1>belonged to a very ancient Egyptian family, and that in

3273
03:12:25.479 --> 03:12:28.159
<v Speaker 1>the house where he then was, he was thought much

3274
03:12:28.239 --> 03:12:31.959
<v Speaker 1>of the fact was he had been just brought out

3275
03:12:32.000 --> 03:12:35.319
<v Speaker 1>of the fields and put in a pasteboard house three

3276
03:12:35.520 --> 03:12:39.559
<v Speaker 1>stories high, all made of court cards, with the colored

3277
03:12:39.639 --> 03:12:42.959
<v Speaker 1>side inwards, and doors and windows cut out of the

3278
03:12:43.000 --> 03:12:46.799
<v Speaker 1>body of the Queen of hearts. I sing so well,

3279
03:12:47.360 --> 03:12:51.799
<v Speaker 1>said he that sixteen native grasshoppers who have chirped from

3280
03:12:51.920 --> 03:12:55.159
<v Speaker 1>infancy and yet got no house built of cards to

3281
03:12:55.239 --> 03:12:58.479
<v Speaker 1>live in, grew thinner than they were before, for sheer

3282
03:12:58.680 --> 03:13:03.040
<v Speaker 1>vexation when they heard me. It was thus that the

3283
03:13:03.120 --> 03:13:06.239
<v Speaker 1>flea and the grasshopper gave an account of themselves, and

3284
03:13:06.440 --> 03:13:09.000
<v Speaker 1>thought they were quite good enough to marry a princess.

3285
03:13:10.440 --> 03:13:13.559
<v Speaker 1>The leap frog said nothing, but people gave it as

3286
03:13:13.639 --> 03:13:17.399
<v Speaker 1>their opinion that he therefore thought the more. And when

3287
03:13:17.479 --> 03:13:20.040
<v Speaker 1>the house dog snuffed at him with his nose, he

3288
03:13:20.200 --> 03:13:25.799
<v Speaker 1>confessed the leap frog was of good family. The old counselor,

3289
03:13:26.120 --> 03:13:28.600
<v Speaker 1>who had had three orders given him to make him

3290
03:13:28.639 --> 03:13:32.239
<v Speaker 1>hold his tongue, asserted that the leap frog was a prophet,

3291
03:13:32.799 --> 03:13:34.840
<v Speaker 1>for that one could see on his back if there

3292
03:13:34.840 --> 03:13:37.959
<v Speaker 1>would be a severe or mild winter, And that was

3293
03:13:38.079 --> 03:13:40.239
<v Speaker 1>what one could not see even on the back of

3294
03:13:40.319 --> 03:13:44.559
<v Speaker 1>the man who writes the almanac. I say nothing, it

3295
03:13:44.680 --> 03:13:49.440
<v Speaker 1>is true, exclaimed the king. But I have my own opinion. Notwithstanding,

3296
03:13:51.239 --> 03:13:55.000
<v Speaker 1>now the trial was to take place. The flea jumped

3297
03:13:55.079 --> 03:13:57.559
<v Speaker 1>so high that nobody could see where he went to,

3298
03:13:58.319 --> 03:14:00.879
<v Speaker 1>so they all asserted he had not jumped at all,

3299
03:14:01.479 --> 03:14:06.680
<v Speaker 1>and that was dishonorable. The grasshopper jumped only half as high,

3300
03:14:06.799 --> 03:14:09.799
<v Speaker 1>but he leaped into the king's face, who said that

3301
03:14:10.000 --> 03:14:14.000
<v Speaker 1>was ill mannered. The leap frog stood still for a

3302
03:14:14.079 --> 03:14:17.239
<v Speaker 1>long time, lost in thought. It was believed at last

3303
03:14:17.360 --> 03:14:20.879
<v Speaker 1>he would not jump at all. I only hope he

3304
03:14:21.000 --> 03:14:24.959
<v Speaker 1>is not unwell, said the house dog. When pop he

3305
03:14:25.079 --> 03:14:27.440
<v Speaker 1>made a jump, all on one side, into the lap

3306
03:14:27.520 --> 03:14:30.120
<v Speaker 1>of the princess, who was sitting on a little golden

3307
03:14:30.200 --> 03:14:35.840
<v Speaker 1>stool close by. Hereupon, the king said, there is nothing

3308
03:14:35.959 --> 03:14:39.680
<v Speaker 1>above my daughter. Therefore to bound up to her is

3309
03:14:39.760 --> 03:14:42.959
<v Speaker 1>the highest jump that can be made. But for this

3310
03:14:43.280 --> 03:14:47.040
<v Speaker 1>one must possess understanding. And the leap frog has shown

3311
03:14:47.079 --> 03:14:52.319
<v Speaker 1>that he has understanding. He is brave and intellectual, and

3312
03:14:52.520 --> 03:14:56.479
<v Speaker 1>so he won the princess. It's all the same to me,

3313
03:14:56.840 --> 03:14:59.760
<v Speaker 1>said the fleet. She may have the old leap frog

3314
03:14:59.840 --> 03:15:03.079
<v Speaker 1>for all I care. I jumped the highest. But in

3315
03:15:03.159 --> 03:15:07.760
<v Speaker 1>this world merit seldom meets its reward. A fine exterior

3316
03:15:07.920 --> 03:15:12.200
<v Speaker 1>is what people look at nowadays. The flea then went

3317
03:15:12.280 --> 03:15:15.639
<v Speaker 1>into foreign service, where it is said he was killed.

3318
03:15:17.639 --> 03:15:21.120
<v Speaker 1>The grasshopper sat without on a green bank and reflected

3319
03:15:21.200 --> 03:15:26.239
<v Speaker 1>on worldly things, and he said, to yes, a fine

3320
03:15:26.319 --> 03:15:31.000
<v Speaker 1>exterior is everything. A fine exterior is what people care about.

3321
03:15:32.079 --> 03:15:36.239
<v Speaker 1>And then he began chirping his peculiar, melancholy song from

3322
03:15:36.319 --> 03:15:39.440
<v Speaker 1>which we have taken this history, and which may very

3323
03:15:39.559 --> 03:15:44.319
<v Speaker 1>possibly be all untrue, although it does stand here printed

3324
03:15:44.360 --> 03:15:50.959
<v Speaker 1>in black and white, and of the leap frog the elderbush.

3325
03:15:52.040 --> 03:15:53.920
<v Speaker 20>Once upon a time there was a little boy who

3326
03:15:53.959 --> 03:15:56.319
<v Speaker 20>had taken cold. He had gone out and got his

3327
03:15:56.440 --> 03:15:59.079
<v Speaker 20>feet wet, though nobody could imagine how it had happened,

3328
03:15:59.159 --> 03:16:02.360
<v Speaker 20>for it was quite dry weather. So his mother undressed him,

3329
03:16:02.399 --> 03:16:04.159
<v Speaker 20>put him to bed, and had the tea pot brought

3330
03:16:04.239 --> 03:16:06.639
<v Speaker 20>in to make him a good cup of elder flower tea.

3331
03:16:07.440 --> 03:16:09.520
<v Speaker 20>Just at that moment, the merry old man came in,

3332
03:16:09.600 --> 03:16:11.840
<v Speaker 20>who lived up a top of the house, all alone,

3333
03:16:12.399 --> 03:16:15.000
<v Speaker 20>for he had neither wife nor children, but he liked

3334
03:16:15.079 --> 03:16:17.959
<v Speaker 20>children very much, and knew so many fairy tales that

3335
03:16:18.040 --> 03:16:21.360
<v Speaker 20>it was quite delightful. Now, drink your tea, said the

3336
03:16:21.399 --> 03:16:24.239
<v Speaker 20>boy's mother. Then perhaps you may hear a fairy tale

3337
03:16:25.120 --> 03:16:27.040
<v Speaker 20>if I had but something new to tell, said the

3338
03:16:27.079 --> 03:16:29.639
<v Speaker 20>old man. But how did the child get his feet wet?

3339
03:16:30.399 --> 03:16:32.440
<v Speaker 20>That is the very thing that nobody can make out,

3340
03:16:32.520 --> 03:16:35.040
<v Speaker 20>said his mother. Am I to hear a fairy tale?

3341
03:16:35.120 --> 03:16:38.840
<v Speaker 20>Asked the little boy. Yes, if you can tell me exactly,

3342
03:16:39.040 --> 03:16:41.719
<v Speaker 20>for I must know that first, how deep the gutter

3343
03:16:41.879 --> 03:16:44.440
<v Speaker 20>is in the little street opposite that you must pass

3344
03:16:44.479 --> 03:16:47.600
<v Speaker 20>through and going to school? Just up to the middle

3345
03:16:47.639 --> 03:16:49.520
<v Speaker 20>of my boots, said the child. But then I must

3346
03:16:49.559 --> 03:16:52.719
<v Speaker 20>go into the deep hole. Aha, that's where the wet

3347
03:16:52.760 --> 03:16:55.399
<v Speaker 20>feet came from, said the old man. I ought now

3348
03:16:55.479 --> 03:16:57.760
<v Speaker 20>to tell you a story, but I don't know any more.

3349
03:16:59.239 --> 03:17:01.280
<v Speaker 20>You can make one a moment, said the little boy.

3350
03:17:01.719 --> 03:17:03.600
<v Speaker 20>My mother says that all you look at can be

3351
03:17:03.680 --> 03:17:06.159
<v Speaker 20>turned into a fairy tale, and that you can find

3352
03:17:06.200 --> 03:17:10.360
<v Speaker 20>a story in everything. Yes, but such tales and stories

3353
03:17:10.399 --> 03:17:13.040
<v Speaker 20>are good for nothing. The right sort come of themselves.

3354
03:17:13.440 --> 03:17:15.879
<v Speaker 20>They tap at my forehead and say, here we are.

3355
03:17:16.840 --> 03:17:19.159
<v Speaker 20>Won't there be a tap soon? Asked the little boy,

3356
03:17:19.639 --> 03:17:22.159
<v Speaker 20>and his mother laughed, put some elder flowers in the

3357
03:17:22.200 --> 03:17:26.200
<v Speaker 20>teapot and poured boiling water on them. Do tell me something,

3358
03:17:26.440 --> 03:17:29.719
<v Speaker 20>pray do, yes, if a fairy tale would come of

3359
03:17:29.799 --> 03:17:32.639
<v Speaker 20>its own accord. But they are proud and haughty, and

3360
03:17:32.760 --> 03:17:36.000
<v Speaker 20>come only when they choose stop, he said, all on

3361
03:17:36.079 --> 03:17:39.000
<v Speaker 20>a sudden, I have it. Pay attention, there is one

3362
03:17:39.040 --> 03:17:42.159
<v Speaker 20>in the teapot, And the little boy looked at the teapot.

3363
03:17:42.520 --> 03:17:45.200
<v Speaker 20>The cover rose more and more, and the elder flowers

3364
03:17:45.280 --> 03:17:47.920
<v Speaker 20>came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long

3365
03:17:48.000 --> 03:17:51.280
<v Speaker 20>branches out of the spout. Even did they spread themselves

3366
03:17:51.319 --> 03:17:54.000
<v Speaker 20>on all sides, and grew larger and larger.

3367
03:17:54.520 --> 03:17:54.879
<v Speaker 4>It was a.

3368
03:17:54.879 --> 03:17:58.280
<v Speaker 20>Splendid elder bush, a whole tree, and it reached into

3369
03:17:58.319 --> 03:18:02.040
<v Speaker 20>the very bed and pushed the curtain aside. How it bloomed,

3370
03:18:02.200 --> 03:18:04.639
<v Speaker 20>and what an odor. In the middle of the bush

3371
03:18:04.680 --> 03:18:07.559
<v Speaker 20>sat a friendly looking old woman in a most strange dress.

3372
03:18:08.079 --> 03:18:10.680
<v Speaker 20>It was quite green, like the leaves of the elder,

3373
03:18:10.959 --> 03:18:14.200
<v Speaker 20>and was trimmed with large white elder flowers, so that

3374
03:18:14.280 --> 03:18:16.120
<v Speaker 20>at first one could not tell whether it is a

3375
03:18:16.200 --> 03:18:20.040
<v Speaker 20>stuff or a natural green in real flowers. What's that

3376
03:18:20.120 --> 03:18:23.760
<v Speaker 20>woman's name, asked the little boy. The Greeks and Romans

3377
03:18:23.799 --> 03:18:26.600
<v Speaker 20>said the old man called her a dryad, but that

3378
03:18:26.760 --> 03:18:29.120
<v Speaker 20>we do not understand. The people who live in the

3379
03:18:29.200 --> 03:18:31.879
<v Speaker 20>New Booths have a much better name for her. They

3380
03:18:31.959 --> 03:18:34.600
<v Speaker 20>call her old Granny, and she it is to whom

3381
03:18:34.680 --> 03:18:37.760
<v Speaker 20>you are to pay attention. Now listen and look at

3382
03:18:37.840 --> 03:18:42.000
<v Speaker 20>the beautiful elder bush. Just such, another large blooming elder

3383
03:18:42.079 --> 03:18:45.159
<v Speaker 20>tree stands near the New Booths. It grew there in

3384
03:18:45.239 --> 03:18:48.200
<v Speaker 20>the corner of a little miserable courtyard and under it

3385
03:18:48.360 --> 03:18:52.000
<v Speaker 20>sat of an afternoon in the most splendid sunshine. Two

3386
03:18:52.120 --> 03:18:55.920
<v Speaker 20>old people, an old old seaman and his old old wife.

3387
03:18:56.479 --> 03:18:59.920
<v Speaker 20>They had great grandchildren and were soon to celebrate the

3388
03:19:00.120 --> 03:19:03.520
<v Speaker 20>fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, but they could not exactly

3389
03:19:03.639 --> 03:19:06.600
<v Speaker 20>recollect the date. And old granny sat in the tree

3390
03:19:07.079 --> 03:19:09.639
<v Speaker 20>and looked as pleased as now I know the date,

3391
03:19:09.760 --> 03:19:12.520
<v Speaker 20>said she, But those below her did not hear her,

3392
03:19:12.920 --> 03:19:16.239
<v Speaker 20>for they were talking about old times. Yes, can't you

3393
03:19:16.360 --> 03:19:18.799
<v Speaker 20>remember when we were very little, said the old seaman,

3394
03:19:19.399 --> 03:19:22.159
<v Speaker 20>and ran and played about. It was the very same

3395
03:19:22.239 --> 03:19:25.559
<v Speaker 20>courtyard where we now are, and we stuck slips in

3396
03:19:25.600 --> 03:19:28.879
<v Speaker 20>the ground and made a garden. I remember it well,

3397
03:19:28.920 --> 03:19:31.840
<v Speaker 20>said the old woman. I remember it quite well. We

3398
03:19:31.959 --> 03:19:34.520
<v Speaker 20>watered the slips, and one of them was an elderbush.

3399
03:19:34.959 --> 03:19:38.120
<v Speaker 20>It took root, put forth green shoots, and grew up

3400
03:19:38.159 --> 03:19:40.319
<v Speaker 20>to be the large tree under which we old folks

3401
03:19:40.360 --> 03:19:43.600
<v Speaker 20>are now sitting. To be sure, said he. And there

3402
03:19:43.639 --> 03:19:45.879
<v Speaker 20>in the corner stood a water pail where I used

3403
03:19:45.879 --> 03:19:49.159
<v Speaker 20>to swim my boats. True, but first we went to

3404
03:19:49.200 --> 03:19:52.639
<v Speaker 20>school to learn somewhat, said she. And then we were confirmed.

3405
03:19:53.239 --> 03:19:55.559
<v Speaker 20>We both cried. But in the afternoon we went up

3406
03:19:55.600 --> 03:19:58.639
<v Speaker 20>the round tower and looked down on Copenhagen and far

3407
03:19:58.799 --> 03:20:02.000
<v Speaker 20>far away over the water. Then we went to Friedericksburg,

3408
03:20:02.239 --> 03:20:04.319
<v Speaker 20>where the King and the Queen were sailing about in

3409
03:20:04.360 --> 03:20:07.319
<v Speaker 20>their splendid barges. But I had a different sort of

3410
03:20:07.399 --> 03:20:10.760
<v Speaker 20>sailing to that later, and that too for many a year,

3411
03:20:11.120 --> 03:20:15.319
<v Speaker 20>a long way off on great voyages. Yes, many a

3412
03:20:15.399 --> 03:20:18.200
<v Speaker 20>time I have wept for your sake, said she. I

3413
03:20:18.319 --> 03:20:20.280
<v Speaker 20>thought you were dead and gone and lying in the

3414
03:20:20.360 --> 03:20:23.200
<v Speaker 20>deep waters. Many a night have I got up to

3415
03:20:23.239 --> 03:20:26.239
<v Speaker 20>see if the wind had not changed, And changed it had,

3416
03:20:26.520 --> 03:20:30.360
<v Speaker 20>sure enough, But you never came. I remember so well.

3417
03:20:30.479 --> 03:20:32.920
<v Speaker 20>One day when the rain was pouring down in Torrents.

3418
03:20:33.319 --> 03:20:36.159
<v Speaker 20>The scavengers were before the house where I was in service,

3419
03:20:36.559 --> 03:20:38.559
<v Speaker 20>and I had come up with the dust and remained

3420
03:20:38.639 --> 03:20:42.040
<v Speaker 20>standing at the door. It was dreadful weather, when just

3421
03:20:42.159 --> 03:20:44.520
<v Speaker 20>as I was there, the postman came and gave me

3422
03:20:44.600 --> 03:20:44.959
<v Speaker 20>a letter.

3423
03:20:45.559 --> 03:20:46.200
<v Speaker 4>It was from you.

3424
03:20:46.920 --> 03:20:49.239
<v Speaker 20>What a tour that letter had made. I opened it

3425
03:20:49.399 --> 03:20:50.319
<v Speaker 20>instantly and read.

3426
03:20:50.840 --> 03:20:54.520
<v Speaker 11>I laughed and wept. I was so happy in it.

3427
03:20:54.600 --> 03:20:56.959
<v Speaker 20>I read that you were in a warm lands where

3428
03:20:57.000 --> 03:21:00.479
<v Speaker 20>the coffee tree grows. What a blessed land that must be.

3429
03:21:01.200 --> 03:21:03.239
<v Speaker 20>You related so much, and I saw it all the

3430
03:21:03.319 --> 03:21:06.200
<v Speaker 20>while the rain was pouring down, and I standing there

3431
03:21:06.239 --> 03:21:09.040
<v Speaker 20>with a dust box. At the same moment came someone

3432
03:21:09.040 --> 03:21:12.280
<v Speaker 20>who embraced me. Yes, but you gave him a good

3433
03:21:12.319 --> 03:21:15.040
<v Speaker 20>box on his ear that made it tingle. But I

3434
03:21:15.120 --> 03:21:17.520
<v Speaker 20>did not know it was you. You arrived as soon

3435
03:21:17.559 --> 03:21:20.200
<v Speaker 20>as your letter, and you were so handsome that you

3436
03:21:20.319 --> 03:21:23.719
<v Speaker 20>still are, and had a long yellow silk handkerchief round

3437
03:21:23.760 --> 03:21:26.639
<v Speaker 20>your neck and a brand new hat on. Oh, you

3438
03:21:26.719 --> 03:21:30.120
<v Speaker 20>were so dashing. Good heavens, what weather it was, and

3439
03:21:30.200 --> 03:21:33.239
<v Speaker 20>what a state the street was in. And then we married,

3440
03:21:33.319 --> 03:21:35.879
<v Speaker 20>said he, don't you remember? And then we had our

3441
03:21:35.920 --> 03:21:39.559
<v Speaker 20>first little boy, and then Mary and Nicholas and Peter

3442
03:21:39.760 --> 03:21:42.760
<v Speaker 20>and Christian. Yes, and how they grew all grew up

3443
03:21:42.840 --> 03:21:47.360
<v Speaker 20>to be honest people and were beloved by everybody. And

3444
03:21:47.479 --> 03:21:51.000
<v Speaker 20>their children also have children, said the old sailor. Yes,

3445
03:21:51.159 --> 03:21:54.639
<v Speaker 20>those are our grandchildren, full of strength and vigor. It

3446
03:21:54.879 --> 03:21:58.520
<v Speaker 20>was methinks about this season that we had our wedding. Yes,

3447
03:21:58.959 --> 03:22:01.719
<v Speaker 20>this very day is the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage,

3448
03:22:01.799 --> 03:22:04.440
<v Speaker 20>said old Granny, sticking her head between the two old

3449
03:22:04.479 --> 03:22:07.399
<v Speaker 20>people who thought it was their neighbor who nodded to them.

3450
03:22:08.120 --> 03:22:10.200
<v Speaker 20>They looked at each other and held one another by

3451
03:22:10.239 --> 03:22:14.040
<v Speaker 20>the hand. Soon after came their children and their grandchildren,

3452
03:22:14.200 --> 03:22:15.959
<v Speaker 20>for they knew well enough that it was the day

3453
03:22:16.000 --> 03:22:19.559
<v Speaker 20>of the fiftieth anniversary, and had come with their gratulations

3454
03:22:19.680 --> 03:22:22.440
<v Speaker 20>that very morning. But the old people had forgotten it,

3455
03:22:23.079 --> 03:22:25.440
<v Speaker 20>although they were able to remember all that had happened

3456
03:22:25.520 --> 03:22:28.879
<v Speaker 20>many years ago. And the elderbush sent forth a strong

3457
03:22:29.000 --> 03:22:31.879
<v Speaker 20>odor in the sun that it was just about to set,

3458
03:22:32.040 --> 03:22:35.559
<v Speaker 20>and shone right in the old people's faces. They both

3459
03:22:35.600 --> 03:22:38.600
<v Speaker 20>looked so rosy cheeked, and the youngest of the grandchildren

3460
03:22:38.719 --> 03:22:41.959
<v Speaker 20>danced around them and called out, quite delighted that there

3461
03:22:42.079 --> 03:22:45.040
<v Speaker 20>was to be something very splendid that evening, that they

3462
03:22:45.079 --> 03:22:48.040
<v Speaker 20>were all to have hot potatoes. And Old Nanny nodded

3463
03:22:48.079 --> 03:22:51.799
<v Speaker 20>in the bush and shouted hurrah with the rest. But

3464
03:22:51.920 --> 03:22:55.040
<v Speaker 20>that is no fairy tale, said the little boy who

3465
03:22:55.159 --> 03:22:58.680
<v Speaker 20>was listening to the story. The thing is, you must

3466
03:22:58.799 --> 03:23:03.280
<v Speaker 20>understand it, said the Let us ask old Nanny. That

3467
03:23:03.520 --> 03:23:06.840
<v Speaker 20>was no fairy tale, tis true, said old Nanny, But

3468
03:23:07.000 --> 03:23:10.159
<v Speaker 20>now it's coming. The most wonderful fairy tales grow out

3469
03:23:10.200 --> 03:23:12.799
<v Speaker 20>of that which is reality. Were that not the case,

3470
03:23:12.879 --> 03:23:15.879
<v Speaker 20>you know, my magnificent elderbush could not have grown out

3471
03:23:15.879 --> 03:23:18.360
<v Speaker 20>of the teapot, and then she took the little boy

3472
03:23:18.440 --> 03:23:21.040
<v Speaker 20>out of bed, laid herm on her bosom, and the

3473
03:23:21.120 --> 03:23:24.719
<v Speaker 20>branches of the elder tree full of flowers closed around her.

3474
03:23:25.479 --> 03:23:28.120
<v Speaker 20>They sat in an aerial dwelling, and it flew with

3475
03:23:28.280 --> 03:23:33.000
<v Speaker 20>them through the air. Oh, it was wondrous, beautiful. Old

3476
03:23:33.079 --> 03:23:35.360
<v Speaker 20>Nanny had grown all of a sudden a young and

3477
03:23:35.520 --> 03:23:38.760
<v Speaker 20>pretty maiden. But her robe was still the same green

3478
03:23:38.840 --> 03:23:42.120
<v Speaker 20>stuff with white flowers which she had worn before. On

3479
03:23:42.280 --> 03:23:44.879
<v Speaker 20>her bosom she had a real elderflower, and in her

3480
03:23:44.959 --> 03:23:48.120
<v Speaker 20>yellow waving hair a wreath of the flowers. Her eyes

3481
03:23:48.159 --> 03:23:50.120
<v Speaker 20>were so large and blue that it was a pleasure

3482
03:23:50.159 --> 03:23:53.040
<v Speaker 20>to look at them. She kissed the boy, and now

3483
03:23:53.079 --> 03:23:56.079
<v Speaker 20>they were of the same age and felt alike. Hand

3484
03:23:56.159 --> 03:23:58.319
<v Speaker 20>in hand, they went out of the bower, and they

3485
03:23:58.360 --> 03:24:01.319
<v Speaker 20>were standing in the beautiful garden of their home, near

3486
03:24:01.360 --> 03:24:04.319
<v Speaker 20>the green lawn. Papa's walking stick was tied, and for

3487
03:24:04.440 --> 03:24:06.559
<v Speaker 20>the little ones it seemed to be endowed with life,

3488
03:24:07.120 --> 03:24:09.040
<v Speaker 20>for as soon as they got astride it, the round

3489
03:24:09.159 --> 03:24:12.760
<v Speaker 20>polished knob was turned into a magnificent neighing head, A

3490
03:24:12.879 --> 03:24:16.159
<v Speaker 20>long black mane fluttered in the breeze, and four slender

3491
03:24:16.639 --> 03:24:20.440
<v Speaker 20>yet strong legs shot out. The animal was strong and handsome,

3492
03:24:20.920 --> 03:24:23.239
<v Speaker 20>and away they went at full gallop round the lawn.

3493
03:24:24.239 --> 03:24:25.079
<v Speaker 21>Huzza, Now we.

3494
03:24:25.120 --> 03:24:27.920
<v Speaker 20>Are riding miles off, said the boy. We are riding

3495
03:24:28.000 --> 03:24:31.920
<v Speaker 20>away to the castle where we were last year. And

3496
03:24:32.040 --> 03:24:34.920
<v Speaker 20>on they rode round the grass plot, and the little maiden,

3497
03:24:35.000 --> 03:24:37.639
<v Speaker 20>who we know was no one else but old Nanny,

3498
03:24:37.959 --> 03:24:40.639
<v Speaker 20>kept on crying out. Now we are in the country.

3499
03:24:41.040 --> 03:24:43.319
<v Speaker 20>Don't you see the farm house yonder? And there is

3500
03:24:43.399 --> 03:24:46.079
<v Speaker 20>the elder tree standing beside it, and the cock is

3501
03:24:46.159 --> 03:24:49.559
<v Speaker 20>scraping away the earth for the hens. Look how he struts.

3502
03:24:50.200 --> 03:24:52.680
<v Speaker 20>And now we are close to the church. It lies

3503
03:24:52.760 --> 03:24:55.520
<v Speaker 20>high upon the hill, between the large oak trees, one

3504
03:24:55.559 --> 03:24:58.760
<v Speaker 20>of which is half decayed. And now we are by

3505
03:24:58.799 --> 03:25:01.799
<v Speaker 20>the smithy, where the fire is blazing, and where the

3506
03:25:01.840 --> 03:25:04.280
<v Speaker 20>half naked men are banging with their hammers till the

3507
03:25:04.319 --> 03:25:08.319
<v Speaker 20>sparks fly about away away to the beautiful country seat.

3508
03:25:10.000 --> 03:25:12.239
<v Speaker 20>And all that the little maiden, who sat behind on

3509
03:25:12.319 --> 03:25:15.799
<v Speaker 20>the stick spoke of, flew by. In reality, the boy

3510
03:25:15.920 --> 03:25:18.000
<v Speaker 20>saw it all, and yet they were only going round

3511
03:25:18.000 --> 03:25:21.479
<v Speaker 20>the grass plot. Then they played in a side avenue

3512
03:25:21.559 --> 03:25:23.680
<v Speaker 20>and marked out a little garden on the earth, and

3513
03:25:23.799 --> 03:25:27.000
<v Speaker 20>they took elder blossoms from their hair planted them, and

3514
03:25:27.120 --> 03:25:29.399
<v Speaker 20>they grew just like those the old people planted when

3515
03:25:29.399 --> 03:25:33.239
<v Speaker 20>they were children, as related before. They went hand in hand,

3516
03:25:33.280 --> 03:25:35.440
<v Speaker 20>as the old people had done when they were children,

3517
03:25:35.959 --> 03:25:38.959
<v Speaker 20>but not to the round Tower or to Friedericksburg.

3518
03:25:39.559 --> 03:25:39.600
<v Speaker 11>No.

3519
03:25:39.840 --> 03:25:42.479
<v Speaker 20>The little damsel wound her arms around the boy, and

3520
03:25:42.559 --> 03:25:46.159
<v Speaker 20>then they flew far away through all Denmark, and spring came,

3521
03:25:46.440 --> 03:25:49.520
<v Speaker 20>and summer, and then it was autumn, and then winter,

3522
03:25:50.079 --> 03:25:52.559
<v Speaker 20>and a thousand pictures were reflected in the eye and

3523
03:25:52.719 --> 03:25:54.879
<v Speaker 20>in the heart of the boy, and the little girl

3524
03:25:54.920 --> 03:25:58.559
<v Speaker 20>always sang to him, this you will never forget. And

3525
03:25:58.680 --> 03:26:01.399
<v Speaker 20>during their whole flight the old tree smelt so sweet

3526
03:26:01.440 --> 03:26:05.920
<v Speaker 20>and odorous. Here marked the roses and fresh beeches, But

3527
03:26:06.040 --> 03:26:08.719
<v Speaker 20>the elder tree had a more wondrous fragrance, for its

3528
03:26:08.760 --> 03:26:11.280
<v Speaker 20>flowers hung on the breast of the little maiden, and

3529
03:26:11.399 --> 03:26:14.159
<v Speaker 20>there too did he often lay his head during the flight.

3530
03:26:15.079 --> 03:26:17.959
<v Speaker 20>It is lovely here in spring, said the maiden. And

3531
03:26:18.079 --> 03:26:20.239
<v Speaker 20>they stood in a beech wood that had just put

3532
03:26:20.280 --> 03:26:23.000
<v Speaker 20>on its first green, where the woodroof at their feet

3533
03:26:23.079 --> 03:26:26.200
<v Speaker 20>sent forth its fragrance, and the pale red anemone looked

3534
03:26:26.239 --> 03:26:29.799
<v Speaker 20>so pretty among the verdier oh would that it were

3535
03:26:29.840 --> 03:26:34.520
<v Speaker 20>always spring in the sweetly smelling Danish beech forests. It

3536
03:26:34.680 --> 03:26:37.559
<v Speaker 20>is lovely here in summer, said she, And she flew

3537
03:26:37.639 --> 03:26:40.799
<v Speaker 20>past old castles of by gone days of chivalry, where

3538
03:26:40.799 --> 03:26:43.520
<v Speaker 20>the red walls and the embattled gables were mirrored in

3539
03:26:43.600 --> 03:26:46.879
<v Speaker 20>the canal, where the swans were swimming, and peered up

3540
03:26:46.920 --> 03:26:50.280
<v Speaker 20>into the old cool avenues. In the fields, the corn

3541
03:26:50.399 --> 03:26:52.959
<v Speaker 20>was waving like the sea, and the ditches redd and

3542
03:26:53.079 --> 03:26:57.319
<v Speaker 20>yellow flowers were growing wild drone flowers, and the blooming

3543
03:26:57.399 --> 03:27:01.280
<v Speaker 20>convolvuses were creeping in the hedges. Towards evening, the moon

3544
03:27:01.399 --> 03:27:04.319
<v Speaker 20>rose round and large, and the haycocks in the meadows

3545
03:27:04.319 --> 03:27:08.600
<v Speaker 20>smelt so sweetly. This one never forgets. It is lovely

3546
03:27:08.680 --> 03:27:11.399
<v Speaker 20>here in autumn, said the little maiden. And suddenly the

3547
03:27:11.479 --> 03:27:15.159
<v Speaker 20>atmosphere grew as blue again as before. The forest grew

3548
03:27:15.280 --> 03:27:19.479
<v Speaker 20>red and green and yellow colored. The dogs came leaping along,

3549
03:27:19.840 --> 03:27:22.639
<v Speaker 20>and whole flocks of wild flower flew over the cairn,

3550
03:27:22.719 --> 03:27:26.120
<v Speaker 20>where BlackBerry bushes were hanging round the old stones. The

3551
03:27:26.239 --> 03:27:29.319
<v Speaker 20>sea was dark blue, covered with ships full of white sails.

3552
03:27:29.760 --> 03:27:32.559
<v Speaker 20>And in the barn, old women, maidens and children were

3553
03:27:32.639 --> 03:27:36.879
<v Speaker 20>sitting picking hops into a large cask. The young sang songs,

3554
03:27:36.959 --> 03:27:41.079
<v Speaker 20>but the old told fairy tales of mountain sprites and soothsayers.

3555
03:27:41.639 --> 03:27:45.879
<v Speaker 20>Nothing could be more charming. It is delightful here in winter,

3556
03:27:46.000 --> 03:27:48.680
<v Speaker 20>said the little maiden, And all the trees were covered

3557
03:27:48.680 --> 03:27:52.040
<v Speaker 20>with hoar frost. They looked like white corals. The snow

3558
03:27:52.120 --> 03:27:54.559
<v Speaker 20>crackled under foot as if one had new boots on,

3559
03:27:55.280 --> 03:27:57.559
<v Speaker 20>and one falling star after the other was seen in

3560
03:27:57.639 --> 03:28:00.520
<v Speaker 20>the sky. The Christmas tree was lighted in the room,

3561
03:28:00.959 --> 03:28:04.639
<v Speaker 20>presents were there, and good humor reigned in the country.

3562
03:28:04.680 --> 03:28:07.000
<v Speaker 20>The violin sounded in the room of the peasant, the

3563
03:28:07.120 --> 03:28:10.520
<v Speaker 20>newly baked cakes were attacked. Even the poorest child said,

3564
03:28:10.879 --> 03:28:15.520
<v Speaker 20>it is really delightful here in winter. Yes, it was delightful.

3565
03:28:15.879 --> 03:28:18.360
<v Speaker 20>And the little Maiden showed the boy everything, And the

3566
03:28:18.440 --> 03:28:21.159
<v Speaker 20>elder tree still was fragrant, and the red flag and

3567
03:28:21.200 --> 03:28:25.440
<v Speaker 20>the white cross was still waving, the flag under which

3568
03:28:25.479 --> 03:28:28.000
<v Speaker 20>the old seaman in the New Booths had sailed. And

3569
03:28:28.079 --> 03:28:30.159
<v Speaker 20>the boy grew up to be a lad and was

3570
03:28:30.239 --> 03:28:33.159
<v Speaker 20>to go forth in the wide world, far far away,

3571
03:28:33.319 --> 03:28:36.520
<v Speaker 20>to warm lands where the coffee tree grows. But at

3572
03:28:36.559 --> 03:28:39.079
<v Speaker 20>his departure, the little Maiden took an elder blossom from

3573
03:28:39.120 --> 03:28:41.360
<v Speaker 20>her bosom and gave it to him to keep, and

3574
03:28:41.479 --> 03:28:43.639
<v Speaker 20>it was placed between the leaves of his prayer book,

3575
03:28:44.799 --> 03:28:46.799
<v Speaker 20>And when in foreign lands he opened the book, it

3576
03:28:46.959 --> 03:28:49.319
<v Speaker 20>was always at the place where the keepsake flower lay.

3577
03:28:50.399 --> 03:28:53.000
<v Speaker 20>And the more he looked at it, the fresher it became.

3578
03:28:53.479 --> 03:28:55.479
<v Speaker 20>He felt as if it were the fragrance of the

3579
03:28:55.600 --> 03:28:58.520
<v Speaker 20>Danish groves. And from among the leaves of the flowers,

3580
03:28:58.559 --> 03:29:01.319
<v Speaker 20>he could distinctly see the little maiden peeping forth with

3581
03:29:01.399 --> 03:29:04.799
<v Speaker 20>her bright blue eyes. And then she whispered, it is

3582
03:29:04.920 --> 03:29:08.719
<v Speaker 20>delightful here in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and a

3583
03:29:08.879 --> 03:29:13.399
<v Speaker 20>hundred visions glided before his mind. Thus passed many years,

3584
03:29:13.600 --> 03:29:16.079
<v Speaker 20>and he was now an old man and sat with

3585
03:29:16.159 --> 03:29:19.079
<v Speaker 20>his old wife under the blooming tree. They held each

3586
03:29:19.079 --> 03:29:22.120
<v Speaker 20>other by the hand, as the old grandfather and grandmother

3587
03:29:22.239 --> 03:29:25.319
<v Speaker 20>Yonder and the new Booths did, and they talked exactly

3588
03:29:25.559 --> 03:29:28.399
<v Speaker 20>like them, of old times and of the fiftieth anniversary

3589
03:29:28.479 --> 03:29:31.399
<v Speaker 20>of their wedding. The little maiden, with the blue eyes

3590
03:29:31.559 --> 03:29:34.920
<v Speaker 20>and her elder blossoms in her hair, sat in the tree,

3591
03:29:35.479 --> 03:29:38.239
<v Speaker 20>nodded to both of them and said, today is the

3592
03:29:38.280 --> 03:29:41.639
<v Speaker 20>fiftieth anniversary. And then she took two flowers out of

3593
03:29:41.719 --> 03:29:45.120
<v Speaker 20>her hair and kissed them. First they shone like silver,

3594
03:29:45.600 --> 03:29:47.879
<v Speaker 20>then like gold, And when they were laid them on

3595
03:29:48.000 --> 03:29:50.760
<v Speaker 20>the heads of the old people, each flower became a

3596
03:29:50.840 --> 03:29:53.840
<v Speaker 20>gold crown. So there they both sat like a king

3597
03:29:54.000 --> 03:29:57.479
<v Speaker 20>and a queen, under the fragrant tree that looked exactly

3598
03:29:57.600 --> 03:30:00.120
<v Speaker 20>like an elder. The old man told his wife the

3599
03:30:00.239 --> 03:30:02.399
<v Speaker 20>story of Old Nanny as it had been told to

3600
03:30:02.520 --> 03:30:05.280
<v Speaker 20>him when a boy, and it seemed to both of

3601
03:30:05.360 --> 03:30:08.440
<v Speaker 20>them it contained much that resembled their own history, and

3602
03:30:08.559 --> 03:30:11.680
<v Speaker 20>those parts that were like it pleased them best. Thus

3603
03:30:11.760 --> 03:30:14.120
<v Speaker 20>it is said the little maiden in the tree. Some

3604
03:30:14.360 --> 03:30:18.120
<v Speaker 20>call me Old Nanny, others a dryad. But in reality

3605
03:30:18.239 --> 03:30:21.200
<v Speaker 20>my name is Remembrance. Tis I who sit in the

3606
03:30:21.280 --> 03:30:24.479
<v Speaker 20>tree that grows and grows. I can remember, I can

3607
03:30:24.559 --> 03:30:27.680
<v Speaker 20>tell things. Let me see if you have my flower still,

3608
03:30:28.719 --> 03:30:31.440
<v Speaker 20>And the old man opened his prayer book. There lay

3609
03:30:31.520 --> 03:30:33.680
<v Speaker 20>the elder blossom, as fresh as if it had been

3610
03:30:33.760 --> 03:30:37.440
<v Speaker 20>placed there but a short time before. And Remembrance nodded,

3611
03:30:37.600 --> 03:30:40.920
<v Speaker 20>and the old people, decked with crowns of gold, sat

3612
03:30:41.000 --> 03:30:44.040
<v Speaker 20>in the flush of the evening sun. They closed their eyes,

3613
03:30:44.200 --> 03:30:48.319
<v Speaker 20>and and yes, that's the end of the story. The

3614
03:30:48.399 --> 03:30:50.840
<v Speaker 20>little boy lay in his bed. He did not know

3615
03:30:51.000 --> 03:30:53.000
<v Speaker 20>if he had dreamed or not, or if he had

3616
03:30:53.040 --> 03:30:56.120
<v Speaker 20>been listening while someone told him the story. The teapot

3617
03:30:56.200 --> 03:30:58.920
<v Speaker 20>was standing on the table, but no elder tree was

3618
03:30:59.000 --> 03:31:01.319
<v Speaker 20>growing out of it, and the old man who had

3619
03:31:01.399 --> 03:31:04.239
<v Speaker 20>been talking was just on the point of going out

3620
03:31:04.239 --> 03:31:08.079
<v Speaker 20>of the door, and he did go. How splendid that was,

3621
03:31:08.159 --> 03:31:11.479
<v Speaker 20>said the little boy mother. I have been to warm countries,

3622
03:31:12.440 --> 03:31:14.719
<v Speaker 20>so I should think, said his mother. When one has

3623
03:31:14.799 --> 03:31:17.719
<v Speaker 20>drunk two good cupfuls of elder flower tea, tis likely

3624
03:31:17.799 --> 03:31:20.639
<v Speaker 20>enough one goes into warm climates. And she tucked him

3625
03:31:20.719 --> 03:31:24.479
<v Speaker 20>up nicely. Least he should take cold. You have had

3626
03:31:24.520 --> 03:31:26.360
<v Speaker 20>a good sleep while I have been sitting here and

3627
03:31:26.600 --> 03:31:28.479
<v Speaker 20>arguing with him whether it was a story or a

3628
03:31:28.559 --> 03:31:31.639
<v Speaker 20>fairy tale. And where is old nanny? Asked the little

3629
03:31:31.680 --> 03:31:35.079
<v Speaker 20>boy in the teapot, said his mother. And there she

3630
03:31:35.239 --> 03:31:38.959
<v Speaker 20>may remain. End of the elder bush.

3631
03:31:40.280 --> 03:31:40.840
<v Speaker 14>The bell.

3632
03:31:42.239 --> 03:31:45.680
<v Speaker 9>People said, the evening bell is sounding, the sun is setting.

3633
03:31:46.520 --> 03:31:49.000
<v Speaker 9>For a strange, wondrous tone was heard in the narrow

3634
03:31:49.040 --> 03:31:52.000
<v Speaker 9>streets of a large town. It was like the sound

3635
03:31:52.040 --> 03:31:54.360
<v Speaker 9>of a church bell, but it was only heard for

3636
03:31:54.479 --> 03:31:56.959
<v Speaker 9>a moment, for the rolling of the carriages and the

3637
03:31:57.079 --> 03:32:00.719
<v Speaker 9>voices of the multitude made too great a noise. Those

3638
03:32:00.799 --> 03:32:03.719
<v Speaker 9>persons who were walking outside the town, where the houses

3639
03:32:03.760 --> 03:32:07.040
<v Speaker 9>were farther apart, with gardens or little fields between them,

3640
03:32:07.479 --> 03:32:10.399
<v Speaker 9>could see the evening sky still better and heard the

3641
03:32:10.479 --> 03:32:13.479
<v Speaker 9>sound of the bell much more distinctly. It was as

3642
03:32:13.520 --> 03:32:16.360
<v Speaker 9>if the tones came from a church in the still forest.

3643
03:32:17.159 --> 03:32:21.000
<v Speaker 9>People looked thitherward and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.

3644
03:32:22.399 --> 03:32:25.000
<v Speaker 9>A long time passed, and people said to each other,

3645
03:32:25.719 --> 03:32:27.719
<v Speaker 9>I wonder if there is a church out in the wood.

3646
03:32:28.399 --> 03:32:30.120
<v Speaker 9>The bell has a tone that is wondrous.

3647
03:32:30.239 --> 03:32:30.520
<v Speaker 11>Sweet.

3648
03:32:31.200 --> 03:32:34.840
<v Speaker 9>Let us stroll thither and examine the matter nearer. And

3649
03:32:34.920 --> 03:32:38.000
<v Speaker 9>the rich people drove out, and the poor walked, But

3650
03:32:38.159 --> 03:32:41.159
<v Speaker 9>the way seemed strangely long to them. And when they

3651
03:32:41.239 --> 03:32:43.120
<v Speaker 9>came to a clump of willows which grew on the

3652
03:32:43.200 --> 03:32:46.479
<v Speaker 9>skirts of the forest, they sat down and looked up

3653
03:32:46.479 --> 03:32:50.120
<v Speaker 9>at the long branches, and fancied they were now in

3654
03:32:50.159 --> 03:32:53.520
<v Speaker 9>the depth of the green wood. The confectioner of the

3655
03:32:53.559 --> 03:32:56.440
<v Speaker 9>town came out and set up his booth there, and

3656
03:32:56.600 --> 03:32:59.879
<v Speaker 9>soon after came another confectioner, who hung a bell over

3657
03:33:00.079 --> 03:33:03.360
<v Speaker 9>his stand as a sign or ornament, but it had

3658
03:33:03.440 --> 03:33:06.200
<v Speaker 9>no clapper and it was tarred over to preserve it

3659
03:33:06.239 --> 03:33:09.920
<v Speaker 9>from the rain. When all the people returned home, they

3660
03:33:09.959 --> 03:33:12.319
<v Speaker 9>said it had been a very romantic and that it

3661
03:33:12.399 --> 03:33:14.479
<v Speaker 9>was quite a different sort of thing to a picnic

3662
03:33:14.559 --> 03:33:17.879
<v Speaker 9>or tea party. There were three persons who asserted they

3663
03:33:17.920 --> 03:33:20.559
<v Speaker 9>had penetrated to the end of the forest, and that

3664
03:33:20.680 --> 03:33:23.239
<v Speaker 9>they had always heard the wondrous sounds of the bell,

3665
03:33:23.879 --> 03:33:26.000
<v Speaker 9>but it seemed to them as if it had come

3666
03:33:26.079 --> 03:33:29.639
<v Speaker 9>from the town. One wrote a poem about it, and

3667
03:33:29.760 --> 03:33:31.879
<v Speaker 9>said the bell sounded like the voice of a mother

3668
03:33:32.000 --> 03:33:34.879
<v Speaker 9>to a good dear child, and that no melody was

3669
03:33:34.920 --> 03:33:38.200
<v Speaker 9>sweeter than the tones of the bell. The king of

3670
03:33:38.280 --> 03:33:40.959
<v Speaker 9>the country was also observant of it, and vowed that

3671
03:33:41.159 --> 03:33:44.559
<v Speaker 9>he who could discover whence the sounds proceeded, should have

3672
03:33:44.719 --> 03:33:48.120
<v Speaker 9>the title of universal bell ringer, even if it were

3673
03:33:48.280 --> 03:33:52.239
<v Speaker 9>not really a bell. Many persons now went to the

3674
03:33:52.280 --> 03:33:55.040
<v Speaker 9>wood for the sake of getting the place, but only

3675
03:33:55.120 --> 03:33:58.360
<v Speaker 9>one returned with a sort of explanation, for nobody went

3676
03:33:58.479 --> 03:34:02.280
<v Speaker 9>far enough that one not further than the others. However,

3677
03:34:02.600 --> 03:34:05.079
<v Speaker 9>he said that the sound proceeded from a very large

3678
03:34:05.200 --> 03:34:08.559
<v Speaker 9>owl in a hollow tree, a sort of learned owl

3679
03:34:09.000 --> 03:34:12.639
<v Speaker 9>that continually knocked its head against the branches. But whether

3680
03:34:12.719 --> 03:34:15.440
<v Speaker 9>the sound came from his head or from the hollow tree,

3681
03:34:16.040 --> 03:34:19.360
<v Speaker 9>that no one could say with certainty. So now he

3682
03:34:19.479 --> 03:34:23.079
<v Speaker 9>got the place of universal bell ringer, and wrote yearly

3683
03:34:23.239 --> 03:34:26.719
<v Speaker 9>a short treatise on the owl. But everybody was just

3684
03:34:26.840 --> 03:34:31.319
<v Speaker 9>as wise as before. It was the day of confirmation.

3685
03:34:31.959 --> 03:34:35.079
<v Speaker 9>The clergy man had spoken so touchingly that children who

3686
03:34:35.120 --> 03:34:38.440
<v Speaker 9>were confirmed had been greatly moved. It was an eventful

3687
03:34:38.520 --> 03:34:41.559
<v Speaker 9>day for them. From children, they became all at once

3688
03:34:41.680 --> 03:34:44.879
<v Speaker 9>grown up persons. It was as if their infant souls

3689
03:34:44.920 --> 03:34:47.200
<v Speaker 9>were now to fly all at once into persons with

3690
03:34:47.319 --> 03:34:51.879
<v Speaker 9>more understanding. The sun was shining gloriously. The children that

3691
03:34:51.959 --> 03:34:54.559
<v Speaker 9>had been confirmed went out of the town, and from

3692
03:34:54.600 --> 03:34:57.360
<v Speaker 9>the wood was borne towards them the sounds of the

3693
03:34:57.479 --> 03:35:02.280
<v Speaker 9>unknown bell with wonderful distinctness. They all immediately felt a

3694
03:35:02.360 --> 03:35:06.239
<v Speaker 9>wish to go thither, all except three. One of them

3695
03:35:06.280 --> 03:35:08.159
<v Speaker 9>had to go home to try on a ball dress,

3696
03:35:08.719 --> 03:35:10.559
<v Speaker 9>for it was just the dress and the ball which

3697
03:35:10.600 --> 03:35:13.680
<v Speaker 9>had caused her to be confirmed this time, for otherwise

3698
03:35:13.799 --> 03:35:16.399
<v Speaker 9>she would not have come. The other was a poor

3699
03:35:16.520 --> 03:35:18.600
<v Speaker 9>boy who had borrowed his coat and boots to be

3700
03:35:18.719 --> 03:35:22.000
<v Speaker 9>confirmed in from the innkeeper's son, and he was to

3701
03:35:22.079 --> 03:35:25.360
<v Speaker 9>give them back by a certain hour. The third said

3702
03:35:25.360 --> 03:35:27.639
<v Speaker 9>that he never went to strange places if his parents

3703
03:35:27.680 --> 03:35:30.000
<v Speaker 9>were not with him, that he had always been a

3704
03:35:30.079 --> 03:35:33.120
<v Speaker 9>good boy hitherto, and would still be so now that

3705
03:35:33.239 --> 03:35:36.120
<v Speaker 9>he was confirmed, and that one ought not to laugh

3706
03:35:36.159 --> 03:35:39.079
<v Speaker 9>at him for it. The others, however, did make fun

3707
03:35:39.120 --> 03:35:43.239
<v Speaker 9>of him. After all, there were three therefore, that did

3708
03:35:43.280 --> 03:35:47.040
<v Speaker 9>not go. The others hastened on the sun shone. The

3709
03:35:47.120 --> 03:35:50.559
<v Speaker 9>birds sang, and the children sang two, and each held

3710
03:35:50.600 --> 03:35:52.959
<v Speaker 9>the other by the hand, for as yet they had

3711
03:35:53.000 --> 03:35:55.360
<v Speaker 9>none of them any high office, and were all of

3712
03:35:55.440 --> 03:35:58.399
<v Speaker 9>equal rank in the eye of God. But two of

3713
03:35:58.479 --> 03:36:01.639
<v Speaker 9>the youngest soon grew tired, and both returned to town.

3714
03:36:02.360 --> 03:36:05.639
<v Speaker 9>Two little girls sat down and twined garlands. So they

3715
03:36:05.680 --> 03:36:08.159
<v Speaker 9>did not go either, And when the others reached the

3716
03:36:08.200 --> 03:36:11.760
<v Speaker 9>willow tree where the confectioner was, they said, now we

3717
03:36:11.840 --> 03:36:15.440
<v Speaker 9>are there. In reality, the bell does not exist. It

3718
03:36:15.559 --> 03:36:18.000
<v Speaker 9>is only a fancy that people have taken into their heads.

3719
03:36:19.440 --> 03:36:22.239
<v Speaker 9>At the same moment, the bell sounded deep in the wood,

3720
03:36:22.680 --> 03:36:26.200
<v Speaker 9>so clear and solemnly, that five or six determined to

3721
03:36:26.239 --> 03:36:30.000
<v Speaker 9>penetrate somewhat further. It was so thick, and the foliage

3722
03:36:30.079 --> 03:36:33.959
<v Speaker 9>so dense that it was quite fatiguing to proceed. Woodruff

3723
03:36:34.239 --> 03:36:39.239
<v Speaker 9>and anemonies grew almost too high. Blooming convovoluses and BlackBerry

3724
03:36:39.280 --> 03:36:42.559
<v Speaker 9>bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where

3725
03:36:42.600 --> 03:36:45.959
<v Speaker 9>the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing. It was

3726
03:36:46.159 --> 03:36:48.920
<v Speaker 9>very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go.

3727
03:36:49.399 --> 03:36:53.200
<v Speaker 9>Their clothes would get so torn. Large blocks of stone

3728
03:36:53.280 --> 03:36:57.239
<v Speaker 9>lay there, overgrown with moss of every color. The fresh

3729
03:36:57.280 --> 03:37:01.520
<v Speaker 9>spring bubbled forth and made a strange gurgling sound that

3730
03:37:01.760 --> 03:37:03.959
<v Speaker 9>surely cannot be the bell, said one of the children,

3731
03:37:04.079 --> 03:37:07.280
<v Speaker 9>lying down and listening. This must be looked to, so

3732
03:37:07.399 --> 03:37:09.559
<v Speaker 9>he remained and let the others go on without him.

3733
03:37:10.719 --> 03:37:13.600
<v Speaker 9>They afterwards came to a little house made of branches

3734
03:37:13.680 --> 03:37:16.639
<v Speaker 9>and the bark of trees. A large wild apple tree

3735
03:37:16.719 --> 03:37:19.239
<v Speaker 9>bent over it, as if it would shower down all

3736
03:37:19.319 --> 03:37:22.600
<v Speaker 9>its blessings. On the roof, where roses were blooming, the

3737
03:37:22.719 --> 03:37:25.520
<v Speaker 9>long stems twined round the gable, on which there hung

3738
03:37:25.600 --> 03:37:30.040
<v Speaker 9>a small bell. Was it that which people had heard? Yes,

3739
03:37:30.200 --> 03:37:34.280
<v Speaker 9>everybody was unanimous on the subject, except one who said

3740
03:37:34.280 --> 03:37:36.319
<v Speaker 9>that the bell was too small and too fine to

3741
03:37:36.399 --> 03:37:39.319
<v Speaker 9>be heard at so great a distance. And besides, it

3742
03:37:39.440 --> 03:37:41.879
<v Speaker 9>was very different tones to those that could move a

3743
03:37:42.000 --> 03:37:45.159
<v Speaker 9>human heart in such a manner. It was a king's

3744
03:37:45.239 --> 03:37:49.360
<v Speaker 9>son who spoke whereon the others said, such people always

3745
03:37:49.399 --> 03:37:52.879
<v Speaker 9>want to be wiser than everybody else. They now let

3746
03:37:52.959 --> 03:37:56.239
<v Speaker 9>him go on alone, And as he went his breast

3747
03:37:56.360 --> 03:37:59.399
<v Speaker 9>was filled more and more with the forest solitude. But

3748
03:37:59.479 --> 03:38:01.639
<v Speaker 9>he still he heard the little bell with which the

3749
03:38:01.760 --> 03:38:04.760
<v Speaker 9>others were so satisfied. And now and then, when the

3750
03:38:04.799 --> 03:38:07.879
<v Speaker 9>wind blew, he could also hear the people singing who

3751
03:38:07.920 --> 03:38:10.760
<v Speaker 9>were sitting at tea where the confectioner had his tent.

3752
03:38:11.719 --> 03:38:14.840
<v Speaker 9>But the deep sound of the bell rose louder. It

3753
03:38:15.000 --> 03:38:17.639
<v Speaker 9>was almost as if an organ were accompanying it, and

3754
03:38:17.760 --> 03:38:20.600
<v Speaker 9>the tones came from the left hand, the side where

3755
03:38:20.639 --> 03:38:24.440
<v Speaker 9>the heart is placed. A rustling was heard in the bushes,

3756
03:38:24.920 --> 03:38:28.120
<v Speaker 9>and a little boy stood before the king's son, a

3757
03:38:28.239 --> 03:38:31.440
<v Speaker 9>boy in wooden shoes and with so short a jacket

3758
03:38:31.799 --> 03:38:35.040
<v Speaker 9>that one could see what long wrists he had. Both

3759
03:38:35.120 --> 03:38:38.440
<v Speaker 9>knew each other. The boy was that one among the

3760
03:38:38.559 --> 03:38:40.680
<v Speaker 9>children who could not come, because he had to go

3761
03:38:40.799 --> 03:38:43.719
<v Speaker 9>home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.

3762
03:38:44.879 --> 03:38:47.360
<v Speaker 9>This he had done, and was now going on in

3763
03:38:47.440 --> 03:38:50.600
<v Speaker 9>wooden shoes and in his humble dress. For the bell

3764
03:38:50.760 --> 03:38:53.520
<v Speaker 9>sounded with so deep a tone and with such strange

3765
03:38:53.600 --> 03:38:59.079
<v Speaker 9>power that proceed he must Why then, can we go together,

3766
03:38:59.319 --> 03:39:02.159
<v Speaker 9>said the king's son. But the poor child that had

3767
03:39:02.200 --> 03:39:05.879
<v Speaker 9>been confirmed, was quite ashamed. He looked at his wooden shoes,

3768
03:39:06.159 --> 03:39:08.719
<v Speaker 9>pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said

3769
03:39:08.760 --> 03:39:12.079
<v Speaker 9>that he was afraid he could not walk so fast. Besides,

3770
03:39:12.200 --> 03:39:14.120
<v Speaker 9>he thought that the bell must be looked for to

3771
03:39:14.239 --> 03:39:16.639
<v Speaker 9>the right, for that was the place where all sorts

3772
03:39:16.680 --> 03:39:20.280
<v Speaker 9>of beautiful things were to be found. But there we

3773
03:39:20.360 --> 03:39:23.399
<v Speaker 9>shall not meet, said the king's son, nodding at the

3774
03:39:23.440 --> 03:39:26.200
<v Speaker 9>same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest,

3775
03:39:26.440 --> 03:39:29.639
<v Speaker 9>thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble

3776
03:39:29.760 --> 03:39:32.879
<v Speaker 9>dress and scratched his face and hands and feet till

3777
03:39:32.920 --> 03:39:37.000
<v Speaker 9>they bled. The king's son got some scratches too, But

3778
03:39:37.120 --> 03:39:39.680
<v Speaker 9>the sun shone on his path, and it was him

3779
03:39:39.760 --> 03:39:42.000
<v Speaker 9>that we will follow, for he was an excellent and

3780
03:39:42.120 --> 03:39:46.200
<v Speaker 9>resolute youth. I must and will find the bell, he said,

3781
03:39:46.760 --> 03:39:48.639
<v Speaker 9>even if I am obliged to go to the end

3782
03:39:48.680 --> 03:39:52.319
<v Speaker 9>of the world. The ugly apes sat upon the trees

3783
03:39:52.360 --> 03:39:55.239
<v Speaker 9>and grinned. Shall we thrash him, they said, shall we

3784
03:39:55.360 --> 03:39:58.319
<v Speaker 9>thrash him? He is the son of a king. But

3785
03:39:58.479 --> 03:40:02.079
<v Speaker 9>on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into

3786
03:40:02.120 --> 03:40:05.959
<v Speaker 9>the wood where the most wonderful flowers were growing. There

3787
03:40:06.120 --> 03:40:10.120
<v Speaker 9>stood white lilies with blood red stamina, sky blue tulips,

3788
03:40:10.319 --> 03:40:13.559
<v Speaker 9>which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple trees,

3789
03:40:14.040 --> 03:40:17.479
<v Speaker 9>the apples of which looked exactly like large soap bubbles.

3790
03:40:18.159 --> 03:40:20.680
<v Speaker 9>So only think how the trees must have sparkled in

3791
03:40:20.760 --> 03:40:25.159
<v Speaker 9>that sunshine. Around the nicest green meads, where the deer

3792
03:40:25.239 --> 03:40:28.959
<v Speaker 9>were playing in the grass grew magnificent oaks and beeches,

3793
03:40:29.520 --> 03:40:31.840
<v Speaker 9>And if the bark of one of the trees was cracked,

3794
03:40:32.520 --> 03:40:35.719
<v Speaker 9>there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.

3795
03:40:36.440 --> 03:40:39.479
<v Speaker 9>And there were large calm lakes there too, in which

3796
03:40:39.559 --> 03:40:43.000
<v Speaker 9>white swans were swimming and beat the air with their wings.

3797
03:40:43.799 --> 03:40:47.399
<v Speaker 9>The king's son often stood still and listened. He thought

3798
03:40:47.479 --> 03:40:49.920
<v Speaker 9>the bell sounded from the depths of these still lakes.

3799
03:40:50.559 --> 03:40:52.879
<v Speaker 9>But then he remarked again that the tone proceeded not

3800
03:40:53.079 --> 03:40:56.239
<v Speaker 9>from there, but farther off, from out the depths of

3801
03:40:56.280 --> 03:41:01.239
<v Speaker 9>the forest. The sun now set, the atmosphere glowed like fire.

3802
03:41:02.040 --> 03:41:04.879
<v Speaker 9>It was still in the woods, so very still, And

3803
03:41:05.000 --> 03:41:08.079
<v Speaker 9>he fell on his knees, sung his evening hymn, and said,

3804
03:41:08.639 --> 03:41:10.120
<v Speaker 9>I cannot find what I seek.

3805
03:41:10.600 --> 03:41:11.639
<v Speaker 14>The sun is going.

3806
03:41:11.520 --> 03:41:15.639
<v Speaker 9>Down, and night is coming, the dark, dark night. Yet

3807
03:41:15.680 --> 03:41:17.879
<v Speaker 9>perhaps I may be able once more to see the

3808
03:41:18.000 --> 03:41:21.760
<v Speaker 9>round red Sun before he entirely disappears. I will climb

3809
03:41:21.879 --> 03:41:25.719
<v Speaker 9>up yonder rock. And he seized hold of the creeping

3810
03:41:25.799 --> 03:41:29.719
<v Speaker 9>plants and the roots of trees, climbed up the moist stones,

3811
03:41:29.719 --> 03:41:32.760
<v Speaker 9>where the water snakes were writhing and the toads were croaking,

3812
03:41:33.280 --> 03:41:35.440
<v Speaker 9>And he gained the summit before the sun had gone

3813
03:41:35.520 --> 03:41:39.040
<v Speaker 9>quite down. How magnificent was the sight From this height.

3814
03:41:39.719 --> 03:41:40.719
<v Speaker 14>The sea, the.

3815
03:41:40.799 --> 03:41:44.600
<v Speaker 9>Great, the glorious sea, that dashed its long waves against

3816
03:41:44.639 --> 03:41:48.760
<v Speaker 9>the coast, was stretched out before him, and yonder where

3817
03:41:48.879 --> 03:41:52.360
<v Speaker 9>sea and sky meet, stood the Sun like a large

3818
03:41:52.559 --> 03:41:56.559
<v Speaker 9>shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors.

3819
03:41:57.360 --> 03:42:00.520
<v Speaker 9>And the wood and the sea sang a song of rejoicing,

3820
03:42:01.239 --> 03:42:04.280
<v Speaker 9>and his heart sang with all the rest. All nature

3821
03:42:04.399 --> 03:42:07.399
<v Speaker 9>was a vast holy church, in which the trees and

3822
03:42:07.479 --> 03:42:10.959
<v Speaker 9>the buoyant clouds were the pillars, flowers and grass, the

3823
03:42:11.079 --> 03:42:16.360
<v Speaker 9>velvet carpeting, and heaven itself the large cupola. The red

3824
03:42:16.440 --> 03:42:19.840
<v Speaker 9>colors above faded away as the sun vanished, but a

3825
03:42:19.959 --> 03:42:24.120
<v Speaker 9>million stars were lighted, a million lamps shone, and the

3826
03:42:24.239 --> 03:42:28.000
<v Speaker 9>King's son spread out his arms towards heaven and wood

3827
03:42:28.440 --> 03:42:32.440
<v Speaker 9>and sea, when at the same moment, coming by a

3828
03:42:32.520 --> 03:42:35.959
<v Speaker 9>path to the right, appeared in his wooden shoes and jacket,

3829
03:42:36.440 --> 03:42:39.440
<v Speaker 9>the poor boy, who had been confirmed with him. He

3830
03:42:39.520 --> 03:42:42.200
<v Speaker 9>had followed his own path and had reached the spot

3831
03:42:42.479 --> 03:42:44.520
<v Speaker 9>just as soon as the sun of the king had done.

3832
03:42:45.440 --> 03:42:48.479
<v Speaker 9>They ran towards each other and stood together hand in

3833
03:42:48.639 --> 03:42:52.159
<v Speaker 9>hand in the vast church of nature and of poetry.

3834
03:42:52.639 --> 03:42:57.239
<v Speaker 9>While over them sounded the invisible holy bell. Blessed spirits

3835
03:42:57.280 --> 03:43:00.360
<v Speaker 9>floated around them and lifted up their voices in a

3836
03:43:00.440 --> 03:43:02.120
<v Speaker 9>rejoicing Hallelujah.

3837
03:43:03.959 --> 03:43:05.360
<v Speaker 4>End of the bell.

3838
03:43:06.840 --> 03:43:07.959
<v Speaker 14>The old house.

3839
03:43:09.159 --> 03:43:13.239
<v Speaker 21>In the street up there was an old, fairy old house.

3840
03:43:14.079 --> 03:43:17.440
<v Speaker 21>It was almost three hundred years old, for that might

3841
03:43:17.520 --> 03:43:19.840
<v Speaker 21>be known by reading the great beam on which the

3842
03:43:19.959 --> 03:43:23.680
<v Speaker 21>date of the year was carved, together with tulips and

3843
03:43:23.760 --> 03:43:27.399
<v Speaker 21>hot vines. There were whole verses spelled as in former times,

3844
03:43:27.840 --> 03:43:31.239
<v Speaker 21>and over every window was a distorted face cut out

3845
03:43:31.360 --> 03:43:35.040
<v Speaker 21>in the beam. The one story stood forward a great

3846
03:43:35.120 --> 03:43:38.479
<v Speaker 21>way over the other, and directly under the eaves with

3847
03:43:38.559 --> 03:43:41.680
<v Speaker 21>a leaden spout with a dragon's head. The rain water

3848
03:43:41.760 --> 03:43:43.719
<v Speaker 21>should have run out of the mouse, but it ran

3849
03:43:43.840 --> 03:43:45.959
<v Speaker 21>out of the belly, for there was a hole in

3850
03:43:46.079 --> 03:43:50.879
<v Speaker 21>the spout. All the other houses in the street were

3851
03:43:50.959 --> 03:43:53.920
<v Speaker 21>so new and so neat, with large window panes and

3852
03:43:54.000 --> 03:43:57.280
<v Speaker 21>smooth walls, one could easily see that they would have

3853
03:43:57.440 --> 03:44:00.799
<v Speaker 21>nothing to do with the old house. They certainly thought,

3854
03:44:01.799 --> 03:44:04.360
<v Speaker 21>how long is that old, decayed thing to stand here

3855
03:44:04.440 --> 03:44:08.680
<v Speaker 21>as a spectacle in the street. And then the projecting

3856
03:44:08.719 --> 03:44:11.559
<v Speaker 21>windows stand so far out that no one can see

3857
03:44:11.639 --> 03:44:15.319
<v Speaker 21>from our windows what happens in that direction. The steps

3858
03:44:15.360 --> 03:44:17.840
<v Speaker 21>are as broad as those of a palace, and as

3859
03:44:17.959 --> 03:44:21.920
<v Speaker 21>high as to a church tower. The iron railings looked

3860
03:44:22.079 --> 03:44:25.040
<v Speaker 21>just like the door to an old family vault. And

3861
03:44:25.319 --> 03:44:31.040
<v Speaker 21>then they have brass tops. That's so stupid. On the

3862
03:44:31.120 --> 03:44:34.120
<v Speaker 21>other side of the street were also new and neat houses,

3863
03:44:34.680 --> 03:44:37.600
<v Speaker 21>and they thought just as the others did. But at

3864
03:44:37.639 --> 03:44:40.639
<v Speaker 21>the window opposite the old house there sat a little

3865
03:44:40.719 --> 03:44:45.319
<v Speaker 21>boy with fresh rosy cheeks and bright beaming eyes. He

3866
03:44:45.479 --> 03:44:49.040
<v Speaker 21>certainly liked the old house best, and that both in

3867
03:44:49.239 --> 03:44:53.159
<v Speaker 21>sunshine and moonshine, and when he looked across at the

3868
03:44:53.239 --> 03:44:56.159
<v Speaker 21>wall where the mortar had fallen out. He could sit

3869
03:44:56.319 --> 03:45:00.840
<v Speaker 21>and find out there the strangest figures imaginable, exactly as

3870
03:45:00.959 --> 03:45:05.319
<v Speaker 21>the street had appeared before, with steps, projecting windows and

3871
03:45:05.479 --> 03:45:10.280
<v Speaker 21>pointed gables. He could see soldiers with halbirds and spouts

3872
03:45:10.319 --> 03:45:14.520
<v Speaker 21>where the water ran like dragons and serpents. That was

3873
03:45:14.559 --> 03:45:17.520
<v Speaker 21>a house to look at. And there lived an old

3874
03:45:17.600 --> 03:45:20.879
<v Speaker 21>man who wore plush breeches and had a coat with

3875
03:45:21.040 --> 03:45:23.959
<v Speaker 21>large brass buttons, and a wig that one could see

3876
03:45:24.120 --> 03:45:27.479
<v Speaker 21>was a real wig. Every morning there came an old

3877
03:45:27.520 --> 03:45:30.440
<v Speaker 21>fellow to him, who put his rooms in order and

3878
03:45:30.600 --> 03:45:33.959
<v Speaker 21>went on Errand's. Otherwise, the old man in the plush

3879
03:45:34.040 --> 03:45:38.040
<v Speaker 21>breeches was quite alone in the old house now. And

3880
03:45:38.159 --> 03:45:40.959
<v Speaker 21>then he came to the window and looked out, and

3881
03:45:41.120 --> 03:45:43.840
<v Speaker 21>the little boy nodded to him, and the old man

3882
03:45:43.959 --> 03:45:48.159
<v Speaker 21>nodded again, and so they became acquaintances, and then they

3883
03:45:48.200 --> 03:45:51.559
<v Speaker 21>were friends, although they had never spoken to each other,

3884
03:45:52.120 --> 03:45:55.280
<v Speaker 21>but that made no difference. The little boy heard his

3885
03:45:55.479 --> 03:45:59.719
<v Speaker 21>parents say, the old man opposite is very well off,

3886
03:46:00.120 --> 03:46:05.079
<v Speaker 21>but he is so very very lonely. The Sunday following,

3887
03:46:05.479 --> 03:46:07.840
<v Speaker 21>the little boy took something and wrapped it up in

3888
03:46:07.879 --> 03:46:11.760
<v Speaker 21>a piece of paper, went downstairs and stood in the doorway,

3889
03:46:12.280 --> 03:46:14.639
<v Speaker 21>And when the man who went on errands came past,

3890
03:46:14.799 --> 03:46:19.000
<v Speaker 21>he said to him, I say, master, will you give

3891
03:46:19.079 --> 03:46:21.040
<v Speaker 21>this to the old man over the way from me?

3892
03:46:21.760 --> 03:46:24.879
<v Speaker 21>I have two pewter soldiers. This is one of them,

3893
03:46:25.200 --> 03:46:27.399
<v Speaker 21>and he shall have it, for I know he is

3894
03:46:27.520 --> 03:46:32.360
<v Speaker 21>so very very lonely. And the old errand man looked

3895
03:46:32.440 --> 03:46:36.319
<v Speaker 21>quite pleased, nodded, and took the pewter soldier over to

3896
03:46:36.440 --> 03:46:40.559
<v Speaker 21>the old house. Afterwards there came a message. It was

3897
03:46:40.639 --> 03:46:42.920
<v Speaker 21>to ask if the little boy himself had not a

3898
03:46:43.000 --> 03:46:45.959
<v Speaker 21>wish to come over and pay a visit. And so

3899
03:46:46.159 --> 03:46:49.000
<v Speaker 21>he got permission of his parents, and then went over

3900
03:46:49.200 --> 03:46:52.120
<v Speaker 21>to the old house. And the brass balls on the

3901
03:46:52.239 --> 03:46:56.399
<v Speaker 21>iron railings shone much brighter than ever one would have thought.

3902
03:46:56.479 --> 03:46:59.680
<v Speaker 21>They were polished on account of the visit. And it

3903
03:46:59.840 --> 03:47:03.200
<v Speaker 21>was as if the carved out trumpeters, for there were

3904
03:47:03.319 --> 03:47:06.719
<v Speaker 21>trumpeters who stood in tulips carved out on the door,

3905
03:47:07.600 --> 03:47:10.479
<v Speaker 21>blew with all their might. Their cheeks appeared so much

3906
03:47:10.600 --> 03:47:17.200
<v Speaker 21>rounder than before. Yes, they blew trettera traw. The little

3907
03:47:17.280 --> 03:47:24.079
<v Speaker 21>boy comes, tritera traw. And then the door opened. The

3908
03:47:24.200 --> 03:47:27.399
<v Speaker 21>whole passage was hung with portraits of knights in armor

3909
03:47:27.840 --> 03:47:31.760
<v Speaker 21>and ladies in silken gowns, and the armor rattled and

3910
03:47:31.879 --> 03:47:35.399
<v Speaker 21>the silken gowns rustled. And then there was a flight

3911
03:47:35.479 --> 03:47:37.920
<v Speaker 21>of stairs which went a good way upwards and a

3912
03:47:38.040 --> 03:47:41.360
<v Speaker 21>little way downwards. And then one came on a balcony

3913
03:47:41.520 --> 03:47:44.879
<v Speaker 21>which was in a very dilapidated state, sure enough, with

3914
03:47:45.200 --> 03:47:48.600
<v Speaker 21>large holes and long crevices. But grass grew there, and

3915
03:47:48.719 --> 03:47:51.639
<v Speaker 21>leaves out of them altogether. For the whole balcony outside

3916
03:47:51.680 --> 03:47:54.200
<v Speaker 21>the yard, and the walls were overgrown with so much

3917
03:47:54.280 --> 03:47:57.959
<v Speaker 21>green stuff that it looked like a garden, only a balcony.

3918
03:47:58.840 --> 03:48:02.040
<v Speaker 21>Here stood old saw pots with faces and asses ears,

3919
03:48:02.520 --> 03:48:05.719
<v Speaker 21>and the flowers grew just as they liked. One of

3920
03:48:05.799 --> 03:48:08.840
<v Speaker 21>the pots was quite overrun on all sides with pinks,

3921
03:48:09.520 --> 03:48:12.200
<v Speaker 21>that is to say, with the green parts. Shoot stood

3922
03:48:12.280 --> 03:48:16.000
<v Speaker 21>by shoot, and it said, quite distinctly, the air has

3923
03:48:16.159 --> 03:48:19.280
<v Speaker 21>cherished me, the sun has kissed me, and promised me

3924
03:48:19.319 --> 03:48:23.120
<v Speaker 21>a little flower on Sunday, a little flower on Sunday.

3925
03:48:24.200 --> 03:48:26.520
<v Speaker 21>And then they entered a chamber where the walls were

3926
03:48:26.600 --> 03:48:30.399
<v Speaker 21>covered with hog's leather and printed with gold flowers. The

3927
03:48:30.520 --> 03:48:36.559
<v Speaker 21>gilding decays, but hog's leather stays, said the walls. And

3928
03:48:36.680 --> 03:48:40.200
<v Speaker 21>there stood easy chairs with such high backs and so

3929
03:48:40.479 --> 03:48:44.079
<v Speaker 21>carved out, and with arms on both sides. Sit down,

3930
03:48:44.280 --> 03:48:48.200
<v Speaker 21>Sit down, said they. Oh, how I creak? Now, I

3931
03:48:48.280 --> 03:48:51.319
<v Speaker 21>shall certainly get the gout like the old clothes press.

3932
03:48:51.600 --> 03:48:51.799
<v Speaker 4>Oh.

3933
03:48:53.719 --> 03:48:56.040
<v Speaker 21>And then the little boy came into the room where

3934
03:48:56.040 --> 03:48:59.319
<v Speaker 21>the projecting windows were and where the old man sat.

3935
03:49:01.000 --> 03:49:03.879
<v Speaker 21>I thank you for the pewter soldier, my little friend,

3936
03:49:04.399 --> 03:49:06.840
<v Speaker 21>said the old man. And I thank you because you

3937
03:49:06.959 --> 03:49:13.639
<v Speaker 21>come over to me. Thankee thankee or cranky cranky sounded

3938
03:49:13.680 --> 03:49:16.239
<v Speaker 21>from all the furniture. There was so much of it

3939
03:49:16.639 --> 03:49:19.520
<v Speaker 21>that each article stood in the other's way to get

3940
03:49:19.559 --> 03:49:23.520
<v Speaker 21>a look at the little boy. In the middle of

3941
03:49:23.600 --> 03:49:27.520
<v Speaker 21>the wall hung a picture representing a beautiful lady, so young,

3942
03:49:27.760 --> 03:49:32.360
<v Speaker 21>so glad, but dressed quite as in former times, with

3943
03:49:32.520 --> 03:49:35.840
<v Speaker 21>clothes that stood quite stiff, and with powder in her hair.

3944
03:49:37.000 --> 03:49:42.920
<v Speaker 21>She neither said thankee thankee nor cranky cranky, but looked

3945
03:49:42.959 --> 03:49:46.159
<v Speaker 21>with her mild eyes at the little boy, who directly

3946
03:49:46.280 --> 03:49:51.360
<v Speaker 21>asked the old man, where did you get her? Yonder

3947
03:49:51.520 --> 03:49:54.959
<v Speaker 21>at the broker's, said the old man. Where there are

3948
03:49:55.159 --> 03:49:59.159
<v Speaker 21>so many pictures hanging, no one knows or cares about them,

3949
03:49:59.520 --> 03:50:02.239
<v Speaker 21>for they are all of them buried. But I knew her,

3950
03:50:02.319 --> 03:50:05.520
<v Speaker 21>and bygone days, and now she has been dead and

3951
03:50:05.719 --> 03:50:12.239
<v Speaker 21>gone these fifty years. Under the picture, in a glazed frame,

3952
03:50:12.840 --> 03:50:16.120
<v Speaker 21>there hung a bouquet of withered flowers. They were almost

3953
03:50:16.200 --> 03:50:21.319
<v Speaker 21>fifty years old. They looked so very old. The pendulum

3954
03:50:21.399 --> 03:50:23.879
<v Speaker 21>of the great clock went to and fro, and the

3955
03:50:24.040 --> 03:50:27.760
<v Speaker 21>hands turned, and everything in the room became still older.

3956
03:50:28.399 --> 03:50:32.520
<v Speaker 21>But they did not observe it. They say at home,

3957
03:50:32.760 --> 03:50:39.399
<v Speaker 21>said the little boy, that you are so very very lonely. Oh,

3958
03:50:39.760 --> 03:50:42.799
<v Speaker 21>said he, the old thoughts, with what they may bring

3959
03:50:42.920 --> 03:50:46.200
<v Speaker 21>with them, come and visit me. And now you also come.

3960
03:50:46.520 --> 03:50:50.920
<v Speaker 21>I am very well off. Then he took a book

3961
03:50:51.000 --> 03:50:54.319
<v Speaker 21>with pictures in it. Down from the shelf. There were

3962
03:50:54.479 --> 03:50:59.440
<v Speaker 21>whole long processions and pageants with the strangest characters which

3963
03:50:59.479 --> 03:51:03.600
<v Speaker 21>one never sees nowadays, soldiers like the knave of clubs,

3964
03:51:03.879 --> 03:51:07.399
<v Speaker 21>and citizens with waving flags. The tailors had theirs with

3965
03:51:07.520 --> 03:51:10.079
<v Speaker 21>a pair of shears held by two lions, and the

3966
03:51:10.159 --> 03:51:14.079
<v Speaker 21>shoemakers theirs without boots, but with an eagle that had

3967
03:51:14.159 --> 03:51:17.920
<v Speaker 21>two heads. For the shoemakers must have everything so that

3968
03:51:18.079 --> 03:51:22.680
<v Speaker 21>they can say it is a pair. Yes, that was

3969
03:51:22.760 --> 03:51:26.440
<v Speaker 21>a picture book. The old man now went into the

3970
03:51:26.559 --> 03:51:30.399
<v Speaker 21>other room to fetch preserves, apples and nuts. Yes, it

3971
03:51:30.559 --> 03:51:34.639
<v Speaker 21>was delightful over there in the old house. I cannot

3972
03:51:34.719 --> 03:51:38.159
<v Speaker 21>bear it any longer, said the pewter soldier, who sat

3973
03:51:38.200 --> 03:51:41.600
<v Speaker 21>on the drawers. It is so lonely, a melancholy here.

3974
03:51:41.959 --> 03:51:44.600
<v Speaker 21>But when one has been in a family circle, one

3975
03:51:44.639 --> 03:51:48.239
<v Speaker 21>cannot accustom oneself to this life. I cannot bear it

3976
03:51:48.440 --> 03:51:51.440
<v Speaker 21>any longer. The whole day is so long in the

3977
03:51:51.520 --> 03:51:52.879
<v Speaker 21>evenings are still longer.

3978
03:51:53.959 --> 03:51:54.120
<v Speaker 4>Here.

3979
03:51:54.200 --> 03:51:56.159
<v Speaker 21>It is not at all as it is over the

3980
03:51:56.200 --> 03:51:59.000
<v Speaker 21>way at your home, where your father and mother spoke

3981
03:51:59.120 --> 03:52:02.200
<v Speaker 21>so pleasantly, and where you and all your sweet children

3982
03:52:02.280 --> 03:52:08.200
<v Speaker 21>made such delightful noise. Nay, how lonely the old man is.

3983
03:52:08.639 --> 03:52:11.840
<v Speaker 21>Do you think that he gets kisses? Do you think

3984
03:52:11.920 --> 03:52:15.360
<v Speaker 21>he gets mild eyes? Or a Christmas tree? He will

3985
03:52:15.399 --> 03:52:18.760
<v Speaker 21>get nothing but a grave. I can bear it no longer.

3986
03:52:21.280 --> 03:52:23.600
<v Speaker 21>You must not let it grieve you so much, said

3987
03:52:23.600 --> 03:52:26.879
<v Speaker 21>the little boy. I find it so delightful here. And

3988
03:52:27.040 --> 03:52:29.319
<v Speaker 21>then all the old thoughts, with what they may bring

3989
03:52:29.440 --> 03:52:32.959
<v Speaker 21>with them, they come and visit here. Yes, it is

3990
03:52:33.040 --> 03:52:35.559
<v Speaker 21>all very well, but I see nothing of them, and

3991
03:52:35.680 --> 03:52:39.600
<v Speaker 21>I don't know them, said the pewter soldier. I cannot

3992
03:52:39.719 --> 03:52:44.159
<v Speaker 21>bear it, but you must, said the little boy. Then

3993
03:52:44.239 --> 03:52:46.559
<v Speaker 21>in came the old man with the most pleased and

3994
03:52:46.719 --> 03:52:50.799
<v Speaker 21>happy face, the most delicious preserves apple and nuts, And

3995
03:52:50.959 --> 03:52:53.840
<v Speaker 21>so the little boy thought no more about the pewter soldier.

3996
03:52:56.479 --> 03:52:59.520
<v Speaker 21>The little boy returned home, happy and pleased. And weeks

3997
03:52:59.559 --> 03:53:02.120
<v Speaker 21>and days passed by, and nods were made to the

3998
03:53:02.239 --> 03:53:05.280
<v Speaker 21>old house and from the old house, and then the

3999
03:53:05.360 --> 03:53:09.200
<v Speaker 21>little boy went over there again. The carved trumpeters blew

4000
03:53:09.879 --> 03:53:15.639
<v Speaker 21>tritera traw. There is the little boy trettera traw, And

4001
03:53:15.799 --> 03:53:18.719
<v Speaker 21>the swords and armor on the knight's portraits rattled, and

4002
03:53:18.840 --> 03:53:22.399
<v Speaker 21>the silk gowns rustled, the hog's leather spoke, and the

4003
03:53:22.520 --> 03:53:25.559
<v Speaker 21>old chairs had the gout in their legs and rheumatism

4004
03:53:25.639 --> 03:53:30.280
<v Speaker 21>in their backs. Oh, it was exactly like the first time.

4005
03:53:30.799 --> 03:53:34.360
<v Speaker 21>For over there, one day and hour was just like another.

4006
03:53:36.399 --> 03:53:39.799
<v Speaker 21>I cannot bear it, said the pewter soldier. I have

4007
03:53:39.959 --> 03:53:43.840
<v Speaker 21>shed pewter tears. It is too melancholy. Rather, let me

4008
03:53:43.959 --> 03:53:46.920
<v Speaker 21>go to the wars and lose arms and legs. It

4009
03:53:46.920 --> 03:53:50.000
<v Speaker 21>would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer.

4010
03:53:50.559 --> 03:53:52.879
<v Speaker 21>Now I know what it is to have a visit

4011
03:53:52.959 --> 03:53:56.120
<v Speaker 21>from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them.

4012
03:53:56.799 --> 03:53:59.120
<v Speaker 21>I have had a visit from mine, and you may

4013
03:53:59.200 --> 03:54:01.639
<v Speaker 21>be sure it is no pleasant thing. In the end,

4014
03:54:02.440 --> 03:54:05.319
<v Speaker 21>I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

4015
03:54:06.079 --> 03:54:08.680
<v Speaker 21>I saw you all over there at home, so distinctly

4016
03:54:09.159 --> 03:54:11.920
<v Speaker 21>as if you really were here. It was again that

4017
03:54:12.120 --> 03:54:15.559
<v Speaker 21>Sunday morning. All you children stood before the table and

4018
03:54:15.719 --> 03:54:19.280
<v Speaker 21>sung your psalms, as you do every morning. You stood

4019
03:54:19.319 --> 03:54:22.479
<v Speaker 21>devoutly with folded hands, and father and mother were just

4020
03:54:22.559 --> 03:54:26.159
<v Speaker 21>as pious. And then the door was opened, and little

4021
03:54:26.239 --> 03:54:29.200
<v Speaker 21>sister Mary, who is not two years old yet, and

4022
03:54:29.319 --> 03:54:32.559
<v Speaker 21>who always dances when she hears music, her singing of

4023
03:54:32.680 --> 03:54:35.639
<v Speaker 21>whatever kind it may be, was put into the room,

4024
03:54:36.120 --> 03:54:38.520
<v Speaker 21>though she ought not to have been there. And then

4025
03:54:38.639 --> 03:54:41.879
<v Speaker 21>she began to dance, but could not keep time because

4026
03:54:41.920 --> 03:54:45.399
<v Speaker 21>the tones were so long. And then she stood first

4027
03:54:45.479 --> 03:54:48.879
<v Speaker 21>on one leg and bent her head forwards, and then

4028
03:54:48.959 --> 03:54:52.319
<v Speaker 21>on the other leg and bent her head forwards. But

4029
03:54:52.559 --> 03:54:56.879
<v Speaker 21>all would not do. You stood very seriously all together,

4030
03:54:57.440 --> 03:55:01.120
<v Speaker 21>although it was difficult enough. But I I laughed to myself,

4031
03:55:01.520 --> 03:55:03.719
<v Speaker 21>and then I fell off the table and got a bump,

4032
03:55:04.079 --> 03:55:06.799
<v Speaker 21>which I still have, for it was not right of

4033
03:55:06.920 --> 03:55:10.799
<v Speaker 21>me to laugh. But the hole now passes before me

4034
03:55:10.920 --> 03:55:14.159
<v Speaker 21>again in thought and everything that I have lived to see.

4035
03:55:15.040 --> 03:55:17.440
<v Speaker 21>And these are the old thoughts, with what they may

4036
03:55:17.520 --> 03:55:22.040
<v Speaker 21>bring with them. Tell me, if you still sing on Sundays,

4037
03:55:22.559 --> 03:55:25.799
<v Speaker 21>tell me something about little Mary, and how my comrade,

4038
03:55:25.879 --> 03:55:29.440
<v Speaker 21>the other pewter soldier lives. Yes, he is happy enough,

4039
03:55:29.559 --> 03:55:34.040
<v Speaker 21>that's sure. I cannot bear it any longer. You are

4040
03:55:34.120 --> 03:55:37.520
<v Speaker 21>given away as a present, said the little boy. You

4041
03:55:37.680 --> 03:55:42.360
<v Speaker 21>must remain. Can you not understand that? The old man

4042
03:55:42.760 --> 03:55:45.840
<v Speaker 21>now came with a drawer in which there was much

4043
03:55:45.959 --> 03:55:50.920
<v Speaker 21>to be seen, both tin boxes and balsam boxes, old cards,

4044
03:55:51.319 --> 03:55:54.520
<v Speaker 21>so large and so gilded, such as one never sees

4045
03:55:54.639 --> 03:55:58.399
<v Speaker 21>them now. And several drawers were opened, and the piano

4046
03:55:58.600 --> 03:56:01.760
<v Speaker 21>was opened. It had unescapes on the inside of the lid,

4047
03:56:02.399 --> 03:56:04.840
<v Speaker 21>and it was so hoarse when the old man played

4048
03:56:04.920 --> 03:56:09.799
<v Speaker 21>on it. And then he hummed the song. Yes she

4049
03:56:09.920 --> 03:56:13.280
<v Speaker 21>could sing, that, said he, and nodded to the portrait

4050
03:56:13.360 --> 03:56:15.799
<v Speaker 21>which he had bought at the broker's. And the old

4051
03:56:15.879 --> 03:56:17.719
<v Speaker 21>man's eyes shone so bright.

4052
03:56:18.479 --> 03:56:19.879
<v Speaker 14>I will go to the wars.

4053
03:56:20.680 --> 03:56:24.200
<v Speaker 21>I will go to the wars, shouted the pewter soldier

4054
03:56:24.280 --> 03:56:27.440
<v Speaker 21>as loud as he could. And threw himself off the drawers,

4055
03:56:27.559 --> 03:56:33.079
<v Speaker 21>right down on the floor. What became of him? The

4056
03:56:33.200 --> 03:56:36.559
<v Speaker 21>old man sought, and the little boy saw it. He

4057
03:56:36.799 --> 03:56:41.479
<v Speaker 21>was away, and he stayed away. I shall find him,

4058
03:56:42.120 --> 03:56:45.280
<v Speaker 21>said the old man, But he never found him. The

4059
03:56:45.360 --> 03:56:48.520
<v Speaker 21>floor was too open. The pewter soldier had fallen through

4060
03:56:48.559 --> 03:56:52.000
<v Speaker 21>a crevice, and there he lay as in an open tomb.

4061
03:56:53.000 --> 03:56:56.280
<v Speaker 21>That day passed, and the little boy went home, And

4062
03:56:56.440 --> 03:57:00.840
<v Speaker 21>that week passed, and several weeks too. The windows were

4063
03:57:00.920 --> 03:57:04.159
<v Speaker 21>quite frozen. The little boy was obliged to sit and

4064
03:57:04.239 --> 03:57:06.200
<v Speaker 21>breathe on them to get a peep hole over to

4065
03:57:06.319 --> 03:57:09.360
<v Speaker 21>the old house, and there the snow had been blown

4066
03:57:09.440 --> 03:57:14.360
<v Speaker 21>into all the carved work and inscriptions. It lay quite

4067
03:57:14.440 --> 03:57:17.040
<v Speaker 21>up over the steps, just as if there was no

4068
03:57:17.159 --> 03:57:21.600
<v Speaker 21>one at home. Nor was there any one at home.

4069
03:57:22.399 --> 03:57:23.719
<v Speaker 21>The old man was dead.

4070
03:57:24.959 --> 03:57:25.639
<v Speaker 14>In the evening.

4071
03:57:25.840 --> 03:57:28.239
<v Speaker 21>There was a hearst scene before the door, and he

4072
03:57:28.399 --> 03:57:31.680
<v Speaker 21>was borne into it in his coffin. He was now

4073
03:57:31.760 --> 03:57:34.399
<v Speaker 21>to go into the country to lie in his grave.

4074
03:57:35.319 --> 03:57:39.000
<v Speaker 21>He was driven out there, but no one followed. All

4075
03:57:39.079 --> 03:57:42.120
<v Speaker 21>his friends were dead, and the little boy kissed his

4076
03:57:42.239 --> 03:57:46.719
<v Speaker 21>hand to the coffin as it was driven away. Some

4077
03:57:46.959 --> 03:57:50.040
<v Speaker 21>days afterwards there was an auction at the old house,

4078
03:57:50.600 --> 03:57:52.959
<v Speaker 21>and the little boy saw from his window how they

4079
03:57:53.040 --> 03:57:56.399
<v Speaker 21>carried the old knights and the old ladies away, the

4080
03:57:56.520 --> 03:58:00.319
<v Speaker 21>flower pots with the long ears, the old chairs, and

4081
03:58:00.440 --> 03:58:06.000
<v Speaker 21>the old clothes presses. Something came here, and something came there.

4082
03:58:06.600 --> 03:58:08.760
<v Speaker 21>The portrait of her who had been found that the

4083
03:58:08.799 --> 03:58:12.200
<v Speaker 21>brokers came to the brokers again, and there it hung,

4084
03:58:12.680 --> 03:58:15.600
<v Speaker 21>for no one knew her more, no one cared about

4085
03:58:15.639 --> 03:58:21.559
<v Speaker 21>the old picture. In the spring they pulled the house down,

4086
03:58:22.520 --> 03:58:26.319
<v Speaker 21>for as people said, it was a ruin. One could

4087
03:58:26.360 --> 03:58:28.559
<v Speaker 21>see from the street right into the room with the

4088
03:58:28.639 --> 03:58:32.399
<v Speaker 21>hog's leather hanging, which was slashed and torn, and the

4089
03:58:32.479 --> 03:58:35.600
<v Speaker 21>green grass and leaves about the balcony hung quite wild

4090
03:58:35.719 --> 03:58:39.479
<v Speaker 21>about the falling beams. And then it was put to rights.

4091
03:58:41.600 --> 03:58:46.319
<v Speaker 21>That was a relief, said the neighboring houses. A fine

4092
03:58:46.319 --> 03:58:49.760
<v Speaker 21>house was built there, with large windows and smooth white walls.

4093
03:58:50.239 --> 03:58:53.440
<v Speaker 21>But before it, where the old house had in fact stood,

4094
03:58:54.239 --> 03:58:57.200
<v Speaker 21>was a little garden laid out, and a wild grapevine

4095
03:58:57.239 --> 03:59:00.920
<v Speaker 21>ran up the wall of the neighboring house. Before the

4096
03:59:01.040 --> 03:59:04.200
<v Speaker 21>garden there was a large iron railing with an iron door.

4097
03:59:04.799 --> 03:59:08.200
<v Speaker 21>It looked quite splendid, and the people stood still and

4098
03:59:08.280 --> 03:59:11.280
<v Speaker 21>peeped in, and the sparrows hung by scores in the

4099
03:59:11.399 --> 03:59:14.360
<v Speaker 21>vine and chattered away at each other as well as

4100
03:59:14.399 --> 03:59:17.239
<v Speaker 21>they could. But it was not about the old house,

4101
03:59:17.559 --> 03:59:20.760
<v Speaker 21>for they could not remember it. So many years had passed,

4102
03:59:21.319 --> 03:59:23.680
<v Speaker 21>so many that the little boy had grown to a

4103
03:59:23.799 --> 03:59:27.280
<v Speaker 21>whole man, yes, a clever man, and a pleasure to

4104
03:59:27.440 --> 03:59:30.920
<v Speaker 21>his parents. And he had just been married, and together

4105
03:59:31.040 --> 03:59:33.319
<v Speaker 21>with his little wife, had come to live in the

4106
03:59:33.399 --> 03:59:36.639
<v Speaker 21>house here where the garden was. And he stood by

4107
03:59:36.760 --> 03:59:39.520
<v Speaker 21>her whilst she planted a field flower that she found

4108
03:59:39.719 --> 03:59:43.639
<v Speaker 21>so pretty. She planted it with her little hand and

4109
03:59:43.760 --> 03:59:48.040
<v Speaker 21>pressed the ears around it with her fingers. Oh what

4110
03:59:48.319 --> 03:59:53.559
<v Speaker 21>was that she had stuck herself? There sat something pointed

4111
03:59:53.639 --> 03:59:58.959
<v Speaker 21>straight out of the soft mold. It was, yes, guess

4112
03:59:59.719 --> 04:00:02.719
<v Speaker 21>it was the pewter soldier. He that was lost up

4113
04:00:02.799 --> 04:00:05.280
<v Speaker 21>at the old man, and had tumbled and turned about

4114
04:00:05.360 --> 04:00:08.399
<v Speaker 21>amongst the timber and the rubbish, and had at last

4115
04:00:08.600 --> 04:00:11.799
<v Speaker 21>laid for many years in the ground. The young wife

4116
04:00:11.879 --> 04:00:14.959
<v Speaker 21>wiped the dirt off the soldier, first with a green leaf,

4117
04:00:16.000 --> 04:00:19.000
<v Speaker 21>and then with her fine handkerchief. It had such a

4118
04:00:19.159 --> 04:00:23.319
<v Speaker 21>delightful smell that it was to the pewter soldier just

4119
04:00:23.520 --> 04:00:27.000
<v Speaker 21>as if he had awakened from a trance. Let me

4120
04:00:27.120 --> 04:00:31.319
<v Speaker 21>see him, said the young man. He laughed, and then

4121
04:00:31.360 --> 04:00:35.200
<v Speaker 21>shook his head. Nay, it cannot be. He but he

4122
04:00:35.360 --> 04:00:38.440
<v Speaker 21>reminds me of a story about a pewter soldier, which

4123
04:00:38.479 --> 04:00:41.600
<v Speaker 21>I had when I was a little boy. And then

4124
04:00:41.639 --> 04:00:43.840
<v Speaker 21>he told his wife about the old house and the

4125
04:00:43.959 --> 04:00:47.159
<v Speaker 21>old man, and about the pewter soldier that he sent

4126
04:00:47.319 --> 04:00:50.479
<v Speaker 21>over to him because he was so very very lonely,

4127
04:00:51.319 --> 04:00:54.360
<v Speaker 21>And he told it as correctly as it had really been,

4128
04:00:55.079 --> 04:00:57.520
<v Speaker 21>so that the tears came into the eyes of his

4129
04:00:57.719 --> 04:01:00.600
<v Speaker 21>young wife on account of the old house and the

4130
04:01:00.680 --> 04:01:05.680
<v Speaker 21>old man. It may possibly be, however, that it is

4131
04:01:05.840 --> 04:01:09.280
<v Speaker 21>the same pewter soldier, said she. I will take care

4132
04:01:09.319 --> 04:01:11.399
<v Speaker 21>of it and remember all that you have told me.

4133
04:01:12.079 --> 04:01:16.399
<v Speaker 21>But you must show me the old man's grave. But

4134
04:01:16.559 --> 04:01:19.239
<v Speaker 21>I do not know it, said he. And no one

4135
04:01:19.399 --> 04:01:22.799
<v Speaker 21>knows it. All its friends were dead, no one took

4136
04:01:22.879 --> 04:01:25.280
<v Speaker 21>care of it. And I was then a little boy.

4137
04:01:27.399 --> 04:01:30.040
<v Speaker 21>How very very lonely he must have been, said she,

4138
04:01:31.520 --> 04:01:35.280
<v Speaker 21>Very very lonely, said the pewter soldier. But it is

4139
04:01:35.399 --> 04:01:41.639
<v Speaker 21>delightful not to be forgotten. Delightful shouted something close by.

4140
04:01:42.440 --> 04:01:45.680
<v Speaker 21>But no one except the pewter soldier saw that it

4141
04:01:45.840 --> 04:01:49.479
<v Speaker 21>was a piece of the hog's leather hangings. It had

4142
04:01:49.559 --> 04:01:52.399
<v Speaker 21>lost all its gilding. It looked like a piece of

4143
04:01:52.479 --> 04:01:56.280
<v Speaker 21>wet clay. But it had an opinion, and it gave

4144
04:01:56.360 --> 04:02:00.079
<v Speaker 21>it The guilding decays. But Hogg's leave.

4145
04:02:01.479 --> 04:02:01.520
<v Speaker 14>This.

4146
04:02:01.840 --> 04:02:04.200
<v Speaker 21>The pewter soldier did not believe.

4147
04:02:05.760 --> 04:02:10.280
<v Speaker 3>The happy family. Really, the largest green leaf in this

4148
04:02:10.440 --> 04:02:13.719
<v Speaker 3>country is a dock leaf. If one held it before one,

4149
04:02:14.040 --> 04:02:16.440
<v Speaker 3>it is like a whole apron. And if one holds

4150
04:02:16.479 --> 04:02:19.079
<v Speaker 3>it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost

4151
04:02:19.120 --> 04:02:22.319
<v Speaker 3>as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.

4152
04:02:23.399 --> 04:02:26.479
<v Speaker 3>The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one,

4153
04:02:26.639 --> 04:02:29.959
<v Speaker 3>there always grow several. It is a great delight. And

4154
04:02:30.159 --> 04:02:34.639
<v Speaker 3>all this delightfulness is snail's food. The great white snails,

4155
04:02:34.680 --> 04:02:38.319
<v Speaker 3>which passons of quality in former times, made prickses of

4156
04:02:39.159 --> 04:02:42.840
<v Speaker 3>ate and said, hum, hum, how delicious, For they thought

4157
04:02:42.840 --> 04:02:47.000
<v Speaker 3>it tasted so delicate. Lived on dock leaves, and therefore

4158
04:02:47.079 --> 04:02:51.719
<v Speaker 3>burdocks seeds were sown. Now there was an old manor

4159
04:02:51.760 --> 04:02:56.079
<v Speaker 3>house where they no longer at snails they were quite extinct,

4160
04:02:56.879 --> 04:02:59.799
<v Speaker 3>But the burdocks were not extinct. They grew and grew

4161
04:03:00.040 --> 04:03:02.600
<v Speaker 3>all over the walks and all the beds. They could

4162
04:03:02.639 --> 04:03:05.559
<v Speaker 3>not get the mastery over them. It was a whole

4163
04:03:05.680 --> 04:03:08.879
<v Speaker 3>forest of burdocks here and there stood an apple and

4164
04:03:08.959 --> 04:03:12.239
<v Speaker 3>a plant tree or else. One never would have thought

4165
04:03:12.360 --> 04:03:15.959
<v Speaker 3>that it was a garden. All was burdocks. And there

4166
04:03:16.040 --> 04:03:21.520
<v Speaker 3>lived the two last venerable old snails. They themselves knew

4167
04:03:21.559 --> 04:03:24.200
<v Speaker 3>not how old they were, but they could remember very

4168
04:03:24.239 --> 04:03:27.000
<v Speaker 3>well that there had been many more. That they were

4169
04:03:27.040 --> 04:03:30.399
<v Speaker 3>of a family from foreign lands, and that for them

4170
04:03:30.520 --> 04:03:34.040
<v Speaker 3>and theirs, the whole forest was planted. They had never

4171
04:03:34.120 --> 04:03:36.639
<v Speaker 3>been outside it. But they knew that there was still

4172
04:03:36.719 --> 04:03:40.000
<v Speaker 3>something more in the world, which was called the manor house,

4173
04:03:40.559 --> 04:03:43.239
<v Speaker 3>and that they were boiled, and then they became black,

4174
04:03:43.840 --> 04:03:46.600
<v Speaker 3>and were then placed on a silver dish. But what

4175
04:03:46.760 --> 04:03:49.840
<v Speaker 3>happened further they knew not, or in fact, what it

4176
04:03:50.040 --> 04:03:52.239
<v Speaker 3>was to be boiled and to lie on a silver

4177
04:03:52.360 --> 04:03:56.360
<v Speaker 3>dish they could not possibly imagine. But it was said

4178
04:03:56.479 --> 04:04:01.920
<v Speaker 3>to be delightful and particularly genteel. Neither the chafers, the toads,

4179
04:04:02.360 --> 04:04:05.000
<v Speaker 3>nor the earth worms whom they asked about it, could

4180
04:04:05.040 --> 04:04:08.200
<v Speaker 3>give them any information. None of them had been boiled

4181
04:04:08.280 --> 04:04:12.799
<v Speaker 3>or laid on a silver dish. The old white snails

4182
04:04:13.079 --> 04:04:15.840
<v Speaker 3>were the first persons of distinction in the world that

4183
04:04:15.959 --> 04:04:20.399
<v Speaker 3>they knew. The forest was planted for their sake, and

4184
04:04:20.520 --> 04:04:23.239
<v Speaker 3>the manor house was there that they might be boiled

4185
04:04:23.280 --> 04:04:26.159
<v Speaker 3>and laid on a silver dish. Now they lived a

4186
04:04:26.280 --> 04:04:29.280
<v Speaker 3>very lonely and happy life, And as they had no

4187
04:04:29.440 --> 04:04:33.479
<v Speaker 3>children themselves, they had adopted a little common snail, which

4188
04:04:33.559 --> 04:04:36.799
<v Speaker 3>they brought up as their own. But the little one

4189
04:04:36.840 --> 04:04:39.600
<v Speaker 3>would not grow, for he was of a common family.

4190
04:04:40.120 --> 04:04:44.159
<v Speaker 3>But the old ones, especially Dame Mother Snail, thought they

4191
04:04:44.200 --> 04:04:47.680
<v Speaker 3>could observe how he increased in size, and she begged father,

4192
04:04:47.879 --> 04:04:49.959
<v Speaker 3>if he could not see it, that he would at

4193
04:04:50.040 --> 04:04:53.040
<v Speaker 3>least feel the little snail's shell. And then he felt

4194
04:04:53.079 --> 04:04:57.120
<v Speaker 3>it and found the good Dame was right. One day

4195
04:04:57.639 --> 04:05:01.000
<v Speaker 3>there was a heavy storm of rain. Hear how it

4196
04:05:01.120 --> 04:05:04.639
<v Speaker 3>beats like a drum on the dock leaves, said father snail.

4197
04:05:06.760 --> 04:05:10.319
<v Speaker 3>There are also rain drops, said mother snail. And now

4198
04:05:10.399 --> 04:05:13.639
<v Speaker 3>the rain pours right down the stalk. He will see

4199
04:05:13.719 --> 04:05:16.559
<v Speaker 3>that it will be wet here. I am very happy

4200
04:05:16.639 --> 04:05:18.879
<v Speaker 3>to think that we have our good house, and the

4201
04:05:18.959 --> 04:05:22.200
<v Speaker 3>little one has his also. There is more done for

4202
04:05:22.360 --> 04:05:25.520
<v Speaker 3>us than for all the other creatures, sure enough, But

4203
04:05:25.680 --> 04:05:28.159
<v Speaker 3>can you not see that we are folks of quality

4204
04:05:28.200 --> 04:05:31.600
<v Speaker 3>in the world. We are provided with a house from

4205
04:05:31.639 --> 04:05:35.719
<v Speaker 3>our berth, and the burdock forest is planted for our sakes.

4206
04:05:36.959 --> 04:05:39.159
<v Speaker 3>I should like to know how far it extends, and

4207
04:05:39.319 --> 04:05:44.399
<v Speaker 3>what there is outside. There is nothing at all, said

4208
04:05:44.440 --> 04:05:48.319
<v Speaker 3>father Snail. No place can be better than ours, and

4209
04:05:48.440 --> 04:05:52.360
<v Speaker 3>I have nothing to wish for, yes, said the Dame,

4210
04:05:52.920 --> 04:05:55.479
<v Speaker 3>I would willingly go to the manor house, be boiled

4211
04:05:55.559 --> 04:05:58.760
<v Speaker 3>and laid on a silver dish. All our forefathers have

4212
04:05:58.840 --> 04:06:02.559
<v Speaker 3>been treated, so there is something extraordinary in it. You

4213
04:06:02.680 --> 04:06:06.280
<v Speaker 3>may be sure the manor house has most likely fall

4214
04:06:06.360 --> 04:06:10.959
<v Speaker 3>into ruin, said father Snail. All the burdocks have grown

4215
04:06:11.040 --> 04:06:14.719
<v Speaker 3>up over it so that they cannot come out. There

4216
04:06:14.840 --> 04:06:18.040
<v Speaker 3>need not, however, be any haste about that. But you

4217
04:06:18.159 --> 04:06:20.639
<v Speaker 3>are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little

4218
04:06:20.680 --> 04:06:23.719
<v Speaker 3>one is beginning to be the same. Has he not

4219
04:06:23.840 --> 04:06:27.040
<v Speaker 3>been creeping up that stalk these three days? It gives

4220
04:06:27.079 --> 04:06:29.959
<v Speaker 3>me a headache when I look up to him. You

4221
04:06:30.079 --> 04:06:34.719
<v Speaker 3>must not scold him, said mother Snail. He creeps so

4222
04:06:34.959 --> 04:06:38.399
<v Speaker 3>carefully he will afford us much pleasure, and we have

4223
04:06:38.520 --> 04:06:41.799
<v Speaker 3>nothing but him to live for. But had he not

4224
04:06:41.959 --> 04:06:44.840
<v Speaker 3>thought of it, where shall we get a wife for him?

4225
04:06:46.440 --> 04:06:48.159
<v Speaker 3>Do you not think that there are some of our

4226
04:06:48.239 --> 04:06:50.879
<v Speaker 3>species in the great distance in the interior of the

4227
04:06:50.959 --> 04:06:55.680
<v Speaker 3>Burdock Forest black snails, I dare say there are enough

4228
04:06:55.760 --> 04:06:59.399
<v Speaker 3>of said the old one, black snails without a house.

4229
04:07:00.040 --> 04:07:03.719
<v Speaker 3>But they are so common and so conceited. But we

4230
04:07:03.879 --> 04:07:06.319
<v Speaker 3>might have the ants the commission to look out for us.

4231
04:07:06.840 --> 04:07:08.760
<v Speaker 3>They run to and fro as if they had something

4232
04:07:08.840 --> 04:07:11.479
<v Speaker 3>to do. And they certainly know of a wife for

4233
04:07:11.600 --> 04:07:16.079
<v Speaker 3>our little snail. I know one, sure enough, the most

4234
04:07:16.239 --> 04:07:19.959
<v Speaker 3>charming one, said one of the ants. But I am

4235
04:07:19.959 --> 04:07:23.079
<v Speaker 3>afraid we shall hardly succeed, for she is a queen.

4236
04:07:24.440 --> 04:07:27.719
<v Speaker 3>That is nothing, said the old folks. Has she a house?

4237
04:07:28.799 --> 04:07:33.280
<v Speaker 3>She has a palace, said the ant, the finest ant's palace,

4238
04:07:33.760 --> 04:07:38.440
<v Speaker 3>with seven hundred passages. I thank you, said mother snail.

4239
04:07:38.920 --> 04:07:41.680
<v Speaker 3>Our son shall not go into an ant hill. If

4240
04:07:41.719 --> 04:07:43.879
<v Speaker 3>you know nothing better than that. We shall give the

4241
04:07:43.920 --> 04:07:47.000
<v Speaker 3>commission to the white gnats. They fly far and wide

4242
04:07:47.360 --> 04:07:50.159
<v Speaker 3>in rain and sunshine. They know the whole forest here,

4243
04:07:50.559 --> 04:07:55.000
<v Speaker 3>both within and without. We have a wife for him,

4244
04:07:55.239 --> 04:07:58.600
<v Speaker 3>said the gnats. At a hundred human paces from here,

4245
04:07:59.000 --> 04:08:01.479
<v Speaker 3>there sits a little snaw in her house on a

4246
04:08:01.520 --> 04:08:05.120
<v Speaker 3>gooseberry bush. She is quite lonely and old enough to

4247
04:08:05.200 --> 04:08:10.360
<v Speaker 3>be married. It is only a hundred human paces. Well,

4248
04:08:10.399 --> 04:08:13.000
<v Speaker 3>then let her come to him, said the old ones.

4249
04:08:13.600 --> 04:08:16.360
<v Speaker 3>He has a whole forest of burdocks, she has only

4250
04:08:16.440 --> 04:08:21.079
<v Speaker 3>a bush. And so they went and fetched little missus Snail.

4251
04:08:22.120 --> 04:08:25.159
<v Speaker 3>It was a whole week before she arrived, but therein

4252
04:08:25.360 --> 04:08:27.799
<v Speaker 3>was just the very best of it, for one could

4253
04:08:27.879 --> 04:08:31.879
<v Speaker 3>thus see that she was of the same species. And

4254
04:08:32.040 --> 04:08:36.559
<v Speaker 3>then the marriage was celebrated. Six earthworms shone as well

4255
04:08:36.600 --> 04:08:39.799
<v Speaker 3>as they could in other respects. The whole went off

4256
04:08:40.000 --> 04:08:43.120
<v Speaker 3>very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise

4257
04:08:43.159 --> 04:08:46.799
<v Speaker 3>and merriment. But old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech.

4258
04:08:47.760 --> 04:08:50.879
<v Speaker 3>Father Snail could not speak, he was too much affected.

4259
04:08:52.079 --> 04:08:54.959
<v Speaker 3>And so they gave them as a dowry and inheritance

4260
04:08:55.319 --> 04:08:58.719
<v Speaker 3>the whole forest of burdocks, and said what they had

4261
04:08:58.799 --> 04:09:01.680
<v Speaker 3>always said, that it was the best in the world,

4262
04:09:02.079 --> 04:09:06.520
<v Speaker 3>and if they lived honestly and decently, and increased and multiplied,

4263
04:09:07.040 --> 04:09:09.719
<v Speaker 3>they and their children would, once in the course of time,

4264
04:09:10.040 --> 04:09:13.239
<v Speaker 3>come to the manor house, be boiled black and laid

4265
04:09:13.280 --> 04:09:18.200
<v Speaker 3>on silver dishes. After this speech was made, the old

4266
04:09:18.239 --> 04:09:21.719
<v Speaker 3>ones crept into their shells, and never more came out.

4267
04:09:22.600 --> 04:09:26.319
<v Speaker 3>They slept. The young couple governed in the forest and

4268
04:09:26.479 --> 04:09:30.639
<v Speaker 3>had a numerous progeny, but they were never boiled, and

4269
04:09:30.799 --> 04:09:34.200
<v Speaker 3>never came on the silver dishes. So from this they

4270
04:09:34.280 --> 04:09:37.559
<v Speaker 3>concluded that the manor house had fallen to ruins, and

4271
04:09:37.680 --> 04:09:40.639
<v Speaker 3>that all the men in the world were extinct, And

4272
04:09:40.840 --> 04:09:43.879
<v Speaker 3>as no one contradicted them, so of course it was so.

4273
04:09:45.280 --> 04:09:47.520
<v Speaker 3>And the rain beat on the dock leaves to make

4274
04:09:47.600 --> 04:09:50.879
<v Speaker 3>drum music for their sake, and the sun shone in

4275
04:09:51.040 --> 04:09:53.719
<v Speaker 3>order to give the Burdock forest a color for their sakes.

4276
04:09:54.360 --> 04:09:57.399
<v Speaker 3>And they were very happy, and the whole family was happy,

4277
04:09:57.680 --> 04:10:02.799
<v Speaker 3>for they indeed were so end of the happy family.

4278
04:10:03.760 --> 04:10:07.920
<v Speaker 22>The story of a mother. Her mother sat there with

4279
04:10:08.079 --> 04:10:12.040
<v Speaker 22>her little child. She was so downcast, so fraid that

4280
04:10:12.239 --> 04:10:16.000
<v Speaker 22>it should die. It was so pale, the small eyes

4281
04:10:16.040 --> 04:10:19.959
<v Speaker 22>had closed themselves, and it drew its breath so softly

4282
04:10:20.319 --> 04:10:24.719
<v Speaker 22>now and then with a deep respiration, as if it sighed.

4283
04:10:25.559 --> 04:10:29.000
<v Speaker 22>And the mother looked still more sorrowfully on the little creature.

4284
04:10:29.920 --> 04:10:32.680
<v Speaker 22>Then a knocking was heard at the door, and in

4285
04:10:32.959 --> 04:10:35.760
<v Speaker 22>came a poor old man, wrapped up as in a

4286
04:10:35.920 --> 04:10:40.239
<v Speaker 22>large horse cloth, for it warms one and he needed it.

4287
04:10:40.479 --> 04:10:44.440
<v Speaker 22>As it was the cold winter season. Everything out of

4288
04:10:44.559 --> 04:10:47.760
<v Speaker 22>doors was carved with ies in snow, and the wind

4289
04:10:47.840 --> 04:10:51.719
<v Speaker 22>blew so that it cut the face. As the old

4290
04:10:51.840 --> 04:10:55.840
<v Speaker 22>man trembled with cold, and the little child slept a moment,

4291
04:10:56.760 --> 04:10:59.600
<v Speaker 22>the mother went and poured some alley into a pot

4292
04:11:00.399 --> 04:11:02.799
<v Speaker 22>and set it on the stove, that it might be

4293
04:11:02.959 --> 04:11:06.760
<v Speaker 22>warm for him. The old man sat and rocked the cradle,

4294
04:11:07.079 --> 04:11:10.280
<v Speaker 22>and the mother sat down and chair closed by him,

4295
04:11:11.079 --> 04:11:14.399
<v Speaker 22>and looked at her little sick child that drew its

4296
04:11:14.479 --> 04:11:19.840
<v Speaker 22>breath so deep, and raised its little hand. Do you

4297
04:11:20.120 --> 04:11:22.000
<v Speaker 22>not think that I shall save him?

4298
04:11:22.239 --> 04:11:22.639
<v Speaker 4>Said she?

4299
04:11:23.399 --> 04:11:27.040
<v Speaker 22>Our Lord will not take him from me. The old

4300
04:11:27.159 --> 04:11:31.440
<v Speaker 22>man it was death himself. He nodded so strangely it

4301
04:11:31.520 --> 04:11:35.479
<v Speaker 22>could just as well signify yes as no. And the

4302
04:11:35.639 --> 04:11:38.719
<v Speaker 22>mother looked down in her lap, and the tears ran

4303
04:11:38.959 --> 04:11:43.319
<v Speaker 22>down over her cheeks. Her head became so heavy. She

4304
04:11:43.559 --> 04:11:47.239
<v Speaker 22>had not closed her eyes for three days and nights,

4305
04:11:47.600 --> 04:11:51.399
<v Speaker 22>and now she slept, but only for a minute, when

4306
04:11:51.440 --> 04:11:54.000
<v Speaker 22>she started up and trembled with cold.

4307
04:11:55.639 --> 04:11:56.200
<v Speaker 10>What is that?

4308
04:11:56.600 --> 04:12:00.680
<v Speaker 22>Said she, and looked down on all slide. But the

4309
04:12:00.799 --> 04:12:05.959
<v Speaker 22>old man was gone, and her little child was gone.

4310
04:12:06.319 --> 04:12:09.360
<v Speaker 22>He had taken it with him, and the old clock

4311
04:12:09.479 --> 04:12:14.719
<v Speaker 22>in the corner bird and burd the great leaden weight

4312
04:12:14.959 --> 04:12:18.120
<v Speaker 22>ran down to the floor bump, and then the clock

4313
04:12:18.200 --> 04:12:22.600
<v Speaker 22>also stood still. But the poor mother ran out of

4314
04:12:22.680 --> 04:12:28.079
<v Speaker 22>the house and cried aloud for her child. Out there

4315
04:12:28.159 --> 04:12:30.600
<v Speaker 22>in the midst of the snow, there sat a woman

4316
04:12:30.840 --> 04:12:35.399
<v Speaker 22>in long black clothes, and she said, death has been

4317
04:12:35.479 --> 04:12:39.120
<v Speaker 22>in thy chamber. And I saw him hasten away with

4318
04:12:39.399 --> 04:12:43.600
<v Speaker 22>thy little child. He goes faster than the wind, and

4319
04:12:43.719 --> 04:12:48.239
<v Speaker 22>he never brings back what he takes. Oh, only tell

4320
04:12:48.360 --> 04:12:51.520
<v Speaker 22>me which way he went, said the mother. Tell me

4321
04:12:51.639 --> 04:12:55.440
<v Speaker 22>the way, and I shall find him. I know it,

4322
04:12:55.600 --> 04:12:59.040
<v Speaker 22>said the woman in the black clothes. But before I

4323
04:12:59.200 --> 04:13:01.719
<v Speaker 22>tell it, thou, thou must first sing for me all

4324
04:13:01.840 --> 04:13:05.840
<v Speaker 22>the songs thou hast sung for thy child. I am

4325
04:13:05.959 --> 04:13:09.280
<v Speaker 22>fond of them. I have heard them before. I am Knight.

4326
04:13:09.680 --> 04:13:14.440
<v Speaker 22>I saw thy tears whilst thou sangst them. I will

4327
04:13:14.520 --> 04:13:18.440
<v Speaker 22>sing them all all, said the mother. But do not

4328
04:13:18.600 --> 04:13:22.000
<v Speaker 22>stop me now I may overtake him. I may find

4329
04:13:22.079 --> 04:13:26.920
<v Speaker 22>my child. But Knight stood still and mute. Then the

4330
04:13:27.040 --> 04:13:30.959
<v Speaker 22>mother wrung her hands, sang and wept, and theou were

4331
04:13:31.079 --> 04:13:35.760
<v Speaker 22>many songs, but yet many more tears. And then Knight said,

4332
04:13:36.680 --> 04:13:40.280
<v Speaker 22>go to the right, into the dark pine forest. Thither

4333
04:13:40.440 --> 04:13:44.479
<v Speaker 22>I saw Death take his way with thy little child.

4334
04:13:46.079 --> 04:13:49.159
<v Speaker 22>The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest,

4335
04:13:49.319 --> 04:13:53.680
<v Speaker 22>and she no longer knew whether she should go. Then

4336
04:13:53.799 --> 04:13:57.079
<v Speaker 22>there stood a thorn bush. There was neither leaf nor

4337
04:13:57.239 --> 04:14:00.680
<v Speaker 22>flower on it. It was also in the cool inter season,

4338
04:14:01.000 --> 04:14:04.680
<v Speaker 22>and ice flakes hung on the branches. Hast thou not

4339
04:14:04.879 --> 04:14:10.440
<v Speaker 22>seen Death go past with my little child? Said the mother. Yes,

4340
04:14:10.520 --> 04:14:13.360
<v Speaker 22>said the thorn bush. But I will not tell thee

4341
04:14:13.479 --> 04:14:16.760
<v Speaker 22>which way he took, unless thou wilt first warm me

4342
04:14:17.000 --> 04:14:20.639
<v Speaker 22>up at thy heart. I am freezing to death. I

4343
04:14:20.760 --> 04:14:24.280
<v Speaker 22>shall become a lump of ice. And she passed the

4344
04:14:24.399 --> 04:14:27.600
<v Speaker 22>thorn bush to her breast so firmly that it might

4345
04:14:27.760 --> 04:14:31.760
<v Speaker 22>be thoroughly warmed. And the thorns went right into her flesh,

4346
04:14:32.040 --> 04:14:35.200
<v Speaker 22>and her blood flowed in large drops. But the thorn

4347
04:14:35.479 --> 04:14:39.280
<v Speaker 22>bush shot forth fresh green leaves, and there came flowers

4348
04:14:39.360 --> 04:14:43.479
<v Speaker 22>on it in the cool winter night. The heart of

4349
04:14:43.600 --> 04:14:46.760
<v Speaker 22>the afflicted mother was so warm, and the thorn bush

4350
04:14:47.159 --> 04:14:50.559
<v Speaker 22>told her the way she should go. She then came

4351
04:14:50.639 --> 04:14:54.120
<v Speaker 22>to a large lake, where there was neither ship nor boat.

4352
04:14:54.799 --> 04:14:58.239
<v Speaker 22>The lake was not frozen sufficiently to bear her. Neither

4353
04:14:58.399 --> 04:15:01.920
<v Speaker 22>was it open nor law enough that she could wade

4354
04:15:02.000 --> 04:15:04.799
<v Speaker 22>through it and across it. She must go if she

4355
04:15:04.920 --> 04:15:09.239
<v Speaker 22>would find her child. Then she lay down to drink

4356
04:15:09.360 --> 04:15:12.360
<v Speaker 22>up the lake. And that was an impossibility for a

4357
04:15:12.479 --> 04:15:16.079
<v Speaker 22>human being, But the afflicted mother thought that a miracle

4358
04:15:16.200 --> 04:15:20.319
<v Speaker 22>might happen. Nevertheless, Oh what should I not give to

4359
04:15:20.440 --> 04:15:23.760
<v Speaker 22>come to my child? Said the weeping mother, And she

4360
04:15:23.920 --> 04:15:27.040
<v Speaker 22>wept still more, and her eyes sunk down at the

4361
04:15:27.120 --> 04:15:30.639
<v Speaker 22>depths of the waters, and became two precious parlse But

4362
04:15:30.799 --> 04:15:33.479
<v Speaker 22>the water bore her up as if she sat in

4363
04:15:33.559 --> 04:15:36.479
<v Speaker 22>a swing, and she flung in the rocking waves to

4364
04:15:36.559 --> 04:15:39.879
<v Speaker 22>the shore on the opposite sides, and where there stood

4365
04:15:39.959 --> 04:15:43.639
<v Speaker 22>a mild, broad, strange house. One knew not if it

4366
04:15:43.760 --> 04:15:47.399
<v Speaker 22>were a mountain with forests and caverns, or if it

4367
04:15:47.559 --> 04:15:50.920
<v Speaker 22>were built up, But the poor mother could not see it.

4368
04:15:51.159 --> 04:15:54.920
<v Speaker 22>She had wept her eyes out. Where shall I find Death,

4369
04:15:55.120 --> 04:15:59.239
<v Speaker 22>who took away my little child? Said she. He has

4370
04:15:59.319 --> 04:16:02.639
<v Speaker 22>not come here yet, said the old grave woman, who

4371
04:16:02.719 --> 04:16:07.079
<v Speaker 22>was appointed to look after Death's great green house. How

4372
04:16:07.239 --> 04:16:09.719
<v Speaker 22>have you been able to find the way hither? And

4373
04:16:09.879 --> 04:16:14.000
<v Speaker 22>who has helped you? Our Lord has helped me, said she.

4374
04:16:14.639 --> 04:16:18.159
<v Speaker 22>He's merciful, and you will also be so where shall

4375
04:16:18.200 --> 04:16:22.600
<v Speaker 22>I find my little child? Nay I know not, said

4376
04:16:22.639 --> 04:16:26.040
<v Speaker 22>the woman, And you cannot see many flowers and trees

4377
04:16:26.079 --> 04:16:29.440
<v Speaker 22>are withered this night. Death will soon come and plant

4378
04:16:29.520 --> 04:16:33.920
<v Speaker 22>them over again. You certainly know that every person has

4379
04:16:34.079 --> 04:16:37.639
<v Speaker 22>he saw her life's tree or flower, just as everyone

4380
04:16:37.760 --> 04:16:41.559
<v Speaker 22>happens to be settled. They look like other plants, but

4381
04:16:41.719 --> 04:16:45.440
<v Speaker 22>they have pulsations of the heart. Children's hearts can also

4382
04:16:45.520 --> 04:16:49.399
<v Speaker 22>beat go after yours. Perhaps you may know our childs.

4383
04:16:49.600 --> 04:16:53.079
<v Speaker 22>But what will you give if I tell you what

4384
04:16:53.319 --> 04:16:56.719
<v Speaker 22>you shall do more? I have nothing to give, said

4385
04:16:56.719 --> 04:16:59.319
<v Speaker 22>the afflicted mother, But I will go to the world's

4386
04:16:59.520 --> 04:17:02.639
<v Speaker 22>end for you. Nay, I have nothing to do there,

4387
04:17:02.760 --> 04:17:05.440
<v Speaker 22>said the woman. But you can give me your long

4388
04:17:05.600 --> 04:17:09.760
<v Speaker 22>black hair. You know yourself that it is fine, and

4389
04:17:09.959 --> 04:17:13.079
<v Speaker 22>that I like you shall have my white hair instead,

4390
04:17:13.600 --> 04:17:18.399
<v Speaker 22>And that's always something. Do demand nothing else, said she,

4391
04:17:19.920 --> 04:17:23.040
<v Speaker 22>that I will gladly give you. And she gave her

4392
04:17:23.280 --> 04:17:27.239
<v Speaker 22>fine black hair and got the old woman's snow white

4393
04:17:27.280 --> 04:17:31.920
<v Speaker 22>hair instead. So they went into Death's great greenhouse, where

4394
04:17:32.040 --> 04:17:36.399
<v Speaker 22>flowers and trees grew strangely into one another. There stood

4395
04:17:36.559 --> 04:17:41.959
<v Speaker 22>fine hyacins under glass bells, and there stood strong stemmed peonies.

4396
04:17:42.200 --> 04:17:46.040
<v Speaker 22>There grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick.

4397
04:17:46.600 --> 04:17:50.079
<v Speaker 22>The water snakes lay down on them, and black crabs

4398
04:17:50.159 --> 04:17:56.239
<v Speaker 22>pinched their stalks. There stood beautiful palm trees, oaks and planterns.

4399
04:17:56.440 --> 04:18:00.559
<v Speaker 22>There stood parsley and flowering thyme. Every tree and every

4400
04:18:00.600 --> 04:18:04.200
<v Speaker 22>flower had its name. Each of them was a human life.

4401
04:18:04.600 --> 04:18:08.520
<v Speaker 22>The human frame still lived, one in China, and another

4402
04:18:08.639 --> 04:18:12.680
<v Speaker 22>in greenland. Round about in the world there were large

4403
04:18:12.760 --> 04:18:15.840
<v Speaker 22>trees in small pots, so that they stood so stunted

4404
04:18:15.920 --> 04:18:19.159
<v Speaker 22>in growth and ready to burst the pots. In other

4405
04:18:19.360 --> 04:18:23.000
<v Speaker 22>places there was a little dull flower in rich mold,

4406
04:18:23.120 --> 04:18:26.799
<v Speaker 22>with moss round about it, and it was so petted

4407
04:18:26.920 --> 04:18:30.920
<v Speaker 22>and nursed. But the distressed mother bent down o'er all

4408
04:18:31.000 --> 04:18:34.600
<v Speaker 22>the smallest plants and heard within them how the human

4409
04:18:34.760 --> 04:18:39.079
<v Speaker 22>heart beat. And amongst millions she knew her childs. There

4410
04:18:39.120 --> 04:18:42.799
<v Speaker 22>I tease, cried she, and stretched her hands out over

4411
04:18:42.879 --> 04:18:47.239
<v Speaker 22>a little blue crocud, hung quite sickly on one side.

4412
04:18:48.239 --> 04:18:52.120
<v Speaker 22>Don't touch the flower, said the old woman, But place

4413
04:18:52.280 --> 04:18:56.319
<v Speaker 22>yourself here. And when death comes, I expect him every moment.

4414
04:18:56.680 --> 04:18:59.399
<v Speaker 22>Do not let him pluck the flower up, but threaten

4415
04:18:59.559 --> 04:19:01.840
<v Speaker 22>him that you will do the same with the others.

4416
04:19:02.520 --> 04:19:06.760
<v Speaker 22>Then he will be afraid. He is responsible for them

4417
04:19:06.879 --> 04:19:09.399
<v Speaker 22>to our Lord, and no one dares to pluck them

4418
04:19:09.520 --> 04:19:13.079
<v Speaker 22>up before he gives leap. All at once, an icy

4419
04:19:13.159 --> 04:19:16.399
<v Speaker 22>cold rushed through the great hall, and the blind mother

4420
04:19:16.559 --> 04:19:19.920
<v Speaker 22>could feel that it was Death that came. How hast

4421
04:19:19.959 --> 04:19:21.959
<v Speaker 22>thou been able to find thy way hither?

4422
04:19:22.680 --> 04:19:23.319
<v Speaker 14>He asked?

4423
04:19:24.000 --> 04:19:27.920
<v Speaker 22>How couldst thou come quicker than I? I am a mother,

4424
04:19:28.280 --> 04:19:32.479
<v Speaker 22>said she. And Death stretched out his long hand towards

4425
04:19:32.559 --> 04:19:36.200
<v Speaker 22>the fine little flower, but she held her hands fast

4426
04:19:36.319 --> 04:19:40.840
<v Speaker 22>around his, so tight and yet afraid that she should

4427
04:19:40.920 --> 04:19:44.399
<v Speaker 22>touch one of the leaves. Then Death blew on her hands,

4428
04:19:44.840 --> 04:19:48.040
<v Speaker 22>and she felt that it was colder than the cold wind,

4429
04:19:48.520 --> 04:19:53.040
<v Speaker 22>and her hands fell down powerless. Thou canst not do

4430
04:19:53.239 --> 04:19:58.239
<v Speaker 22>anything against me, said Death, But our Lord can, said she.

4431
04:19:59.600 --> 04:20:02.920
<v Speaker 22>I ow to do his biddings, said Death, Um his gardener.

4432
04:20:03.680 --> 04:20:06.479
<v Speaker 22>I take all his flowers and trees and plant them

4433
04:20:06.520 --> 04:20:10.159
<v Speaker 22>out in the great garden of Paradise, in the unknown land.

4434
04:20:10.639 --> 04:20:13.200
<v Speaker 22>But how they grow there, and how it is there,

4435
04:20:13.399 --> 04:20:16.639
<v Speaker 22>I dare not tell. THEE Give him back my child,

4436
04:20:17.000 --> 04:20:22.200
<v Speaker 22>said the mother, and she wept and prayed. At once

4437
04:20:22.479 --> 04:20:26.200
<v Speaker 22>she seized hold of two beautiful flowers close by with

4438
04:20:26.440 --> 04:20:30.559
<v Speaker 22>each hand, and cried out to Death, I will tear

4439
04:20:30.760 --> 04:20:35.280
<v Speaker 22>all thy flowers off, for I am in despair. Touch

4440
04:20:35.399 --> 04:20:40.280
<v Speaker 22>them not, said Death. Thou sayest that thou art so unhappy,

4441
04:20:40.719 --> 04:20:46.159
<v Speaker 22>and now thou wilt make another mother equally unhappy another mother,

4442
04:20:46.360 --> 04:20:50.120
<v Speaker 22>said the poor woman, and directly let go her hold

4443
04:20:50.239 --> 04:20:55.239
<v Speaker 22>above the flowers. There thou hast thine eyes, said Death.

4444
04:20:55.760 --> 04:20:59.000
<v Speaker 22>I fished them up from the lake. They shone so

4445
04:20:59.280 --> 04:21:03.000
<v Speaker 22>bright I knew not they were thine. Take them again.

4446
04:21:03.479 --> 04:21:06.719
<v Speaker 22>They are now brighter than before. Now look down into

4447
04:21:06.799 --> 04:21:09.760
<v Speaker 22>the deep well close by. I shall tell thee the

4448
04:21:09.879 --> 04:21:13.040
<v Speaker 22>names of the two flowers thou wouldst have torn up,

4449
04:21:13.360 --> 04:21:17.399
<v Speaker 22>And thou wilt see their whole future life, their whole

4450
04:21:17.559 --> 04:21:21.559
<v Speaker 22>human existence, and see what thou wast about to disturb

4451
04:21:21.639 --> 04:21:25.520
<v Speaker 22>and destroy. And she looked down into the well, and

4452
04:21:25.639 --> 04:21:28.520
<v Speaker 22>it was a happiness to see how the one became

4453
04:21:28.559 --> 04:21:31.479
<v Speaker 22>a blessing to the world, to see how much happiness

4454
04:21:31.520 --> 04:21:35.760
<v Speaker 22>and joy were felt everywhere. And she saw the other's life,

4455
04:21:36.040 --> 04:21:42.079
<v Speaker 22>and it was sorrow and distress, horror and wretchedness. Both

4456
04:21:42.159 --> 04:21:46.360
<v Speaker 22>of them are God's will, said Death. Which of them

4457
04:21:46.520 --> 04:21:49.600
<v Speaker 22>is Misfortune's flower, and which is that of happiness?

4458
04:21:49.799 --> 04:21:50.200
<v Speaker 4>Asked she.

4459
04:21:51.920 --> 04:21:54.680
<v Speaker 22>That I will not tell THEE said death, But this

4460
04:21:54.959 --> 04:21:58.399
<v Speaker 22>thou shalt know from me, that the one flower was

4461
04:21:58.520 --> 04:22:02.319
<v Speaker 22>thy own child. It was thy child's fate. Thou sawest

4462
04:22:02.520 --> 04:22:08.360
<v Speaker 22>thy own child's future life. Then the mother screamed with terror,

4463
04:22:08.959 --> 04:22:11.760
<v Speaker 22>which of them was my child? Tell it me, save

4464
04:22:11.920 --> 04:22:16.159
<v Speaker 22>the innocent, Save my child from all that misery. Rather

4465
04:22:16.280 --> 04:22:20.600
<v Speaker 22>take it away, take it into God's kingdom. Forget my tears,

4466
04:22:20.879 --> 04:22:25.559
<v Speaker 22>forget my prayers, and all that I have done. I

4467
04:22:25.719 --> 04:22:29.680
<v Speaker 22>do not understand THEE said death. Wilt thou have thy

4468
04:22:29.840 --> 04:22:33.600
<v Speaker 22>child again? Or shall I go with it there where

4469
04:22:33.719 --> 04:22:38.040
<v Speaker 22>thou dost not know? Then the mother wrung her hands,

4470
04:22:38.280 --> 04:22:42.079
<v Speaker 22>fell on her knees and prayed to our Lord. Oh

4471
04:22:42.360 --> 04:22:45.600
<v Speaker 22>hear me not when I pray against thy will, which

4472
04:22:45.719 --> 04:22:46.239
<v Speaker 22>is the best?

4473
04:22:46.479 --> 04:22:47.000
<v Speaker 11>Hear me not?

4474
04:22:47.719 --> 04:22:48.319
<v Speaker 21>Hear me not.

4475
04:22:49.600 --> 04:22:52.440
<v Speaker 22>And she bowed her head down in her lap, and

4476
04:22:52.680 --> 04:22:55.719
<v Speaker 22>death took her child and went with it to the

4477
04:22:55.959 --> 04:22:57.360
<v Speaker 22>unknown land.

4478
04:22:59.360 --> 04:23:04.959
<v Speaker 13>The fall collar. There was once a fine gentleman, all

4479
04:23:05.000 --> 04:23:08.959
<v Speaker 13>of whose movables were a boot jack and a hair comb.

4480
04:23:09.920 --> 04:23:13.040
<v Speaker 13>But he had the finest false collars in the world.

4481
04:23:13.760 --> 04:23:16.840
<v Speaker 13>And it is about one of these collars that we

4482
04:23:17.000 --> 04:23:21.000
<v Speaker 13>are now to hear a story. It was so old

4483
04:23:21.680 --> 04:23:25.440
<v Speaker 13>that it began to think of marriage. And it happened

4484
04:23:26.040 --> 04:23:31.079
<v Speaker 13>that it came to be washed in company with a garter. Nay,

4485
04:23:31.840 --> 04:23:37.319
<v Speaker 13>said the collar. I never see anything so slender and

4486
04:23:37.639 --> 04:23:42.600
<v Speaker 13>so fine, so soft and so neat. May I not

4487
04:23:42.879 --> 04:23:47.799
<v Speaker 13>ask your name, that I shall not tell you, said

4488
04:23:47.840 --> 04:23:53.120
<v Speaker 13>the garter. Where do you leave? Asked the collar. But

4489
04:23:53.319 --> 04:23:57.440
<v Speaker 13>the garter was so bashful, so modest, and thought it

4490
04:23:57.559 --> 04:24:03.079
<v Speaker 13>was a strange question to answer. You are certainly a girdle,

4491
04:24:03.760 --> 04:24:07.440
<v Speaker 13>said the collar, that is to say, an inside girdle.

4492
04:24:08.399 --> 04:24:11.479
<v Speaker 13>I see well that you are both for use and ormond,

4493
04:24:11.920 --> 04:24:15.879
<v Speaker 13>my dear young lady, I will thank you not to

4494
04:24:16.000 --> 04:24:20.399
<v Speaker 13>speak to me, said the garter. I think I have

4495
04:24:20.680 --> 04:24:26.399
<v Speaker 13>not given the least occasion for it. Yes, when one

4496
04:24:26.600 --> 04:24:30.920
<v Speaker 13>is as handsome as you, said the collar, that is

4497
04:24:31.040 --> 04:24:35.959
<v Speaker 13>occasion enough. Don't come so near me. I beg of you,

4498
04:24:37.159 --> 04:24:42.280
<v Speaker 13>said the garter. You look so much like those men folks.

4499
04:24:44.239 --> 04:24:48.719
<v Speaker 13>I am also a fine gentleman, said the collar. I

4500
04:24:49.159 --> 04:24:54.479
<v Speaker 13>have a boot jack and a hair comb. But that

4501
04:24:55.280 --> 04:24:59.079
<v Speaker 13>was not true, for it was his master who had them.

4502
04:24:59.680 --> 04:25:04.680
<v Speaker 13>But he boasted, don't come so near me, said the garter,

4503
04:25:05.360 --> 04:25:10.920
<v Speaker 13>I'm not accustomed to eat prude, exclaimed the collar. And

4504
04:25:11.079 --> 04:25:14.159
<v Speaker 13>then it was taken out of the washing tub. It

4505
04:25:14.399 --> 04:25:17.600
<v Speaker 13>was started hung over the back of a chair in

4506
04:25:17.680 --> 04:25:22.239
<v Speaker 13>the sunshine, and was then laid on the ironing blanket.

4507
04:25:22.920 --> 04:25:28.920
<v Speaker 13>Then came the worm box iron. Dear lady, said the collar.

4508
04:25:30.360 --> 04:25:36.440
<v Speaker 13>Dear widow lady, I feel quite hot, I am quite changed.

4509
04:25:37.559 --> 04:25:42.280
<v Speaker 13>I begin to unfold myself. You will burn a hole

4510
04:25:42.399 --> 04:25:48.840
<v Speaker 13>in me. O. I offer you my hand, rag said

4511
04:25:48.879 --> 04:25:53.280
<v Speaker 13>the box iron, and went proudly over the collar. For

4512
04:25:53.559 --> 04:25:57.440
<v Speaker 13>she fancied she was a steam engine that will go

4513
04:25:57.840 --> 04:26:02.920
<v Speaker 13>on the railroad and draw the wagons, rag, said the

4514
04:26:03.120 --> 04:26:07.760
<v Speaker 13>box iron. The collar was a little jack at the edge,

4515
04:26:08.200 --> 04:26:11.000
<v Speaker 13>and so came the long scissors to cut off the

4516
04:26:11.200 --> 04:26:17.399
<v Speaker 13>jack part. Huh, said the collar. You are certainly the

4517
04:26:17.639 --> 04:26:23.040
<v Speaker 13>first opera dancer. How well you can stretch your legs out.

4518
04:26:24.040 --> 04:26:29.040
<v Speaker 13>It is the most graceful performance I have ever seen.

4519
04:26:30.399 --> 04:26:35.840
<v Speaker 13>No one can imitate you, I know it, said the scissors.

4520
04:26:38.000 --> 04:26:42.120
<v Speaker 13>You deserve to be a baroness, said the collar. All

4521
04:26:42.280 --> 04:26:45.840
<v Speaker 13>that I have is a fine gentleman, a boot jack

4522
04:26:46.280 --> 04:26:50.239
<v Speaker 13>and a hair comb. If I only had the barony,

4523
04:26:52.639 --> 04:26:57.000
<v Speaker 13>do you seek my hand? Said the scissors, for she

4524
04:26:57.319 --> 04:27:01.399
<v Speaker 13>was angry, and without more aid of she cut him,

4525
04:27:02.280 --> 04:27:07.719
<v Speaker 13>and then he was condemned. I shall now be obliged

4526
04:27:07.760 --> 04:27:11.639
<v Speaker 13>to ask the hair comb. It is surprising how well

4527
04:27:11.719 --> 04:27:16.040
<v Speaker 13>you preserve your teeth, miss, said the collar. Have you

4528
04:27:16.239 --> 04:27:21.920
<v Speaker 13>never thought of being be throwed? Yes, of course you

4529
04:27:22.120 --> 04:27:25.399
<v Speaker 13>may be sure of that, said the hair comb. I

4530
04:27:25.559 --> 04:27:31.639
<v Speaker 13>am the throat to the boot jack be throwed, exclaimed

4531
04:27:31.680 --> 04:27:37.200
<v Speaker 13>the collar. Now there was no other court, and so

4532
04:27:37.399 --> 04:27:42.360
<v Speaker 13>he despised it. A long time passed away. Then the

4533
04:27:42.520 --> 04:27:45.600
<v Speaker 13>collar came into the rag chest at the paper mill.

4534
04:27:46.639 --> 04:27:51.200
<v Speaker 13>There was a large company of rags, the fine by themselves,

4535
04:27:51.920 --> 04:27:55.719
<v Speaker 13>and the course by themselves, just as it should be.

4536
04:27:58.040 --> 04:28:01.799
<v Speaker 13>They all had much to say, but the collar the most,

4537
04:28:02.399 --> 04:28:07.280
<v Speaker 13>for he was a real boaster. I have had such

4538
04:28:07.280 --> 04:28:12.120
<v Speaker 13>an immense number of sweethearts, said the collar, I could

4539
04:28:12.200 --> 04:28:16.159
<v Speaker 13>not be in peace. It is true. I was always

4540
04:28:16.239 --> 04:28:20.680
<v Speaker 13>a fine, starch up gentleman. I had both a boot

4541
04:28:20.799 --> 04:28:24.799
<v Speaker 13>jack and a hair comb, which I have never used.

4542
04:28:25.840 --> 04:28:29.000
<v Speaker 13>You should have seen me, then, you should have seen

4543
04:28:29.079 --> 04:28:33.399
<v Speaker 13>me when I lay down. I shall never forget my

4544
04:28:33.840 --> 04:28:39.799
<v Speaker 13>first love. She was a girdle, so fine, so soft,

4545
04:28:40.680 --> 04:28:45.760
<v Speaker 13>and so charming. She threw herself into a tub of

4546
04:28:45.920 --> 04:28:50.639
<v Speaker 13>water for my sake. There was also a widow who

4547
04:28:50.760 --> 04:28:55.360
<v Speaker 13>became glowing hot, but I left her standing till she

4548
04:28:55.559 --> 04:28:59.879
<v Speaker 13>got black again. There was also the first opera dancer.

4549
04:29:00.639 --> 04:29:03.639
<v Speaker 13>She gave me that cup which I now go with.

4550
04:29:04.440 --> 04:29:09.719
<v Speaker 13>She was so ferocious, my own hair comb was in

4551
04:29:09.840 --> 04:29:14.559
<v Speaker 13>love with me. She lost all her teeth from that

4552
04:29:14.959 --> 04:29:20.760
<v Speaker 13>heart ache. Yes, I have leave to see much of

4553
04:29:20.959 --> 04:29:25.639
<v Speaker 13>that sort of thing, but I am extremely sorry for

4554
04:29:25.879 --> 04:29:31.120
<v Speaker 13>the garter. I mean the girdle that went into the watertop.

4555
04:29:32.040 --> 04:29:35.840
<v Speaker 13>I have much of my conscience. I want to become

4556
04:29:35.959 --> 04:29:41.280
<v Speaker 13>white paper, and it became so. All the rags were

4557
04:29:41.440 --> 04:29:45.399
<v Speaker 13>turned into white paper. But the collar came to be

4558
04:29:45.719 --> 04:29:49.239
<v Speaker 13>just this very piece of white paper we hear see

4559
04:29:50.239 --> 04:29:54.360
<v Speaker 13>and on which the story is printed. And that was

4560
04:29:54.479 --> 04:29:59.239
<v Speaker 13>because it boasted so terribly afterwards of what had never

4561
04:29:59.559 --> 04:30:03.760
<v Speaker 13>happened to eat. It would be well for us to

4562
04:30:03.879 --> 04:30:08.200
<v Speaker 13>beware that we may not act in a similar manner,

4563
04:30:09.040 --> 04:30:13.239
<v Speaker 13>for we can never know if we may not, in

4564
04:30:13.360 --> 04:30:17.000
<v Speaker 13>the course of time, also come into the rag chest

4565
04:30:18.000 --> 04:30:21.920
<v Speaker 13>and be made into white paper, and then have our

4566
04:30:22.600 --> 04:30:27.440
<v Speaker 13>whole life's history printed on it, even the most secret,

4567
04:30:28.159 --> 04:30:31.479
<v Speaker 13>and be obliged to run about and tell it ourselves,

4568
04:30:32.319 --> 04:30:38.159
<v Speaker 13>just like this collar, and of the false collar.

4569
04:30:39.520 --> 04:30:44.239
<v Speaker 18>The shadow. It is in the hot lands that the

4570
04:30:44.360 --> 04:30:48.879
<v Speaker 18>sun burns sure enough. There the people become quite a

4571
04:30:48.959 --> 04:30:53.040
<v Speaker 18>mahogany brown a, and in the hottest lands they are

4572
04:30:53.120 --> 04:30:56.959
<v Speaker 18>burnt to negroes. But now it was only to the

4573
04:30:57.040 --> 04:31:00.639
<v Speaker 18>hot lands that a learned man had come from the cold.

4574
04:31:01.600 --> 04:31:04.520
<v Speaker 18>There he thought that he could run about just as

4575
04:31:04.639 --> 04:31:08.000
<v Speaker 18>when at home, But he soon found out his mistake.

4576
04:31:09.520 --> 04:31:14.440
<v Speaker 18>He and all sensible folks were obliged to stay within doors.

4577
04:31:15.319 --> 04:31:18.680
<v Speaker 18>The window shutters and doors were closed the whole day.

4578
04:31:19.639 --> 04:31:22.479
<v Speaker 18>It looked as if the whole house slept, or there

4579
04:31:22.600 --> 04:31:26.280
<v Speaker 18>was no one at home. The narrow street with the

4580
04:31:26.360 --> 04:31:29.920
<v Speaker 18>high houses was built so that the sunshine must fall

4581
04:31:30.040 --> 04:31:33.319
<v Speaker 18>there from morning till evening. It was really not to

4582
04:31:33.399 --> 04:31:38.159
<v Speaker 18>be borne the learned man from the cold lands. He

4583
04:31:38.319 --> 04:31:41.079
<v Speaker 18>was a young man and seemed to be a clever man.

4584
04:31:41.680 --> 04:31:45.159
<v Speaker 18>Sat in a glowing oven. It took effect on him.

4585
04:31:46.120 --> 04:31:50.600
<v Speaker 18>He became quite meager. Even his shadow shrunk in, for

4586
04:31:50.799 --> 04:31:54.680
<v Speaker 18>the sun had also an effect on it. It was

4587
04:31:54.840 --> 04:31:58.600
<v Speaker 18>first towards evening, when the sun was down, that they

4588
04:31:58.719 --> 04:32:03.680
<v Speaker 18>began to freshen up again. In the warm lands, every

4589
04:32:03.760 --> 04:32:07.159
<v Speaker 18>window has a balcony, and the people came out on

4590
04:32:07.280 --> 04:32:10.920
<v Speaker 18>all the balconies in the street, for one must have air,

4591
04:32:11.520 --> 04:32:15.760
<v Speaker 18>even if one be accustomed to be mahogany. It was

4592
04:32:15.879 --> 04:32:19.879
<v Speaker 18>lively both up and down the street. Tailors and shoemakers,

4593
04:32:19.959 --> 04:32:23.600
<v Speaker 18>and all the folks moved out into the street. Chairs

4594
04:32:23.680 --> 04:32:28.120
<v Speaker 18>and tables were brought forth, and candles burnt. Yes, above

4595
04:32:28.120 --> 04:32:31.559
<v Speaker 18>a thousand lights were burning, and the one talked and

4596
04:32:31.680 --> 04:32:35.399
<v Speaker 18>the other sung, and people walked, and church bells rang,

4597
04:32:36.079 --> 04:32:39.280
<v Speaker 18>and asses went along with a dingle, dingle dong, for

4598
04:32:39.440 --> 04:32:43.719
<v Speaker 18>they too had bells. On the street, boys were screaming

4599
04:32:43.840 --> 04:32:49.159
<v Speaker 18>and hooting, and shouting and shooting with devils and detonating balls.

4600
04:32:49.959 --> 04:32:53.520
<v Speaker 18>And there came corpse bearers and hood wearers, for there

4601
04:32:53.559 --> 04:32:57.760
<v Speaker 18>were funerals with Psalm and him, and then the din

4602
04:32:58.000 --> 04:33:03.200
<v Speaker 18>of carriages driving and com arriving. Yes, it was in

4603
04:33:03.360 --> 04:33:06.240
<v Speaker 18>truth lively enough down in the street.

4604
04:33:07.520 --> 04:33:08.360
<v Speaker 7>Only in that.

4605
04:33:08.520 --> 04:33:12.319
<v Speaker 18>Single house which stood opposite that in which the learned

4606
04:33:12.439 --> 04:33:17.119
<v Speaker 18>foreigner lived, it was quite still, And yet some one

4607
04:33:17.240 --> 04:33:21.240
<v Speaker 18>lived there. For there stood flowers in the balcony. They

4608
04:33:21.319 --> 04:33:24.720
<v Speaker 18>grew so well in the sun's heat, and that they

4609
04:33:24.799 --> 04:33:28.880
<v Speaker 18>could not do unless they were watered and someone must

4610
04:33:28.959 --> 04:33:34.080
<v Speaker 18>water them. There must be somebody there. The door opposite

4611
04:33:34.279 --> 04:33:37.680
<v Speaker 18>was also opened late in the evening, but it was

4612
04:33:37.840 --> 04:33:41.759
<v Speaker 18>dark within, at least in the front room. Further in

4613
04:33:42.279 --> 04:33:46.400
<v Speaker 18>there was heard the sound of music. The learned foreigner

4614
04:33:46.520 --> 04:33:50.200
<v Speaker 18>thought it quite marvelous. But now it might be that

4615
04:33:50.319 --> 04:33:54.200
<v Speaker 18>he only imagined it, for he found everything marvelous out

4616
04:33:54.279 --> 04:33:57.400
<v Speaker 18>there in the warm lands, if there had only been

4617
04:33:57.520 --> 04:34:02.200
<v Speaker 18>no sun. The strange's landlord said that he didn't know

4618
04:34:02.479 --> 04:34:06.919
<v Speaker 18>who had taken the house opposite. One saw no person about,

4619
04:34:07.520 --> 04:34:10.439
<v Speaker 18>and as to the music, it appeared to him to

4620
04:34:10.520 --> 04:34:15.000
<v Speaker 18>be extremely tiresome. It is as if someone sat there

4621
04:34:15.159 --> 04:34:18.919
<v Speaker 18>and practiced a piece that he could not master. Always

4622
04:34:19.000 --> 04:34:23.799
<v Speaker 18>the same piece. I shall master, it, says he, But

4623
04:34:24.000 --> 04:34:28.919
<v Speaker 18>yet he cannot master it, however long he plays. One

4624
04:34:29.080 --> 04:34:32.400
<v Speaker 18>night the stranger awoke. He slept with the doors of

4625
04:34:32.439 --> 04:34:36.319
<v Speaker 18>the balcony open, the curtain before it was raised by

4626
04:34:36.360 --> 04:34:39.919
<v Speaker 18>the wind, and he thought that a strange luster came

4627
04:34:40.000 --> 04:34:44.240
<v Speaker 18>from the opposite neighbor's house. All the flowers shone like

4628
04:34:44.400 --> 04:34:48.880
<v Speaker 18>flames in the most beautiful colors, and in the midst

4629
04:34:49.119 --> 04:34:53.560
<v Speaker 18>of the flowers stood a slender, graceful maiden. It was

4630
04:34:53.680 --> 04:34:57.720
<v Speaker 18>as if she also shone. The light really hurt his eyes.

4631
04:34:58.959 --> 04:35:03.799
<v Speaker 18>He now opened them quite wide. Yes, he was quite awake.

4632
04:35:04.439 --> 04:35:07.880
<v Speaker 18>With one spring, he was on the floor. He crept

4633
04:35:08.040 --> 04:35:11.880
<v Speaker 18>gently behind the curtain. But the maiden was gone. The

4634
04:35:12.000 --> 04:35:16.119
<v Speaker 18>flowers shone no longer, but there they stood, fresh and

4635
04:35:16.200 --> 04:35:20.680
<v Speaker 18>blooming as ever. The door was ajar and far within.

4636
04:35:21.360 --> 04:35:25.680
<v Speaker 18>The music sounded so soft and delightful one could really

4637
04:35:25.799 --> 04:35:29.520
<v Speaker 18>melt away in sweet thoughts from it. Yet it was

4638
04:35:29.759 --> 04:35:34.080
<v Speaker 18>like a piece of enchantment. And who lived there? Where

4639
04:35:34.279 --> 04:35:37.759
<v Speaker 18>was the actual entrance? The whole of the ground floor

4640
04:35:38.000 --> 04:35:40.880
<v Speaker 18>was a row of shops, and there people could not

4641
04:35:41.040 --> 04:35:45.759
<v Speaker 18>always be running through. One evening, the stranger sat out

4642
04:35:45.880 --> 04:35:49.400
<v Speaker 18>on the balcony. The light burnt in the room behind him,

4643
04:35:49.840 --> 04:35:52.880
<v Speaker 18>and thus it was quite natural that his shadow should

4644
04:35:52.919 --> 04:35:57.119
<v Speaker 18>fall on his opposite neighbor's wall. Yes, there it sat

4645
04:35:57.479 --> 04:36:01.720
<v Speaker 18>directly opposite between the flowers on the balcony. And when

4646
04:36:01.799 --> 04:36:05.799
<v Speaker 18>the stranger moved, the shadow also moved, For that it

4647
04:36:05.959 --> 04:36:11.279
<v Speaker 18>always does. I think my shadow is the only living

4648
04:36:11.439 --> 04:36:16.400
<v Speaker 18>thing one sees over there, said the learned man. See

4649
04:36:16.599 --> 04:36:20.759
<v Speaker 18>how nicely it sits between the flowers. The door stands

4650
04:36:20.880 --> 04:36:24.720
<v Speaker 18>half open. Now the shadow should be cunning and go

4651
04:36:24.919 --> 04:36:28.040
<v Speaker 18>into the room, look about, and then come and tell

4652
04:36:28.119 --> 04:36:32.240
<v Speaker 18>me what it has seen. Come now, be useful and

4653
04:36:32.400 --> 04:36:35.759
<v Speaker 18>do me a service, said he, in jest, have the

4654
04:36:35.919 --> 04:36:41.560
<v Speaker 18>kindness to step in. Now art thou going? And then

4655
04:36:41.639 --> 04:36:46.400
<v Speaker 18>he nodded to the shadow, and the shadow nodded again. Well,

4656
04:36:46.520 --> 04:36:52.560
<v Speaker 18>then go, but don't stay away. The stranger rose, and

4657
04:36:52.720 --> 04:36:57.959
<v Speaker 18>his shadow on the opposite neighbor's balcony rose also. The

4658
04:36:58.040 --> 04:37:03.759
<v Speaker 18>stranger turned around, and the shadow also turned around. Yes,

4659
04:37:04.040 --> 04:37:07.840
<v Speaker 18>if any one had paid particular attention to it, they

4660
04:37:07.880 --> 04:37:12.159
<v Speaker 18>would have seen quite distinctly that the shadow went in

4661
04:37:12.439 --> 04:37:15.759
<v Speaker 18>through the half open balcony door of their opposite neighbor,

4662
04:37:16.560 --> 04:37:19.680
<v Speaker 18>just as the stranger went into his own room and

4663
04:37:19.880 --> 04:37:25.000
<v Speaker 18>let the long curtain fall down after him. Next morning,

4664
04:37:25.400 --> 04:37:28.119
<v Speaker 18>the learned man went out to drink coffee and read

4665
04:37:28.159 --> 04:37:32.759
<v Speaker 18>the newspapers. What is that, said he as he came

4666
04:37:32.840 --> 04:37:37.080
<v Speaker 18>out into the sunshine. I have no shadow, So then

4667
04:37:37.200 --> 04:37:40.040
<v Speaker 18>it has actually gone last night and not come again.

4668
04:37:40.919 --> 04:37:46.159
<v Speaker 18>It is really tiresome. This annoyed him, not so much

4669
04:37:46.319 --> 04:37:49.639
<v Speaker 18>because the shadow was gone, but because he knew there

4670
04:37:49.799 --> 04:37:53.360
<v Speaker 18>was a story about a man without a shadow. It

4671
04:37:53.560 --> 04:37:57.000
<v Speaker 18>was known to everybody at home in the cold lands,

4672
04:37:57.599 --> 04:38:00.680
<v Speaker 18>and if the learned man now came there and told

4673
04:38:00.759 --> 04:38:04.000
<v Speaker 18>his story, they would say that he was imitating it,

4674
04:38:04.759 --> 04:38:08.439
<v Speaker 18>and that he had no need to do. He would

4675
04:38:08.599 --> 04:38:12.479
<v Speaker 18>therefore not talk about it at all, and that was

4676
04:38:12.599 --> 04:38:18.080
<v Speaker 18>wisely thought. In the evening he went out again on

4677
04:38:18.240 --> 04:38:22.319
<v Speaker 18>the balcony. He had placed the light directly behind him,

4678
04:38:22.880 --> 04:38:25.639
<v Speaker 18>for he knew that the shadow would always have its

4679
04:38:25.759 --> 04:38:29.159
<v Speaker 18>master for a screen. But he could not entice it.

4680
04:38:30.119 --> 04:38:33.840
<v Speaker 18>He made himself little, he made himself great, But no

4681
04:38:34.080 --> 04:38:39.919
<v Speaker 18>shadow came again. He said, hemp, hemp, But it was

4682
04:38:40.119 --> 04:38:45.159
<v Speaker 18>of no use. It was vexatious. But in the warm

4683
04:38:45.279 --> 04:38:49.599
<v Speaker 18>lands everything grows so quickly. And after the lapse of

4684
04:38:49.639 --> 04:38:53.080
<v Speaker 18>eight days, he observed, to his great joy that a

4685
04:38:53.200 --> 04:38:56.759
<v Speaker 18>new shadow came in the sunshine. In the course of

4686
04:38:56.880 --> 04:39:00.599
<v Speaker 18>three weeks he had a very fair shadow, which, when

4687
04:39:00.639 --> 04:39:03.279
<v Speaker 18>he set out for his home in the northern lands,

4688
04:39:03.840 --> 04:39:07.000
<v Speaker 18>grew more and more in the journey, so that at

4689
04:39:07.119 --> 04:39:10.279
<v Speaker 18>last it was so long and so large that it

4690
04:39:10.439 --> 04:39:14.400
<v Speaker 18>was more than sufficient. The learned man then came home,

4691
04:39:14.880 --> 04:39:18.000
<v Speaker 18>and he wrote books about what was true in the world,

4692
04:39:18.639 --> 04:39:22.560
<v Speaker 18>and about what was good and what was beautiful. And

4693
04:39:22.759 --> 04:39:27.840
<v Speaker 18>there passed days and years, yes, many years passed by

4694
04:39:29.520 --> 04:39:33.520
<v Speaker 18>one evening, as he was sitting in his room, there

4695
04:39:33.599 --> 04:39:38.000
<v Speaker 18>was a gentle knocking at the door. Come in, said he,

4696
04:39:38.959 --> 04:39:42.159
<v Speaker 18>But no one came in. So he opened the door,

4697
04:39:42.759 --> 04:39:46.639
<v Speaker 18>and there stood before him such an extremely lean man

4698
04:39:47.240 --> 04:39:51.119
<v Speaker 18>that he felt quite strange. As to the rest. The

4699
04:39:51.240 --> 04:39:54.799
<v Speaker 18>man was very finely dressed. He must be a gentleman.

4700
04:39:56.159 --> 04:40:02.279
<v Speaker 18>Whom have I the honor of speaking, asked the learned man. Yes,

4701
04:40:02.840 --> 04:40:06.439
<v Speaker 18>I thought as much, said the fine man. I thought

4702
04:40:06.520 --> 04:40:09.720
<v Speaker 18>you would not know me. I have got so much body.

4703
04:40:10.639 --> 04:40:14.599
<v Speaker 18>I have even got flesh and clothes. You certainly never

4704
04:40:14.759 --> 04:40:18.040
<v Speaker 18>thought of seeing me so well off? Do you not

4705
04:40:18.279 --> 04:40:21.840
<v Speaker 18>know your old shadow? You certainly thought I should never

4706
04:40:21.959 --> 04:40:25.319
<v Speaker 18>more return. Things have gone on well with me since

4707
04:40:25.360 --> 04:40:29.159
<v Speaker 18>I was last with you. I have, in all respects

4708
04:40:29.599 --> 04:40:34.040
<v Speaker 18>become very well off. Shall I purchase my freedom from service?

4709
04:40:34.840 --> 04:40:38.479
<v Speaker 18>If so I can do it? And then he rattled

4710
04:40:38.479 --> 04:40:41.599
<v Speaker 18>a whole bunch of valuable seals that hung to his watch,

4711
04:40:42.240 --> 04:40:45.200
<v Speaker 18>and he stuck his hand in the thick gold chain

4712
04:40:45.360 --> 04:40:49.279
<v Speaker 18>he wore around his neck. Nay, how all his fingers

4713
04:40:49.319 --> 04:40:54.959
<v Speaker 18>glittered with diamond rings, and then all were pure gems. Nay,

4714
04:40:55.119 --> 04:40:58.599
<v Speaker 18>I cannot recover from my surprise, said the learned man,

4715
04:40:59.319 --> 04:41:03.560
<v Speaker 18>What is the meaning of all this? Something common? It

4716
04:41:03.720 --> 04:41:07.400
<v Speaker 18>is not, said the shadow, But you yourself do not

4717
04:41:07.560 --> 04:41:11.759
<v Speaker 18>belong to the common order. And I, as you know well,

4718
04:41:12.560 --> 04:41:16.840
<v Speaker 18>have from a child, followed in your footsteps. As soon

4719
04:41:16.919 --> 04:41:19.520
<v Speaker 18>as you found I was capable to go out alone

4720
04:41:19.560 --> 04:41:23.319
<v Speaker 18>in the world, I went my own way. I am

4721
04:41:23.439 --> 04:41:27.959
<v Speaker 18>in the most brilliant circumstances. But there came a sort

4722
04:41:28.000 --> 04:41:31.159
<v Speaker 18>of desire over me to see you once more before

4723
04:41:31.240 --> 04:41:35.959
<v Speaker 18>you die. You will die, I suppose. I also wished

4724
04:41:36.159 --> 04:41:39.720
<v Speaker 18>to see this land again, for you know we always

4725
04:41:39.840 --> 04:41:43.279
<v Speaker 18>love our native land. I know you have got another

4726
04:41:43.400 --> 04:41:46.439
<v Speaker 18>shadow again. Have I anything to pay to it?

4727
04:41:46.759 --> 04:41:46.919
<v Speaker 4>Or you?

4728
04:41:48.200 --> 04:41:53.200
<v Speaker 18>If so, you will oblige me by saying what it is? Nay,

4729
04:41:53.400 --> 04:41:56.799
<v Speaker 18>is it really thou? Said the learned man. It is

4730
04:41:56.959 --> 04:42:01.279
<v Speaker 18>most remarkable. I never imagined that one old shadow could

4731
04:42:01.319 --> 04:42:04.919
<v Speaker 18>come again as a man. Tell me what I have

4732
04:42:05.159 --> 04:42:08.200
<v Speaker 18>to pay, said the shadow, For I don't like to

4733
04:42:08.279 --> 04:42:12.159
<v Speaker 18>be in any sort of debt. How canst thou talk,

4734
04:42:12.319 --> 04:42:15.520
<v Speaker 18>so said the learned man. What debt is there to

4735
04:42:15.639 --> 04:42:20.000
<v Speaker 18>talk about? Make thyself as free as any one else.

4736
04:42:20.880 --> 04:42:23.720
<v Speaker 18>I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune.

4737
04:42:24.360 --> 04:42:27.639
<v Speaker 18>Sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how

4738
04:42:27.720 --> 04:42:30.919
<v Speaker 18>it has gone with thee, and what thou hast seen

4739
04:42:31.159 --> 04:42:35.959
<v Speaker 18>at our opposite neighbors there in the warm lands. Yes,

4740
04:42:36.240 --> 04:42:38.720
<v Speaker 18>I will tell you all about it, said the shadow,

4741
04:42:38.919 --> 04:42:43.240
<v Speaker 18>and sat down. But then you must also promise me

4742
04:42:44.000 --> 04:42:47.240
<v Speaker 18>that wherever you may meet me, you will never say

4743
04:42:47.319 --> 04:42:49.759
<v Speaker 18>to any one here in the town that I have

4744
04:42:49.959 --> 04:42:53.599
<v Speaker 18>been your shadow. I intend to get betrothed, for I

4745
04:42:53.759 --> 04:42:57.040
<v Speaker 18>can provide for more than one family. Be quite at

4746
04:42:57.119 --> 04:43:00.520
<v Speaker 18>thy ease about that, said the learned man. I shall

4747
04:43:00.599 --> 04:43:04.720
<v Speaker 18>not say to anyone who thou actually art. Here is

4748
04:43:04.840 --> 04:43:08.439
<v Speaker 18>my hand, I promise it, And a man's bond is

4749
04:43:08.599 --> 04:43:13.200
<v Speaker 18>his word. A word is the shadow, said the shadow,

4750
04:43:13.880 --> 04:43:18.439
<v Speaker 18>and as such it must speak. It was really quite

4751
04:43:18.479 --> 04:43:22.040
<v Speaker 18>astonishing how much of a man it was. It was

4752
04:43:22.240 --> 04:43:26.119
<v Speaker 18>dressed entirely in black and of the very finest cloth.

4753
04:43:27.040 --> 04:43:30.360
<v Speaker 18>It had patent leather boots and a hat that could

4754
04:43:30.360 --> 04:43:34.360
<v Speaker 18>be folded together so that it was bare, crown and brim.

4755
04:43:34.919 --> 04:43:38.599
<v Speaker 18>Not to speak of what we already know. It had seals,

4756
04:43:38.840 --> 04:43:43.799
<v Speaker 18>gold neck chain, and diamond rings. Yes, the shadow was

4757
04:43:43.919 --> 04:43:47.040
<v Speaker 18>well dressed, and it was just that which made it

4758
04:43:47.240 --> 04:43:51.639
<v Speaker 18>quite a man. Now I shall tell you of my adventures,

4759
04:43:52.080 --> 04:43:55.759
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow, and then he sat with the polished

4760
04:43:55.799 --> 04:43:58.520
<v Speaker 18>boots as heavily as he could on the arm of

4761
04:43:58.599 --> 04:44:02.119
<v Speaker 18>the learned Man's new shadow, which lay like a poodle

4762
04:44:02.159 --> 04:44:06.560
<v Speaker 18>dog at his feet. Now this was perhaps from arrogance,

4763
04:44:07.119 --> 04:44:10.279
<v Speaker 18>and the shadow on the ground kept itself so still

4764
04:44:10.360 --> 04:44:14.080
<v Speaker 18>and quiet that I might hear all that passed. It

4765
04:44:14.240 --> 04:44:17.319
<v Speaker 18>wished to know how it could get free and work

4766
04:44:17.400 --> 04:44:20.119
<v Speaker 18>its way up so as to become its own master.

4767
04:44:21.599 --> 04:44:24.479
<v Speaker 18>Do you know who lived in our opposite neighbor's house,

4768
04:44:24.880 --> 04:44:29.159
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow. It was the most charming of all beings.

4769
04:44:29.759 --> 04:44:30.680
<v Speaker 8>It was Poesy.

4770
04:44:31.439 --> 04:44:34.479
<v Speaker 18>I was there for three weeks, and that has as

4771
04:44:34.599 --> 04:44:37.959
<v Speaker 18>much effect as if one had lived three thousand years

4772
04:44:38.360 --> 04:44:42.040
<v Speaker 18>and read all that was composed and written. That is

4773
04:44:42.159 --> 04:44:46.200
<v Speaker 18>what I say, and that is right. I have seen everything,

4774
04:44:46.360 --> 04:44:53.840
<v Speaker 18>and I know everything, Poesy, cried the learned man. Yes, yes,

4775
04:44:54.119 --> 04:45:00.360
<v Speaker 18>she often dwells, a recluse in large cities. Poesy, Yes,

4776
04:45:00.799 --> 04:45:04.799
<v Speaker 18>I have seen her a single short moment, but sleep

4777
04:45:04.959 --> 04:45:08.439
<v Speaker 18>came into my eyes. She stood on the balcony and

4778
04:45:08.680 --> 04:45:13.919
<v Speaker 18>shone as the Aurora borealis shines, go on, go on,

4779
04:45:15.240 --> 04:45:17.840
<v Speaker 18>thou wert on the balcony and went through the doorway

4780
04:45:18.680 --> 04:45:23.799
<v Speaker 18>and then then I was in the antechamber, said the shadow.

4781
04:45:24.360 --> 04:45:28.000
<v Speaker 18>You always sat and looked over to the antechamber. There

4782
04:45:28.159 --> 04:45:31.680
<v Speaker 18>was no light. There was a sort of twilight, but

4783
04:45:31.840 --> 04:45:35.200
<v Speaker 18>the one door stood open directly opposite the other, through

4784
04:45:35.240 --> 04:45:38.439
<v Speaker 18>a long row of rooms and saloons, and there it

4785
04:45:38.560 --> 04:45:41.959
<v Speaker 18>was lighted up. I should have been completely killed if

4786
04:45:42.000 --> 04:45:45.439
<v Speaker 18>I had gone over to the maiden, but I was circumspect.

4787
04:45:45.959 --> 04:45:49.240
<v Speaker 18>I took time to think, and that one must always do.

4788
04:45:50.520 --> 04:45:53.759
<v Speaker 18>And what didst thou then see? Asked the learned man.

4789
04:45:54.680 --> 04:45:57.560
<v Speaker 18>I saw everything, and I shall tell all to you.

4790
04:45:58.360 --> 04:46:01.680
<v Speaker 18>But it is no price on my part as a

4791
04:46:01.799 --> 04:46:04.720
<v Speaker 18>free man, and with the knowledge I have not to

4792
04:46:04.840 --> 04:46:09.360
<v Speaker 18>speak of my position in life, my excellent circumstances. I

4793
04:46:09.639 --> 04:46:13.880
<v Speaker 18>certainly wish that you would say you to me. I

4794
04:46:14.119 --> 04:46:17.279
<v Speaker 18>beg your pardon, said the learned man. It is an

4795
04:46:17.319 --> 04:46:21.599
<v Speaker 18>old habit with me. You are perfectly right, and I

4796
04:46:21.759 --> 04:46:24.799
<v Speaker 18>shall remember it. But now you must tell me all.

4797
04:46:25.319 --> 04:46:30.639
<v Speaker 18>You saw everything, said the shadow, For I saw everything,

4798
04:46:30.799 --> 04:46:33.959
<v Speaker 18>and I know everything. How did it look in the

4799
04:46:34.080 --> 04:46:37.919
<v Speaker 18>furthest saloon, asked the learned man. Was it there as

4800
04:46:38.000 --> 04:46:40.840
<v Speaker 18>in the fresh woods? Was it there as in a

4801
04:46:40.919 --> 04:46:45.080
<v Speaker 18>holy church? Were the saloons like the Starlit firmament when

4802
04:46:45.159 --> 04:46:50.000
<v Speaker 18>we stand on the high mountains. Everything was there, said

4803
04:46:50.040 --> 04:46:53.840
<v Speaker 18>the shadow. I did not go quite in. I remained

4804
04:46:53.919 --> 04:46:57.599
<v Speaker 18>in the foremost room in the twilight. But I stood

4805
04:46:57.639 --> 04:47:01.360
<v Speaker 18>there quite well. I saw everything, and I know everything.

4806
04:47:02.119 --> 04:47:04.520
<v Speaker 18>I have been in the ante chamber at the court

4807
04:47:04.599 --> 04:47:08.639
<v Speaker 18>of Poesy. But what did you see? Did all the

4808
04:47:08.720 --> 04:47:11.959
<v Speaker 18>gods of the olden times pass through the large saloons,

4809
04:47:12.599 --> 04:47:15.720
<v Speaker 18>that the old heroes come bat there? Did sweet children

4810
04:47:15.840 --> 04:47:19.159
<v Speaker 18>play there and relate their dreams? I tell you I

4811
04:47:19.360 --> 04:47:22.040
<v Speaker 18>was there, and you can conceive that I saw everything

4812
04:47:22.119 --> 04:47:25.119
<v Speaker 18>there was to be seen. Had you come over there,

4813
04:47:25.680 --> 04:47:28.759
<v Speaker 18>you would not have been a man. But I became so.

4814
04:47:29.759 --> 04:47:34.200
<v Speaker 18>And besides, I learned to know my inward nature, my

4815
04:47:34.360 --> 04:47:38.959
<v Speaker 18>innate qualities, the relationship I had with Poesy. At the

4816
04:47:39.080 --> 04:47:41.840
<v Speaker 18>time I was with you, I thought not of that,

4817
04:47:42.439 --> 04:47:45.880
<v Speaker 18>But always you know it well. When the sun rose

4818
04:47:46.080 --> 04:47:49.560
<v Speaker 18>and when the sun went down, I became so strangely

4819
04:47:49.680 --> 04:47:53.720
<v Speaker 18>great in the moonlight. I was very near being more

4820
04:47:53.840 --> 04:47:58.759
<v Speaker 18>distinct than yourself. At that time I did not understand

4821
04:47:58.919 --> 04:48:02.240
<v Speaker 18>my nature. It was revealed to be in the antechamber,

4822
04:48:02.880 --> 04:48:06.799
<v Speaker 18>I became a man. I came out matured, but you

4823
04:48:06.919 --> 04:48:09.799
<v Speaker 18>were no longer in the warm lands as a man.

4824
04:48:10.400 --> 04:48:13.560
<v Speaker 18>I was ashamed to go as I did. I was

4825
04:48:13.639 --> 04:48:16.720
<v Speaker 18>in want of boots, of clothes, of the whole human

4826
04:48:16.840 --> 04:48:20.680
<v Speaker 18>varnish that makes a man perceptible. I took my way.

4827
04:48:21.439 --> 04:48:24.200
<v Speaker 18>I tell it to you, but you will not put

4828
04:48:24.279 --> 04:48:27.040
<v Speaker 18>it in any book. I took my way to the

4829
04:48:27.159 --> 04:48:31.520
<v Speaker 18>cake woman. I hid myself behind her. The woman didn't

4830
04:48:31.599 --> 04:48:35.240
<v Speaker 18>think how much she concealed. I went out first in

4831
04:48:35.319 --> 04:48:38.720
<v Speaker 18>the evening. I ran about the streets in the moonlight.

4832
04:48:39.560 --> 04:48:43.000
<v Speaker 18>I made myself long up the walls. It tickles the

4833
04:48:43.080 --> 04:48:47.360
<v Speaker 18>back so delightfully. I ran up and ran down. Peeped

4834
04:48:47.400 --> 04:48:51.400
<v Speaker 18>into the highest windows, into the saloons, and on the roofs.

4835
04:48:51.799 --> 04:48:54.599
<v Speaker 18>I peeped in where no one could peep. And I

4836
04:48:54.720 --> 04:48:57.599
<v Speaker 18>saw what no one else saw, what no one else

4837
04:48:57.720 --> 04:49:02.680
<v Speaker 18>should see. This is, in fact a base world. I

4838
04:49:02.799 --> 04:49:05.040
<v Speaker 18>would not be a man if it were not now

4839
04:49:05.200 --> 04:49:08.000
<v Speaker 18>once accepted and regarded as something to be.

4840
04:49:08.200 --> 04:49:08.240
<v Speaker 10>So.

4841
04:49:09.159 --> 04:49:12.680
<v Speaker 18>I saw the most unimaginable things with the women, with

4842
04:49:12.840 --> 04:49:16.959
<v Speaker 18>the men, with parents, and with the sweet matchless children.

4843
04:49:17.840 --> 04:49:22.159
<v Speaker 18>I saw, said the shadow, what no human being must know,

4844
04:49:23.119 --> 04:49:26.520
<v Speaker 18>but what they would all so willingly know, What is

4845
04:49:26.720 --> 04:49:30.560
<v Speaker 18>bad in their neighbor. Had I written a newspaper, it

4846
04:49:30.639 --> 04:49:34.000
<v Speaker 18>would have been read. But I wrote directly to the

4847
04:49:34.080 --> 04:49:38.599
<v Speaker 18>persons themselves, and there was consternation in all the towns

4848
04:49:38.639 --> 04:49:42.119
<v Speaker 18>where I came. They were so afraid of me, and

4849
04:49:42.319 --> 04:49:46.279
<v Speaker 18>yet they were so excessively fond of me. The professors

4850
04:49:46.360 --> 04:49:49.240
<v Speaker 18>made a professor of me, and the tailors gave me

4851
04:49:49.360 --> 04:49:52.759
<v Speaker 18>new clothes. I am well furnished. The master of the

4852
04:49:52.880 --> 04:49:56.200
<v Speaker 18>mint struck new coin for me, and the women said

4853
04:49:56.240 --> 04:49:59.880
<v Speaker 18>I was so handsome, and so I became the man

4854
04:50:00.159 --> 04:50:04.599
<v Speaker 18>I am. And now I bid you farewell. Here is

4855
04:50:04.680 --> 04:50:07.880
<v Speaker 18>my card. I live on the sunny side of the street,

4856
04:50:08.560 --> 04:50:12.040
<v Speaker 18>and am always at home at rainy weather. And so

4857
04:50:12.279 --> 04:50:17.479
<v Speaker 18>away went the shadow. That was most extraordinary, said the

4858
04:50:17.560 --> 04:50:22.159
<v Speaker 18>learned man. Years and days passed by, then the shadow

4859
04:50:22.240 --> 04:50:22.720
<v Speaker 18>came again.

4860
04:50:23.680 --> 04:50:24.279
<v Speaker 13>How goes it?

4861
04:50:24.520 --> 04:50:29.200
<v Speaker 18>Said the shadow? Alas said the learned man, I write

4862
04:50:29.240 --> 04:50:32.479
<v Speaker 18>about the true and the good and the beautiful, but

4863
04:50:32.639 --> 04:50:36.400
<v Speaker 18>no one cares to hear such things. I am quite desperate,

4864
04:50:36.880 --> 04:50:40.360
<v Speaker 18>for I take it so much to heart. But I don't,

4865
04:50:40.599 --> 04:50:44.000
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow. I become fat, and it is that

4866
04:50:44.279 --> 04:50:47.959
<v Speaker 18>one wants to become. You do not understand the world.

4867
04:50:48.680 --> 04:50:52.479
<v Speaker 18>You will become ill by it. You must travel. I

4868
04:50:52.599 --> 04:50:55.680
<v Speaker 18>shall make a tour this summer. Will you go with me.

4869
04:50:56.319 --> 04:50:59.400
<v Speaker 18>I should like to have a traveling companion. Will you

4870
04:50:59.560 --> 04:51:02.919
<v Speaker 18>go with me as shadow. It will be a great

4871
04:51:03.040 --> 04:51:06.240
<v Speaker 18>pleasure for me to have you with me. I shall

4872
04:51:06.279 --> 04:51:11.000
<v Speaker 18>pay the traveling expenses. Nay, this is too much, said

4873
04:51:11.040 --> 04:51:14.639
<v Speaker 18>the learned man. It is just as one takes it,

4874
04:51:14.880 --> 04:51:18.040
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow. It will do you much good to travel.

4875
04:51:18.479 --> 04:51:21.880
<v Speaker 18>Will you be my shadow? You shall have everything free

4876
04:51:21.959 --> 04:51:26.479
<v Speaker 18>on the journey. Nay, that is too bad, said the

4877
04:51:26.560 --> 04:51:29.759
<v Speaker 18>learned man. But it is just so with the world,

4878
04:51:30.159 --> 04:51:33.840
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow, And so it will be, and away

4879
04:51:33.919 --> 04:51:38.040
<v Speaker 18>it went again. The learned man was not at all

4880
04:51:38.159 --> 04:51:42.159
<v Speaker 18>in the most enviable state. Grief and torment followed him,

4881
04:51:42.840 --> 04:51:45.479
<v Speaker 18>and what he said about the true and the good

4882
04:51:45.799 --> 04:51:49.599
<v Speaker 18>and the beautiful was to most persons like roses for

4883
04:51:49.720 --> 04:51:54.279
<v Speaker 18>a cow. He was quite ill. At last, you really

4884
04:51:54.400 --> 04:51:57.639
<v Speaker 18>look like a shadow, said his friends to him, and

4885
04:51:57.759 --> 04:52:01.919
<v Speaker 18>the learned man trembled for he thought of it. You

4886
04:52:02.159 --> 04:52:05.080
<v Speaker 18>must go to a watering place, said the shadow, who

4887
04:52:05.159 --> 04:52:08.119
<v Speaker 18>came and visited him. There is nothing else for it.

4888
04:52:08.799 --> 04:52:12.000
<v Speaker 18>I will take you with me for old acquaintance sake.

4889
04:52:12.680 --> 04:52:16.439
<v Speaker 18>I will pay the traveling expenses, and you write the descriptions,

4890
04:52:17.000 --> 04:52:19.000
<v Speaker 18>and if they are a little musing for me, on

4891
04:52:19.080 --> 04:52:22.720
<v Speaker 18>the way, I will go to a watering place. My

4892
04:52:22.880 --> 04:52:25.840
<v Speaker 18>beard does not grow out as it ought. That is

4893
04:52:26.040 --> 04:52:29.720
<v Speaker 18>also a sickness, and one must have a beard. Now

4894
04:52:29.799 --> 04:52:33.200
<v Speaker 18>you be wise and accept the offer. We shall travel

4895
04:52:33.319 --> 04:52:38.720
<v Speaker 18>as comrades. And so they traveled. The shadow was master

4896
04:52:39.279 --> 04:52:42.919
<v Speaker 18>and the master was the shadow. They drove with each other.

4897
04:52:43.439 --> 04:52:48.080
<v Speaker 18>They rode and walked together, side by side, before and behind.

4898
04:52:48.720 --> 04:52:52.240
<v Speaker 18>Just as the sun was, the shadow always took care

4899
04:52:52.360 --> 04:52:56.200
<v Speaker 18>to keep itself in the master's place. Now the learned

4900
04:52:56.279 --> 04:52:59.639
<v Speaker 18>man didn't think much about that. He was a very

4901
04:52:59.759 --> 04:53:04.319
<v Speaker 18>kind hearted man, and particularly mild and friendly. And so

4902
04:53:04.599 --> 04:53:07.720
<v Speaker 18>he said one day to the shadow, as we have

4903
04:53:07.959 --> 04:53:11.279
<v Speaker 18>now become companions, and in this way have grown up

4904
04:53:11.360 --> 04:53:16.040
<v Speaker 18>together from childhood. Shall we not drink thou together? It

4905
04:53:16.159 --> 04:53:21.000
<v Speaker 18>is more familiar. You are right, said the shadow, who

4906
04:53:21.159 --> 04:53:24.200
<v Speaker 18>was now the proper master. It is said in a

4907
04:53:24.400 --> 04:53:29.200
<v Speaker 18>very straightforward and well meant manner. You, as a learned man,

4908
04:53:29.759 --> 04:53:34.279
<v Speaker 18>certainly know how strange nature is. Some persons cannot bear

4909
04:53:34.439 --> 04:53:38.680
<v Speaker 18>to touch gray paper, or they become ill. Others shiver

4910
04:53:38.919 --> 04:53:41.439
<v Speaker 18>in every limb if one rub the pane of glass

4911
04:53:41.520 --> 04:53:44.840
<v Speaker 18>with a nail. I have just such a feeling on

4912
04:53:45.000 --> 04:53:48.639
<v Speaker 18>hearing you say thou to me. I feel myself as

4913
04:53:48.680 --> 04:53:51.799
<v Speaker 18>if pressed to the earth in my first situation with you.

4914
04:53:52.880 --> 04:53:55.560
<v Speaker 18>You see that it is a feeling that it is

4915
04:53:55.680 --> 04:53:59.319
<v Speaker 18>not pride. I cannot allow you to say thou to me,

4916
04:54:00.080 --> 04:54:02.520
<v Speaker 18>but I will willingly say thou to you. So it

4917
04:54:02.639 --> 04:54:06.919
<v Speaker 18>is half done. So the shadow said thou to its

4918
04:54:07.000 --> 04:54:11.880
<v Speaker 18>former master. This is rather too bad, thought he that

4919
04:54:12.040 --> 04:54:16.000
<v Speaker 18>I must say you, and he say thou. But he

4920
04:54:16.240 --> 04:54:20.080
<v Speaker 18>was now obliged to put up with it. So they

4921
04:54:20.159 --> 04:54:23.639
<v Speaker 18>came to a watering place where there were many strangers,

4922
04:54:24.080 --> 04:54:27.279
<v Speaker 18>and amongst them was a princess who was troubled with

4923
04:54:27.439 --> 04:54:32.479
<v Speaker 18>seeing too well. And that was so alarming. She directly

4924
04:54:32.560 --> 04:54:35.959
<v Speaker 18>observed that the stranger who had just come was quite

4925
04:54:36.000 --> 04:54:39.759
<v Speaker 18>a different sort of person to all the others. He

4926
04:54:39.959 --> 04:54:42.560
<v Speaker 18>has come here in order to get his beard to grow,

4927
04:54:42.840 --> 04:54:46.400
<v Speaker 18>they say, But I see the real cause he cannot

4928
04:54:46.520 --> 04:54:51.639
<v Speaker 18>cast a shadow. She had become inquisitive, and so she

4929
04:54:52.000 --> 04:54:56.439
<v Speaker 18>entered into conversation directly with the strange gentlemen on their promenades.

4930
04:54:57.680 --> 04:55:00.680
<v Speaker 18>As the daughter of a king, she need not to

4931
04:55:00.799 --> 04:55:05.599
<v Speaker 18>stand upon trifles. So she said, your complaint is that

4932
04:55:05.759 --> 04:55:10.439
<v Speaker 18>you cannot cast a shadow. Your Royal Highness must be

4933
04:55:10.560 --> 04:55:14.959
<v Speaker 18>improving considerably, said the shadow. I know your complaint is

4934
04:55:15.200 --> 04:55:18.840
<v Speaker 18>that you see too clearly, but it has decreased. You

4935
04:55:18.959 --> 04:55:23.119
<v Speaker 18>are cured. I just happen to have a very unusual shadow.

4936
04:55:23.759 --> 04:55:26.720
<v Speaker 18>Do you not see that person who always goes with me?

4937
04:55:27.639 --> 04:55:30.759
<v Speaker 18>Other persons have a common shadow, but I do not

4938
04:55:31.080 --> 04:55:34.000
<v Speaker 18>like what is common to all. We give our servants

4939
04:55:34.119 --> 04:55:37.560
<v Speaker 18>finer cloth for their livery than we ourselves use. So

4940
04:55:37.759 --> 04:55:41.319
<v Speaker 18>I had my shadow trimmed up into a man. Yes,

4941
04:55:41.520 --> 04:55:44.520
<v Speaker 18>you see, I have even given him a shadow. It

4942
04:55:44.680 --> 04:55:48.560
<v Speaker 18>is somewhat expensive, but I like to have something for myself.

4943
04:55:49.799 --> 04:55:53.880
<v Speaker 18>What thought the princess? Should I really be cured? These

4944
04:55:54.040 --> 04:55:57.159
<v Speaker 18>baths are the first in the world, and our time

4945
04:55:57.319 --> 04:56:01.680
<v Speaker 18>water has wonderful powers. But I shall not leave this place,

4946
04:56:02.279 --> 04:56:04.000
<v Speaker 18>for it now begins to be amusing.

4947
04:56:04.119 --> 04:56:04.279
<v Speaker 4>Here.

4948
04:56:05.159 --> 04:56:08.599
<v Speaker 18>I am extremely fond of that stranger. Would that his

4949
04:56:08.799 --> 04:56:11.560
<v Speaker 18>beard should not grow, for in that case he will

4950
04:56:11.639 --> 04:56:16.000
<v Speaker 18>leave us. In the evening, the Princess and the shadow

4951
04:56:16.119 --> 04:56:20.479
<v Speaker 18>danced together in the large ballroom. She was light, but

4952
04:56:20.680 --> 04:56:24.080
<v Speaker 18>he was still lighter. She had never had such a

4953
04:56:24.200 --> 04:56:27.400
<v Speaker 18>partner in the dance. She told him from what land

4954
04:56:27.520 --> 04:56:31.319
<v Speaker 18>she came, and he knew that land, he had been there.

4955
04:56:31.919 --> 04:56:35.400
<v Speaker 18>But then she was not at home. He had peeped

4956
04:56:35.439 --> 04:56:38.840
<v Speaker 18>in at the window above and below. He had seen

4957
04:56:38.919 --> 04:56:41.759
<v Speaker 18>both the one and the other, and so he could

4958
04:56:41.840 --> 04:56:46.119
<v Speaker 18>answer the princess and make insinuations, so that she was

4959
04:56:46.319 --> 04:56:49.880
<v Speaker 18>quite astonished. He must be the wisest man in the

4960
04:56:49.959 --> 04:56:53.959
<v Speaker 18>whole world. She felt such respect for what he knew,

4961
04:56:54.919 --> 04:56:57.880
<v Speaker 18>so that when they again danced together, she fell in

4962
04:56:57.959 --> 04:57:01.639
<v Speaker 18>love with him, and that the shadow could remark, for

4963
04:57:01.799 --> 04:57:05.680
<v Speaker 18>she almost pierced him through with her eyes. So they

4964
04:57:05.799 --> 04:57:09.880
<v Speaker 18>danced once more together, and she was about to declare herself,

4965
04:57:10.639 --> 04:57:14.439
<v Speaker 18>but she was discreet. She thought of her country and kingdom,

4966
04:57:14.959 --> 04:57:17.680
<v Speaker 18>and of the many persons she would have to reign over.

4967
04:57:18.680 --> 04:57:22.159
<v Speaker 18>He is a wise man, she said to herself. It

4968
04:57:22.319 --> 04:57:26.360
<v Speaker 18>is well, and he dances delightfully. That is also good.

4969
04:57:27.080 --> 04:57:31.200
<v Speaker 18>But has he solid knowledge? That is just as important.

4970
04:57:31.759 --> 04:57:36.400
<v Speaker 18>He must be examined. So she began by degrees to

4971
04:57:36.560 --> 04:57:39.599
<v Speaker 18>question him about the most difficult things she could think of,

4972
04:57:40.360 --> 04:57:43.439
<v Speaker 18>and which she herself could not have answered, so that

4973
04:57:43.840 --> 04:57:48.000
<v Speaker 18>the Shadow made a strange face. You cannot answer these questions,

4974
04:57:48.319 --> 04:57:53.040
<v Speaker 18>said the princess. They belonged to my childhood's learning, said

4975
04:57:53.080 --> 04:57:56.880
<v Speaker 18>the shadow. I really believe my shadow by the door

4976
04:57:56.959 --> 04:58:01.200
<v Speaker 18>there can answer them, your shadow, said the princess. That

4977
04:58:01.279 --> 04:58:05.479
<v Speaker 18>would indeed be marvelous. I will not say for a

4978
04:58:05.639 --> 04:58:09.599
<v Speaker 18>certainty that he can, said the shadow. But I think so.

4979
04:58:10.560 --> 04:58:13.759
<v Speaker 18>He has now followed me for so many years and

4980
04:58:13.919 --> 04:58:18.279
<v Speaker 18>listened to my conversation. I should think it possible. But

4981
04:58:18.520 --> 04:58:21.959
<v Speaker 18>your Royal Highness will permit me to observe that he

4982
04:58:22.119 --> 04:58:25.000
<v Speaker 18>is so proud of passing himself off for a man

4983
04:58:25.479 --> 04:58:27.799
<v Speaker 18>that when he is to be in a proper humor,

4984
04:58:28.200 --> 04:58:31.119
<v Speaker 18>and he must be so to answer, well, he must

4985
04:58:31.200 --> 04:58:34.880
<v Speaker 18>be treated quite like a man. Oh I like that,

4986
04:58:35.159 --> 04:58:38.880
<v Speaker 18>said the princess. So she went to the learned man

4987
04:58:39.000 --> 04:58:41.639
<v Speaker 18>by the door, and she spoke to him about the

4988
04:58:41.759 --> 04:58:44.959
<v Speaker 18>sun and the moon, and about persons out of and

4989
04:58:45.119 --> 04:58:48.520
<v Speaker 18>in the world. And he answered with wisdom and prudence.

4990
04:58:49.479 --> 04:58:52.360
<v Speaker 18>What a man that must be, who has so wise

4991
04:58:52.439 --> 04:58:56.200
<v Speaker 18>a shadow, thought she. It will be a real blessing

4992
04:58:56.279 --> 04:58:59.119
<v Speaker 18>to my people and kingdom if I choose him for

4993
04:58:59.279 --> 04:58:59.880
<v Speaker 18>my consort.

4994
04:59:00.560 --> 04:59:01.240
<v Speaker 5>I will do it.

4995
04:59:02.479 --> 04:59:06.040
<v Speaker 18>They were soon agreed, both the princess and the shadow,

4996
04:59:06.599 --> 04:59:08.959
<v Speaker 18>but no one was to know about it before she

4997
04:59:09.200 --> 04:59:13.880
<v Speaker 18>arrived in her own kingdom. No one, not even my shadow,

4998
04:59:14.119 --> 04:59:17.279
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow, and he had his own thoughts about it.

4999
04:59:18.720 --> 04:59:21.279
<v Speaker 18>Now they were in the country where the princess reigned

5000
04:59:21.360 --> 04:59:25.520
<v Speaker 18>when she was at home. Listen, my good friend, said

5001
04:59:25.560 --> 04:59:29.040
<v Speaker 18>the shadow to the learned man. I have now become

5002
04:59:29.159 --> 04:59:32.759
<v Speaker 18>as happy and mighty as any one can be. I

5003
04:59:32.919 --> 04:59:38.040
<v Speaker 18>will therefore do something particular for THEE. Thou shalt always

5004
04:59:38.159 --> 04:59:40.840
<v Speaker 18>live with me in the palace, drive with me in

5005
04:59:40.919 --> 04:59:44.479
<v Speaker 18>my royal carriage, and have ten thousand pounds a year.

5006
04:59:45.520 --> 04:59:49.319
<v Speaker 18>But then thou must submit to be called shadow by

5007
04:59:49.520 --> 04:59:53.520
<v Speaker 18>all and everyone. Thou must not say that thou hast

5008
04:59:53.680 --> 04:59:57.439
<v Speaker 18>ever been a man. And once a year, when I

5009
04:59:57.560 --> 05:00:01.040
<v Speaker 18>sit on the balcony in the sunshine, thou must lie

5010
05:00:01.119 --> 05:00:04.759
<v Speaker 18>at my feet as a shadow shall do. I must

5011
05:00:04.919 --> 05:00:07.639
<v Speaker 18>tell THEE I am going to marry the king's daughter,

5012
05:00:08.240 --> 05:00:10.919
<v Speaker 18>and the nuptials are to take place this evening.

5013
05:00:12.240 --> 05:00:14.040
<v Speaker 11>Nay, this is going too far.

5014
05:00:14.159 --> 05:00:15.080
<v Speaker 18>Said the learned man.

5015
05:00:15.439 --> 05:00:16.479
<v Speaker 21>I will not have it.

5016
05:00:17.000 --> 05:00:17.959
<v Speaker 8>I will not do it.

5017
05:00:18.599 --> 05:00:21.400
<v Speaker 18>It is to deceive the whole country and the princess too.

5018
05:00:22.080 --> 05:00:25.000
<v Speaker 18>I will tell everything that I am a man and

5019
05:00:25.200 --> 05:00:30.000
<v Speaker 18>thou art a shadow, thou art only dressed up. There

5020
05:00:30.080 --> 05:00:32.240
<v Speaker 18>is no one who will believe it, said the shadow.

5021
05:00:32.560 --> 05:00:36.520
<v Speaker 18>Be reasonable, or I will call the guard. I will

5022
05:00:36.560 --> 05:00:40.000
<v Speaker 18>go directly to the princess, said the learned man. But

5023
05:00:40.200 --> 05:00:43.439
<v Speaker 18>I will go first, said the shadow, And thou wilt

5024
05:00:43.560 --> 05:00:46.720
<v Speaker 18>go to prison, and that he was obliged to do

5025
05:00:47.240 --> 05:00:50.959
<v Speaker 18>for the sentinels obeyed him, whom they knew the king's

5026
05:00:51.040 --> 05:00:55.400
<v Speaker 18>daughter was to marry you. Tremble, said the princess, as

5027
05:00:55.479 --> 05:00:59.639
<v Speaker 18>the Shadow came into her chamber. Has anything happened? You

5028
05:00:59.759 --> 05:01:02.799
<v Speaker 18>must not be unwell this evening, now that we are

5029
05:01:02.919 --> 05:01:07.279
<v Speaker 18>to have our nuptials celebrated. I have lived to see

5030
05:01:07.400 --> 05:01:10.520
<v Speaker 18>the most cruel thing that anyone can live to see,

5031
05:01:11.159 --> 05:01:16.400
<v Speaker 18>said the shadow. Only imagine, yes, it is true. Such

5032
05:01:16.479 --> 05:01:21.599
<v Speaker 18>a poor shadow skull cannot bear much. Only think my

5033
05:01:21.880 --> 05:01:25.360
<v Speaker 18>shadow has become mad. He thinks that he is a man,

5034
05:01:26.040 --> 05:01:30.360
<v Speaker 18>and that I now only think that I am his shadow.

5035
05:01:31.479 --> 05:01:34.919
<v Speaker 18>It is terrible, said the princess. But he is confined,

5036
05:01:35.159 --> 05:01:39.000
<v Speaker 18>is he not that he is? I am afraid that

5037
05:01:39.119 --> 05:01:44.000
<v Speaker 18>he will never recover, poor shadow, said the princess. He

5038
05:01:44.159 --> 05:01:47.400
<v Speaker 18>is very unfortunate. It would be a real work of

5039
05:01:47.560 --> 05:01:50.680
<v Speaker 18>charity to deliver him from the little life he has.

5040
05:01:51.360 --> 05:01:55.000
<v Speaker 18>And when I think properly over the matter, I am

5041
05:01:55.080 --> 05:01:57.919
<v Speaker 18>of opinion that it will be necessary to do away

5042
05:01:57.959 --> 05:02:02.240
<v Speaker 18>with him in all stillness. It is certainly hard, said

5043
05:02:02.279 --> 05:02:05.959
<v Speaker 18>the shadow, for he was a faithful servant. And then

5044
05:02:06.040 --> 05:02:10.000
<v Speaker 18>he gave a sort of sigh. You are a noble character,

5045
05:02:10.319 --> 05:02:15.000
<v Speaker 18>said the princess. The whole city was illuminated in the evening,

5046
05:02:15.520 --> 05:02:19.200
<v Speaker 18>and the cannons went off with a bum bum, and

5047
05:02:19.319 --> 05:02:21.119
<v Speaker 18>the soldier's presented arms.

5048
05:02:21.840 --> 05:02:23.119
<v Speaker 21>That was a marriage.

5049
05:02:23.639 --> 05:02:26.599
<v Speaker 18>The princess and the Shadow went out on the balcony

5050
05:02:26.720 --> 05:02:31.479
<v Speaker 18>to show themselves and get another hurrah. The learned man

5051
05:02:31.680 --> 05:02:34.880
<v Speaker 18>heard nothing of all this, for they had deprived him

5052
05:02:35.080 --> 05:02:35.840
<v Speaker 18>of life.

5053
05:02:37.840 --> 05:02:39.279
<v Speaker 13>And of the shadow.

5054
05:02:40.479 --> 05:02:46.599
<v Speaker 7>The little match girl most terribly cold it was. It snowed,

5055
05:02:46.720 --> 05:02:50.479
<v Speaker 7>and was nearly quite dark and evening, the last evening

5056
05:02:50.520 --> 05:02:54.279
<v Speaker 7>of the year. In this cold and darkness, there went

5057
05:02:54.400 --> 05:02:57.639
<v Speaker 7>along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded and with

5058
05:02:57.799 --> 05:03:01.360
<v Speaker 7>naked feet. When she left home. She had slippers on,

5059
05:03:01.560 --> 05:03:03.799
<v Speaker 7>it is true, but what was the good of that?

5060
05:03:04.680 --> 05:03:08.560
<v Speaker 7>They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn.

5061
05:03:08.959 --> 05:03:12.200
<v Speaker 7>So large were they, and the poor little thing lost

5062
05:03:12.279 --> 05:03:15.200
<v Speaker 7>them as she scuffled away. Across the street because of

5063
05:03:15.279 --> 05:03:20.319
<v Speaker 7>two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast. One slipper was

5064
05:03:20.439 --> 05:03:23.720
<v Speaker 7>nowhere to be found. The other had been laid hold

5065
05:03:23.759 --> 05:03:25.720
<v Speaker 7>of by an urchin, and off he ran with it.

5066
05:03:26.439 --> 05:03:29.119
<v Speaker 7>He thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he,

5067
05:03:29.479 --> 05:03:33.200
<v Speaker 7>some day or other, should have children himself. So the

5068
05:03:33.319 --> 05:03:36.639
<v Speaker 7>little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet that

5069
05:03:36.799 --> 05:03:40.319
<v Speaker 7>were quite red and blue from cold. She carried a

5070
05:03:40.400 --> 05:03:43.680
<v Speaker 7>quantity of matches in an old apron, and she held

5071
05:03:43.720 --> 05:03:47.159
<v Speaker 7>a bundle of them in her hand. Nobody had bought

5072
05:03:47.240 --> 05:03:50.919
<v Speaker 7>anything of her the whole livelong day. No one had

5073
05:03:50.959 --> 05:03:55.319
<v Speaker 7>given her a single farthing. She crept along, trembling with

5074
05:03:55.439 --> 05:03:59.159
<v Speaker 7>cold and hunger, a very picture of sorrow, the poor

5075
05:03:59.279 --> 05:04:04.159
<v Speaker 7>little thing. The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair,

5076
05:04:04.680 --> 05:04:08.119
<v Speaker 7>which fell in beautiful curls around her neck. But of that,

5077
05:04:08.400 --> 05:04:12.000
<v Speaker 7>of course, she never once now thought. From all the

5078
05:04:12.080 --> 05:04:16.200
<v Speaker 7>windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously

5079
05:04:16.279 --> 05:04:20.200
<v Speaker 7>of roast goose, For you know, it was New Year's Eve. Yes,

5080
05:04:20.720 --> 05:04:25.599
<v Speaker 7>of that, she thought. In a corner formed by two houses,

5081
05:04:25.880 --> 05:04:28.959
<v Speaker 7>of which one advanced more than the other, she seated

5082
05:04:29.040 --> 05:04:32.799
<v Speaker 7>herself down and cowered together her little feet she had

5083
05:04:32.880 --> 05:04:36.520
<v Speaker 7>drawn close up to her. But she grew colder and colder,

5084
05:04:37.000 --> 05:04:39.720
<v Speaker 7>and to go home she did not venture, for she

5085
05:04:39.880 --> 05:04:42.680
<v Speaker 7>had not sold any matches, and could not bring a

5086
05:04:42.799 --> 05:04:46.840
<v Speaker 7>farthing of money from her father. She would certainly get blows.

5087
05:04:47.360 --> 05:04:50.439
<v Speaker 7>And at home it was cold too, for above her

5088
05:04:50.520 --> 05:04:53.360
<v Speaker 7>she had only the roof through which the wind whistled.

5089
05:04:53.919 --> 05:04:56.680
<v Speaker 7>Even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw

5090
05:04:56.759 --> 05:05:02.159
<v Speaker 7>and rags. Her little hands were almost numbed with cold. Oh,

5091
05:05:02.319 --> 05:05:05.240
<v Speaker 7>a match might afford her a world of comfort, if

5092
05:05:05.319 --> 05:05:08.040
<v Speaker 7>she only dared take a single one out of the bundle,

5093
05:05:08.439 --> 05:05:10.880
<v Speaker 7>draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it.

5094
05:05:11.799 --> 05:05:15.919
<v Speaker 7>She drew one out wrist. How it blazed, how it burnt.

5095
05:05:16.560 --> 05:05:19.279
<v Speaker 7>It was a warm, bright flame, like a candle. As

5096
05:05:19.360 --> 05:05:22.400
<v Speaker 7>she held her hands over it, it was a wonderful light.

5097
05:05:23.279 --> 05:05:25.840
<v Speaker 7>It seemed, really to the little maiden, as though she

5098
05:05:26.000 --> 05:05:30.040
<v Speaker 7>were sitting before a large iron stove with burnished brass

5099
05:05:30.080 --> 05:05:33.840
<v Speaker 7>feet and a brass ornament atop. The fire burned with

5100
05:05:33.959 --> 05:05:38.520
<v Speaker 7>such blessed influence. It warmed so delightfully. The little girl

5101
05:05:38.599 --> 05:05:41.159
<v Speaker 7>had already stretched out her feet to warm them too.

5102
05:05:41.360 --> 05:05:45.639
<v Speaker 7>But the small flame went out the stove vanished. She

5103
05:05:45.759 --> 05:05:47.919
<v Speaker 7>had only the remains of the burnt out match in

5104
05:05:48.000 --> 05:05:53.240
<v Speaker 7>her hand. She rubbed another against the wall. It burned brightly,

5105
05:05:53.799 --> 05:05:56.439
<v Speaker 7>and where the light fell on the wall, there the

5106
05:05:56.520 --> 05:05:59.720
<v Speaker 7>wall became transparent like a veil, so that she could

5107
05:05:59.759 --> 05:06:02.919
<v Speaker 7>see into the room. On the table was spread a

5108
05:06:03.040 --> 05:06:07.479
<v Speaker 7>snow white tablecloth. Upon it was a splendid porcelain service,

5109
05:06:08.040 --> 05:06:11.319
<v Speaker 7>and the roast goose was steaming famously with its stuffing

5110
05:06:11.400 --> 05:06:14.919
<v Speaker 7>of apple and dried plums. And what was still more

5111
05:06:15.040 --> 05:06:18.799
<v Speaker 7>capital to behold was the goose hopped down from the dish,

5112
05:06:19.319 --> 05:06:21.639
<v Speaker 7>reeled about on the floor with knife and fork in

5113
05:06:21.680 --> 05:06:24.400
<v Speaker 7>its breast, till it came up to the poor little girl.

5114
05:06:24.479 --> 05:06:28.799
<v Speaker 7>When the match went out, and nothing but the thick, cold,

5115
05:06:28.959 --> 05:06:34.279
<v Speaker 7>damp wall was left behind, she lighted another match. Now

5116
05:06:34.479 --> 05:06:38.040
<v Speaker 7>there she was sitting under the most magnificent Christmas tree.

5117
05:06:38.680 --> 05:06:41.520
<v Speaker 7>It was still larger and more decorated than the one

5118
05:06:41.639 --> 05:06:43.840
<v Speaker 7>which she had seen through the glass door in the

5119
05:06:43.959 --> 05:06:47.799
<v Speaker 7>rich merchant's house. Thousands of lights were burning on the

5120
05:06:47.880 --> 05:06:51.560
<v Speaker 7>green branches, and gaily colored pictures such as she had

5121
05:06:51.639 --> 05:06:55.200
<v Speaker 7>seen in the shop windows, looked down upon her. The

5122
05:06:55.319 --> 05:06:58.880
<v Speaker 7>little maiden stretched out her hands toward them. When the

5123
05:06:59.000 --> 05:07:02.400
<v Speaker 7>match went out, the lights of the Christmas tree rose

5124
05:07:02.520 --> 05:07:06.119
<v Speaker 7>higher and higher. She saw them now as stars in heaven.

5125
05:07:07.000 --> 05:07:10.080
<v Speaker 7>One fell down and formed a long trail of fire.

5126
05:07:11.360 --> 05:07:14.720
<v Speaker 7>Some one is just dead, said the little girl, for

5127
05:07:14.840 --> 05:07:17.880
<v Speaker 7>her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her

5128
05:07:18.159 --> 05:07:21.080
<v Speaker 7>and who was now no more, had told her that

5129
05:07:21.200 --> 05:07:25.959
<v Speaker 7>when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. She

5130
05:07:26.159 --> 05:07:29.479
<v Speaker 7>drew another match against the wall. It was again light,

5131
05:07:29.880 --> 05:07:33.200
<v Speaker 7>and in the luster there stood the old grandmother, so

5132
05:07:33.479 --> 05:07:37.119
<v Speaker 7>bright and radiant, so mild, and with such an expression

5133
05:07:37.200 --> 05:07:42.200
<v Speaker 7>of love. Grandmother cried the little one, Oh, take me

5134
05:07:42.360 --> 05:07:42.639
<v Speaker 7>with you.

5135
05:07:43.360 --> 05:07:44.000
<v Speaker 4>You go away.

5136
05:07:44.119 --> 05:07:47.319
<v Speaker 10>When the match burns out, you vanish like the warm stove,

5137
05:07:47.840 --> 05:07:51.360
<v Speaker 10>like the delicious roast goose, and like the magnificent Christmas tree.

5138
05:07:52.520 --> 05:07:55.560
<v Speaker 10>And she rubbed the whole bundle of matches quickly against

5139
05:07:55.599 --> 05:07:58.159
<v Speaker 10>the wall, for she wanted to be quite sure of

5140
05:07:58.319 --> 05:08:01.919
<v Speaker 10>keeping her grandmother near her. And the matches gave such

5141
05:08:01.959 --> 05:08:04.799
<v Speaker 10>a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noonday.

5142
05:08:05.680 --> 05:08:09.520
<v Speaker 10>Never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall.

5143
05:08:10.400 --> 05:08:13.639
<v Speaker 10>She took the little maiden on her arm, and both

5144
05:08:13.840 --> 05:08:18.279
<v Speaker 10>flew in brightness and joy, so high, so very high,

5145
05:08:18.919 --> 05:08:23.639
<v Speaker 10>and then above was neither cold, nor hunger nor anxiety.

5146
05:08:24.639 --> 05:08:29.959
<v Speaker 10>They were with God. But in the corner, at the

5147
05:08:30.040 --> 05:08:33.639
<v Speaker 10>cold hour of dawn sat the poor girl, with rosy

5148
05:08:33.759 --> 05:08:36.680
<v Speaker 10>cheeks and with the smiling mouth, leaning against the wall,

5149
05:08:37.479 --> 05:08:40.119
<v Speaker 10>frozen to death. On the last evening of the old year,

5150
05:08:41.279 --> 05:08:44.159
<v Speaker 10>stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches,

5151
05:08:44.639 --> 05:08:48.319
<v Speaker 10>of which one bundle had been burnt. She wanted to

5152
05:08:48.400 --> 05:08:53.040
<v Speaker 10>warm herself. People said, no one had the slightest suspicion

5153
05:08:53.200 --> 05:08:57.240
<v Speaker 10>of what beautiful things she had seen. No one even

5154
05:08:57.400 --> 05:09:00.279
<v Speaker 10>dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandma mother

5155
05:09:01.000 --> 05:09:03.680
<v Speaker 10>she had entered on the joys of a new year.

5156
05:09:06.520 --> 05:09:07.880
<v Speaker 10>End of the little match.

5157
05:09:07.720 --> 05:09:14.959
<v Speaker 23>Girl, the dream of little Tuck. Ah, Yes, that was

5158
05:09:15.119 --> 05:09:20.000
<v Speaker 23>little Tuck. In reality, his name was not Tuck, but

5159
05:09:20.400 --> 05:09:23.400
<v Speaker 23>that was what he called himself before he could speak plain.

5160
05:09:24.639 --> 05:09:28.400
<v Speaker 23>He meant it for Charles. And it is all well

5161
05:09:28.560 --> 05:09:33.240
<v Speaker 23>enough if one does but know it. He had now

5162
05:09:33.360 --> 05:09:37.240
<v Speaker 23>to take care of his little sister, Augusta, who was

5163
05:09:37.360 --> 05:09:41.319
<v Speaker 23>much younger than himself, and he was besides to learn

5164
05:09:41.520 --> 05:09:45.520
<v Speaker 23>his lesson at the same time. But these two things

5165
05:09:45.599 --> 05:09:49.680
<v Speaker 23>would not do together at all. There sat the poor

5166
05:09:49.759 --> 05:09:52.959
<v Speaker 23>little fellow with his sister on his lap, and he

5167
05:09:53.159 --> 05:09:56.279
<v Speaker 23>sang to her all the songs he knew, and he

5168
05:09:56.400 --> 05:09:59.880
<v Speaker 23>glanced the while from time to time into the geography

5169
05:10:00.040 --> 05:10:04.000
<v Speaker 23>book that lay open before him. By the next morning

5170
05:10:04.119 --> 05:10:07.040
<v Speaker 23>he was to have learnt all the towns in Zeeland

5171
05:10:07.400 --> 05:10:11.040
<v Speaker 23>by heart, and to know about them all that is

5172
05:10:11.159 --> 05:10:16.119
<v Speaker 23>possible to be known. His mother now came home, for

5173
05:10:16.319 --> 05:10:19.799
<v Speaker 23>she had been out, and took little Augusta on her arm.

5174
05:10:21.119 --> 05:10:24.880
<v Speaker 23>Tuck ran quickly to the window and read so eagerly

5175
05:10:25.360 --> 05:10:29.759
<v Speaker 23>that he pretty nearly read his eyes out, for it

5176
05:10:29.880 --> 05:10:33.599
<v Speaker 23>got darker and darker, But his mother had no money

5177
05:10:33.680 --> 05:10:38.720
<v Speaker 23>to buy a candle. There goes the old washerwoman over

5178
05:10:38.759 --> 05:10:41.279
<v Speaker 23>the way, said his mother, as she looked out of

5179
05:10:41.360 --> 05:10:45.720
<v Speaker 23>the window. The poor woman can hardly drag herself along,

5180
05:10:46.319 --> 05:10:49.520
<v Speaker 23>and she must now drag the pail home from the fountain.

5181
05:10:50.520 --> 05:10:54.080
<v Speaker 23>Be a good boy, Tucky, and run across and help

5182
05:10:54.159 --> 05:10:58.599
<v Speaker 23>the old woman, won't you? So Tuck ran over quickly

5183
05:10:58.639 --> 05:11:02.040
<v Speaker 23>and helped her. But when he came back again into

5184
05:11:02.080 --> 05:11:05.959
<v Speaker 23>the room, it was quite dark, and as to a

5185
05:11:06.080 --> 05:11:09.840
<v Speaker 23>light there was no thought of such a thing. He

5186
05:11:10.000 --> 05:11:13.319
<v Speaker 23>was now to go to bed. That was an old

5187
05:11:13.439 --> 05:11:16.639
<v Speaker 23>turn up bedstead. In it he lay and thought about

5188
05:11:16.680 --> 05:11:20.319
<v Speaker 23>his geography lesson, and of Zeeland, and of all that

5189
05:11:20.439 --> 05:11:24.040
<v Speaker 23>his master had told him. He ought to be sure

5190
05:11:24.560 --> 05:11:27.680
<v Speaker 23>to have read over his lesson again, but that you know,

5191
05:11:27.840 --> 05:11:31.799
<v Speaker 23>he could not do. He therefore put his geography book

5192
05:11:31.959 --> 05:11:36.000
<v Speaker 23>under his pillow, because he had heard that was a

5193
05:11:36.200 --> 05:11:38.319
<v Speaker 23>very good thing to do when one wants to learn

5194
05:11:38.400 --> 05:11:45.520
<v Speaker 23>one's lesson, but one cannot, however, rely upon it entirely. Well,

5195
05:11:45.599 --> 05:11:49.319
<v Speaker 23>there he lay and thought and thought, and all at

5196
05:11:49.400 --> 05:11:53.439
<v Speaker 23>once it was just as if someone kissed his eyes

5197
05:11:53.639 --> 05:11:57.759
<v Speaker 23>and mouth. He slept, And yet he did not sleep.

5198
05:11:58.560 --> 05:12:02.080
<v Speaker 23>It was as though the old washerwoman gazed on him

5199
05:12:02.360 --> 05:12:06.439
<v Speaker 23>with her mild eyes and said, it were a great

5200
05:12:06.639 --> 05:12:10.119
<v Speaker 23>sin if you were not to know your lesson tomorrow morning.

5201
05:12:11.000 --> 05:12:14.560
<v Speaker 23>You have aided me. I therefore will now help you,

5202
05:12:15.439 --> 05:12:18.599
<v Speaker 23>and the loving God will do so at all times.

5203
05:12:19.720 --> 05:12:22.360
<v Speaker 23>And all of a sudden, the book under Tuck's pillow

5204
05:12:22.759 --> 05:12:29.919
<v Speaker 23>began scraping and scratching. Kikheti ki kluck, cluck cluck. That

5205
05:12:30.119 --> 05:12:33.599
<v Speaker 23>was an old hen. That was an old hen who

5206
05:12:33.720 --> 05:12:39.080
<v Speaker 23>came creeping along. And she was from kiyoj I'm a

5207
05:12:39.319 --> 05:12:43.119
<v Speaker 23>keyoder hen, said she, And then she related how many

5208
05:12:43.200 --> 05:12:46.759
<v Speaker 23>inhabitants there were there, and about the battle that had

5209
05:12:46.799 --> 05:12:55.799
<v Speaker 23>taken place, and which after all, was hardly worth talking about. Quibbledy, crabbledy, plump,

5210
05:12:56.439 --> 05:13:01.560
<v Speaker 23>downfell somebody. It was a wooden bird, the poppingjay used

5211
05:13:01.639 --> 05:13:06.680
<v Speaker 23>at the shooting matches at Prostow. Now he said that

5212
05:13:07.040 --> 05:13:10.080
<v Speaker 23>there were just as many inhabitants as he had nails

5213
05:13:10.159 --> 05:13:14.599
<v Speaker 23>in his body, and he was very proud. Thor Waldsen

5214
05:13:14.759 --> 05:13:20.880
<v Speaker 23>lived almost next door to me. Paulump here I lie capitally.

5215
05:13:22.200 --> 05:13:25.759
<v Speaker 23>But little Tuck was no longer lying down. All at

5216
05:13:25.799 --> 05:13:30.040
<v Speaker 23>once he was on horseback. On he went at full gallop,

5217
05:13:30.319 --> 05:13:35.400
<v Speaker 23>still galloping on and on a night with a gleaming plume,

5218
05:13:35.880 --> 05:13:41.119
<v Speaker 23>and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse.

5219
05:13:41.799 --> 05:13:44.040
<v Speaker 23>And thus they rode through the wood to the old

5220
05:13:44.400 --> 05:13:48.000
<v Speaker 23>town of Boordingborg. And that was a large and very

5221
05:13:48.040 --> 05:13:52.520
<v Speaker 23>lively town. High towers rose from the castle of the king,

5222
05:13:53.319 --> 05:13:57.400
<v Speaker 23>and the brightness of many candles streamed from all the windows.

5223
05:13:58.319 --> 05:14:04.040
<v Speaker 23>Within was dance and song, and King Waldemar and the young,

5224
05:14:04.319 --> 05:14:09.439
<v Speaker 23>richly attired maids of honor danced together. The morn now came,

5225
05:14:10.040 --> 05:14:13.119
<v Speaker 23>and as soon as the sun appeared, the whole town

5226
05:14:13.319 --> 05:14:17.759
<v Speaker 23>and the King's palace crumbled together, and one tower after

5227
05:14:17.840 --> 05:14:21.759
<v Speaker 23>the other, and at last only a single one remained

5228
05:14:21.880 --> 05:14:26.200
<v Speaker 23>standing where the castle had been before. And the town

5229
05:14:26.360 --> 05:14:30.520
<v Speaker 23>was so small and poor. And the schoolboys came along

5230
05:14:30.639 --> 05:14:34.319
<v Speaker 23>with their books under their arms, and said two thousand inhabitants.

5231
05:14:35.119 --> 05:14:38.439
<v Speaker 23>But that was not true, for there were not so many.

5232
05:14:39.720 --> 05:14:43.200
<v Speaker 23>And little Tucky lay in his bed. It seemed to

5233
05:14:43.360 --> 05:14:46.479
<v Speaker 23>him as if he dreamed, and yet as if he

5234
05:14:46.720 --> 05:14:52.880
<v Speaker 23>were not dreaming. However, somebody was close beside him, Little Tucky,

5235
05:14:53.240 --> 05:14:57.680
<v Speaker 23>Little Tucky cried, someone near. It was a seaman, quite

5236
05:14:57.720 --> 05:15:01.319
<v Speaker 23>a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman.

5237
05:15:01.639 --> 05:15:07.720
<v Speaker 23>But a midshipman he was not many remembrances from Corsore.

5238
05:15:08.520 --> 05:15:11.759
<v Speaker 23>That is a town that is just rising into importance,

5239
05:15:11.840 --> 05:15:16.639
<v Speaker 23>a lively town that has steamboats and stage coaches. Formerly

5240
05:15:16.680 --> 05:15:19.599
<v Speaker 23>people called it ugly, but that is no longer true.

5241
05:15:20.720 --> 05:15:24.520
<v Speaker 23>I lie on the sea, said Corsair. I have high

5242
05:15:24.639 --> 05:15:27.880
<v Speaker 23>roads and gardens, and I have given birth to a

5243
05:15:27.959 --> 05:15:34.279
<v Speaker 23>poet who was witty and amusing, which all poets are not.

5244
05:15:35.560 --> 05:15:39.279
<v Speaker 23>I once intended to equip a ship that was to

5245
05:15:39.400 --> 05:15:42.880
<v Speaker 23>sail all around the earth, but I did not do it,

5246
05:15:43.200 --> 05:15:46.759
<v Speaker 23>although I could have done so, And then too, I

5247
05:15:46.880 --> 05:15:52.279
<v Speaker 23>smell so deliciously, for close before the gate bloomed the

5248
05:15:52.400 --> 05:15:57.799
<v Speaker 23>most beautiful roses. Little Tuck looked, and all was red

5249
05:15:57.840 --> 05:16:01.119
<v Speaker 23>and green before his eyes. But as soon as the

5250
05:16:01.200 --> 05:16:04.840
<v Speaker 23>confusion of colors was somewhat over all, of a sudden

5251
05:16:05.240 --> 05:16:08.840
<v Speaker 23>there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and

5252
05:16:09.159 --> 05:16:13.159
<v Speaker 23>high up above stood a magnificent old church with two

5253
05:16:13.840 --> 05:16:19.319
<v Speaker 23>high pointed towers. From out the hillside spouted fountains in

5254
05:16:19.520 --> 05:16:23.840
<v Speaker 23>thick streams of water, so that there was a continual splashing.

5255
05:16:24.560 --> 05:16:27.520
<v Speaker 23>And close beside them sat an old king with a

5256
05:16:27.599 --> 05:16:32.840
<v Speaker 23>golden crown upon his white head. That was King Hurrar,

5257
05:16:33.919 --> 05:16:38.759
<v Speaker 23>near the fountains, close to the town of Ralskady, as

5258
05:16:38.959 --> 05:16:39.840
<v Speaker 23>it is now called.

5259
05:16:40.759 --> 05:16:41.919
<v Speaker 14>And up the.

5260
05:16:42.000 --> 05:16:45.159
<v Speaker 23>Slope into the old church went all the kings and

5261
05:16:45.400 --> 05:16:51.119
<v Speaker 23>queens of Denmark, hand in hand, all with their golden crowns,

5262
05:16:51.840 --> 05:16:56.119
<v Speaker 23>and the organ played, and the fountains rustled. Little Tuck

5263
05:16:56.520 --> 05:17:01.520
<v Speaker 23>saw all heard all. Do not forget the diet, said

5264
05:17:01.680 --> 05:17:09.200
<v Speaker 23>King Hurrar. Again, all suddenly disappeared, Yes, and whither it

5265
05:17:09.319 --> 05:17:12.720
<v Speaker 23>seemed to him just as if one turned over a

5266
05:17:12.840 --> 05:17:16.919
<v Speaker 23>leaf in a book, and now stood there an old

5267
05:17:17.159 --> 05:17:22.560
<v Speaker 23>peasant woman who came from Sarol, where grass grows.

5268
05:17:22.319 --> 05:17:23.240
<v Speaker 9>In the marketplace.

5269
05:17:24.159 --> 05:17:27.159
<v Speaker 23>She had an old gray linen apron hanging over her

5270
05:17:27.240 --> 05:17:30.919
<v Speaker 23>head and back. It was so wet it certainly must

5271
05:17:30.959 --> 05:17:35.840
<v Speaker 23>have been raining. Yes, that it was, said she. And

5272
05:17:36.040 --> 05:17:39.560
<v Speaker 23>she now related many pretty things out of Holberg's comedies,

5273
05:17:39.759 --> 05:17:44.560
<v Speaker 23>and about Waldemar and Absalom. But all at once she

5274
05:17:44.759 --> 05:17:49.080
<v Speaker 23>cowered together, and her head began shaking backwards and forwards,

5275
05:17:49.520 --> 05:17:51.360
<v Speaker 23>and she looked as if she were going to make

5276
05:17:51.439 --> 05:17:57.080
<v Speaker 23>a spring kroak kurok, said she. It is wet, it

5277
05:17:57.639 --> 05:18:02.799
<v Speaker 23>is wet. There is such a pleasant deathlike stillness and sorb.

5278
05:18:04.599 --> 05:18:08.759
<v Speaker 23>She was now suddenly a frog croak, and now she

5279
05:18:08.959 --> 05:18:12.520
<v Speaker 23>was an old woman. One must dress according to the weather,

5280
05:18:12.639 --> 05:18:17.200
<v Speaker 23>said she. It is wet, it is wet. My town

5281
05:18:17.360 --> 05:18:20.840
<v Speaker 23>is just like a bottle, and one gets in by

5282
05:18:20.880 --> 05:18:23.880
<v Speaker 23>the neck, and by the neck one must get out again.

5283
05:18:24.840 --> 05:18:28.560
<v Speaker 23>In former times I had the finest fish, and now

5284
05:18:29.319 --> 05:18:32.799
<v Speaker 23>I have fresh, rosy cheeked boys at the bottom of

5285
05:18:32.840 --> 05:18:40.119
<v Speaker 23>the bottle who learn wisdom Hebrew Greek croak. When she spoke,

5286
05:18:40.360 --> 05:18:43.439
<v Speaker 23>it sounded just like the noise of frogs, or as

5287
05:18:43.479 --> 05:18:47.560
<v Speaker 23>if one walked with boots over a moor, always the

5288
05:18:47.639 --> 05:18:52.400
<v Speaker 23>same tone, so uniform and so tiring, that little Tuck

5289
05:18:52.639 --> 05:18:57.560
<v Speaker 23>fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye

5290
05:18:58.159 --> 05:19:02.240
<v Speaker 23>could not do him any harm. But even in this

5291
05:19:02.479 --> 05:19:05.680
<v Speaker 23>sleep there came a dream, or whatever else. It was

5292
05:19:06.520 --> 05:19:11.080
<v Speaker 23>his little sister, Augusta, she with the blue eyes and

5293
05:19:11.200 --> 05:19:16.240
<v Speaker 23>the fair curling hair, was suddenly a tall, beautiful girl,

5294
05:19:16.799 --> 05:19:20.840
<v Speaker 23>and without having wings, was yet able to fly. And

5295
05:19:20.959 --> 05:19:24.159
<v Speaker 23>she now flew over Zealand, over the green woods and

5296
05:19:24.279 --> 05:19:29.680
<v Speaker 23>the blue lakes. Do you hear the cock crow? Tucky cock,

5297
05:19:29.720 --> 05:19:33.360
<v Speaker 23>a doodle doo? The cocks are flying up from Judge.

5298
05:19:34.560 --> 05:19:38.319
<v Speaker 23>You will have a farm yard so large, oh so

5299
05:19:38.840 --> 05:19:42.799
<v Speaker 23>very large. You will suffer neither hunger nor thirst. You

5300
05:19:42.880 --> 05:19:45.080
<v Speaker 23>will get on in the world. You will be a

5301
05:19:45.279 --> 05:19:49.319
<v Speaker 23>rich and happy man. Your house will exalt itself like

5302
05:19:49.560 --> 05:19:54.119
<v Speaker 23>King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble

5303
05:19:54.319 --> 05:19:59.720
<v Speaker 23>statues like that at Pristau. You understand what I mean.

5304
05:20:00.159 --> 05:20:04.639
<v Speaker 23>Your name shall circulate with renown all round the earth,

5305
05:20:05.639 --> 05:20:08.119
<v Speaker 23>like unto the ship that was to have sailed from

5306
05:20:08.240 --> 05:20:12.880
<v Speaker 23>course and in rose Kild. Do not forget the diet,

5307
05:20:13.439 --> 05:20:18.080
<v Speaker 23>said King Hurrar. Then you will speak well and wisely.

5308
05:20:18.200 --> 05:20:21.599
<v Speaker 23>Little Tucky, And when at last you sink into your grave,

5309
05:20:22.439 --> 05:20:27.680
<v Speaker 23>you shall sleep as quietly as if I lay in Siroy,

5310
05:20:28.439 --> 05:20:32.520
<v Speaker 23>said Tuck, awaking. It was bright day, and he was

5311
05:20:32.599 --> 05:20:37.000
<v Speaker 23>now quite unable to call to mind his dream. That, however,

5312
05:20:37.319 --> 05:20:40.560
<v Speaker 23>was not at all necessary, for one may not know

5313
05:20:41.080 --> 05:20:44.919
<v Speaker 23>what the future will bring. And out of bed he

5314
05:20:45.040 --> 05:20:48.319
<v Speaker 23>jumped and read in his book, and now all at

5315
05:20:48.400 --> 05:20:52.599
<v Speaker 23>once he knew his whole lesson. And the old washerwoman

5316
05:20:52.759 --> 05:20:56.080
<v Speaker 23>popped her head in at the door, nodded to him friendly,

5317
05:20:56.159 --> 05:21:00.759
<v Speaker 23>and said, thanks, many thanks, my good child, for your help.

5318
05:21:01.680 --> 05:21:06.479
<v Speaker 23>May the good, ever loving God fulfill your loveliest dream.

5319
05:21:08.360 --> 05:21:11.080
<v Speaker 23>Little Tucky did not know at all what he had dreamed,

5320
05:21:11.919 --> 05:21:17.159
<v Speaker 23>but the loving God knew it. End of the dream

5321
05:21:17.360 --> 05:21:18.560
<v Speaker 23>of Little Tuck.

5322
05:21:19.599 --> 05:21:24.720
<v Speaker 24>The naughty Boy. A long time ago there lived an

5323
05:21:24.759 --> 05:21:30.119
<v Speaker 24>old poet, a thoroughly kind old poet. As he was

5324
05:21:30.159 --> 05:21:34.639
<v Speaker 24>sitting one evening in his room, a dreadful storm arose without,

5325
05:21:35.279 --> 05:21:39.159
<v Speaker 24>and the rain streamed down from heaven. But the old

5326
05:21:39.279 --> 05:21:43.240
<v Speaker 24>poet sat warm and comfortable in his chimney corner, where

5327
05:21:43.279 --> 05:21:48.479
<v Speaker 24>the fire blazed and the roasting apple hissed. Those who

5328
05:21:48.599 --> 05:21:51.319
<v Speaker 24>have not a roof over their heads will be wetted

5329
05:21:51.360 --> 05:21:55.159
<v Speaker 24>to the skin, said the good old poet. Oh let

5330
05:21:55.240 --> 05:21:58.599
<v Speaker 24>me in, Let me in. I am cold, and I'm

5331
05:21:58.799 --> 05:22:03.119
<v Speaker 24>so wet, exclaimed suddenly a child that stood crying at

5332
05:22:03.159 --> 05:22:06.680
<v Speaker 24>the door and knocking for admittance, while the rain poured

5333
05:22:06.759 --> 05:22:11.759
<v Speaker 24>down and the wind made all the windows rattle. Poor thing,

5334
05:22:12.439 --> 05:22:15.360
<v Speaker 24>said the old poet, as he went to open the door.

5335
05:22:16.799 --> 05:22:20.319
<v Speaker 24>There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water

5336
05:22:20.560 --> 05:22:25.119
<v Speaker 24>ran down from his long golden hair. He trembled with cold,

5337
05:22:25.639 --> 05:22:28.240
<v Speaker 24>and had he not come into a warm room, he

5338
05:22:28.279 --> 05:22:33.720
<v Speaker 24>would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest. Poor child,

5339
05:22:34.319 --> 05:22:36.840
<v Speaker 24>said the old poet, as he took the boy by

5340
05:22:36.919 --> 05:22:40.279
<v Speaker 24>the hand. Come in, Come in, and I will soon

5341
05:22:40.439 --> 05:22:45.599
<v Speaker 24>restore thee Thou shalt have wine and roasted apples, for

5342
05:22:45.799 --> 05:22:49.959
<v Speaker 24>thou art verily a charming child. And the boy was

5343
05:22:50.080 --> 05:22:54.680
<v Speaker 24>so really his eyes were like two bright stars, and

5344
05:22:54.799 --> 05:22:58.200
<v Speaker 24>although the water trickled down his hair, it waved in

5345
05:22:58.319 --> 05:23:03.360
<v Speaker 24>beautiful curls. He looked exactly like a little angel, but

5346
05:23:03.479 --> 05:23:07.279
<v Speaker 24>he was so pale, and his whole body trembled with cold.

5347
05:23:08.400 --> 05:23:10.799
<v Speaker 24>He had a nice little bow in his hand, but

5348
05:23:10.919 --> 05:23:14.159
<v Speaker 24>it was quite spoiled by the rain, and the tints

5349
05:23:14.240 --> 05:23:17.479
<v Speaker 24>of his many colored arrows ran one into the other.

5350
05:23:19.560 --> 05:23:23.360
<v Speaker 24>The old poet seated himself beside his hearth and took

5351
05:23:23.400 --> 05:23:26.840
<v Speaker 24>the little fellow on his lap. He squeezed the water

5352
05:23:27.000 --> 05:23:30.840
<v Speaker 24>out of his dripping hair, warmed his hands between his own,

5353
05:23:31.520 --> 05:23:36.360
<v Speaker 24>and boiled for him some sweet wine. Then the boy

5354
05:23:36.520 --> 05:23:41.319
<v Speaker 24>recovered his cheeks again grew rosy. He jumped down from

5355
05:23:41.360 --> 05:23:44.319
<v Speaker 24>the lap where he was sitting, and danced round the

5356
05:23:44.479 --> 05:23:49.840
<v Speaker 24>kind old poet. You are a merry fellow, said the

5357
05:23:49.919 --> 05:23:56.000
<v Speaker 24>old man. What's your name? My name is Cupid, answered

5358
05:23:56.040 --> 05:23:56.360
<v Speaker 24>the boy.

5359
05:23:57.400 --> 05:23:58.200
<v Speaker 14>Don't you know me?

5360
05:23:59.119 --> 05:24:04.119
<v Speaker 24>There lies my Oh it shoots well, I can assure you. Look,

5361
05:24:04.360 --> 05:24:07.159
<v Speaker 24>the weather is now clearing up, and the moon is

5362
05:24:07.240 --> 05:24:12.159
<v Speaker 24>shining clear again through the window. Why your bow is

5363
05:24:12.279 --> 05:24:17.279
<v Speaker 24>quite spoiled, said the old poet. That were sad, indeed,

5364
05:24:17.880 --> 05:24:19.919
<v Speaker 24>said the boy, And he took the bow in his

5365
05:24:20.080 --> 05:24:24.959
<v Speaker 24>hand and examined it on every side. Oh, it is

5366
05:24:25.080 --> 05:24:28.759
<v Speaker 24>dry again and is not hurt at all. The string

5367
05:24:28.919 --> 05:24:33.479
<v Speaker 24>is quite tight. I will try it directly, and he

5368
05:24:33.639 --> 05:24:37.360
<v Speaker 24>bent his bow, took aim, and shot an arrow at

5369
05:24:37.400 --> 05:24:42.080
<v Speaker 24>the old poet, right into his heart. You see now

5370
05:24:42.200 --> 05:24:45.759
<v Speaker 24>that my bow was not spoiled, said he laughing, and

5371
05:24:45.880 --> 05:24:50.799
<v Speaker 24>away he ran the naughty boy to shoot the old

5372
05:24:50.919 --> 05:24:53.959
<v Speaker 24>poet in that way, he who had taken him into

5373
05:24:54.080 --> 05:24:57.919
<v Speaker 24>his warm room, who had treated him so kindly, and

5374
05:24:58.000 --> 05:25:01.680
<v Speaker 24>who had given him warm wine and the very best apples.

5375
05:25:02.880 --> 05:25:05.959
<v Speaker 24>The poor poet lay on the earth and wept, for

5376
05:25:06.119 --> 05:25:11.040
<v Speaker 24>the arrow had really flown into his heart. Fie said he,

5377
05:25:12.439 --> 05:25:15.880
<v Speaker 24>how naughty a boy cupid is. I will tell all

5378
05:25:16.080 --> 05:25:19.000
<v Speaker 24>children about him, that they may take care and not

5379
05:25:19.240 --> 05:25:22.520
<v Speaker 24>play with him, for he will only cause them sorrow

5380
05:25:23.000 --> 05:25:27.759
<v Speaker 24>and many a heartache. And all good children to whom

5381
05:25:27.840 --> 05:25:31.520
<v Speaker 24>he related this story took great heed of this naughty cupid.

5382
05:25:32.319 --> 05:25:35.200
<v Speaker 24>But he made fools of them still, for he is

5383
05:25:35.319 --> 05:25:41.119
<v Speaker 24>astonishingly cunning. When the university students come from the lectures,

5384
05:25:41.560 --> 05:25:44.279
<v Speaker 24>he runs beside them in a black coat and with

5385
05:25:44.400 --> 05:25:47.880
<v Speaker 24>a book under his arm. It is quite impossible for

5386
05:25:48.000 --> 05:25:50.599
<v Speaker 24>them to know him, and they walk along with him

5387
05:25:50.759 --> 05:25:53.319
<v Speaker 24>arm and arm, as if he too were a student

5388
05:25:53.520 --> 05:25:58.840
<v Speaker 24>like themselves, And then, unperceived, he thrusts an arrow to

5389
05:25:59.000 --> 05:26:03.040
<v Speaker 24>their bosom. When the young maidens come from being examined

5390
05:26:03.080 --> 05:26:07.159
<v Speaker 24>by the clergyman or go to church to be confirmed there,

5391
05:26:07.240 --> 05:26:11.439
<v Speaker 24>he is again close behind them. Yes, he is forever

5392
05:26:11.680 --> 05:26:15.319
<v Speaker 24>following people At the play, he sits in the great

5393
05:26:15.479 --> 05:26:19.560
<v Speaker 24>chandelier and burns in bright flames, so that people think

5394
05:26:19.720 --> 05:26:23.159
<v Speaker 24>it is really a flame, but they soon discover it

5395
05:26:23.279 --> 05:26:27.119
<v Speaker 24>is something else. He roves about in the garden of

5396
05:26:27.200 --> 05:26:31.479
<v Speaker 24>the palace and upon the ramparts. Yes, once he even

5397
05:26:31.599 --> 05:26:34.799
<v Speaker 24>shot your father and mother right in the heart. Ask

5398
05:26:34.919 --> 05:26:38.599
<v Speaker 24>them only and you will hear what they'll tell you. Oh,

5399
05:26:38.799 --> 05:26:42.319
<v Speaker 24>he is a naughty boy, that cupid. You must never

5400
05:26:42.439 --> 05:26:46.000
<v Speaker 24>have anything to do with him. He is forever running

5401
05:26:46.040 --> 05:26:50.599
<v Speaker 24>after everybody. Only think he shot an arrow once at

5402
05:26:50.639 --> 05:26:54.159
<v Speaker 24>your old grandmother. But that is a long time ago,

5403
05:26:54.919 --> 05:26:58.360
<v Speaker 24>and it is all past now. However, a thing of

5404
05:26:58.439 --> 05:27:04.880
<v Speaker 24>that sort she never forgets. Fine, naughty cupid. But now

5405
05:27:04.959 --> 05:27:08.479
<v Speaker 24>you know him, and you know too how ill behaved

5406
05:27:08.520 --> 05:27:17.880
<v Speaker 24>he is. End of the naughty Boy. The red shoes.

5407
05:27:21.720 --> 05:27:24.479
<v Speaker 24>There was once a little girl who was very pretty

5408
05:27:24.639 --> 05:27:27.880
<v Speaker 24>and delicate. But in summer she was forced to run

5409
05:27:27.919 --> 05:27:32.119
<v Speaker 24>about with bare feet. She was so poor, and in

5410
05:27:32.240 --> 05:27:35.799
<v Speaker 24>winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little

5411
05:27:35.880 --> 05:27:42.200
<v Speaker 24>insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous. In the

5412
05:27:42.279 --> 05:27:46.439
<v Speaker 24>middle of the village lived old dom shoemaker. She sat

5413
05:27:46.599 --> 05:27:50.000
<v Speaker 24>and sewed together as well as she could a little

5414
05:27:50.040 --> 05:27:52.959
<v Speaker 24>pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth.

5415
05:27:53.599 --> 05:27:56.759
<v Speaker 24>They were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought.

5416
05:27:57.759 --> 05:28:01.000
<v Speaker 24>They were meant for the little girl. The little girl

5417
05:28:01.279 --> 05:28:06.439
<v Speaker 24>was called Karen. On the very day her mother was buried,

5418
05:28:07.159 --> 05:28:10.439
<v Speaker 24>Karen received the red shoes and wore them for the

5419
05:28:10.560 --> 05:28:15.319
<v Speaker 24>first time. They were certainly not intended for mourning, but

5420
05:28:15.479 --> 05:28:19.639
<v Speaker 24>she had no others, and with stockingless feet, she followed

5421
05:28:19.639 --> 05:28:24.520
<v Speaker 24>the poor straw coffin in them. Suddenly, a large old

5422
05:28:24.639 --> 05:28:27.880
<v Speaker 24>carriage drove up, and a large old lady sat in it.

5423
05:28:28.680 --> 05:28:31.919
<v Speaker 24>She looked at the little girl, felt compassion for her,

5424
05:28:32.439 --> 05:28:35.400
<v Speaker 24>and then said to the clergyman, here give me the

5425
05:28:35.479 --> 05:28:39.680
<v Speaker 24>little girl. I will adopt her. And Karen believed all

5426
05:28:39.759 --> 05:28:43.279
<v Speaker 24>this happened on account of the red shoes. But the

5427
05:28:43.360 --> 05:28:46.360
<v Speaker 24>old lady thought they were horrible, and they were burnt.

5428
05:28:47.439 --> 05:28:51.759
<v Speaker 24>But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed. She must

5429
05:28:51.840 --> 05:28:55.360
<v Speaker 24>learn to read and sew. And people said she was

5430
05:28:55.400 --> 05:28:59.400
<v Speaker 24>a nice little thing, but the looking glass said, thou

5431
05:28:59.560 --> 05:29:04.680
<v Speaker 24>art more than nice, thou art beautiful. Now the queen

5432
05:29:04.759 --> 05:29:07.439
<v Speaker 24>once traveled through the land, and she had her little

5433
05:29:07.520 --> 05:29:10.799
<v Speaker 24>daughter with her, and this little daughter was a princess,

5434
05:29:11.479 --> 05:29:14.919
<v Speaker 24>and people streamed to the castle, and Karen was there also,

5435
05:29:15.520 --> 05:29:18.439
<v Speaker 24>And the little princess stood in her fine white dress

5436
05:29:19.000 --> 05:29:22.639
<v Speaker 24>in a window and let herself be stared at. She

5437
05:29:22.799 --> 05:29:26.720
<v Speaker 24>had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid

5438
05:29:26.880 --> 05:29:32.200
<v Speaker 24>red Morocco shoes. They were certainly far handsomer than those

5439
05:29:32.479 --> 05:29:36.479
<v Speaker 24>domed shoemaker had made for little Karen. Nothing in the

5440
05:29:36.560 --> 05:29:41.560
<v Speaker 24>world can be compared with red shoes. Now Karen was

5441
05:29:41.599 --> 05:29:45.439
<v Speaker 24>old enough to be confirmed. She had new clothes and

5442
05:29:45.639 --> 05:29:49.279
<v Speaker 24>was to have new shoes also. The rich shoemaker in

5443
05:29:49.360 --> 05:29:52.599
<v Speaker 24>the city took the measure of her little foot. This

5444
05:29:52.759 --> 05:29:56.639
<v Speaker 24>took place at his house, in his room, where stood

5445
05:29:56.799 --> 05:30:01.200
<v Speaker 24>large glass cases filled with elegant shoes and brilliant boots.

5446
05:30:02.279 --> 05:30:05.319
<v Speaker 24>All this looked charming, but the old lady could not

5447
05:30:05.479 --> 05:30:09.520
<v Speaker 24>see well, and so had no pleasure in them. In

5448
05:30:09.599 --> 05:30:12.000
<v Speaker 24>the midst of the shoes stood a pair of red ones,

5449
05:30:12.720 --> 05:30:16.720
<v Speaker 24>just like those the princess had worn. How beautiful they were,

5450
05:30:17.680 --> 05:30:20.599
<v Speaker 24>the shoemaker said. Also they had been made for the

5451
05:30:20.720 --> 05:30:25.159
<v Speaker 24>child of a count, but had not fitted. That must

5452
05:30:25.200 --> 05:30:30.759
<v Speaker 24>be patent leather, said the old lady. They shine, so yes,

5453
05:30:30.959 --> 05:30:35.639
<v Speaker 24>they shine, said Karen, And they fitted and were bought,

5454
05:30:36.639 --> 05:30:39.439
<v Speaker 24>but the old lady knew nothing about their being read,

5455
05:30:39.959 --> 05:30:42.680
<v Speaker 24>else she would never have allowed Karen to have gone

5456
05:30:42.759 --> 05:30:47.479
<v Speaker 24>in red shoes to be confirmed. Yet such was the case.

5457
05:30:49.200 --> 05:30:52.479
<v Speaker 24>Everybody looked at her feet, and when she stepped through

5458
05:30:52.520 --> 05:30:55.400
<v Speaker 24>the chancel door on the church pavement, it seemed to

5459
05:30:55.479 --> 05:30:58.759
<v Speaker 24>her as if the old figures on the tombs, those

5460
05:30:58.880 --> 05:31:03.400
<v Speaker 24>portraits of old preachers and preachers wives with stiff ruffs

5461
05:31:03.520 --> 05:31:07.799
<v Speaker 24>and long black dresses, fixed their eyes on her red shoes,

5462
05:31:09.119 --> 05:31:12.080
<v Speaker 24>and she thought only of them. As the clergyman laid

5463
05:31:12.119 --> 05:31:15.040
<v Speaker 24>his hand upon her head and spoke of the holy

5464
05:31:15.159 --> 05:31:18.959
<v Speaker 24>baptism of the Covenant with God, and how she would

5465
05:31:19.000 --> 05:31:23.919
<v Speaker 24>be now a matured Christian, and the organ pealed so solemnly,

5466
05:31:24.560 --> 05:31:28.840
<v Speaker 24>the sweet children's voices sang, and the old music directors sang,

5467
05:31:29.400 --> 05:31:34.439
<v Speaker 24>but Karen only thought of her red shoes. In the afternoon,

5468
05:31:34.599 --> 05:31:37.279
<v Speaker 24>the old lady heard from everyone that the shoes had

5469
05:31:37.319 --> 05:31:40.080
<v Speaker 24>been read, and she said that it was very wrong

5470
05:31:40.159 --> 05:31:43.560
<v Speaker 24>of Karen, that it was not at all becoming, and

5471
05:31:43.680 --> 05:31:46.959
<v Speaker 24>that in future Karen should only go in black shoes

5472
05:31:47.040 --> 05:31:51.759
<v Speaker 24>to church, even when she should be older. The next

5473
05:31:51.799 --> 05:31:54.840
<v Speaker 24>Sunday there was the sacrament, and Karen looked at the

5474
05:31:54.880 --> 05:31:59.000
<v Speaker 24>black shoes, looked at the red ones, looked at them again,

5475
05:31:59.840 --> 05:32:04.639
<v Speaker 24>and put on the red shoes. The sun shone gloriously.

5476
05:32:05.479 --> 05:32:08.159
<v Speaker 24>Karen and the old lady walked along the path through

5477
05:32:08.240 --> 05:32:08.720
<v Speaker 24>the corn.

5478
05:32:09.360 --> 05:32:10.520
<v Speaker 14>It was rather dusty.

5479
05:32:10.639 --> 05:32:14.119
<v Speaker 24>There at the church door stood an old soldier with

5480
05:32:14.240 --> 05:32:17.880
<v Speaker 24>a crutch and with a wonderfully long beard which was

5481
05:32:17.959 --> 05:32:21.119
<v Speaker 24>more red than white. And he bowed to the ground

5482
05:32:21.279 --> 05:32:24.159
<v Speaker 24>and asked the old lady whether he might dust her shoes.

5483
05:32:25.080 --> 05:32:30.840
<v Speaker 24>And Karen stretched out her little foot, See what beautiful

5484
05:32:30.959 --> 05:32:36.080
<v Speaker 24>dancing shoes, said the soldier, sit firm when you dance,

5485
05:32:36.840 --> 05:32:40.319
<v Speaker 24>and he put his hand out towards the soles. And

5486
05:32:40.439 --> 05:32:43.560
<v Speaker 24>the old lady gave the soldier alms and went into

5487
05:32:43.639 --> 05:32:48.240
<v Speaker 24>the church with Karen. And all the people of the

5488
05:32:48.360 --> 05:32:52.240
<v Speaker 24>church looked at Karen's red shoes and all the pictures.

5489
05:32:52.799 --> 05:32:55.840
<v Speaker 24>And as Karen knelt before the altar and raised the

5490
05:32:55.880 --> 05:32:59.639
<v Speaker 24>cup to her lips, she only thought of the red shoes,

5491
05:33:00.439 --> 05:33:03.639
<v Speaker 24>and they seemed to swim in it. And she forgot

5492
05:33:03.720 --> 05:33:06.759
<v Speaker 24>to sing her psalm, and she forgot to pray our

5493
05:33:06.959 --> 05:33:10.919
<v Speaker 24>Father in heaven. Now all the people went out of

5494
05:33:10.959 --> 05:33:13.959
<v Speaker 24>the church, and the old lady got into her carriage.

5495
05:33:15.119 --> 05:33:17.919
<v Speaker 24>Karen raised her foot to get in after her when

5496
05:33:17.959 --> 05:33:25.000
<v Speaker 24>the old soldier said, look what beautiful dancing shoes. And

5497
05:33:25.159 --> 05:33:27.880
<v Speaker 24>Karen could not help dancing a step or two. And

5498
05:33:28.000 --> 05:33:31.599
<v Speaker 24>when she began, her feet continued to dance. It was

5499
05:33:31.919 --> 05:33:35.319
<v Speaker 24>just as though the shoes had power over them. She

5500
05:33:35.599 --> 05:33:38.919
<v Speaker 24>danced round the church corner. She could not leave off.

5501
05:33:39.319 --> 05:33:41.880
<v Speaker 24>The coachman was obliged to run after her and catch

5502
05:33:41.959 --> 05:33:44.520
<v Speaker 24>hold of her, and he lifted her in the carriage,

5503
05:33:45.119 --> 05:33:48.119
<v Speaker 24>but her feet continued to dance, so that she trod

5504
05:33:48.159 --> 05:33:52.240
<v Speaker 24>on the old lady dreadfully. At length, she took the

5505
05:33:52.319 --> 05:33:55.319
<v Speaker 24>shoes off, and then her legs had peace.

5506
05:33:56.599 --> 05:33:57.479
<v Speaker 14>The shoes were.

5507
05:33:57.360 --> 05:34:00.599
<v Speaker 24>Placed in a closet at home, but and could not

5508
05:34:00.759 --> 05:34:05.439
<v Speaker 24>avoid looking at them. Now the old lady was sick,

5509
05:34:05.959 --> 05:34:09.479
<v Speaker 24>and it was said she could not recover. She must

5510
05:34:09.560 --> 05:34:12.799
<v Speaker 24>be nursed and waited upon. And there was no one

5511
05:34:12.880 --> 05:34:17.439
<v Speaker 24>whose duty it was so much as Karen's. But there

5512
05:34:17.560 --> 05:34:19.840
<v Speaker 24>was a great ball in the city to which Karen

5513
05:34:19.959 --> 05:34:23.720
<v Speaker 24>was invited. She looked at the old lady, who could

5514
05:34:23.759 --> 05:34:27.639
<v Speaker 24>not recover. She looked at the red shoes, and she

5515
05:34:27.799 --> 05:34:31.080
<v Speaker 24>thought there could be no sin in it. She put

5516
05:34:31.119 --> 05:34:34.599
<v Speaker 24>on the red shoes. She might do that also, she thought.

5517
05:34:35.520 --> 05:34:38.479
<v Speaker 24>But then she went to the ball and began to dance.

5518
05:34:40.279 --> 05:34:43.040
<v Speaker 24>When she wanted to dance to the right, the shoes

5519
05:34:43.080 --> 05:34:45.680
<v Speaker 24>would dance to the left, And when she wanted to

5520
05:34:45.799 --> 05:34:49.759
<v Speaker 24>dance up the room, the shoes danced back again. Down

5521
05:34:49.840 --> 05:34:53.000
<v Speaker 24>the steps, into the street, and out of the city gate.

5522
05:34:53.799 --> 05:34:57.159
<v Speaker 24>She danced, and was forced to dance straight out into

5523
05:34:57.240 --> 05:35:01.400
<v Speaker 24>the gloomy wood. Then it was suddenly light up among

5524
05:35:01.479 --> 05:35:03.799
<v Speaker 24>the trees, and she fancied it must be the moon,

5525
05:35:04.720 --> 05:35:07.200
<v Speaker 24>for there was a face. But it was the old

5526
05:35:07.360 --> 05:35:11.639
<v Speaker 24>soldier with the red beard. He sat there, nodded his

5527
05:35:11.759 --> 05:35:18.680
<v Speaker 24>head and said, look what beautiful dancing shoes. Then she

5528
05:35:18.880 --> 05:35:22.119
<v Speaker 24>was terrified and wanted to fling off the red shoes,

5529
05:35:22.639 --> 05:35:26.200
<v Speaker 24>but they clung fast, and she pulled down her stockings,

5530
05:35:26.360 --> 05:35:28.639
<v Speaker 24>but the shoes seemed to have grown to her feet.

5531
05:35:29.360 --> 05:35:33.360
<v Speaker 24>And she danced, and must dance over fields and meadows

5532
05:35:33.479 --> 05:35:37.479
<v Speaker 24>in rain and sunshine by night and day. But at

5533
05:35:37.599 --> 05:35:41.720
<v Speaker 24>night it was the most fearful. She danced over the churchyard,

5534
05:35:42.080 --> 05:35:45.200
<v Speaker 24>but the dead did not dance. They had something better

5535
05:35:45.279 --> 05:35:48.759
<v Speaker 24>to do than to dance. She wished to seat herself

5536
05:35:48.880 --> 05:35:52.360
<v Speaker 24>upon a poor man's grave, where the bitter tansy grow.

5537
05:35:53.000 --> 05:35:56.000
<v Speaker 24>But for her there was neither peace nor rest. And

5538
05:35:56.119 --> 05:35:59.200
<v Speaker 24>when she danced towards the open church door, she saw

5539
05:35:59.240 --> 05:36:03.240
<v Speaker 24>an angel see standing there. He wore long white garments.

5540
05:36:03.639 --> 05:36:06.759
<v Speaker 24>He had wings which reached from his shoulders to the earth.

5541
05:36:07.439 --> 05:36:11.479
<v Speaker 24>His countenance was severe and grave, and in his hand

5542
05:36:11.599 --> 05:36:18.159
<v Speaker 24>he held a sword, broad and glittering. Dance. Shalt thou, said,

5543
05:36:18.200 --> 05:36:22.840
<v Speaker 24>he dance in thy red shoes, till thou art pale

5544
05:36:23.080 --> 05:36:27.240
<v Speaker 24>and cold, till thy skin shrivels up, and thou art

5545
05:36:27.319 --> 05:36:32.439
<v Speaker 24>a skeleton. Dance, Shalt thou from door to door, And

5546
05:36:32.599 --> 05:36:37.680
<v Speaker 24>where proud, vain children dwell, thou shalt knock, that they

5547
05:36:37.759 --> 05:36:39.319
<v Speaker 24>may hear thee and tremble.

5548
05:36:40.279 --> 05:36:40.639
<v Speaker 14>Dance.

5549
05:36:40.799 --> 05:36:46.720
<v Speaker 24>Shalt thou mercy, cried Karen, But she did not hear

5550
05:36:46.840 --> 05:36:49.919
<v Speaker 24>the angel's reply, for the shoes carried her through the

5551
05:36:50.000 --> 05:36:53.680
<v Speaker 24>gate into the fields, across roads and bridges, and she

5552
05:36:53.880 --> 05:36:58.520
<v Speaker 24>must keep ever dancing. One morning she danced past a

5553
05:36:58.599 --> 05:37:02.959
<v Speaker 24>door which she well knew within sounded a psalm. A

5554
05:37:03.119 --> 05:37:07.639
<v Speaker 24>coffin decked with flowers was borne forth. Then she knew

5555
05:37:07.799 --> 05:37:10.599
<v Speaker 24>that the old lady was dead, and felt that she

5556
05:37:10.799 --> 05:37:14.599
<v Speaker 24>was abandoned by all, and condemned by the angel of God.

5557
05:37:16.119 --> 05:37:19.319
<v Speaker 24>She danced, and she was forced to dance through the

5558
05:37:19.400 --> 05:37:23.880
<v Speaker 24>gloomy night. The shoes carried her over stack and stone.

5559
05:37:24.400 --> 05:37:27.680
<v Speaker 24>She was torn till she bled. She danced over the

5560
05:37:27.799 --> 05:37:31.319
<v Speaker 24>heath till she came to a little house. Here she

5561
05:37:31.479 --> 05:37:35.119
<v Speaker 24>knew dwelt the executioner, and she tapped with her fingers

5562
05:37:35.159 --> 05:37:38.759
<v Speaker 24>at the window and said, come out, come out. I

5563
05:37:38.880 --> 05:37:42.720
<v Speaker 24>cannot come in, for I am forced to dance. And

5564
05:37:42.880 --> 05:37:46.479
<v Speaker 24>the executioner said, thou dost not know who I am.

5565
05:37:46.680 --> 05:37:50.840
<v Speaker 24>I fancy I strike bad people's heads off, and I

5566
05:37:51.080 --> 05:37:55.520
<v Speaker 24>hear that my axe rings. Don't strike my head off,

5567
05:37:56.080 --> 05:38:00.200
<v Speaker 24>said Karen. Then I can't repent of my sins, but

5568
05:38:00.439 --> 05:38:04.279
<v Speaker 24>strike off my feet in the red shoes. And then

5569
05:38:04.400 --> 05:38:08.560
<v Speaker 24>she confessed her entire sin, and the executioner struck off

5570
05:38:08.599 --> 05:38:12.439
<v Speaker 24>her feet with the red shoes. But the shoes danced

5571
05:38:12.479 --> 05:38:15.200
<v Speaker 24>away with the little feet across the field into the

5572
05:38:15.319 --> 05:38:19.439
<v Speaker 24>deep wood, and he carved out little wooden feet for her,

5573
05:38:19.840 --> 05:38:24.119
<v Speaker 24>and crutches taught her the psalm criminals always sing. And

5574
05:38:24.240 --> 05:38:27.360
<v Speaker 24>she kissed the hand which had wielded the axe, and

5575
05:38:27.520 --> 05:38:31.680
<v Speaker 24>went over the heath. Now I have suffered enough for

5576
05:38:31.799 --> 05:38:35.680
<v Speaker 24>the red shoes, said she, Now, I will go into

5577
05:38:35.759 --> 05:38:39.319
<v Speaker 24>the church that people may see me, And she hastened

5578
05:38:39.360 --> 05:38:42.240
<v Speaker 24>towards the church door, but when she was near it,

5579
05:38:42.919 --> 05:38:47.080
<v Speaker 24>the red shoes danced before her, and she was terrified

5580
05:38:47.520 --> 05:38:52.080
<v Speaker 24>and turned round. The whole week she was unhappy and

5581
05:38:52.240 --> 05:38:57.439
<v Speaker 24>wept many bitter tears. But when Sunday returned, she said, well,

5582
05:38:57.759 --> 05:39:01.720
<v Speaker 24>now I have suffered and struggled enough. I really believe

5583
05:39:01.840 --> 05:39:04.159
<v Speaker 24>I am as good as many a one who sits

5584
05:39:04.240 --> 05:39:07.959
<v Speaker 24>in the church and holds her head so high. And

5585
05:39:08.040 --> 05:39:11.799
<v Speaker 24>away she went boldly. But she had not got farther

5586
05:39:11.919 --> 05:39:14.840
<v Speaker 24>than the churchyard gate before she saw the red shoes

5587
05:39:15.040 --> 05:39:19.080
<v Speaker 24>dancing before her, and she was frightened and turned back

5588
05:39:19.880 --> 05:39:23.840
<v Speaker 24>and repented of her sin from her heart. And she

5589
05:39:23.959 --> 05:39:26.880
<v Speaker 24>went to the parsonage and begged that they would take

5590
05:39:26.919 --> 05:39:31.040
<v Speaker 24>her into service. She would be very industrious, she said,

5591
05:39:31.439 --> 05:39:34.639
<v Speaker 24>and would do everything she could. She did not care

5592
05:39:34.680 --> 05:39:37.520
<v Speaker 24>about the wages, only she wished to have a home

5593
05:39:38.159 --> 05:39:42.000
<v Speaker 24>and be with good people. And the clergyman's wife was

5594
05:39:42.119 --> 05:39:44.799
<v Speaker 24>sorry for her and took her into service, and she

5595
05:39:45.000 --> 05:39:49.799
<v Speaker 24>was industrious and thoughtful. She sat still and listened when

5596
05:39:49.840 --> 05:39:53.319
<v Speaker 24>the clergyman read the Bible in the evenings, all the

5597
05:39:53.439 --> 05:39:56.119
<v Speaker 24>children thought a great deal of her, but when they

5598
05:39:56.159 --> 05:40:00.720
<v Speaker 24>spoke of dress and grandeur and beauty, she shook her head.

5599
05:40:02.279 --> 05:40:05.080
<v Speaker 24>The following Sunday, when the family was going to church,

5600
05:40:05.560 --> 05:40:07.720
<v Speaker 24>they asked her whether she would not go with them,

5601
05:40:08.560 --> 05:40:11.919
<v Speaker 24>but she glanced sorrowfully, with tears in her eyes at

5602
05:40:11.959 --> 05:40:15.560
<v Speaker 24>her crutches. The family went to hear the word of God,

5603
05:40:16.159 --> 05:40:19.400
<v Speaker 24>but she went alone into her little chamber. There was

5604
05:40:19.479 --> 05:40:22.119
<v Speaker 24>only room for a bed and chair to stand in it,

5605
05:40:22.720 --> 05:40:26.200
<v Speaker 24>and here she sat down with her prayer book, And

5606
05:40:26.400 --> 05:40:30.240
<v Speaker 24>whilst she read with a pious mind, the wind bore

5607
05:40:30.319 --> 05:40:33.680
<v Speaker 24>the strains of the organ towards her, and she raised

5608
05:40:33.720 --> 05:40:39.080
<v Speaker 24>her tearful countenance and said, O, God help me. And

5609
05:40:39.240 --> 05:40:43.159
<v Speaker 24>the sun shone so clearly and straight. Before her stood

5610
05:40:43.200 --> 05:40:46.639
<v Speaker 24>the Angel of God in white garments, the same she

5611
05:40:46.720 --> 05:40:49.880
<v Speaker 24>had seen that night at the church door. But he

5612
05:40:50.000 --> 05:40:53.439
<v Speaker 24>no longer carried the sharp sword, but in its stead

5613
05:40:53.639 --> 05:40:58.680
<v Speaker 24>a splendid green spray full of roses. And he touched

5614
05:40:58.680 --> 05:41:02.279
<v Speaker 24>the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high,

5615
05:41:03.000 --> 05:41:05.840
<v Speaker 24>and where he had touched it, there gleamed a golden star.

5616
05:41:06.919 --> 05:41:10.080
<v Speaker 24>And he touched the walls, and they widened out and

5617
05:41:10.200 --> 05:41:13.520
<v Speaker 24>she saw the organ which was playing. She saw the

5618
05:41:13.639 --> 05:41:17.639
<v Speaker 24>old pictures of the preachers and the preacher's wives. The

5619
05:41:17.720 --> 05:41:21.599
<v Speaker 24>congregations sat in cushioned seats and sang out of their

5620
05:41:21.680 --> 05:41:24.840
<v Speaker 24>prayer books, for the church itself had come to the

5621
05:41:24.919 --> 05:41:28.200
<v Speaker 24>poor girl in her narrow chamber, or else she had

5622
05:41:28.240 --> 05:41:31.119
<v Speaker 24>come into the church. She sat in the pew at

5623
05:41:31.159 --> 05:41:34.360
<v Speaker 24>the clergyman's family, And when they had ended the psalm

5624
05:41:34.479 --> 05:41:37.880
<v Speaker 24>and looked up, they nodded and said, it is right

5625
05:41:38.040 --> 05:41:42.080
<v Speaker 24>that thou art come. It was through mercy, she said.

5626
05:41:42.759 --> 05:41:45.720
<v Speaker 24>And the organ pealed, and the children's voices in the

5627
05:41:45.799 --> 05:41:50.840
<v Speaker 24>choir sounded so sweet and soft. The clear sunshine streamed

5628
05:41:50.919 --> 05:41:54.400
<v Speaker 24>so warmly through the window into the pew where Karen sat.

5629
05:41:55.319 --> 05:41:59.000
<v Speaker 24>Her heart was so full of sunshine, peace and joy

5630
05:41:59.439 --> 05:42:03.680
<v Speaker 24>that it brought her soul flew on the sunshine to God.

5631
05:42:04.400 --> 05:42:10.400
<v Speaker 24>And there no one asked after the red shoes, End

5632
05:42:10.520 --> 05:42:12.119
<v Speaker 24>of the red shoes.