rich. You have more money than I have. Do you want to go away from
us now?"
Dick loved Alice. He said, "No, I want to stay and work with
you."
Mr. Warren said, "You shall not stay as my servant, but as my
friend."
So Dick stayed with Mr. Warren. After some years he married
Alice, for he loved her very much. He became very rich, and he was
a very good man. He and his wife lived together very happily for
many, many years.
The Goat-Calf
Once a Leopard and a Jackal came to a village. The Leopard
caught a goat, and the Jackal caught a cow.
They brought the goat and the cow back. The Leopard put the
goat in his field, and the Jackal put the cow in his field.
The Leopard was angry because he had a goat, but the Jackal
had a cow. He went at night to the Jack's field and looked at the
cow. He saw that the cow had a calf This made him very angry: he
took the calf away and put it in the field with his goat.
Next day the Leopard saw the Jackal in the field. The Jackal
said, "Ha! I have a beautiful cow, but you have a little goat."
The Leopard said, "Ah! But my goat has a calf."
"How can a goat have a calf'?" said the Jackal. "That cannot
be! A cow can have a calf, but a goat cannot have a calf, so that
calf is mine: it is my calf."
"Come and see my goat and her calf," said the Leopard.
The Jackal looked at the calf and said, "The call is standing
near the goat, but the goat is not its mother. If a calf is standing
near a horse, do you say that the horse is the calf's mother? No!-So
that is my calf."
We will go and ask the Donkey," said the Leopard. "We will hear
what he says."
So they told their quarrel to the Donkey. The Donkey was afraid
of the Leopard. So he said, " When I was young, cows had calves,
but other beasts did not have calves. But many things have changed:
there are many new things now. Every day I see or hear some new
thing. So now goats may have calves. It may be."
The Jackal said, "That Donkey knows nothing! And he is afraid
of you. We will ask the Dog."
So they went to the Dog and told him their quarrel.
The Dog was afraid of the Leopard; so he said, "All goats are
not the same. There are goats which are owned by men, and there
are goats which are owned by leopards. Goats which are owned by
men cannot have calves, but goats which are owned by leopards may
have calves. That is what I think."
The Jackal said, " That Dog does not want to quarrel with you,
so he said what you want. We will ask the Cat. She is very old,
and remembers everything."
So they went and told their quarrel to the Very Old Cat.
The Very Old Cat said, " In the old times, the King of All the
Beasts said, "Cows will have calves; lions will have little lions;
leopards will have little leopards. Every beast will have his own
kind of young." But now people do many new things and do not live
in the old ways as they did when I was young. Go away! I want to
sleep."
"Now you have heard!" said the Leopard. "You have heard the
Donkey, and the Dog and the Cat; and they all say that the calf
is mine."
" We have not heard the Monkey," said the Jackal. "He sits on
the top of a big stone where you cannot jump up at him, so he is
safe and will not be afraid of you. And he knows everything."
So they came to the Monkey. He was sitting on the top of a very
big stone. Many beasts were standing near, because they all brought
their quarrels to the Monkey Who Knew Everything.
He was eating his food. The Leopard and the Jackal told him
their quarrel. The Monkey went on eating.
"What do you say?" said the Leopard. "Is it my calf Can a goat
have a calf?"
The Monkey took up a little stone and rubbed it.
"What are you doing?" said the Leopard. "Why do you not answer?"
"I have just eaten," said the Monkey. "Now I must have some
music."
The Monkey rubbed the stone.
"What are you doing?" said the Leopard.
"I am making music," answered the Monkey.
" I cannot hear any music!" said the Leopard. "No music can
come from a stone!"
"If a calf can come from a goat, then music can come from a
stone," said the Monkey.
Then all the beasts said, " Ha! Ha! Ha! The Monkey knows
everything. When music comes from a stone, the Leopard may have
that calf."
So the Jackal took the calf and went home.
"Bah!" cried the Leopard. "These beasts! They all know
nothing!"
Beauty and the Beast
I
Once there was an old man. He had three young and beautiful
children: they were girls. The youngest girl was the most beautiful.
She was called 'Beauty', because she was so beautiful. Beauty was
a very nice girl: she was kind to everyone; she worked very hard.
Whenever there was hard work to do in the house Beauty did it, for
her sisters did not like hard work. Everyone liked Beauty, because
she was so good and so kind; they did not like her sisters, because
they were hard and unkind.
Now, the old man was very rich: he had many ships. He sent all
his ships to sea. They were going to take cloth and many nice things
to other countries to sell them there and bring back much money.
But all the ships were lost at sea. The old man waited and waited,
but none of his ships came back. He waited for one year and still
no ships came. Then he said, "Now I know that I have lost my ships.
I am not a rich man any more. All my riches have been lost on those
ships."
Then the old man called his three children and said, "My ships
are lost, and all my riches have been lost on the ships. We cannot
live in this big house any more. We must go and live in a small
hut in the country. We shall not have servants any more, but we
must do our own work."
The sisters said, " It will be very hard for us to lose our
nice house, and to live in a little hut." But Beauty said, "It will
be nice to live in the country. I will do all the hard work, and
we shall all be very happy."
So they went and lived in a small hut in the country. Beauty
did all the hard work, for she loved her father and wanted to make
him happy. Her sisters did no work: they did not love their father;
they did not love anyone. They did not like hard work. They were
angry because they could not live in a big house and have servants.
After about a year a man came and told the old man about one
of his ships. He said, "You did not lose all your ships: one of
your ships was not lost. The ship has come back." The old man said,
"I will go to the city and see about it."
Then the old father called his children and said to each of
the three sisters, "What shall I bring to you when I come back from
the city?"
One sister answered, "Please bring me some jewels."
The other sister said, " Please bring me some beautiful
clothes."
Then he said to Beauty, "What shall I bring to you?"
She answered, "Please bring me a rose."
"But that is a very small thing," said her father.
"A rose will please me most," she answered.
So he went to the city.
The ship was his smallest ship, and it had brought very little;
so he had little money to buy things for his children; but he said,
"I must get them what they asked." He bought jewels for one sister,
and he bought beautiful clothes for the other. Then he went to a
man who had a garden: he said to the man, " I want to buy some roses."
The man said, "You cannot buy roses in this month. There are no
roses in my garden now. Wait about three months, and the garden
will be full of roses." But the old man said, "I want a rose now."
"You cannot get roses this month," said the other man.
Then the old man set out on his way home. The road went through
a big forest. After about two hours rain began to fall, and it was
hard to find the way. Then night came, and he lost his way in the
forest. He did not know where he was going.
After some time he saw a light very far away; and he thought,
"If I go to the light, I shall come to some house where I can get
food and a bed." He went on for some time, and then he saw a big
house. He went to the door of the house, and called. He called many
times, but there was no answer. Then he opened the door and went
in.
Inside the house he saw a great hall. In the hall there was
a great table, and on the table food was set ready for one person.
He thought, "This must be the house of some great person. In a little
time he will come.
He waited for some time, but no one came. He walked about the
house from one room to another. He saw no one: there was not a person
in the house. 2He called, but no one came.
Then he said, "I will not wait any more." He sat down and ate
the food. Then he found a room with a bed in it all ready. He got
into the bed and fell asleep.
He awoke in the morning, and got out of bed. He looked for his
clothes. Some person had taken away his clothes in the night. Where
his old clothes had been, there were very nice new clothes set ready
for him. He put on the clothes: then he went into the hall. Food
was set ready for him; he ate it. Then he went out, and walked about
in the garden.
Now, as he walked about the garden, he saw a tree covered with
roses. He thought, "Here are some roses for Beauty: she asked me
to bring her a rose." So he took a rose in his hand. Just as he
took the rose, a great beast jumped out of the trees and stood before
him.
The Beast said, "I have given you food to eat; I have given
you a bed to sleep on; I have given you new clothes to put on. What
have you done for me? ... You have taken a rose from my rose-tree!
You shall die for this."
"Please give me time!" cried the poor man. "I took it to give
to Beauty."
"Who is 'Beauty'?" said the Beast.
" She is my youngest child," said the old man 'She loves me
very much. If you kill me, she will be so sad that she will die
too."
" The girl may die in place of you," said the Beast. "You may
go away now for one month; after one month you must come back to
this place, or Beauty may come in your place."
"You could not kill her!" said the old man; 'she is too good
and too beautiful!"
"Bring her to this place after one month," said the Beast. "Go
now -- and you may take your rose." The Beast went back into the
trees. Beauty's father went sadly home.
Ⅱ
At last the old man came home. He gave to the three girls the
things which he had brought. He gave the jewels to one; the
beautiful clothes to the other; and, last, he gave Beauty her rose.
The two sisters were very pleased; but Beauty saw that her
father was not happy. Every day he looked more and more sad. At
last she went to him and said, "Father, for a long time you have
looked sad, and you look sadder every day. Why do you look so sad?"
For a Ion time he did not tell her. But she asked him again,
and at last he said, "This is the last month I have to live." He
told her about the great house and the Beast, and what the Beast
had said—'After one month you must come, or Beauty must come in
place of you."
Beauty said, "I will go with you. If you do not take me with
you, I shall go alone."
At last the time came. The old man made ready his horse.
He got up on the horse, and Beauty got up with him; and they
set out.
They rode through the forest. The way was long. It was night
when at last they came to the great house. There were little lights
set in the trees of the garden, and all the house was full of lights.
In the hall beautiful food was set ready for them, and flowers were
on the table. They sat down and ate. No one came to them.
They went to bed.
In the morning Beauty awoke and found that some person had set
many beautiful dresses at the side of her bed for her. She did not
know which dress to take, for all the dresses were so beautiful.
After some time she dressed herself. Then they went into the garden.
The old man took Beauty and showed her the rose-tree where he had
seen the Beast.
As they waited there, they heard a great noise, and the Beast
stood before them. Beauty was afraid: then she looked into the
Beast's eyes, and she saw that they were very kind eyes. She thought,
"He must be a kind Beast: he will not kill me."
I The Beast said, "I am very pleased to see you, Beauty. "
Then he said to her father, "Please go away, Beauty shall stay in
this place with me alone." The old man looked at Beauty. " Shall
I go?" he asked. "Yes," said Beauty. "Yes, go away, for I have seen
his eyes, and I think he is a kind Beast."
So her father went away. The Beast went back into the trees.
Beauty was there alone.
Beauty went into the house. She went from one place to another,
and looked into all the rooms. The doors opened for her as she came,
but she could not see who had opened them. Each room was full of
beautiful things all set ready for her.
When she had seen all the rooms, she went into the hall and
sat down. "I want a book to read," she said. "Can I have a book?"
She could not see anyone near her, but someone answered, " Yes."
At once someone placed a book on the table at her side. Her name
was written in the book:
Beauty
with love from
The Beast
When night came she sat in the hall. She was reading her book.
Just then she heard a great noise, and she saw that Beast standing
before her.
The Beast said, "Is this a nice place?"
"Yes," she said.
"Did you like the dresses?"
"Yes, thank you," She said.
"Is that a nice book?"
"Yes, thank you," she said.
"Do you like living here?"
"Yes, thank you," she said.
Then, after a little time, he said, "Will you marry me?"
She cried and ran away.
He said, "Do not run away. Say 'Yes' or 'No." …Will you marry
me?"
"No, thank you," she said.
The Beast looked sad; and went away.
Each night, as she sat in the hall, the Beast came to her and
said the same things. Each time he asked her to marry him, and she
said, " No," Then he looked sad and went away. It made her sad too.
Beauty stayed in the place for a month. Then she thought, "My
father will think that I am dead. I must go and see him."
So she said to the Beast that night, "I want to go and see my
father."
"Yes, you may go," said the Beast, "but please come back after