--- title: The Bronze Ring — The Blue Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 3 description: The Bronze Ring, «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/page/3/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / The Bronze Ring # The Bronze Ring · page 3 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/page/2/) **3** - [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/201/) — Quick as thought the lame mouse snatched up the precious talisman and carried it off to the boat. - [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/202/) — Imagine the despair of the magician when he awoke and the bronze ring was nowhere to be found! - [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/203/) — But by that time our three mice had set sail with their prize. - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/204/) — A favoring breeze was carrying them toward the island where the queen of the mice was awaiting them. - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/205/) — Naturally they began to talk about the bronze ring. - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/206/) — “Which of us deserves the most credit?” they cried all at once. - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/207/) — “I do,” said the blind mouse, “for without my watchfulness our boat would have drifted away to the open sea.” - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/208/) — “No, indeed,” cried the mouse with the cropped ears; “the credit is mine. - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/209/) — Did I not cause the ring to jump out of the man’s mouth?” - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/210/) — “No, it is mine,” cried the lame one, “for I ran off with the ring.” - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/211/) — And from high words they soon came to blows, and, alas! when the quarrel was fiercest the bronze ring fell into the sea. - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/212/) — “How are we to face our queen,” said the three mice “when by our folly we have lost the talisman and condemned our people to be utterly exterminated? - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/213/) — We cannot go back to our country; let us land on this desert island and there end our miserable lives.” - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/214/) — No sooner said than done. - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/215/) — The boat reached the island, and the mice landed. - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/216/) — The blind mouse was speedily deserted by her two sisters, who went off to hunt flies, but as she wandered sadly along the shore she found a dead fish, and was eating it, when she felt something very hard. - [217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/217/) — At her cries the other two mice ran up. - [218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/218/) — “It is the bronze ring! - [219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/219/) — It is the talisman!” they cried joyfully, and, getting into their boat again, they soon reached the mouse island. - [220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/220/) — It was time they did, for the captain was just going to land his cargo of cats, when a deputation of mice brought him the precious bronze ring. - [221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/221/) — “Bronze ring,” commanded the young man, “obey thy master. - [222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/222/) — Let my ship appear as it was before.” - [223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/223/) — Immediately the genii of the ring set to work, and the old black vessel became once more the wonderful golden ship with sails of brocade; the handsome sailors ran to the silver masts and the silken ropes, and very soon they set sail for the capital. - [224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/224/) — Ah! how merrily the sailors sang as they flew over the glassy sea! - [225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/225/) — At last the port was reached. — checked by a teacher - [226](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/226/) — The captain landed and ran to the palace, where he found the wicked old man asleep. - [227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/227/) — The Princess clasped her husband in a long embrace. - [228](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/228/) — The magician tried to escape, but he was seized and bound with strong cords. - [229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/229/) — The next day the sorcerer, tied to the tail of a savage mule loaded with nuts, was broken into as many pieces as there were nuts upon the mule’s back. - [230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/230/) — (1) - [231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/231/) — (1) Traditions Populaires de l’Asie Mineure. - [232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/232/) — Carnoy et Nicolaides. - [233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/233/) — Paris: Maisonneuve, 1889. 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