--- title: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5 — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: When he is old enough to be danced on his father's knee, I shall sit with a book at the back of the stable, and while I am reading, the b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/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/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5 # Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/101/) — Come along. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/102/) — I'll take you too!" - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/103/) — "But how will you take hold of me to carry me along?" - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/104/) — "I'll bite hold of you with my beak." - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/105/) — "You'll let me fall if you carry me like that. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/106/) — I won't go with you!" - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/107/) — "Don't be afraid! - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/108/) — I'll hold you quite tight all the way." - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/109/) — Then said the crab to himself, "If this fellow once got hold of fish, he would never let them go in a pond! - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/110/) — Now if he should really put me into the pond, it would be capital; but if he doesn't--then I'll cut his throat, and kill him!" - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/111/) — So he said to him: - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/112/) — "Look here, friend, you won't be able to hold me tight enough; but we crabs have a famous grip. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/113/) — If you let me catch hold of you round the neck with my claws, I shall be glad to go with you." - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/114/) — And the other did not see that he was trying to outwit him, and agreed. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/115/) — So the crab caught hold of his neck with his claws as securely as with a pair of blacksmith's pincers, and called out, "Off with you, now!" - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/116/) — And the crane took him and showed him the pond, and then turned off towards the Varana-tree. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/117/) — "Uncle!" cried the crab, "the pond lies that way, but you are taking me this way!" - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/118/) — "Oh, that's it, is it?" answered the crane. " - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/119/) — Your dear little uncle, your very sweet nephew, you call me! - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/120/) — You mean me to understand, I suppose, that I am your slave, who has to lift you up and carry you about with him! - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/121/) — Now cast your eye upon the heap of fish-bones lying at the root of yonder Varana-tree. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/122/) — Just as I have eaten those fish, every one of them, just so I will devour you as well!" - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/123/) — "Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity," answered the crab; "but I'm not going to let you eat \_me\_. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/124/) — On the contrary, is it \_you\_ that I am going to destroy. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/125/) — For you in your folly have not seen that I was outwitting you. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/126/) — If we die, we die both together; for I will cut off this head of yours, and cast it to the ground!" - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/127/) — And so saying, he gave the crane's neck a grip with his claws, as with a vice. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/128/) — Then gasping, and with tears trickling from his eyes, and trembling with the fear of death, the crane beseeched him, saying, "O my Lord! - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/129/) — Indeed I did not intend to eat you. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/130/) — Grant me my life!" - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/131/) — "Well, well! step down into the pond, and put me in there." - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/132/) — And he turned round and stepped down into the pond, and placed the crab on the mud at its edge. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/133/) — But the crab cut through its neck as clean as one would cut a lotus-stalk with a hunting-knife, and then only entered the water! - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/134/) — When the Genius who lived in the Varana-tree saw this strange affair, he made the wood resound with his plaudits, uttering in a pleasant voice the verse: - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/135/) — "The villain, though exceeding clever, Shall prosper not by his villainy. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/136/) — He may win indeed, sharp-witted in deceit, But only as the Crane here from the Crab!" - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/137/) — Loving Laili - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/138/) — Once there was a king called King Dantal, who had a great many rupees and soldiers and horses. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/139/) — He had also an only son called Prince Majnun, who was a handsome boy with white teeth, red lips, blue eyes, red cheeks, red hair, and a white skin. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/140/) — This boy was very fond of playing with the Wazir's son, Husain Mahamat, in King Dantal's garden, which was very large and full of delicious fruits, and flowers, and trees. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/141/) — They used to take their little knives there and cut the fruits and eat them. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/11/142/) — King Dantal had a teacher for them to teach them to read and write. 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