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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/101/) — "I was," says the King, "but still I said to myself, 'Perhaps it will pull me out.'" - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/102/) — "Well, my lord King! now you have felt what the fear of death is like! - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/103/) — What I have done was in payment of an old score. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/104/) — Do you remember my sitting on an oak, and your wanting to shoot me? - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/105/) — Three times you were going to let fly, but I kept on entreating you not to shoot, saying to myself all the time, 'Perhaps he won't kill me; perhaps he'll relent and take me home with him!'" - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/106/) — Afterwards they flew beyond thrice nine lands: long, long did they fly. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/107/) — Says the Eagle, "Look, my lord King! what is above us and what below us?" - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/108/) — The King looked. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/109/) — "Above us," he says, "is the sky, below us the earth." - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/110/) — "Look again; what is on the right hand and on the left?" - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/111/) — "On the right hand is an open plain, on the left stands a house." - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/112/) — "We will fly thither," said the Eagle; "my youngest sister lives there." - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/113/) — They went straight into the courtyard. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/114/) — The sister came out to meet them, received her brother cordially, and seated him at the oaken table. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/115/) — But on the King she would not so much as look, but left him outside, loosed greyhounds, and set them at him. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/116/) — The Eagle was exceedingly wroth, jumped up from table, seized the King, and flew away with him again. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/117/) — Well, they flew and flew. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/118/) — Presently the Eagle said to the King, "Look round; what is behind us?" - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/119/) — The King turned his head, looked, and said, "Behind us is a red house." - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/120/) — "That is the house of my youngest sister--on fire, because she did not receive you, but set greyhounds at you." - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/121/) — They flew and flew. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/122/) — Again the Eagle asked: - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/123/) — "Look again, my lord King; what is above us, and what below us?" - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/124/) — "Above us is the sky, below us the earth." - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/125/) — "Look and see what is on the right hand and on the left." - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/126/) — "On the right is the open plain, on the left there stands a house." - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/127/) — "There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit." - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/128/) — They stopped in a wide courtyard. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/129/) — The second sister received her brother cordially, and seated him at the oaken table; but the King was left outside, and she loosed greyhounds, and set them at him. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/130/) — The Eagle flew into a rage, jumped up from table, caught up the King, and flew away farther with him. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/131/) — They flew and flew. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/132/) — Says the Eagle: - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/133/) — "My lord King! look round! what is behind us?" - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/134/) — The King looked back. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/135/) — "There stands behind us a red house." - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/136/) — "That's my second sister's house burning!" said the Eagle. " - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/137/) — Now we'll fly to where my mother and my eldest sister live." - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/138/) — Well, they flew there. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/139/) — The Eagle's mother and eldest sister were delighted to see them, and received the King with cordiality and respect. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/140/) — "Now, my lord King," said the Eagle, "tarry awhile with us, and afterwards I will give you a ship, and will repay you for all I ate in your house, and then--God speed you home again!" - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/141/) — So the Eagle gave the King a ship and two coffers--the one red, the other green--and said: - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/142/) — "Mind now! don't open the coffers until you get home. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/143/) — Then open the red coffer in the back court, and the green coffer in the front court." - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/144/) — The King took the coffers, parted with the Eagle, and sailed along the blue sea. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/145/) — Presently he came to a certain island, and there his ship stopped. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/146/) — He landed on the shore, and began thinking about the coffers, and wondering whatever there could be in them, and why the Eagle had told him not to open them. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/147/) — He thought and thought, and at last couldn't hold out any more--he longed so awfully to know all about it. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/148/) — So he took the red coffer, set it on the ground, and opened it--and out of it came such a quantity of different kinds of cattle that there was no counting them: the island had barely room enough for them. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/149/) — When the King saw that, he became exceedingly sorrowful, and began to weep and therewithal to say: - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/150/) — "What is there now left for me to do? how shall I get all this cattle back into so little a coffer?" - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/151/) — Lo! there came out of the water a man--came up to him, and asked: - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/152/) — "Wherefore are you weeping so bitterly, O lord King?" - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/153/) — "How can I help weeping!" answers the King. " - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/154/) — How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?" - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/155/) — "If you like, I will set your mind at rest. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/156/) — I will pack up all your cattle for you. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/157/) — But on one condition only. - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/158/) — You must give me whatever you have at home that you don't know of." - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/159/) — The King reflected. - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/160/) — "Whatever is there at home that I don't know of?" says he. " - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/161/) — I fancy I know about everything that's there." - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/162/) — He reflected, and consented. " - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/163/) — Pack them up," says he. " - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/164/) — I will give you whatever I have at home that I know nothing about." - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/165/) — So that man packed away all his cattle for him in the coffer. - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/166/) — The King went on board ship and sailed away homewards. - [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/167/) — When he reached home, then only did he learn that a son had been born to him. - [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/168/) — And he began kissing the child, caressing it, and at the same time bursting into such floods of tears! - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/169/) — "My lord King!" says the Queen, "tell me wherefore thou droppest bitter tears?" - [170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/170/) — "For joy!" he replies. - [171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/171/) — He was afraid to tell her the truth, that the Prince would have to be given up. - [172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/172/) — Afterwards he went into the back court, opened the red coffer, and thence issued oxen and cows, sheep and rams; there were multitudes of all sorts of cattle, so that all the sheds and pastures were crammed full. - [173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/173/) — He went into the front court, opened the green coffer, and there appeared a great and glorious garden. - [174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/174/) — What trees there were in it to be sure! - [175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/175/) — The King was so delighted that he forgot all about giving up his son. 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