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title: Opening, part 29 — The Orange Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
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# Opening, part 29 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/101/) — The eagles and the gulls looked on from their nests as he passed, leaving the deer behind him; but at length he stopped, for hunger had seized on him, and he could walk no more. — checked by a teacher
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/102/) — Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/103/) — 'Spare me a morsel, Ardan son of Gorla,' asked a raven, fluttering down towards him.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/104/) — 'Seek food elsewhere, O bearer of ill-news,' answered Ardan son of Gorla; 'it is but little I have for myself.'
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/105/) — And he stretched himself out for a few moments, then rose to his feet again.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/106/) — On and on went he till the little birds flew to their nests, and the brightness died out of the sky, and a darkness fell over the earth.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/107/) — On and on, and on, till at last he saw a beam of light streaming from a house and hastened towards it.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/108/) — The door was opened and he entered, but paused when he beheld an old man lying on a bench by the fire, while seated opposite him was a maiden combing out the locks of her golden hair with a comb of silver.

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