--- title: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15 — The Crimson Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered, for with one swift, silent strok --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15 # The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/101/) — Do not rest till you reach a wide stairway, down which you will go till you come out into a spacious hall, in which there are three doors; two of them stand open, the third is fastened with locks and bolts of iron. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/102/) — Do not go through the door to the right lest you disturb the bones of the lords of the treasure. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/103/) — Neither must you go through the door to the left, it leads to the snake’s chamber, where adders and serpents lodge; but open the fast-closed door by means of the well-known spring-root, which you must on no account forget to take with you, or all your trouble will be for naught, for no crowbar or mortal tools will help you. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/104/) — If you want to procure the root ask a wood-seller; it is a common thing for hunters to need, and it is not hard to find. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/105/) — If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/106/) — Now trim your lamp that it may not fail you, for you will be nearly blinded by the flash and glitter of the gold and precious stones on the walls and pillars of the vault; but beware how you stretch out a hand towards the jewels! - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/107/) — In the midst of the cavern stands a copper chest, in that you will find gold and silver, enough and to spare, and you may help yourself to your heart’s content. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/108/) — If you take as much as you can carry you will have sufficient to last your lifetime, and you may return three times; but woe betide you if you venture to come a fourth time. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/109/) — You would have your trouble for your pains, and would be punished for your greediness by falling down the stone steps and breaking your leg. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/110/) — Do not neglect each time to heap back the loose earth which concealed the entrance of the king’s treasure chamber.’ - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/111/) — “As the apparition left off speaking my dog pricked up his ears and began to bark. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/112/) — I heard the crack of a carter’s whip and the noise of wheels in the distance, and when I looked again the spectre had disappeared.” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/113/) — So ended the shepherd’s tale; and the landlord who was listening with the rest, said shrewdly: [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/) **2** - ← previous: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/) - next →: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/)