--- title: The Pink Fairy Book, part 28 — The Pink Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2 description: The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The youth and his sweetheart entered the castle, which was now theirs, and held their wedding; and all the kings roundabout, who had been in the t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / The Pink Fairy Book, part 28 # The Pink Fairy Book, part 28 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/101/) — Not one of them, however, ever thought of thanking Esben for what he had done for them. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/102/) — The king was still more rejoiced over the boar than he had been over the dove, and did not know what to give the brothers for it. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/103/) — At this Sir Red was again possessed with anger and envy, and again he went about and planned how to get the brothers into trouble. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/104/) — One day he went again to the king and said, ‘These eleven brothers have now procured the dove and the boar, but they can do much more than that; I know they have said that if they liked they could get for the king a lamp that can shine over seven kingdoms.’ - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/105/) — ‘If they have said that,’ said the king, ‘they shall also be made to bring it to me. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/106/) — That would be a glorious lamp for me.’ - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/107/) — Again the king sent a message to the brothers to come up to the palace. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/108/) — They went accordingly, although very unwillingly, for they suspected that Sir Red had fallen on some new plan to bring them into trouble. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/109/) — As soon as they came before the king he said to them, - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/110/) — ‘You brothers have said that you could, if you liked, get for me a lamp that can shine over seven kingdoms. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/111/) — That lamp must be mine within three days, or it will cost you your lives.’ - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/112/) — The brothers assured him that they had never said so, and they were sure that no such lamp existed, but their words were of no avail. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/113/) — ‘The lamp!’ said the king, ‘or it will cost you your heads.’ - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/114/) — The brothers were now in greater despair than ever. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/115/) — They did not know what to do, for such a lamp no one had ever heard of. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/116/) — But just as things looked their worst along came Esben. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/117/) — ‘Something wrong again?’ said he. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/118/) — ‘What’s the matter with you now?’ - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/119/) — ‘Oh, it’s no use telling you,’ said they. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/120/) — ‘You can’t help us, at any rate.’ - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/121/) — ‘Oh, you might at least tell me,’ said Esben; ‘I have helped you before.’ - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/122/) — In the end they told him that the king had ordered them to bring him a lamp which could shine over seven kingdoms, but such a lamp no one had ever heard tell of. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/123/) — ‘Give me a bushel of salt,’ said Esben, ‘and we shall see how matters go.’ - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/124/) — He got his bushel of salt, and then mounted his little white stick, and said, - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/125/) — Fly quick, my little stick, Carry me across the stream. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/126/) — With that both he and his bushel of salt were over beside the witch’s courtyard. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/127/) — But now matters were less easy, for he could not get inside the yard, as it was evening and the gate was locked. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/128/) — Finally he hit upon a plan; he got up on the roof and crept down the chimney. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/129/) — He searched all round for the lamp, but could find it nowhere, for the witch always had it safely guarded, as it was one of her most precious treasures. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/130/) — When he became tired of searching for it he crept into the baking- oven, intending to lie down there and sleep till morning; but just at that moment he heard the witch calling from her bed to one of her daughters, and telling her to make some porridge for her. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/131/) — She had grown hungry, and had taken such a fancy to some porridge. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/132/) — The daughter got out of bed, kindled the fire, and put on a pot with water in it. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/133/) — ‘You mustn’t put any salt in the porridge, though,’ cried the witch. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/134/) — ‘No, neither will I,’ said the daughter; but while she was away getting the meal Esben slipped out of the oven and emptied the whole bushel of salt into the pot. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/135/) — The daughter came back then and put in the meal, and after it had boiled a little she took it in to her mother. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/136/) — The witch took a spoonful and tasted it. 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