Czechoslovak Fairy Tales

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Fillmore Parker. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales

LONGSHANKS, GIRTH, AND KEEN

THE THREE GOLDEN HAIRS

THE FLAMING HORSE

THE THREE CITRONS

PRINCE BAYAYA

KATCHA AND THE DEVIL

THE BETROTHAL GIFTS

GRANDFATHER’S EYES

RATTLE-RATTLE-RATTLE AND CHINK-CHINK-CHINK

THE BIRD WITH THE GOLDEN GIZZARD

THE WOOD MAIDEN

THE GOLDEN SPINNING WHEEL

THE GOLDEN GODMOTHER

THE GOLDEN DUCK

THE STORY THAT NEVER ENDS

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THERE was once an aged king who had an only son. One day he called the prince to him and said: “My dear son, you know that ripe fruit falls in order to make room for other fruit. This my old head is like ripe fruit and soon the sun will no longer shine upon it. Now before I die I should like to see you happily married. Get you a wife, my son.”

“I would, my father, that I could please you in this,” the prince answered, “but I know of no one who would make you a worthy daughter-in-law.”

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But, alas, in a few moments they all grew heavy with drowsiness and in the end slept soundly all night long.

In the morning in the early dawn the prince awoke and with a pain in his heart that was like a blow from a dagger, he saw that the princess was gone. Instantly he aroused his men and asked them what was to be done.

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