The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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page 125 of 407 (30%)
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'Yes,' he answered; 'but first of all I will take this little bundle of sticks home to my mother,' and he took one of the trees and wound it round the other five, raised the bundle on his shoulders and bore it off. Then he came back and went with his master, who said, 'We two ought to be able to travel through the wide world!' And when they had gone a little way they came upon a hunter, who was on his knees, his gun on his shoulder, aiming at something. The master said to him, 'Hunter, what are you aiming at?' He answered, 'Two miles from this place sits a fly on a branch of an oak; I want to shoot out its left eye.' 'Oh, go with me,' said the man; 'if we three are together we shall easily travel through the wide world.' The hunter agreed and went with him, and they came to seven windmills whose sails were going round quite fast, and yet there was not a breath of wind, nor was a leaf moving. The man said, 'I don't know what is turning those windmills; there is not the slightest breeze blowing.' So he walked on with his servants, and when they had gone two miles they saw a man sitting on a tree, holding one of his nostrils and blowing out of the other. 'Fellow, what are you puffing at up there?' asked the man. He replied, 'Two miles from this place are standing seven windmills; see, I am blowing to drive them round.' |
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