The Golden mermaid, and other stories from the fairy books (1906)
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Ford, Henry J · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 189
reaming fromevery window. He mounted a flight of stepsand entered a hall where a hideous old womanwas sitting on a golden chair. She scowled at the young man and said,* With a single one of the haks of my head Ican turn you into stone. *0h, what nonsense! cried he. Be quiet,old woman. What could… … was thinking of him, and wondering how he hadgot on during all the years since they had parted.* I will go to the fig tree, he said to himself, tosee whether he is alive or dead. So he rodethrough the forest till he came to where the fig THE TWO BROTHERS 187 tree stood, and cut a slit in the bark,…
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