The endless story, and other Oriental tales retold; (1916)
Higgins, Violet Moore · Racine, Wis., Whitman Pub. Co · leaf 41
nd soon thesoldier returned with a great snakewriggling along beside him. The scalycreature coiled itself beside the King,and began to tell its story in the uni-versal tongue of the birds, the beasts,and the reptiles, a language which theKing, when a boy, had learned from anold dog who was very… … THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE BEEN BLIND ADABAHS GIFT 33 sharp needles killed my babies, all butone, who lay hidden beneath a root.Tomorrow the animal will return, andperhaps he will find my last child andkill it too. Oh King, save my last lit-tle one for me. I will indeed; you have not askedin vain,…
Children's stories, American
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