Chapter 52 51. Humpback Tabanino

The hunchback Tabanino is a poor cobbler, but he can't even get a boy who mends leather shoes, and his life is really hard.So he left his hometown and went out to try his luck.It was getting late, and he didn't know where to spend the night. When he saw a light in the distance, he followed the light and came to a house.After knocking, a woman opened the door, and Tabanino asked to let him stay overnight. The woman said, "This is the house of the wild man. He eats what he sees. If I let you in, my husband will eat you when he comes back." The hunchback Tabanino begged in every possible way, but the woman moved with sympathy and said to him, "Come in, then, and if you don't mind, I'll bury you in the ashes."

After hiding, the savage came back, and as soon as he entered the house, he turned around the house with his nose and smelled everywhere, and said: "Somebody, somebody, This taste belongs to the unborn, Either someone has been here, Or there are people hiding in the house. " His wife said to him, "Eat quickly, you're guessing again." She gave him a big pot of macaroni. The Savage and his wife began to eat noodles.After eating, the savage said, "I'm full. I've eaten my whole stomach and I can't eat any more. It would be great if there was someone else in the family. I can give him the leftover noodles."

The wife said, "A poor little dwarf just came and begged me to keep him here for the night. If you promise me not to eat him, I will let him out." "Let him come out at ease." The wife pulled Tabanino out of the plaster and sat him down at the table.The poor hunchback was covered in ashes, facing the savage, trembling like a leaf, biting the bullet and eating some noodles. "I shall not feel hungry to-night," said the Wildling to the Hunchback. "I warn you, if you don't run away early in the morning, I shall eat you in one bite." Then they talked like a pair of good friends, hunchbacked and shrewd as devils, and began to praise the wild man:

"The quilt on your bed is so beautiful!" The savage said: "It is embroidered with gold and silver threads, and it is surrounded by golden tassels." "Where's the cabinet?" "There were two bags of money in there." "Where's the stick behind the bed?" "It can be used to conjure good weather." "What's that sound?" "A parrot in a cage that can talk like us." "You have so many babies!" "That's not all! In the stables, I also raised a group of rare horses in the world, which run as fast as the wind."

After supper the wife hid Tarbanino again in the hole under the ashes and went to bed with her husband.At dawn the next day, my wife immediately went to call Tabanino. "Quick, run away before my husband gets up!" the hunchback Tarbanino thanked the woman and left. He went around and around, and finally he came to the palace of the King of Portugal, and he asked to see the King.The king received him and asked him to tell his story.When he heard what happened to him in the wild man's house, he was very interested and said to Tabanino: "Listen, you can stay in the palace and live as you like, but first you must bring me something. "

"You command, Your Majesty." "Just now you said that the savage has a beautiful quilt embroidered with gold and silver threads and hung with gold tassels, then go and get it for me, or I will make your head fall to the ground." "How can this be done," said the hunchback, "the savage eats what he sees. Doesn't it mean that you send me to die?" "I don't care about it, you just think about it and come up with a way." The poor hunchback racked his brains and thought for a long time before he came up with a solution. He went to the king and said to the king: "Your Majesty, please give me a paper tape full of live hornets, and the hornets will be starved for seven or eight days." ;then I will bring you that quilt." The king said to him, "I will give you another stick, which is a magic wand, which will bring you good luck. Whenever you want to go through the water, use It taps the ground, and everything is settled. Besides, I'll be waiting for you in that palace on the other side of the coast when you go to fetch your quilt."

The hunchback came to the outside of the savage's house, and when he heard it against the wall, he knew that he was eating inside.He climbed up the window and turned into the house, hiding under the bed.After eating, the Savage and his wife went to bed and fell asleep.At this time, the hunchback stuffed the paper bag full of hornets into the quilt, and then opened it.The wasps couldn't bear to be covered in the bag, they came out to buzz and sting everywhere. The savage turned over and over after being stung, and simply threw off the quilt, threw it on the ground, bent his back and rolled the quilt under the bed.The wasp was annoyed by the wild man's movement, and stings him all over the body. The pain made the wild man and his wife scream and run out of the house.The hunchback was the only one left in the room, and he also fled with the cup under his arm.

After a while, the wild man came to the window and asked the parrot in the cage: "Parrot, what time is it?" The parrot said, "That's when Tabanino the Humpback just stole your beautiful quilt!" The Savage immediately ran back to the bedroom to see that the quilt was gone.He led out the horse and gave chase, and soon saw the hunchback from a distance.But Tabanino had run to the sea, and he tapped the ground with the wand the king had given him, and the sea parted and let him pass.No sooner had he passed than the sea closed again.The savage chased to the shore and stopped, he could only shout:

"Not something Tabanino, When will you dare to come back here again? I ate you sooner or later, Otherwise I cannot live. " The king jumped up happily when he saw the quilt.He thanked the hunchback, and then said, "Talbanino, if you can steal this quilt back, you must also be able to steal the wildling's wand that makes good weather!" "Your Majesty, how can I do this?" "Think about it, or you'll lose your head." The hunchback thought for a while, and then asked the king to give him a small bag of walnuts. He came outside the savage's house, and heard the savage couple having sex.He climbed up to the roof and sprinkled a handful of walnuts on the roof, and the Savage woke up when he heard the knocking on the roof, and said to his wife, "Listen, there is hail!" Go up, don't let the hail destroy my wheat. "

The wife got up and went down to the ground, opened the window, and put the wand on the roof, where Tarbanino caught it just in time, and fled with it. After a while, the Savage was very pleased with himself that he had stopped the hailstorm, so he got up and went to the window. "Parrot, what time is it?" "Just in time for Tarbanino the Hunchback to steal your magic wand," said the parrot. Hearing this, the savage got on his horse and galloped after him. When he reached the beach, he was about to overtake him. When Tabaninoba's wand hit the ground, the sea water parted again, and after letting him pass, it closed again.The Savage yelled:

"Not something Tabanino, When will you dare to come back here again? I ate you sooner or later, Otherwise I cannot live. " When the king saw the magic wand, he couldn't help but said: "Now go back and steal the two bags of money from the wild man." After the hunchback thought about it, he had some logging tools prepared for him. Then, he changed his clothes, put on a beard, and went to the wild man's house again.This time he brought an ax, some wedges and a big hammer.The Savage had never seen Tarbanino in daylight, and since Tarbanino had spent a good few days in the palace, his hunchback was less prominent, so the Savage did not recognize him. They greeted each other.The savage asked, "Where are you going?" "Go cut down trees!" "Oh, you can cut as much as you want in that forest!" So Tabanino set to work around a very thick oak tree with his tools.He drove a wedge into the tree, and another, and another, and took the hammer and smashed it in.Presently he pretended to have hit a wedge over his head, and looked anxious.The wild man said, "Don't worry, let me help you." He put his hand into the trunk to open the crack, trying to dig a big gap, shaking and shaking the wedge.At this moment, Tabanino gave a strong blow with the sledgehammer, and all the wedges were shaken out, and the gap in the trunk closed again, and the hands of the wild man were trapped.The savage screamed in pain: "Please, help me quickly, run to my house and ask my wife to find the two big wedges at home and give them to you, and pry my hands out." Tabanino ran to the woman and said to her, "Quick, your husband wants you to give me the two bags of money that are in the cupboard at home." "Shall I give you those two bags of money?" said the woman. "That's what we save for food! One bag is enough. Two more bags!" So Tabanino opened the window and yelled, "Should your wife give me one, or both?" "Both! Quick!" cried the Savage. "Did you hear that? He was a little anxious to wait." Tabanino said, took the purse and fled. The Savage himself took great pains, and even squeezed out a large piece of skin, to get his hand out of the trunk, and he came home grinning.The wife asked: "Why do you ask me to hand over the two bags of money?" When the savage heard this, he wished he could get into the ground.He walked up to the parrot and asked, "What time is it?" "Just in time for the hunchback Tabanino to scam you out of those two bags of money!" But this time, the savage's hand hurt too much, and he couldn't chase after him, so he could only curse a few words to settle the matter. When the king got the money, he asked Tarbanino to steal the galloping horse as well. He hunchbacked and said, "That's impossible! The stables are locked, and the horse has many bells on it!" But he After thinking about it, I asked for an awl and a small bag of cotton and went again.He first dug a hole in the wooden wall of the stable with an awl and got in. Then he stabbed the horse's belly several times with the awl. The pain made the horse kick and bark. Say, "Poor beast, it must be very uncomfortable tonight, so noisy!" Tabanino stabs the horse in a moment!The Wildman heard it barking so much that he could not sleep, so he went into the stable, led him out, and went to sleep again.At this time, the hunchback who had been in the dark stable came out of the hole again. He stuffed cotton in each bell and wrapped the horse's four hooves. Then, he untied the rope and jumped on the horse's back. Quietly gallop away.Not long after, the Savage woke up again as usual, went to the window, and asked, "What time is it, Parrot?" "Just in time for Tarbanino the Humpback to steal your horse!" The wild man wanted to chase the hunchback, but the horse had already been ridden by Tabanino, and what could catch up with the horse! The king was very happy and said, "This time I want you to steal the parrot." "But the parrot can talk and shout!" "That's up to you." The Hunchback had two very nice cakes made, and some sweets, morsels, and sweets of all kinds, and put them in a basket, and went out again. "Look, parrot," the hunchback said quietly to it, "look what I brought you, come with me, and you can eat them every day!" The parrot ate a piece of cake and said, "It's delicious!" In this way, after feeding cakes and snacks, and snacks and biscuits, Tabanino hooked the parrot away.The wild man came to the window and asked: "Parrot, what time is it? What time is it? Didn't you hear me asking you? What time is it?" He ran to the cage and saw that it was already empty. At the palace, the king congratulates Tabanino on his return with the parrot.Said the king; "You have stolen so many good things! Now there is one last!" "There's nothing more to steal!" said the hunchback. "Is that so?" said the King, "and there is a big fellow, and you must go and bring back the Wildling yourself." "Well, Your Majesty, I'll do my best. But I need a coat to cover my hunchback, and I'll have to get a make-up." Immediately the King called for his best tailors and make-up artists, and had them make some garments to conceal his hunchback from being recognized, and had him made him a golden wig and a mustache. After dressing up, the hunchback went to find the savage again, and saw the savage working in the field.The hunchback saluted him with his hat off. "What are you looking for?" "I'm a coffin maker," said Tabanino. "I'm looking for planks for the coffin of Tabanino the Hunchback. He's dead." "Oh! He's dead at last!" said the wild man, "I'm so happy to hear the news. I'll give you the coffin boards. You can make him a coffin here." "That's great," said the hunchback, "but there's only one inconvenience, and that's that I can't measure dead people here." "That's easy," said the Savage, "that bastard is about my size, and you can make it my size." Tabanino began sawing the boards and nailing the nails. When the coffin was finished, he said, "It's ready, now we have to try to see if it fits." The Savage immediately lay down in it, "Let's put the lid on and try again. "The hunchback put the lid back on again and nailed it in.After nailing it, the hunchback took the coffin and returned to the king. Many nobles from nearby royal palaces rushed over. They put the coffin in the middle of the grass and lit a fire.Then there was a great celebration, and the king was freed from the clutches of the monster. The King appointed Tabanino Minister of State, and he has been held in great esteem ever since. The road is narrow, the story is long, I'm done talking and you talk. (Pononia region)