Japanese Fairy Tale Series 01 #02- The Tounge-Cut Sparrow

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wash-tub;

but a sparrow that

woman

her neighbor kept as

a a

pet

eat

it

the cross old

Seeing this

up.

woman

seized the

hatesparrow, and saying: "you fill

thing!"

let it

cut

its

tongue and

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When

woman

the neighbor

heard that her pet sparrow had got

its

tongue cut

for its offense,

she was greatly grieved, and set

out

with

her

mountains and

husband plains

to

over find

where

it

"Where

had does

sparrow stay?

Crying;

gone. the

tongue-cut

Where

does the 1

tongue-cut sparrow stay?

;

fi'gse

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At found

When

last its

they

home.

the spar-

row saw that

its

old master and mistress had

come

to see

it,

it

brought them into

thanked them in

old for

with

sake

its

and

house and

for their kindness

times

table

rejoiced

and

spread

a

them, and loaded

it

and

fish

there

till

was no more room, and made its

wife and children and grand-

children

At

all

last

drinking-cup

serve the table.

throwing it

away

danced

a

its

jig

called the sparrow's dance.

Thus they spent the

day.

When to to

it

began

grow dark, and they began talk

of

going

home,

the

wicker sparrow brought out two baskets

and

said;

"Will you

take the heavy one, give you

the light one!"

old people replied: so

old, it

give

will be

easier

to

or shall I

us the

"We light

The are

one:

The sparrow then gave them light basket

with

open

it

see

it

what

"Let us is

And when

they said.

opened

and they returned

to their home,

and

the

in

it"

they had

and looked they found

gold and silver and jewels and

They never expected

rolls of silk.

any thing

like this.

The more

took

out the

more they

they

found inside, The supply was exhaustable.

So

in-

that house at

once became rich and prosperous*

When

the cross old

woman who

had cut the sparrow's tongue saw

she was

this,

filled

with

envy, and

went and asked her

neighbor

where

lived,

"I

and

will

go

all

the

sparrow

about the way,

too;"

at once set out

she said, and

on her

search.

Again the sparrow brought out two wicker baskets and asked as before;

"Will you take the

heavy one, or the light one!"

shall I give

you

Thinking the treasure would to

the

basket, the

old

be great in proportion

weight

of the

woman

me have Eeceiving

with

it

this,

replied:

"Let

the heavy one."

she started

home

on her back; the sparrows

laughing at her as she went.

It

was

as

and hard

heavy

as

to carry; but

a

stone at

last

she

back with

got

to

it

her

house.

Then when lid

and

frightful

bouncing

out

and

once

at

woman

in

looked

of

troop

she took off the

to

devils

from tore

pieces,

a

the the

whole

came inside

old

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