--- title: The Brown Fairy Book, part 27 — The Brown Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “It does not matter a straw how hard the work is,” answered the bear eagerly, “I will do it every bit.” --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / The Brown Fairy Book, part 27 # The Brown Fairy Book, part 27 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/101/) — The cat was constantly with her, and ran after her wherever she went, and even sat up proudly by her side when she drove out in her fine glass coach. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/102/) — “Oh, pussy,” said the queen one day, “you are happier than I am! - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/103/) — For you have a dear kitten just like yourself, and I have nobody to play with but you.” - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/104/) — “Don’t cry,” answered the cat, laying her paw on her mistress’s arm. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/105/) — “Crying never does any good. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/106/) — I will see what can be done.” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/107/) — The cat was as good as her word. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/108/) — As soon as she returned from her drive she trotted off to the forest to consult a fairy who dwelt there, and very soon after the queen had a little girl, who seemed made out of snow and sunbeams. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/109/) — The queen was delighted, and soon the baby began to take notice of the kitten as she jumped about the room, and would not go to sleep at all unless the kitten lay curled up beside her. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/110/) — Two or three months went by, and though the baby was still a baby, the kitten was fast becoming a cat, and one evening when, as usual, the nurse came to look for her, to put her in the baby’s cot, she was nowhere to be found. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/111/) — What a hunt there was for that kitten, to be sure! — checked by a teacher - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/112/) — The servants, each anxious to find her, as the queen was certain to reward the lucky man, searched in the most impossible places. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/113/) — Boxes were opened that would hardly have held the kitten’s paw; books were taken from bookshelves, lest the kitten should have got behind them, drawers were pulled out, for perhaps the kitten might have got shut in. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/114/) — But it was all no use. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/115/) — The kitten had plainly run away, and nobody could tell if it would ever choose to come back. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/) **2** - ← previous: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/) - next →: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/28/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/)