1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media book Club book Club book CLUBO, Hello 2 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: and welcome to Cool Zone Media book Club, the only 3 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: book club that you don't need to do the reading for. Well, actually, 4 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: I've been in a lot of book clubs where I 5 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: don't do the reading, but don't tell anyone in any 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: of my previous book clubs about that. The reason you 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: don't have to do your reading is that I'm going 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: to do your reading. I'm your host, Margaret Kildre, and 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: every week I bring you a different fiction story or sometimes, 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: like today, three different fairy tales. So it's no secret 11 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: that I like stories. It's no secret that I think 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: stories matter. Nonfiction has its value, and very little work 13 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: is needed to defend the value of nonfiction. But stories, 14 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: people think that they're just silly things, so I'm going 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: to defend them. Stories are the smithy in which we 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: forge our sense of who we can be, the tool 17 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: by which we open up possible futures. That's often what 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: I focus on. But they're also one of the best 19 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: glimpses into people and cultures. And it's for this reason 20 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: that I love folk stories so much. The great novels 21 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: or whatever, they're great. It's in the name great novels, 22 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: but the folk stories, usually anonymous, are usually the source 23 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: of all the most interesting ideas, tropes, and archetypes. As 24 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: a history podcaster, find myself drawn again and again to 25 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, in particular because the nineteenth century is 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: when all sorts of ideas and social movements really coalesced. 27 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: Anti capitalism, for example, had been growing up alongside capitalism 28 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: for centuries, but in the nineteenth century it formed into ideologies. 29 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: The twentieth centuries when those hypotheses, those ideologies were tested, 30 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: and now it's the twenty first century, and what we've 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: got to do is analyze the results of those tested 32 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: hypotheses and then make some adjustments and then try again. 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: But the nineteenth centuries where the current era began, at 34 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: least as I understand things, And one thing that was 35 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: happening in the nineteenth century was the rise of folklorists. 36 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: It was an era where people just went around and 37 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: were like, oh, maybe we should write some of the 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: shit down that people have been saying for uncountable generations. 39 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: And I've run across this time and time again in 40 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: my research, like just different countries will be well, rather 41 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: different languages and different groups of people will be doing 42 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: this because also this era is kind of the rise 43 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: of the concept of the state, which is also something 44 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: I'm not really excited about, but that's unrelated. More recently, 45 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of reading about various Slavic cultures, 46 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: especially Ukraine and Russia, which are of course themselves amalgamations 47 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: of various cultures. So I first thought I would read 48 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: you some Ukrainian folk tales this week. But then I 49 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: was like, well, one of the people I've been studying 50 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: lately is a Cossack, which is an ethnic group mostly 51 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,519 Speaker 1: known for being mercenary and nomadic horse writers, And so 52 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: I was like, all right, why not go with some 53 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: Cossack folk stories, and this week I'm going to read 54 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: you three of them. Saves me the trouble of doing 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: the weird ad transitions in the middle of the story. 56 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: These are from a nineteen sixteen translation of a book 57 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: called Cossack Fairy Tales, translated by R. Nisbit Bane from 58 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: the Ruthenian language. Most of these were collected by folklorists 59 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: in the eighteen fifties and eighteen seventies. I couldn't promise 60 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: you that these stories are specifically Cossack only that someone 61 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: labeled them as such in the nineteen sixteen translation, and 62 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: that they're from the Ruthenian language, and also shout out 63 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: to Jack, who's the person who got me to buy 64 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: my first book of Ukrainian folklore. I don't know if 65 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: you're listening, but if you are, thanks. The first story 66 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: is called the story of Ivan and the Daughter of 67 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: the Sun. There were once upon a time for brethren, 68 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: and three of them remained at home, while the fourth 69 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: went out to seek for work. The youngest brother came 70 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: to a strange land and hired himself out to a 71 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: husbandman for three gold pieces a year. For three years 72 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: he served his master faithfully, so at the end of 73 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: his time he departed with nine gold pieces in his pocket. 74 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: The first thing he now did was to go to 75 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: a spring, and into the spring he threw three of 76 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: his gold pieces. Let us see, now, said he, If 77 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: I have been honest, they will come swimming back to me. 78 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: Then he lay down by the side of the spring 79 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: and went fast asleep. How long he slept there, who 80 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: can tell, But at any rate, he woke up at 81 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: last and went to the spring, and there was no 82 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: sign of his money to be seen. Then he threw 83 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: three more of his gold pieces into the spring, and 84 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: again he lay down by the side of it and slept. 85 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: Then he got up and went and looked into the spring, 86 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: and still there was no sign of the money. So 87 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: he threw his three remaining gold pieces, and again lay 88 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: down and slept. The third time he arose, looked into 89 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: the spring, and there, sure enough was all his money. 90 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: All nine of the gold pieces were floating on the 91 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: surface of the water. And now his heart felt lighter, 92 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: and he gathered up the nine gold pieces and went 93 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: on his way. On the road. He fell in with 94 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: three Kotsapi with a laden wagon. Kotsapi is a word 95 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: used in this context to mean Russians because the it's 96 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: like harry. I think it means like bear or goat 97 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: or something. But the Ruthenians were clean shaven and the 98 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: Russians were harry, so it's a probably not a super 99 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: polite word. He asked them concerning their wares, and they 100 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: said they were carrying a load of incense. He begged 101 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: them straight away to sell him this incense. Then they 102 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: sold it to him for the gold pieces. And when 103 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: he had bought it and they had departed, he kindled 104 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: fire and burnt the incense and offered it up to 105 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: God as a sweet smelling sacrifice. Then an angel flew 106 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: down to him and said, oh thou that hast offered 107 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: this sweet smelling sacrifice to God, what dost thou want 108 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: for thine own self? Dost thou want azardam or great riches? 109 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: Or perchance the desire of thy heart is a good wife? 110 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: Speak for God will give thee whatsoever thou desirest. When 111 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: the man had listened to the angel, he said to him, 112 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: terry a while, I will go and ask those people 113 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: who are plowing yonder. Now, those people who are plowing 114 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: there were his own brethren, but he did not know 115 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: that they were his brethren. So he went up and 116 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: said to the elder brother, tell me, uncle, what shall 117 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: I ask of God? Azardam or great riches or a 118 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: good wife? Tell me which of the three is the 119 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: best gift to ask for? And his eldest brother said 120 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: to him, I know not, and who does know? Go 121 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: and ask someone else. So he went to the second brother, 122 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: who is plowing a little farther on. He asked him 123 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: the same question. But the man only shrugged his shoulders 124 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: and said he did not know. Either. Then he went 125 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 1: to the third brother, who is the youngest of the three, 126 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: and also plowing there, and he asked him, saying, tell 127 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: me now, which is the best gift to ask of God? 128 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: A zardam, or great riches or a good wife? And 129 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: the third brother said, what a question. Thou art too 130 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: young for a zardam and great riches. Last, but for 131 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: a little while, ask God for a good wife. For 132 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: if it please God to give THEE a good wife, 133 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: tis a gift that will bless THEE all thy life long. 134 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: So he went back to the angel and asked for 135 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: a good wife. Then he went on his way till 136 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: he came to a certain wood, and looking about him, 137 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: he perceived that in this wood was a lake. And 138 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: while he was looking at it, three wild doves came 139 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: flying along and lit down upon this lake. They threw 140 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: off their plumage and plunged into the water. And then 141 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: he saw that they were not wild doves, but three 142 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: fair ladies. They bathed in the lake, and in the meantime 143 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: the youth crept up and took the raiment of one 144 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: of them and hid it behind the bushes. When they 145 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: came out of the water, the third lady missed her clothes. 146 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: The youth said to her, I know where thy clothes are, 147 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: but I will not give them to THEE. Thou wilt 148 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: be my wife. Good, cried she, thy wife, I shall be. 149 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: Then she dressed herself, and they went together to the 150 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: nearest village. When they got there, she said to him, 151 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: now go to the nobleman who owns the land here, 152 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: and beg him for a place where we may build 153 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: us a hut. So he went right up to the 154 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: nobleman's castle and entered his reception room, and said, Glory 155 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: be to God forever and ever. Replied the nobleman, what 156 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: dost thou want here, Ivan, I have come, sir, to 157 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: beg of THEE a place where I may build me 158 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: a hut, A place for a hut. Day good, very good, 159 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: Go home, and I'll speak to my overseer, and he 160 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: shall appoint THEE a place. So he returned from the 161 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 1: nobleman's castle, and his wife said to him, go now 162 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: into the forest and cut down an oak, a young 163 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: oak that thou canst span round with both arms. So 164 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: he cut down such an oak as his wife had 165 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: told him of, and she built a hut of the oak, 166 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: for the overseer had come and shown them a place 167 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: where they might build their hut. But when the overseer 168 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: returned home, he praised laud to his master. The wife 169 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: of this Ivan, she is such and such, said he. 170 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: Fair she may be, replied the nobleman, but she is another's. 171 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: She need not be another's for long, replied the overseer, 172 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: This Ivan is in our hands. Let us send him 173 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: to see why it is the sun grows so red 174 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: when it sets. That's just the same as if you 175 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: had sent him to a place, whence he can never return. 176 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: All the better. Then they sent for Ivan and gave 177 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: him this errand, and he returned home to his wife, 178 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: weeping bitterly. Then his wife asked him all about it, 179 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: and said, well, I can tell THEE all about the 180 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: ways of the sun, for I am the son's own daughter. 181 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: So now I'll tell THEE the whole matter. Go back 182 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: to this nobleman and say to him that the reason 183 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: why the sun turned so red as he sets is this. 184 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: Just as the sun is going down into the sea, 185 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: three fair ladies rise out of it, and it is 186 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: the sight of them which makes him turn so red 187 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: all over. So we went back and told them, Oh, ho, 188 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: cried they. If you can go as far as that, 189 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,839 Speaker 1: you may now go a little farther. So they told 190 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: him to go to Hell and see how it was there. Yes, 191 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: said his wife, I know the road that leads to 192 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: Hell also very well. But the nobleman must let his 193 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: overseer go with THEE, or else he never will believe 194 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: that thou really didst go to Hell. So the nobleman 195 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: told us overseer that he must go to Hell too. 196 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: So they went together, and when they got there, the 197 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: rulers of Hell laid hands upon the overseer straight away. 198 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: Thou dog roared, They we've been looking out for thee 199 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: for some time. So Ivan returned without the overseer, and 200 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: the nobleman said to him, where's my overseer? I left 201 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: him in Hell, said Ivan, And they said there that 202 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: they were waiting for you, sir too. When the nobleman 203 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: heard this, he hanged himself. But Ivan lived happily with 204 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: his wife, much like you can live happily if you 205 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 1: listen to our sponsors, hopefully none of which is a 206 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: wife given to you by the son. I don't know, 207 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: or maybe it would be cool. Who's to say, and 208 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: we're back. This next story is called the Ungrateful Children 209 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: and the Old Father who went to school again. Once 210 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: upon a time there was an old man. He lived 211 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: to a great age, and God gave him children, whom 212 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: he brought up to man's estate, and he divided all 213 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: his goods amongst them. I will pass my remaining days 214 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: among my children, thought he. So the old man went 215 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: to live with his eldest son. And at first the 216 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: eldest son treated him properly and did reverence to his 217 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: old father. Tis but meet and write that we should 218 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: give our father to eat and drink, and see that 219 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: he has wherewithal to clothe him, and take care to 220 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: patch up his things from time to time, and let 221 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: him have clean new shirts on festivals, said the eldest son. 222 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,559 Speaker 1: So they did so, and at festivals also the old 223 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: father had his own glass beside him. Thus the eldest 224 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: son was a good son to his old father. But 225 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: when the eldest son had been keeping his father for 226 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: some time, he began to regret his hospitality and was 227 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: rough to his father, and sometimes even shouted at him. 228 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: The old man no longer had his own set place 229 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: in the house, as heretofore, and there was none to 230 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: cut up his food for him. So the eldest son 231 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: repented him that he had said he would keep his father, 232 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: and he began to grudge him for every morsel of 233 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: bread he put in his mouth. The old man had 234 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: nothing for it but to go to his second son. 235 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: It might be better for him there or worse. But 236 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: stay with the eldest son any longer he could not, 237 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: So the father went to his second son. But here 238 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: the old man soon discovered that he had only exchanged 239 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: wheat for straw. Whenever he began to eat, his second 240 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: son and his daughter in law looked sour and murmured 241 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: something between their teeth. The woman scolded the old man. 242 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: We had as much as we could do before to 243 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: make both ends meet, cried she, And now we have 244 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: an old man to keep into the bargain. The old 245 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: man soon had enough of it there also, and went 246 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: on to his next son. So, one after another, all 247 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: four sons took their father to live with them, and 248 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: he was glad to leave them all. Each of the 249 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 1: four sons, one after the other, cast the burden of 250 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: supporting him on one of the other brothers. It is 251 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: for him to keep thee daddy said they and the 252 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,680 Speaker 1: other would say, nay, Dad, But it is as much 253 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: as we can do to keep ourselves. Thus, between his 254 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: four sons he knew not what to do. There's quite 255 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: a battle among them as to which of them should 256 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: not keep their old father. One had one good excuse, 257 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: and another had another, and so none of them would 258 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: keep him. This one had a lot of little children, 259 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: and that one had a scold for a wife. And 260 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: this house was too small, and that house was too poor. 261 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: Go where thou wilt, old man said, they only don't 262 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: come to us. And so the old man, gray, gray, 263 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: gray as a dove, he wept before his sons and 264 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: knew not whither to turn. What could he do. Entreaty 265 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,719 Speaker 1: was in vain. Not one of the sons would take 266 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: the old man in, and yet he had to be 267 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: put somewhere. Then the old man strove with them no more, 268 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: but let them do with him even as they would. 269 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: So all four sons met and took counsel. Time after 270 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: time they laid their heads together, and at last they 271 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: agreed among themselves that the best thing the old man 272 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: could do was go to school. There'll be a bench 273 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: for him to sit upon there, said they, and he 274 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: can take something to eat in his knapsack. Then they 275 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: told the old man about it. But the old man 276 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: did not want to go to school. He begged his 277 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: children not to send him there, and wept before them. 278 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: Now that I cannot see the white world, said he, 279 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: how can I see a black book? Moreover, from my 280 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: youth upward, I have never learnt my letters? How shall 281 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: I begin to do so? Now? A clerk cannot be 282 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: fashioned out of an old man on the point of death. 283 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: But there was no use talking his children, and said 284 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: he must go to school. And the voices of his 285 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: children prevailed against his feeble old voice. So to school 286 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: he had to go. Now, there was no church in 287 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: that village, so he had to go to the village 288 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: beyond it to go to school. A forest lay along 289 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: the road, and in this forest the old man met 290 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: a nobleman driving along. When the old man came near 291 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: the nobleman's carriage, he stepped out of the road to 292 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: let it pass, took off his hat respectfully, and then 293 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: would have gone on further. But he heard someone calling, 294 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: and looking back, saw the nobleman beckoning to him. He 295 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: wanted to ask him something. The nobleman then got out 296 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: of his carriage and asked the old man whither he 297 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: was going. The old man took off his hat to 298 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: the nobleman and told him all his misery, and the 299 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: tears ran down the old man's cheeks. Woe is to me, 300 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: gracious sir, if the Lord had left me without kith 301 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: and kin, I should not complain. But strange, indeed is 302 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: the woe that has befallen me. I have four sons, 303 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: thank God, and all four have houses of their own, 304 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: and yet they send their poor old father to school 305 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: to learn. Was ever the like of it known before? 306 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: So the old man told the nobleman his whole story, 307 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: and the nobleman was full of compassion for the old man. Well, 308 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: old man said, he tis no use for THEE to 309 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: go to school. That's plain. Return home. I'll tell THEE 310 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: what to do, so that thy children shall never send 311 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: THEE to school again. Fear not, old man, weep no more, 312 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: and let not thy soul be troubled. God shall bless THEE, 313 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: and all will be well. I know well ought what 314 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: to be done here. So the nobleman comforted the old man, 315 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: and the old man began to be merry. Then the 316 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: nobleman took out his purse. It was a real nobleman's purse, 317 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: with a little sack in the middle of it to 318 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: hold small change. Lord, what a lovely thing it was. 319 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: The more he looked at it, the more the old 320 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: man marveled at it. The nobleman took out this purse 321 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: and began filling it with something. When he had well 322 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: filled it, he gave it to the old man. Take 323 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: this and go home to thy children, said he. And 324 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: when thou hast got home, call together all thy four sons, 325 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: and say to them, my dear children. Long long ago, 326 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: when I was younger than I am now, and knocked 327 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: about in a world a bit, I made a little money. 328 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: I won't spend it, I said to myself, for one 329 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: never knows what may happen. So I went into a 330 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: forest my children, and dug a hole beneath an oak, 331 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,679 Speaker 1: and there I hid my little store of money. I 332 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: did not bother much about the money afterward, because I 333 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: had such good children. But when you sent me to school, 334 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: I came to this self same oak, and I said 335 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: to myself, I wonder if these few silver pieces have 336 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: been waiting for their master all this time let us 337 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 1: dig and see. So I dug and found them, and 338 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: have brought them home to you, my children. I shall 339 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: keep them till I die, But after my death consult together, 340 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: and whosoever shall be found. I've cherished me most, and 341 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: taking care of me most, and not grudged me a 342 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: clean shirt now and then, or a crust of bread 343 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 1: when I'm hungry to him, shall be given them greater 344 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: part of my money. So now, my dear children, receive 345 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: me back again, and my thanks shall be yours. You 346 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: can manage it amongst yourselves, For surely does not write 347 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: that I should seek a home amongst strangers. Which of 348 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: you will be so kind to your old father for money? 349 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: So the old man returned to his children with the 350 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: purse and a casket. I'm going to interject and say 351 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: that a casket in the old timey sense means like 352 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: a little box to hold something valuable. And when he 353 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,479 Speaker 1: came to the village with a casket under his arm, 354 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 1: one could see at once that he had been in 355 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: a good forest. There's a footnote in the original text 356 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: here that says that good forest in this context means 357 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: a place where you found a bunch of money, which 358 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: is you know, a good forest. When one comes home 359 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: with a heavy casket under one's arm, depend upon it. 360 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 1: There's something in it. So no sooner did the old 361 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: man appear than his eldest daughter in law came running 362 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: out to meet him and bade him welcome. In God's name. 363 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: Things don't don't seem to get on at all without 364 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: thee dad cried she. And the house is quite dreary. 365 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: Come in and rest, dad, She went on, thou hast 366 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: gone a long way and must be weary. Then all 367 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: the brothers came together, and the old man told them 368 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: what God had done for him. All their faces brightened 369 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 1: as they looked at the casket, and they thought to themselves, 370 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: if we keep him, we shall have the money. Then 371 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: the four brothers could not make too much of their 372 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: dear old father. They took care of him, and the 373 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: old man was happy, But he took heed to the 374 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: counsel of the nobleman, and never let the casket out 375 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: of his hand. After my death, you shall have everything, 376 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: but I won't give it to you now, for who 377 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 1: knows what may happen. I have seen already how you 378 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: treated your old father when he had nothing. It shall 379 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: all be yours, I say, only wait, and when I die, 380 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: take it and divide it as I have said. So 381 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: the brothers tended their father, and the old man lived 382 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: in Clover and was somebody. He had his own way 383 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: and did nothing. So the old man was no longer 384 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 1: ill treated by his children, but lived among them like 385 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: an emperor in his own empire. But no sooner did 386 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: he die than his children made what haste they could 387 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: to lay hand upon the casket. All the people were 388 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: called together and bore witness that they had treated their 389 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: father well since he came back to them. So it 390 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: was adjudged that they should divide the treasure amongst them. 391 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: But first they took the old man's body to the church, 392 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: and the casket along with it. They buried him as 393 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: God commands. They made a rich banquet of funeral meats 394 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: that all might know how much they mourned the old man. 395 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: It was a splendid funeral. When the priest got up 396 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: from the table, the people all began to thank their hosts, 397 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: and the eldest son begged the priest to say the 398 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: sore coast in the church for the repose of the 399 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: dead man's soul. The sore coast is like a well 400 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: to prayer for the dead, which it probably could have inferred. 401 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: But there's a footnote about it. Such a dear old 402 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: fellow he was, said, he was there ever anyone like him? 403 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: Take this money for the sore coast, Reverend father, So 404 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: horribly grieved was that eldest son. The son gave the 405 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: priest money, and the second son gave him the like. Nay, 406 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 1: each one gave him money for an extra half sore coast, 407 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 1: and all four gave him requiem money. We'll have our 408 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: prayers in church for our father, though we shall sell 409 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: the last sheep to pay for them, cried they. Then, 410 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: when all was over, they hastened as fast as they 411 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,479 Speaker 1: could to the money. The coffer was brought forth. They 412 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: shook it. There was a fine rattling inside. Every one 413 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 1: of them felt and handled the coffer that was something 414 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: like a treasure. Then they unsealed it and opened it 415 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: and scattered the contents, and it was full of nothing 416 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: but glass. They wouldn't believe their eyes. They rummaged among 417 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: the glass, but there was no money. It was horrible. 418 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: Surely it could not be that their father had dug 419 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 1: up a coffer from beneath an oak of the forest, 420 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: and it was full of nothing but glass. Why, cried 421 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: the brothers, Our father has left us nothing but glass. 422 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: But for the crowds of people there, the brothers would 423 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: have fallen upon and beaten each other in their wrath. 424 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: So the children of the old man saw that their 425 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: father had made fools of them. Then all the people 426 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: mocked them. You see what you gained by sending your 427 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: father to school? You see he learned something at school. 428 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: After all, he was a long time before he began learning. 429 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: But better late than never. It appears to us twas 430 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: a right good school you sent him to. No doubt, 431 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: they whipped him into learning so much. Never mind, you 432 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: can keep the money in the casket. Then the brothers 433 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 1: were full of lamentation and rage. But what could they do. 434 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: Their father was already dead and buried. And if you 435 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 1: want to spend your meaningless bobbles, you can spend them 436 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: on these meaningless bobbles. And we're back. I've got one 437 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: more story for you from the same book. This story 438 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: is called the Serpent Wife. There once was a gentleman 439 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: who had a laborer who never went about in company. 440 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: His fellow servants did all they could to make him 441 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: come with them, and now and then enticed him into 442 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: the tavern, but they can never get him to stay 443 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: there long, and he always wandered away by himself through 444 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: the woods. One day he went strolling about in the 445 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: forest as usual, far from any village and the haunts 446 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: of men, when he came upon a huge serpent, which 447 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: wriggled straight up to him and said, I'm going to 448 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 1: eat thee on the spot. But the laborer, who is 449 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: used to the loneliness of the forest, replied, very well, 450 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: eat me, if thou hast a mind to Then the 451 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: serpent said, nay, I will not eat thee. Only do 452 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: what I tell thee. And the serpent began to tell 453 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: the man what he had to do. Turn back home, 454 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: it said, and thou wilt find thy master angry because 455 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: thou hast tarried so long and there was none to 456 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: work for him, so that his corn has to remain 457 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: standing in the field. Then he will send thee to 458 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: bring in his sheaves, and I shall help thee load 459 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: the wagon well, But don't take quite all the sheaths 460 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: from the field, leave one little sheaf behind. More than 461 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 1: that thou needst not leave, but that thou must leave. 462 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: Then beg thy master to let thee have this little 463 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: sheaf by a way of wages. Take no money from 464 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: him but that one little sheaf. Only then, when thy 465 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: master has given thee this sheath, burn it and a 466 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: fair lady will leap out of it, take her to wife. 467 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: The laborer obeyed and went and worked for his master. 468 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: As the serpent had told him, he went out into 469 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: the field to bring home his master's corn, and marvelously 470 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 1: he managed it. He did all the carrying himself, and 471 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,959 Speaker 1: loaded the wagon so heavily that it creaked beneath its burden. Then, 472 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: when he had brought home all his master's corn, he 473 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: begged that he might have the remaining little sheaf for himself. 474 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: He refused to be rewarded for his smart labor. He 475 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: would take no money. He wanted nothing for himself, he said, 476 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: but the little sheaf he had left in the field. 477 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: So his master let him have the sheaf. So he 478 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: went out by himself into the field, burnt the sheaf, 479 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: and just as the serpent had told him, and immediately 480 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: a lovely lady leapt out of it. The laborer forthwith 481 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: took and married her. And now he began to look 482 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: out for a place to build him a hut. Upon 483 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 1: his master gave him a place where he might build 484 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: a hut, And his wife helped him so much with 485 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: the building of it that it seemed to him as 486 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: if he himself never laid a hand to it. His 487 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: hut grew up as quick as thought, and it contained 488 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: everything they wanted. The man could not understand it. He 489 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: could only walk about and wonder at it. Wherever he 490 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: looked there was everything quite spick and span and ready 491 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: for use. None in the whole village had a better 492 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: house than he. And so he might have lived in 493 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: all peace and prosperity to the end of his days, 494 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: had not his desires outstripped his deserts. He had three 495 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,640 Speaker 1: fields of standing corn, And when he came home one day, 496 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: his laborers said to him, thy corn is not gathered 497 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: in yet, though it is standing all ripe on its stalks. 498 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: Now the season was getting on, and for all the 499 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,120 Speaker 1: care and labor of his wife, the corn was still 500 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: standing in the field. Why what's the meaning of this? 501 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: Thought he Then, in his anger, he cried, I see 502 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: how it is once a serpent, always a serpent. He 503 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: was quite beside himself all the way home, and he 504 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: was very wrath with his wife because of the corn. 505 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: When he got home, he went straight to his chamber 506 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: to lie down on his pillow. There was no sign 507 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: of his wife, but a huge serpent was just coiling 508 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: itself round and round and settling down in the middle 509 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: of the pillow. Then he called to mind how once 510 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 1: his wife had said to him, beware, for Heaven's sake 511 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: of ever calling me a serpent. I will not suffer 512 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: thee to call me by that name. And if thou dost, 513 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: thou shalt lose thy wife. He called this to mind now, 514 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: but it was already too late. What he had said 515 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: could not be unsaid. Then he reflected what a good 516 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: wife he had had, and how she herself had sought 517 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 1: him out, and how she had waited upon him continually 518 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: and done him boundless good, and yet he had not 519 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: been able to refrain his tongue, so that now maybe 520 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: he would be without a wife for the rest of 521 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,919 Speaker 1: his days. His heart grew heavy within him as he 522 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: thought of all this, and he wept bitterly at the 523 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: harm he had done to himself. Then the serpent said 524 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: to him, weep no more. What is to be must be? 525 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: Is it thy standing corn? Thou art grieved about? Go 526 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: up to thy barn, and there thou wilt find all 527 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: thy corn, lying to the very last little grain? Have 528 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: I not brought it all home and threshed it for thee? 529 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: And said, everything in order? And now I must depart 530 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: to the place where thou didst first find me. Then 531 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: she crept off, and the man followed her, weeping and 532 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,239 Speaker 1: mourning all the time as for one already dead. When 533 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: they reached the forest, she stopped and coiled herself round 534 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,360 Speaker 1: and round beneath a hazel nut bush. Then she said 535 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: to the man, now kiss me once, but see to 536 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: it that I do not bite thee. Then he kissed 537 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: her once, and she wound herself around branch of a 538 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: tree and asked him, what dost thou feel within thee? 539 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: He answered, at the moment when I kissed thee, it 540 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 1: seemed to me as if I knew everything that was 541 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: going on in the world. Then she said to him again, 542 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: kiss me a second time. And what dost thou feel now? 543 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 1: She asked? When he had kissed her again, Now said he, 544 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,400 Speaker 1: I understand all languages which are spoken among men. Then 545 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: she said to him, now kiss me a third time. 546 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: This will be for the last time. Then he kissed 547 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: the serpent for the last time, and she said to him, 548 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: what dost thou feel now? Now? Said he, I know 549 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: all that is going on under the earth. Go now, 550 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: said she to the Tsar, And he will give thee 551 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: his daughter for the knowledge thou hast. But pray to 552 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: God for poor me. For now I must be and 553 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: remain a serpent forever. And with that the serpent uncoiled 554 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: herself and disappeared among the bushes. But the man went 555 00:28:55,280 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: away and wedded the Tsar's daughter the end. I really 556 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: like those stories because I feel like they step out 557 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: of expectations. There are like morals in these stories, right, 558 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: listen to your wife, don't be a shit to your dad. 559 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: I like to imagine the dad's story was like made 560 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: up by a dad as like a little moral tale 561 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: for his kids, you know, just ahead of time or whatever. 562 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: But there's still not quite as like heavy handed of 563 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: moral stories as some of the other fairies tales that 564 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: I've read. Anyway, thanks for listening and join us next 565 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: week for Cool Zone Media book Club. I'm Margaret Kiljoy. 566 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: I write fiction. I have a book called The Sapling 567 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: Cage that comes out in September, and that's going to 568 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: be kickstarted in June twenty twenty four. And if you 569 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: want more information about that, you can search Kickstarter the 570 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: Sapling Cage and you will find a place to sign 571 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: up for notifications when that kickstarter goes live so that 572 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: you can pre order it. 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