--- title: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11 — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: This was rather a bold offer. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/) [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 11 # Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11 Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11 of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 146 sentences and 2541 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 3 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/1/) — This was rather a bold offer. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/2/) — However, they accomplished the thing. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/3/) — At midnight, when the ogress was sound asleep, one of the rats went to her bedside, climbed up on her face, and inserted its tail into her throat; whereupon the ogress coughed violently, and the ring came out and rolled on to the floor. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/4/) — The rat immediately seized the precious thing and ran off with it to its king, who was very glad, and went at once to the cat and released its son. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/5/) — As soon as the cat received the ring, she started back with the dog to go and tell their master the good tidings. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/6/) — All seemed safe now. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/7/) — They had only to give the ring to him, and he would speak to it, and the house and beautiful princess would again be with them, and everything would go on as happily as before. " - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/8/) — How glad master will be!" they thought, and ran as fast as their legs could carry them. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/9/) — Now, on the way they had to cross a stream. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/10/) — The dog swam, and the cat sat on its back. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/11/) — Now the dog was jealous of the cat, so he asked for the ring, and threatened to throw the cat into the water if it did not give it up; whereupon the cat gave up the ring. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/12/) — Sorry moment, for the dog at once dropped it, and a fish swallowed it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/13/) — "Oh! what shall I do? what shall I do?" said the dog. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/14/) — "What is done is done," replied the cat. " - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/15/) — We must try to recover it, and if we do not succeed we had better drown ourselves in this stream. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/16/) — I have a plan. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/17/) — You go and kill a small lamb, and bring it here to me." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/18/) — "All right," said the dog, and at once ran off. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/19/) — He soon came back with a dead lamb, and gave it to the cat. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/20/) — The cat got inside the lamb and lay down, telling the dog to go away a little distance and keep quiet. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/21/) — Not long after this a nadhar, a bird whose look can break the bones of a fish, came and hovered over the lamb, and eventually pounced down on it to carry it away. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/22/) — On this the cat came out and jumped on to the bird, and threatened to kill it if it did not recover the lost ring. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/23/) — This was most readily promised by the nadhar, who immediately flew off to the king of the fishes, and ordered it to make inquiries and to restore the ring. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/24/) — The king of the fishes did so, and the ring was found and carried back to the cat. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/25/) — "Come along now; I have got the ring," said the cat to the dog. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/26/) — "No, I will not," said the dog, "unless you let me have the ring. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/27/) — I can carry it as well as you. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/28/) — Let me have it or I will kill you." - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/29/) — So the cat was obliged to give up the ring. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/30/) — The careless dog very soon dropped it again. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/31/) — This time it was picked up and carried off by a kite. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/32/) — "See, see, there it goes--away to that big tree," the cat exclaimed. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/33/) — "Oh! oh! what have I done?" cried the dog. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/34/) — "You foolish thing, I knew it would be so," said the cat. " - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/35/) — But stop your barking, or you will frighten away the bird to some place where we shall not be able to trace it." - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/36/) — The cat waited till it was quite dark, and then climbed the tree, killed the kite, and recovered the ring. " - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/37/) — Come along," it said to the dog when it reached the ground. " - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/38/) — We must make haste now. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/39/) — We have been delayed. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/40/) — Our master will die from grief and suspense. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/41/) — Come on." - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/42/) — The dog, now thoroughly ashamed of itself, begged the cat's pardon for all the trouble it had given. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/43/) — It was afraid to ask for the ring the third time, so they both reached their sorrowing master in safety and gave him the precious charm. — checked by a teacher - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/44/) — In a moment his sorrow was turned into joy. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/45/) — He spoke to the ring, and his beautiful wife and house reappeared, and he and everybody were as happy as ever they could be. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/46/) — The Talkative Tortoise - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/47/) — The future Buddha was once born in a minister's family, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares; and when he grew up, he became the king's adviser in things temporal and spiritual. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/48/) — Now this king was very talkative; while he was speaking, others had no opportunity for a word. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/49/) — And the future Buddha, wanting to cure this talkativeness of his, was constantly seeking for some means of doing so. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/50/) — At that time there was living, in a pond in the Himalaya mountains, a tortoise. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/51/) — Two young hamsas, or wild ducks, who came to feed there, made friends with him. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/52/) — And one day, when they had become very intimate with him, they said to the tortoise: - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/53/) — "Friend tortoise! the place where we live, at the Golden Cave on Mount Beautiful in the Himalaya country, is a delightful spot. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/54/) — Will you come there with us?" - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/55/) — "But how can I get there?" - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/56/) — "We can take you, if you can only hold your tongue, and will say nothing to anybody." - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/57/) — "Oh! that I can do. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/58/) — Take me with you." - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/59/) — "That's right," said they. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/60/) — And making the tortoise bite hold of a stick, they themselves took the two ends in their teeth, and flew up into the air. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/61/) — Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!" - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/62/) — Whereupon the tortoise wanted to say, "If my friends choose to carry me, what is that to you, you wretched slaves!" - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/63/) — So just as the swift flight of the wild ducks had brought him over the king's palace in the city of Benares, he let go of the stick he was biting, and falling in the open courtyard, split in two! - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/64/) — And there arose a universal cry, "A tortoise has fallen in the open courtyard, and has split in two!" - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/65/) — The king, taking the future Buddha, went to the place, surrounded by his courtiers; and looking at the tortoise, he asked the Bodisat, "Teacher! how comes he to be fallen here?" - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/66/) — The future Buddha thought to himself, "Long expecting, wishing to admonish the king, have I sought for some means of doing so. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/67/) — This tortoise must have made friends with the wild ducks; and they must have made him bite hold of the stick, and have flown up into the air to take him to the hills. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/68/) — But he, being unable to hold his tongue when he hears any one else talk, must have wanted to say something, and let go the stick; and so must have fallen down from the sky, and thus lost his life." - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/69/) — And saying, "Truly, O king! those who are called chatter-boxes--people whose words have no end--come to grief like this," he uttered these Verses: - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/70/) — "Verily the tortoise killed himself Whilst uttering his voice; Though he was holding tight the stick, By a word himself he slew. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/71/) — "Behold him then, O excellent by strength! - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/72/) — And speak wise words, not out of season. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/73/) — You see how, by his talking overmuch, The tortoise fell into this wretched plight!" - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/74/) — The king saw that he was himself referred to, and said, "O Teacher! are you speaking of us?" - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/75/) — And the Bodisat spake openly, and said, "O great king! be it thou, or be it any other, whoever talks beyond measure meets with some mishap like this." - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/76/) — And the king henceforth refrained himself, and became a man of few words. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/77/) — A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/78/) — A poor blind Brahman and his wife were dependent on their son for their subsistence. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/79/) — Every day the young fellow used to go out and get what he could by begging. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/80/) — This continued for some time, till at last he became quite tired of such a wretched life, and determined to go and try his luck in another country. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/81/) — He informed his wife of his intention, and ordered her to manage somehow or other for the old people during the few months that he would be absent. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/82/) — He begged her to be industrious, lest his parents should be angry and curse him. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/83/) — One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day after day, till he reached the chief city of the neighbouring country. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/84/) — Here he went and sat down by a merchant's shop and asked alms. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/85/) — The merchant inquired whence he had come, why he had come, and what was his caste; to which he replied that he was a Brahman, and was wandering hither and thither begging a livelihood for himself and wife and parents. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/86/) — Moved with pity for the man, the merchant advised him to visit the kind and generous king of that country, and offered to accompany him to the court. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/87/) — Now at that time it happened that the king was seeking for a Brahman to look after a golden temple which he had just had built. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/88/) — His Majesty was very glad, therefore, when he saw the Brahman and heard that he was good and honest. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/89/) — He at once deputed him to the charge of this temple, and ordered fifty kharwars of rice and one hundred rupees to be paid to him every year as wages. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/90/) — Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news of her husband, left the house and went in quest of him. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/91/) — By a happy fate she arrived at the very place that he had reached, where she heard that every morning at the golden temple a golden rupee was given in the king's name to any beggar who chose to go for it. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/92/) — Accordingly, on the following morning she went to the place and met her husband. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/93/) — "Why have you come here?" he asked. " - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/94/) — Why have you left my parents? - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/95/) — Care you not whether they curse me and I die? - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/96/) — Go back immediately, and await my return." - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/97/) — "No, no," said the woman. " - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/98/) — I cannot go back to starve and see your old father and mother die. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/99/) — There is not a grain of rice left in the house." - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/17/100/) — "O Bhagawant!" exclaimed the Brahman. 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