Identifier: crimsonfairybook00lang (find matches)
Title: The crimson fairy book
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
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Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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r the fields should be killed ;but though there were a great many people, none seemedable to protect the fields. The king had already put ninety-nine people to death,when a little swineherd came to him who had two dogs ;one was called Psst, and the other Hush; and the boytold the king that he would watch over the ricks. ^Yhen it grew dark he climbed up on the top of thefourth rick, from where he could see the whole field.About eleven oclock he thought he saw someone going toa rick and putting a light to it. Just you wait, thoughthe, and called out to his dogs : Hi ! Psst, Hush, catchhim ! But Psst and Hush had not waited for orders,and in five minutes the man was caught. Next morning he was brought bound before the king,who was so pleased with the boy that he gave him athousand crowns at once. The prisoner was all coveredwith hair, almost like an animal; and altogether he wasso curious to look at that the king locked him up in astrong room and sent out letters of invitation to all the
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IHE HAIBY MAN 25 bther kings and princes asking them to come and see thiswonder. That was all very well ; but the king had a little boyof ten years old who went to look at the hairy man also,and the man begged so hard to be set free that the boytook pity on him. He stole the key of the strong roomfrom his mother and opened the door. Then he took thekey back, but the hairy man escaped and went off intothe world. Then the kings and princes began to arrive one afteranother, and all were most anxious to see the hairy man ;but he was gone ! The king nearly burst with rage andwith the shame he felt. He questioned his wife sharply,and told her that if she could not find and bring back thehairy man he would put her in a hut made of rushes andburn her there. The queen declared she had had nothingto do with the matter; if her son had happened to takethe key it had not been with her knowledge. So they fetched the little prince and asked him allsorts of questions, and at last he owned that he had

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