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Chapter 155 182. A mouse with a stinky tail

italian fairy tale 卡尔维诺 2325Words 2018-03-22
It is said that once upon a time there was a king who had a daughter who was too beautiful to describe.Kings and Emperors came to propose to her, but the father would not marry her to any one, for every day a voice woke him up and said, "Don't give up your daughter! Don't give up your daughter!" The poor girl looked at herself in the mirror and said, "What's the matter? Why can't I get married if I'm so beautiful?" So she couldn't calm down.One day, when everyone was sitting at the table, she said to her father like this: "Dad, why can't I get married when I am so beautiful? I say to you: I will give you two days. If you don't give me a few days Find a fiancé, and I'll kill myself."

"If you say so," answered the king, "then listen what you will do: this very day, you put on your best clothes, stand at the window, and the first one to pass by and look at you, you will choose him." Be a husband. I don't want to hear it talked about again." So the daughter did this: she was standing at the window in her most beautiful dress, but who was passing by?A little mouse with a long, smelly tail.The little mouse stopped and looked at the king's daughter at the window.And when she saw the gaze on her, she stepped back and shouted, "Don't tell me what you told me? The first one to look at me was a mouse! Do I want to marry a mouse?"

Her father stood in the room with his arms folded, waiting for her. "Yes, my daughter. My words have been spoken. The first one to pass, you will marry." Then he immediately wrote to all the princes and famous families, inviting them to his daughter's wedding feast. The guests all came in style and sat together at the table.They were all seated, but the groom had not yet arrived.The door is knocked "Dong Dong", who could it be?It's the little mouse with the stinky tail.A liveried servant came to open the door for it. "What do you want?" he asked. "Announce me," said the little mouse, "I am the mouse who has come to marry the princess."

"The mouse is here to marry the princess!" the butler announced. "Let it in," said the king. The little mouse ran in, wriggled on the floor, climbed up the chair beside the princess, and sat down. Seeing the little mouse sitting beside her, the poor girl froze there, disgusted and ashamed.But the little mouse pretended to be doing nothing, the more she hid, the more it got closer. The king told the whole story to the guests, and in order to cater to the king's wishes, the guests smiled and said, "Yes, well said, that is, this little mouse should be the husband of the princess."

They turned from smiling to laughing, and started laughing at the little mouse to their faces.The little mouse was very displeased, and with a wink told the king to go out, and said to him, "Look, sire, they will be in trouble unless you warn them not to play tricks on me." It was so threatening that the king agreed.After returning to the dinner table, the king ordered them to stop joking and respect the bridegroom. The second course came, but the mouse was too short to reach the table from the chair.They put a cushion under it, but it didn't work; so he climbed up and sat down in the middle of the table.

"Anyone object?" it asked, casting an angry look around. "No, no, no one said anything," the king assured it. However, there was a picky lady among the guests. She couldn't bear to see the little mouse buried its face in the plate and its long smelly tail dangling in the plate of the neighbor.When the mouse finished eating its own dish and began poking its head into the plate of the neighbor, the lady finally had a fit: "What a nasty thing! I have never seen such a nasty thing! How can it be at the king's table?" See these things!" The little mouse raised its head to her, its beard stood on end, as if in a rage, it started jumping up and down on the table, wagging its tail vigorously, and then jumped on the faces of the tablemates, biting their beards and wigs, And every time you flick your tail, everything you touch will disappear: the soup bowl and the fruit plate disappear, the meals and tableware disappear, and the quilnas disappear one by one, the table disappears, the palace disappears, and only a bare area remains plain.

When the princess found herself alone and abandoned on this barren plain, she began to weep, and said: "Oh, my little mouse! At first I didn't like you, now I need you! " She repeated these words and began to walk forward, resigned to fate. On the way, she met a hermit. "Pretty girl, what are you doing in this desolate place? What would you do if you met a lion or a female dragon, poor thing!" "I don't want to know anything," said the princess, "but to find my little mouse, which I didn't like before, but now I want." "I don't know what to say to you, my girl," said the hermit, "go on until you meet another hermit who is older than me, and perhaps he can advise you."

So she walked on, still repeating, "Oh, my little mouse..." until she met another hermit, who said to her, "Do you know what to do? Dig a hole in the ground and you Get in there and see what happens." The poor girl took the hairpin off her head, for she had nothing else to dig the earth with, and she dug, and dug, until the hole in the ground was as big as herself, and then she went in, into a great dark passage.That passage was full of cobwebs, and they all stuck to her face, the more they were torn apart, the more they would stick to her face.After walking for a day, she heard the sound of water and came to a big fish pond.She put one foot into the pond and found it was very deep; she could not go forward, much less back, for the hole was closed behind her. "Oh, my little mouse!" she repeated, "Oh, my little mouse!" The rain began to fall into the pond from all directions.With no other way out, she jumped into the fish pond.

After she jumped into the water, she found that she was not at the bottom of the water, but in a huge palace.The first room was all crystal, the second was covered with velvet, and the third was all gold.In this way she went from room to room, on the rich carpets and in the light of the splendid chandeliers, until she lost her way.And she kept repeating: "Oh, my little mouse! I didn't like you before, now I need you! " She found a table covered with food and began to eat.Then came to the bedroom, went to bed and fell asleep.At night, she heard a rustling sound, as if mice were running.When I opened my eyes, the room was pitch black.She heard the mouse running around the room, climbing onto the bed, getting under the quilt, brushing past her face from time to time, screaming softly.The princess dared not say anything, but hid in the corner of the bed trembling.

When she got up the next day, she wandered around the palace again, but saw no one.In the evening, I found that meals had been set on the table, and after eating, I went to bed.She heard the little mouse running around the house again, almost up to her face, but she dared not say anything. On the third night, when she heard the rustling grow stronger, she said: "Oh, my little mouse! I didn't like you before, now I need you! " "Light the lamp," said a voice. The girl lit a candle, and what she saw was not a mouse, but a beautiful boy. "I am the rat with the stinky tail," said the young man, "and a spell made me that way, and it took a beautiful girl to love me and suffer as you have gone through, to free me from the magic come out."

Just imagine how happy the princess is.They immediately came out of the ground and had a wedding. they live happily ever after We pick our teeth and chat here. (Province of Caltani Saida)
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