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and the star-gazer said, ’If tailor, ’you would all have either quarrelling
I had not found the been drowned, therefore
princess out, all your skill she is mine.’ Then the
would have been of no king put in a word, and
use; therefore she ought said, ’Each of you is right;
to be mine.’ ’Your seeing and as all cannot have
her would have been of the young lady, the best
no use,’ said the thief, ’if I way is for neither of you
had not taken her away to have her: for the truth
from the dragon; is, there is somebody she
therefore she ought to be likes a great deal better.
mine.’ ’No, she is mine,’ But to make up for your
said the huntsman; ’for if loss, I will give each of
I had not killed the you, as a reward for his
dragon, he would, after skill, half a kingdom.’
all, have torn you and the So the brothers
princess into pieces.’ ’And agreed that this
if I had not sewn the boat plan would be
together again,’ said the much better than
Taken from: http://www.bedtimestoriesonline.org/adventure-stories/the-four-
clever-brothers/
In 10’, I can read until paragraph _________.
Total words that I don’t understand yet _________.
B. Story 2
THE TREASURE CASTLE
From “The Firelight Fairy Book” by Henry Beston
Once upon a time a more till you come to a
hunter was roaming black castle. Enter the
through the wildwood castle without fear, and
when he heard a voice you will discover a round
crying piteously for aid. room in which stands a
Following the sound, the round ebony table laden
hunter plunged ahead, with gold and jewels. Help
and discovered a dwarf yourself to the treasure,
caught in a pit that had and return home at once.
been dug to trap wild And do not–now mark me
animals. well–go up into the turret
After the hunter had of the castle; for if you do,
rescued the dwarf from evil will come of it.”
his prison, the little man So the hunter thanked
said to him: “Go ten the dwarf, and after
leagues to the north till making sure that he had
you arrive at a gigantic plenty of bread and
pine; then turn to the cheese in his knapsack,
east, and go ten leagues hurried northwards as
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or
marrying a lady who had
no mind to have them.
And the king then gave to
each half a kingdom, as
he had said; and they
lived very happily the rest
of their days, and took
good care of their father;
and somebody took better
care of the young lady,
than to let either the
dragon or one of the
craftsmen have her again.
fast as his legs could
carry him. Through
bramble and brier,
through valley and
wooded dale went he, and
at dusk he came to a
gigantic pine standing
solitary in a rocky field.
Wearied with his long
journey, the hunter lay
down beneath the pine
and slept.
When it was dawn, he
woke refreshed, and
turning his eyes toward
the level rays of the rising
sun, began his journey to
the east. Presently he
reached a height in the