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"It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow. And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen. Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed, and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.",
"By the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.",
"One day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me. So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.",
"After this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.",
"Then the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"",
"\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands. At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I'll not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\" \"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\" \"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"and when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp. Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"",
"\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet. Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, don't go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird. gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead. My sister, little marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate."
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"body_text": "It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow. And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen. Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed, and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.\n\nThen her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.\n\nBy the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.\n\nOne day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.\n\nThen she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me. So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.\n\nAfter this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.\n\nThen the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"\n\n\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands. At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.\n\nBut the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThe goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I'll not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\" \"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -\n\nmy mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -\n\nmy mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThe shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\" \"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nand when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp. Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"\n\n\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nAnd when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.\n\nIn the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet. Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, don't go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird. gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead. My sister, little marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.\n\nThe father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate.",
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"It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow. And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen. Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed, and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.",
"By the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.",
"One day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me. So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.",
"After this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.",
"Then the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"",
"\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands. At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I'll not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\" \"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\" \"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"and when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp. Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"",
"\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet. Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, don't go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird. gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead. My sister, little marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate."
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"clean_text": "It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow. And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen. Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed, and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.\n\nThen her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.\n\nBy the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.\n\nOne day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.\n\nThen she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me. So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.\n\nAfter this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.\n\nThen the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"\n\n\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands. At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.\n\nBut the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThe goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I'll not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\" \"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -\n\nmy mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -\n\nmy mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThe shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\" \"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nand when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp. Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"\n\n\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nAnd when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.\n\nIn the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet. Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, don't go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird. gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead. My sister, little marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.\n\nThe father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate.",
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"It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow.",
"And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen.",
"Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed,",
"and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.",
"By the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.",
"One day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me.",
"So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.",
"After this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off.",
"Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.",
"Then the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"",
"\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole.",
"But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands.",
"At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I'll not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\"",
"\"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\"",
"\"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"and when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp.",
"Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"",
"\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet.",
"Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, don't go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird.",
"gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead.",
"My sister, little marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate."
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"It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow. And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen. Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed, and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.",
"By the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.",
"One day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me. So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.",
"After this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.",
"Then the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"",
"\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands. At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\" \"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\" \"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"and when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp. Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"",
"\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet. Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, do not go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird. gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead. My sister, little Marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate."
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"speech_safe_text": "It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow. And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen. Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed, and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.\n\nThen her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.\n\nBy the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.\n\nOne day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.\n\nThen she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me. So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.\n\nAfter this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off. Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.\n\nThen the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"\n\n\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands. At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.\n\nBut the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThe goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\" \"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -\n\nmy mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -\n\nmy mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThe shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\" \"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nand when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp. Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"\n\n\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nAnd when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.\n\nIn the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet. Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, do not go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird. gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead. My sister, little Marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.\n\nThe father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate.",
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"It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow.",
"And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen.",
"Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed,",
"and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.",
"By the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.",
"One day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me.",
"So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.",
"After this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off.",
"Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.",
"Then the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"",
"\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole.",
"But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands.",
"At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\"",
"\"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\"",
"\"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"and when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp.",
"Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"",
"\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet.",
"Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, do not go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird.",
"gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead.",
"My sister, little Marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate."
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"It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly. They had, however, no children, though they wished for them very much, and the woman prayed for them day and night, but still they had none. Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow. Ah, said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow.",
"And while she thus spoke, she became quite happy in her mind, and felt just as if that were going to happen.",
"Then she went into the house and a month went by and the snow was gone, and two months, and then everything was green, and three months, and then all the flowers came out of the earth, and four months, and then all the trees in the wood grew thicker, and the green branches were all closely entwined, and the birds sang until the wood resounded and the blossoms fell from the trees, then the fifth month passed away and she stood under the juniper tree, which smelt so sweetly that her heart leapt, and she fell on her knees and was beside herself with joy, and when the sixth month was over the fruit was large and fine, and then she was quite still, and the seventh month she snatched at the juniper-berries and ate them greedily, then she grew sick and sorrowful, then the eighth month passed,",
"and she called her husband to her, and wept and said, if I die then bury me beneath the juniper tree. Then she was quite comforted and happy until the next month was over, and then she had a child as white as snow and as red as blood, and when she beheld it she was so delighted that she died.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree, and he began to weep sore, after some time he was more at ease, and though he still wept he could bear it, and after some time longer he took another wife.",
"By the second wife he had a daughter, but the first wife's child was a little son, and he was as red as blood and as white as snow. When the woman looked at her daughter she loved her very much, but then she looked at the little boy and it seemed to cut her to the heart, for the thought came into her mind that he would always stand in her way, and she was for ever thinking how she could get all the fortune for her daughter, and the evil one filled her mind with this till she was quite wroth with the little boy and she pushed him from one corner to the other and slapped him here and cuffed him there, until the poor child was in continual terror, for when he came out of school he had no peace in any place.",
"One day the woman had gone upstairs to her room, and her little daughter went up too, and said, mother, give me an apple. Yes, my child, said the woman, and gave her a fine apple out of the chest, but the chest had a great heavy lid with a great sharp iron lock. Mother, said the little daughter, is brother not to have one too. This made the woman angry, but she said, yes, when he comes out of school. And when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her, and she snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter, and said, you shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest, and shut it. Then the little boy came in at the door, and the devil made her say to him kindly, my son, will you have an apple. And she looked wickedly at him. Mother, said the little boy, how dreadful you look. Yes, give me an apple. Then it seemed to her as if she were forced to say to him, come with me, and she opened the lid of the chest and said, take out an apple for yourself, and while the little boy was stooping inside, the devil prompted her, and crash. She shut the lid down, and his head flew off and fell among the red apples. Then she was overwhelmed with terror, and thought, if I could but make them think that it was not done by me.",
"So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers, and took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer, and set the head on the neck again, and folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and she set him on a chair in front of the door, and put the apple in his hand.",
"After this Marlinchen came into the kitchen to her mother, who was standing by the fire with a pan of hot water before her which she was constantly stirring round. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"brother is sitting at the door, and he looks quite white and has an apple in his hand. I asked him to give me the apple, but he did not answer me, and I was quite frightened.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother, \"and if he will not answer you, give him a box on the ear.\" So Marlinchen went to him and said, \"Brother, give me the apple.\" But he was silent, and she gave him a box on the ear, whereupon his head fell off.",
"Marlinchen was terrified, and began crying and screaming, and ran to her mother, and said, \"Alas, mother, I have knocked my brother's head off,\" and she wept and wept and could not be comforted. \"Marlinchen,\" said the mother, what have you done, but be quiet and let no one know it, it cannot be helped now, we will make him into black-puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him in pieces, put him into the pan and made him into black puddings, but Marlinchen stood by weeping and weeping, and all her tears fell into the pan and there was no need of any salt.",
"Then the father came home, and sat down to dinner and said, \"But where is my son?\" And the mother served up a great dish of black-puddings, and Marlinchen wept and could not leave off. Then the father again said, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he has gone across the coutry to his mother's great uncle, he will stay there awhile.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\"",
"\"Oh, he wanted to go, and asked me if he might stay six weeks, he is well taken care of there.\" \"Ah,\" said the man, \"I feel so unhappy lest all should not be right. He ought to have said good-bye to me.\" With that he began to eat and said, \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will certainly come back.\" Then he said, \"Ah, wife, how delicious this food is, give me some more.\" And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, \"Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine.\" And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole.",
"But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the bottom draw, and got all the bones from beneath the table, and tied them up in her silk handkerchief, and carried them outside the door, weeping tears of blood. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass, and after she had lain down there, she suddenly felt light-hearted and did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to stir itself, and the branches parted asunder, and moved together again, just as if someone were rejoicing and clapping his hands.",
"At the same time a mist seemed to arise from the tree, and in the center of this mist it burned like a fire, and a beautiful bird flew out of the fire singing magnificently, and he flew high up in the air, and when he was gone, the juniper tree was just as it had been before, and the handkerchief with the bones was no longer there. Marlinchen, however, was as gay and happy as if her brother were still alive. And she went merrily into the house, and sat down to dinner and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and lighted on a goldsmith's house, and began to sing - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain, when he heard the bird which was sitting singing on his roof, and very beautiful the song seemed to him. He stood up, but as he crossed the threshold he lost one of his slippers. But he went away right up the middle of the street with one shoe on and one sock, he had his apron on, and in one hand he had the golden chain and in the other the pincers, and the sun was shining brightly on the street. Then he went right on and stood still, and said to the bird, \"Bird,\" said he then, \"how beautifully you can sing. Sing me that piece again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\"",
"\"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and lighted on his roof and sang -",
"my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out of doors in his shirt sleeves, and looked up at his roof, and was forced to hold his hand before his eyes lest the sun should blind him. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called in at his door, \"Wife, just come outside, there is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and apprentices, boys and girls, and they all came up the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and green feathers he had, and how like real gold his neck was, and how the eyes in his head shone like stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing, you must give me something.\"",
"\"Wife,\" said the man, \"go to the garret, upon the top shelf there stands a pair of red shoes, bring them down.\" Then the wife went and brought the shoes. \"There, bird,\" said the man, \"now sing me that piece again.\" Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back on the roof, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"and when he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left the shoes, and he flew far away to a mill, and the mill went, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, klipp klapp, and in the mill sat twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and cutting, hick hack, hick hack, hick hack, and the mill went klipp klapp, klipp klapp'klipp klapp.",
"Then the bird went and sat on a lime-tree which stood in front of the mill, and sang - my mother she killed me, then one of them stopped working, my father he ate me, then two more stopped working and listened to that, my sister, little Marlinchen, then four more stopped, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, now eight only were hewing, laid them beneath, now only five, the juniper tree, and now only one, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\"",
"\"Nay,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing twice for nothing. Give me the millstone, and then I will sing it again.\"",
"\"Yes,\" said he, \"if it belonged to me only, you should have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others, \"if he sings again he shall have it.\" Then the bird came down, and the twenty millers all set to work with a beam and raised the stone up. And the bird stuck his neck through the hole, and put the stone on as if it were a collar, and flew on to the tree again, and sang - my mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had done singing, he spread his wings, and in his right claw he had the chain, and in his left the shoes, and round his neck the millstone, and he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room sat the father, the mother, and Marlinchen at dinner, and the father said, \"How light-hearted I feel, how happy I am.\" \"Nay,\" said the mother, \"I feel so uneasy, just as if a heavy storm were coming.\" Marlinchen, however, sat weeping and weeping, and then came the bird flying, and as it seated itself on the roof the father said, \"Ah, I feel so truly happy, and the sun is shining so beautifully outside, I feel just as if I were about to see some old friend again.\" \"Nay,\" said the woman, \"I feel so anxious, my teeth chatter, and I seem to have fire in my veins.\" And she tore her stays open, but Marlinchen sat in a corner crying, and held her plate before her eyes and cried till it was quite wet.",
"Then the bird sat on the juniper tree, and sang - my mother she killed me, then the mother stopped her ears, and shut her eyes, and would not see or hear, but there was a roaring in her ears like the most violent storm, and her eyes burnt and flashed like lightning - my father he ate me, \"Ah, mother,\" says the man, \"that is a beautiful bird. He sings so splendidly, and the sun shines so warm, and there is a smell just like cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, then Marlinchen laid her head on her knees and wept without ceasing, but the man said, \"I am going out, I must see the bird quite close.\" \"Oh, do not go,\" said the woman, \"I feel as if the whole house were shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out and looked at the bird.",
"gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I on this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully. Then he went in and said, \"just look what a fine bird that is, and what a handsome golden chain he has given me, and how pretty he is.\" But the woman was terrified, and fell down on the floor in the room, and her cap fell off her head. Then sang the bird once more - my mother she killed me. \"Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if dead.",
"My sister, little Marlinchen, \"Ah,\" said Marlinchen, \"I too will go out and see if the bird will give me anything,\" and she went out. Gathered together all my bones, tied them in a silken handkerchief, then he threw down the shoes to her. Laid them beneath the juniper tree, kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then she was light-hearted and joyous, and she put on the new red shoes, and danced and leaped into the house. \"Ah,\" said she, \"I was so sad when I went out and now I am so light-hearted, that is a splendid bird, he has given me a pair of red shoes.\" \"Well,\" said the woman, and sprang to her feet and her hair stood up like flames of fire, \"I feel as if the world were coming to an end. I too, will go out and see if my heart feels lighter.\" And as she went out at the door, crash. The bird threw down the millstone on her head, and she was entirely crushed by it.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and went out, and smoke, flames, and fire were rising from the place, and when that was over, there stood the little brother, and he took his father and Marlinchen by the hand, and all three were right glad, and they went into the house to dinner, and ate."
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"It was a long time ago, two thousand years ago. A rich man had a beautiful wife, and they loved each other very much. They did not have any children, though they really wanted them. The woman prayed for a baby every single day, but nothing happened. In front of their house, there was a big juniper tree. One cold winter day, the woman stood under the tree and was peeling an apple. As she peeled it, she cut her finger. A drop of red blood fell onto the white snow. She sighed and looked at the red blood. She felt very sad. \"Oh, if only I had a child as red as this blood and as white as this snow,\" she said.",
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"She called her husband to her side. She cried and said, \"If I die, please bury me under the big juniper tree.\" He promised he would. She felt much better and happy again. She waited until the next month passed. Then, she had a baby. The baby was as white as snow and as red as a rose. When she saw him, she was so happy that she went to sleep forever.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree. He cried a lot, but he felt a little better after a while. Even though he still cried, he could handle it. Soon, he took a new wife.",
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"One day the woman went upstairs to her room. Her little daughter went up too and asked, \"Mother, please give me an apple.\"\n\n\"Yes, my child,\" said the woman. She gave her a fine apple from the chest. The chest had a heavy lid with a sharp iron lock.\n\n\"Mother,\" said the little daughter, \"is brother not to have one too?\"\n\nThis made the woman angry. She said, \"Yes, when he comes out of school.\"\n\nAnd when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her. She snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter. She said, \"You shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest and closed the lid. The little boy came in at the door. The devil made her speak to him gently. \"My son, will you have an apple?\" she asked, but she looked very mean. The little boy said, \"Mother, you look so scary today.\" \"Yes, give me an apple,\" she said. It felt like she had to say, \"Come with me.\" She opened the chest and told him to take an apple. While he was bending down, the devil whispered to her. *Crash!* She slammed the lid shut. His head flew off and rolled into the red apples. She was so scared and thought, \"I hope they do not think I did this.",
"So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers. She took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer. She set the head on the neck again. Then she folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen. She set him on a chair in front of the door. Finally, she put the apple in his hand.",
"Marlinchen ran to her mother in the kitchen. Her mother was stirring a pot of hot water by the fire. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"my brother is sitting by the door. He looks very pale and is holding an apple. I asked him for the apple, but he did not speak. I was so scared.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother. \"If he will not answer, give him a gentle tap on the cheek.\" Marlinchen went back to him and said, \"Brother, please give me the apple.\" But he was quiet. She gave him a soft tap, and then his head fell off.",
"Marlinchen was very scared. She started to cry and scream. She ran to her mother and said, \"Oh, Mother, I hurt my brother!\" She cried and cried and could not stop. \"Marlinchen,\" said her mother, \"What have you done? But please be quiet. We cannot fix it now. We will make him into black puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him into pieces. She put him in the pan to make the puddings. Marlinchen stood by and cried and cried. All her tears fell into the pan, so there was no need to add any salt.",
"Then the father came home and sat down to dinner. He asked, \"But where is my son?\" The mother brought out a big plate of black puddings. Marlinchen cried and could not stop. The father asked again, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he went far away to his mother's great uncle. He will stay there for a little while.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.",
"Oh, he really wanted to go. He asked if he could stay for six weeks. He is happy and safe there,\" she said.\n\nThe man sighed. \"I feel sad. I worry that something might go wrong. He should have said goodbye to me.\"\n\nThen he started to eat. \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will surely come back.\"\n\nHe looked at his food. \"Ah, wife, this food tastes so good. Please give me some more.\"\n\nHe ate and ate. He wanted more and more. \"Give me some more! You can't have any. It feels like it is all mine.\"\n\nHe kept eating and threw the bones under the table. He finished every single bite.",
"Marlinchen went to her chest of drawers. She took her best silk handkerchief from the bottom drawer. She got all the bones from beneath the table. She tied them up in her silk handkerchief. She carried them outside the door, crying happy tears. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass. After she lay down there, she suddenly felt light and happy. She did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to move. The branches parted and moved together again, just as if someone were clapping their hands with joy.",
"A soft mist floated up from the tree. In the middle of the mist, it looked like a warm, glowing fire. A beautiful bird flew out of the light. He sang a lovely song and flew high up into the sky. When he was gone, the tree looked just the same as before. The handkerchief with the bones was not there anymore. Marlinchen, however, was as happy as if her brother were still alive. She went merrily into the house, sat down to dinner, and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and landed on a house with a goldsmith. Then it started to sing a sweet song. It sang about a sad story. It said, \"My mother killed me, and my father ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft silk cloth and put them under the big juniper tree. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird I am.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain. Suddenly, he heard a bird singing on the roof. The song was so pretty that he stopped working. He stood up to go outside, but he lost one of his slippers. He walked down the street with one shoe on and one sock. He still had his apron on, and in one hand he held the golden chain, while in the other he held his pincers. The sun was shining brightly on the street. He walked right on until he stopped. Then he looked up at the bird and said, \"Bird, you sing so beautifully. Please sing that song again for me.\" The bird replied, \"No, I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.",
"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"My mother killed me, my father ate me, and my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft, silky handkerchief and laid them gently beneath the juniper tree. Then, with a happy song, she sang, \"Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird I am!",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and landed on his roof and sang a happy song.",
"My mother killed me, and my father ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft silk handkerchief and laid them beneath the juniper tree. Then, with a happy song, she sang, \"Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird I am!",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out in his shirt sleeves. He looked up at his roof and put his hand over his eyes so the bright sun would not hurt them. \"Bird,\" he said, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called his wife. \"Wife, just come outside! There is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and the apprentices, and all the boys and girls. They all ran up the street and looked at the bird. They saw how beautiful he was, and how fine his red and green feathers were, and how his neck looked like real gold, and how the eyes in his head shone like bright stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing. You must give me something.",
"Come here, my dear,\" said the man. \"Go to the attic and bring down those red shoes for me.\" The wife went and got the shoes. \"Here you are, little bird,\" said the man. \"Now, please sing that song for me again.\" The bird flew down and took the shoes in his left claw. Then he flew back to the roof and sang:\n\n\"My mother she killed me,\nMy father he ate me,\nMy sister, little Marlinchen,\nGathered together all my bones,\nTied them in a silken handkerchief,\nLaid them beneath the juniper tree,\nKweet, kweet, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"When he finished his song, he flew away. In his right claw, he held the chain, and in his left, he held the shoes. He flew far away to a big mill. The mill went, *clack-clack, clack-clack*. Inside, twenty men were working hard. They were cutting a big stone. They went, *hick-hack, hick-hack*. The mill went *clack-clack, clack-clack* again.",
"Then the bird flew to a lime tree in front of the mill. It sang a sweet song. It sang, \"My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up my bones. She tied them in a soft silk handkerchief. She laid them beneath the juniper tree. Now only one bird is left. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.",
"No,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing again for nothing. Give me the heavy stone, and then I will sing it again.",
"Yes,\" said the boy. \"If it belonged to me, you could have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others. \"If he sings again, he can have it.\" Then the bird came down. The twenty millers worked together to lift the heavy stone. The bird stuck his neck through the hole and put the stone on like a collar. He flew back to the tree and sang a happy song. \"My mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a soft cloth, and laid them beneath the juniper tree. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had finished singing, he spread his wings. In his right claw, he held the chain. In his left, he held the shoes. Around his neck, he wore the heavy millstone. Then, he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room, the father, the mother, and Marlinchen were having dinner. The father said, \"I feel so light and happy today.\" The mother shook her head. \"No,\" she said, \"I feel so uneasy. It feels like a big storm is coming.\" Marlinchen just sat there crying and crying. Then, a little bird flew in and landed on the roof. The father smiled. \"Ah, I feel so happy,\" he said. \"The sun is shining so brightly. I feel just like I am going to see an old friend.\" The mother looked worried. \"No,\" she said, \"I feel so anxious. My teeth are shaking, and I feel hot like fire inside me.\" She opened her dress to let the air in. Marlinchen sat in a corner and cried. She held her plate in front of her face and cried until the plate was all wet.",
"Then the bird sat on the juniper tree and sang. It sang about my mother killing me. The mother covered her ears and shut her eyes tight. She did not want to see or hear anything. But a loud noise roared in her ears, like a big storm, and her eyes burned and flashed like lightning. The bird sang about my father eating me. \"Ah, mother,\" said the man. \"That is a beautiful bird. He sings so well. The sun is so warm, and it smells just like sweet cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, put her head on her knees and cried. But the man said, \"I am going out. I want to see the bird up close.\" \"Oh, please do not go,\" said the woman. \"I feel like the whole house is shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out to look at the bird.",
"I gathered up my bones and tied them in a soft, silky cloth. I placed them gently under the big juniper tree. *Tweet, tweet,* what a beautiful bird I am now! The bird dropped the shiny golden chain. It fell right around the man’s neck. It fit him perfectly. He went inside and said, \"Look at this lovely bird! Look at the golden chain he gave me. He is so pretty!\" But the woman was very scared. She fell to the floor in the room, and her hat fell off. Then the bird sang again: *My mother she killed me.* \"I wish I were a thousand feet underground so I could not hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if she were dead.",
"My sister, little Marlinchen, said, \"Ah, I will go out and see if the bird will give me anything.\" So she went out. She gathered together all my bones and tied them in a soft, silky handkerchief. Then, the bird threw down the shoes to her. She laid them beneath the juniper tree. The bird sang, \"Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"She felt so happy and light. She put on her new red shoes and danced into the house. \"Look!\" she said. \"I was so sad when I left, but now I am so happy. The bird gave me these shoes!\" The woman stood up. Her hair looked like bright flames. She felt very sad. \"I feel like the world is ending,\" she said. She wanted to go out and see if she felt better. She walked to the door. Suddenly, *crash!* The bird threw a heavy millstone down. It fell right on her head. She was gone.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and ran outside. Smoke and flames were rising from the place. But when the fire was gone, there stood the little brother. He took his father and Marlinchen by the hand. They were all so happy. They went inside for dinner and ate together."
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"child_friendly_text": "It was a long time ago, two thousand years ago. A rich man had a beautiful wife, and they loved each other very much. They did not have any children, though they really wanted them. The woman prayed for a baby every single day, but nothing happened. In front of their house, there was a big juniper tree. One cold winter day, the woman stood under the tree and was peeling an apple. As she peeled it, she cut her finger. A drop of red blood fell onto the white snow. She sighed and looked at the red blood. She felt very sad. \"Oh, if only I had a child as red as this blood and as white as this snow,\" she said.\n\nAnd while she spoke, she felt very happy inside. She felt just like it was going to happen.\n\nThen she went into the house. A month went by and the snow was gone. Two months passed, and then everything was green. Three months went by, and then all the flowers came out of the earth. Four months passed, and then all the trees in the wood grew thick. The green branches were all close together. The birds sang until the wood rang with their song. The blossoms fell from the trees. Then the fifth month passed away. She stood under the juniper tree. It smelled so sweet that her heart felt happy. She fell on her knees and was full of joy. When the sixth month was over, the fruit was large and fine. Then she was very still. In the seventh month, she snatched at the juniper berries and ate them. Then she grew sick and sad. Then the eighth month passed.\n\nShe called her husband to her side. She cried and said, \"If I die, please bury me under the big juniper tree.\" He promised he would. She felt much better and happy again. She waited until the next month passed. Then, she had a baby. The baby was as white as snow and as red as a rose. When she saw him, she was so happy that she went to sleep forever.\n\nThen her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree. He cried a lot, but he felt a little better after a while. Even though he still cried, he could handle it. Soon, he took a new wife.\n\nBy the second wife, she had a daughter, and the first wife’s child was a little boy. He was as red as a rose and as white as a cloud. When the woman looked at her daughter, she loved her very much. But when she looked at the little boy, it made her heart feel sad. She thought he would always get in the way, and she wanted all the money for her daughter. The bad thoughts filled her mind until she was angry with the little boy. She pushed him to one corner and tapped him on the other side. The poor child was always afraid. When he came home from school, he could not find any place that was safe.\n\nOne day the woman went upstairs to her room. Her little daughter went up too and asked, \"Mother, please give me an apple.\"\n\n\"Yes, my child,\" said the woman. She gave her a fine apple from the chest. The chest had a heavy lid with a sharp iron lock.\n\n\"Mother,\" said the little daughter, \"is brother not to have one too?\"\n\nThis made the woman angry. She said, \"Yes, when he comes out of school.\"\n\nAnd when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her. She snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter. She said, \"You shall not have one before your brother.\n\nThen she threw the apple into the chest and closed the lid. The little boy came in at the door. The devil made her speak to him gently. \"My son, will you have an apple?\" she asked, but she looked very mean. The little boy said, \"Mother, you look so scary today.\" \"Yes, give me an apple,\" she said. It felt like she had to say, \"Come with me.\" She opened the chest and told him to take an apple. While he was bending down, the devil whispered to her. *Crash!* She slammed the lid shut. His head flew off and rolled into the red apples. She was so scared and thought, \"I hope they do not think I did this.\n\nSo she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers. She took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer. She set the head on the neck again. Then she folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen. She set him on a chair in front of the door. Finally, she put the apple in his hand.\n\nMarlinchen ran to her mother in the kitchen. Her mother was stirring a pot of hot water by the fire. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"my brother is sitting by the door. He looks very pale and is holding an apple. I asked him for the apple, but he did not speak. I was so scared.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother. \"If he will not answer, give him a gentle tap on the cheek.\" Marlinchen went back to him and said, \"Brother, please give me the apple.\" But he was quiet. She gave him a soft tap, and then his head fell off.\n\nMarlinchen was very scared. She started to cry and scream. She ran to her mother and said, \"Oh, Mother, I hurt my brother!\" She cried and cried and could not stop. \"Marlinchen,\" said her mother, \"What have you done? But please be quiet. We cannot fix it now. We will make him into black puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him into pieces. She put him in the pan to make the puddings. Marlinchen stood by and cried and cried. All her tears fell into the pan, so there was no need to add any salt.\n\nThen the father came home and sat down to dinner. He asked, \"But where is my son?\" The mother brought out a big plate of black puddings. Marlinchen cried and could not stop. The father asked again, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he went far away to his mother's great uncle. He will stay there for a little while.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.\n\nOh, he really wanted to go. He asked if he could stay for six weeks. He is happy and safe there,\" she said.\n\nThe man sighed. \"I feel sad. I worry that something might go wrong. He should have said goodbye to me.\"\n\nThen he started to eat. \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will surely come back.\"\n\nHe looked at his food. \"Ah, wife, this food tastes so good. Please give me some more.\"\n\nHe ate and ate. He wanted more and more. \"Give me some more! You can't have any. It feels like it is all mine.\"\n\nHe kept eating and threw the bones under the table. He finished every single bite.\n\nMarlinchen went to her chest of drawers. She took her best silk handkerchief from the bottom drawer. She got all the bones from beneath the table. She tied them up in her silk handkerchief. She carried them outside the door, crying happy tears. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass. After she lay down there, she suddenly felt light and happy. She did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to move. The branches parted and moved together again, just as if someone were clapping their hands with joy.\n\nA soft mist floated up from the tree. In the middle of the mist, it looked like a warm, glowing fire. A beautiful bird flew out of the light. He sang a lovely song and flew high up into the sky. When he was gone, the tree looked just the same as before. The handkerchief with the bones was not there anymore. Marlinchen, however, was as happy as if her brother were still alive. She went merrily into the house, sat down to dinner, and ate.\n\nBut the bird flew away and landed on a house with a goldsmith. Then it started to sing a sweet song. It sang about a sad story. It said, \"My mother killed me, and my father ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft silk cloth and put them under the big juniper tree. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird I am.\n\nThe goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain. Suddenly, he heard a bird singing on the roof. The song was so pretty that he stopped working. He stood up to go outside, but he lost one of his slippers. He walked down the street with one shoe on and one sock. He still had his apron on, and in one hand he held the golden chain, while in the other he held his pincers. The sun was shining brightly on the street. He walked right on until he stopped. Then he looked up at the bird and said, \"Bird, you sing so beautifully. Please sing that song again for me.\" The bird replied, \"No, I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.\n\nThere,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -\n\nMy mother killed me, my father ate me, and my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft, silky handkerchief and laid them gently beneath the juniper tree. Then, with a happy song, she sang, \"Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird I am!\n\nThen the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and landed on his roof and sang a happy song.\n\nMy mother killed me, and my father ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft silk handkerchief and laid them beneath the juniper tree. Then, with a happy song, she sang, \"Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird I am!\n\nThe shoemaker heard that and ran out in his shirt sleeves. He looked up at his roof and put his hand over his eyes so the bright sun would not hurt them. \"Bird,\" he said, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called his wife. \"Wife, just come outside! There is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and the apprentices, and all the boys and girls. They all ran up the street and looked at the bird. They saw how beautiful he was, and how fine his red and green feathers were, and how his neck looked like real gold, and how the eyes in his head shone like bright stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing. You must give me something.\n\nCome here, my dear,\" said the man. \"Go to the attic and bring down those red shoes for me.\" The wife went and got the shoes. \"Here you are, little bird,\" said the man. \"Now, please sing that song for me again.\" The bird flew down and took the shoes in his left claw. Then he flew back to the roof and sang:\n\n\"My mother she killed me,\nMy father he ate me,\nMy sister, little Marlinchen,\nGathered together all my bones,\nTied them in a silken handkerchief,\nLaid them beneath the juniper tree,\nKweet, kweet, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nWhen he finished his song, he flew away. In his right claw, he held the chain, and in his left, he held the shoes. He flew far away to a big mill. The mill went, *clack-clack, clack-clack*. Inside, twenty men were working hard. They were cutting a big stone. They went, *hick-hack, hick-hack*. The mill went *clack-clack, clack-clack* again.\n\nThen the bird flew to a lime tree in front of the mill. It sang a sweet song. It sang, \"My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up my bones. She tied them in a soft silk handkerchief. She laid them beneath the juniper tree. Now only one bird is left. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nThen the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.\n\nNo,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing again for nothing. Give me the heavy stone, and then I will sing it again.\n\nYes,\" said the boy. \"If it belonged to me, you could have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others. \"If he sings again, he can have it.\" Then the bird came down. The twenty millers worked together to lift the heavy stone. The bird stuck his neck through the hole and put the stone on like a collar. He flew back to the tree and sang a happy song. \"My mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a soft cloth, and laid them beneath the juniper tree. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nAnd when he had finished singing, he spread his wings. In his right claw, he held the chain. In his left, he held the shoes. Around his neck, he wore the heavy millstone. Then, he flew far away to his father's house.\n\nIn the room, the father, the mother, and Marlinchen were having dinner. The father said, \"I feel so light and happy today.\" The mother shook her head. \"No,\" she said, \"I feel so uneasy. It feels like a big storm is coming.\" Marlinchen just sat there crying and crying. Then, a little bird flew in and landed on the roof. The father smiled. \"Ah, I feel so happy,\" he said. \"The sun is shining so brightly. I feel just like I am going to see an old friend.\" The mother looked worried. \"No,\" she said, \"I feel so anxious. My teeth are shaking, and I feel hot like fire inside me.\" She opened her dress to let the air in. Marlinchen sat in a corner and cried. She held her plate in front of her face and cried until the plate was all wet.\n\nThen the bird sat on the juniper tree and sang. It sang about my mother killing me. The mother covered her ears and shut her eyes tight. She did not want to see or hear anything. But a loud noise roared in her ears, like a big storm, and her eyes burned and flashed like lightning. The bird sang about my father eating me. \"Ah, mother,\" said the man. \"That is a beautiful bird. He sings so well. The sun is so warm, and it smells just like sweet cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, put her head on her knees and cried. But the man said, \"I am going out. I want to see the bird up close.\" \"Oh, please do not go,\" said the woman. \"I feel like the whole house is shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out to look at the bird.\n\nI gathered up my bones and tied them in a soft, silky cloth. I placed them gently under the big juniper tree. *Tweet, tweet,* what a beautiful bird I am now! The bird dropped the shiny golden chain. It fell right around the man’s neck. It fit him perfectly. He went inside and said, \"Look at this lovely bird! Look at the golden chain he gave me. He is so pretty!\" But the woman was very scared. She fell to the floor in the room, and her hat fell off. Then the bird sang again: *My mother she killed me.* \"I wish I were a thousand feet underground so I could not hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if she were dead.\n\nMy sister, little Marlinchen, said, \"Ah, I will go out and see if the bird will give me anything.\" So she went out. She gathered together all my bones and tied them in a soft, silky handkerchief. Then, the bird threw down the shoes to her. She laid them beneath the juniper tree. The bird sang, \"Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.\n\nShe felt so happy and light. She put on her new red shoes and danced into the house. \"Look!\" she said. \"I was so sad when I left, but now I am so happy. The bird gave me these shoes!\" The woman stood up. Her hair looked like bright flames. She felt very sad. \"I feel like the world is ending,\" she said. She wanted to go out and see if she felt better. She walked to the door. Suddenly, *crash!* The bird threw a heavy millstone down. It fell right on her head. She was gone.\n\nThe father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and ran outside. Smoke and flames were rising from the place. But when the fire was gone, there stood the little brother. He took his father and Marlinchen by the hand. They were all so happy. They went inside for dinner and ate together.",
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"It was a long time ago, two thousand years ago. A rich man had a beautiful wife, and they loved each other very much. They did not have any children, though they really wanted them. The woman prayed for a baby every single day, but nothing happened. In front of their house, there was a big juniper tree. One cold winter day, the woman stood under the tree and was peeling an apple. As she peeled it, she cut her finger. A drop of red blood fell onto the white snow. She sighed and looked at the red blood. She felt very sad. \"Oh, if only I had a child as red as this blood and as white as this snow,\" she said.",
"And while she spoke, she felt very happy inside. She felt just like it was going to happen.",
"Then she went into the house. A month went by and the snow was gone. Two months passed, and then everything was green. Three months went by, and then all the flowers came out of the earth. Four months passed, and then all the trees in the wood grew thick. The green branches were all close together. The birds sang until the wood rang with their song. The blossoms fell from the trees. Then the fifth month passed away. She stood under the juniper tree. It smelled so sweet that her heart felt happy. She fell on her knees and was full of joy. When the sixth month was over, the fruit was large and fine. Then she was very still. In the seventh month, she snatched at the juniper berries and ate them. Then she grew sick and sad. Then the eighth month passed.",
"She called her husband to her side. She cried and said, \"If I die, please bury me under the big juniper tree.\" He promised he would. She felt much better and happy again. She waited until the next month passed. Then, she had a baby. The baby was as white as snow and as red as a rose. When she saw him, she was so happy that she went to sleep forever.",
"Then her husband buried her beneath the juniper tree. He cried a lot, but he felt a little better after a while. Even though he still cried, he could handle it. Soon, he took a new wife.",
"By the second wife, she had a daughter, and the first wife’s child was a little boy. He was as red as a rose and as white as a cloud. When the woman looked at her daughter, she loved her very much. But when she looked at the little boy, it made her heart feel sad. She thought he would always get in the way, and she wanted all the money for her daughter. The bad thoughts filled her mind until she was angry with the little boy. She pushed him to one corner and tapped him on the other side. The poor child was always afraid. When he came home from school, he could not find any place that was safe.",
"One day the woman went upstairs to her room. Her little daughter went up too and asked, \"Mother, please give me an apple.\"\n\n\"Yes, my child,\" said the woman. She gave her a fine apple from the chest. The chest had a heavy lid with a sharp iron lock.\n\n\"Mother,\" said the little daughter, \"is brother not to have one too?\"\n\nThis made the woman angry. She said, \"Yes, when he comes out of school.\"\n\nAnd when she saw from the window that he was coming, it was just as if the devil entered into her. She snatched at the apple and took it away again from her daughter. She said, \"You shall not have one before your brother.",
"Then she threw the apple into the chest and closed the lid. The little boy came in at the door. The devil made her speak to him gently. \"My son, will you have an apple?\" she asked, but she looked very mean. The little boy said, \"Mother, you look so scary today.\" \"Yes, give me an apple,\" she said. It felt like she had to say, \"Come with me.\" She opened the chest and told him to take an apple. While he was bending down, the devil whispered to her. *Crash!* She slammed the lid shut. His head flew off and rolled into the red apples. She was so scared and thought, \"I hope they do not think I did this.",
"So she went upstairs to her room to her chest of drawers. She took a white handkerchief out of the top drawer. She set the head on the neck again. Then she folded the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen. She set him on a chair in front of the door. Finally, she put the apple in his hand.",
"Marlinchen ran to her mother in the kitchen. Her mother was stirring a pot of hot water by the fire. \"Mother,\" said Marlinchen, \"my brother is sitting by the door. He looks very pale and is holding an apple. I asked him for the apple, but he did not speak. I was so scared.\" \"Go back to him,\" said her mother. \"If he will not answer, give him a gentle tap on the cheek.\" Marlinchen went back to him and said, \"Brother, please give me the apple.\" But he was quiet. She gave him a soft tap, and then his head fell off.",
"Marlinchen was very scared. She started to cry and scream. She ran to her mother and said, \"Oh, Mother, I hurt my brother!\" She cried and cried and could not stop. \"Marlinchen,\" said her mother, \"What have you done? But please be quiet. We cannot fix it now. We will make him into black puddings.\" Then the mother took the little boy and chopped him into pieces. She put him in the pan to make the puddings. Marlinchen stood by and cried and cried. All her tears fell into the pan, so there was no need to add any salt.",
"Then the father came home and sat down to dinner. He asked, \"But where is my son?\" The mother brought out a big plate of black puddings. Marlinchen cried and could not stop. The father asked again, \"But where is my son?\" \"Ah,\" said the mother, \"he went far away to his mother's great uncle. He will stay there for a little while.\" \"And what is he going to do there? He did not even say good-bye to me.",
"Oh, he really wanted to go. He asked if he could stay for six weeks. He is happy and safe there,\" she said.\n\nThe man sighed. \"I feel sad. I worry that something might go wrong. He should have said goodbye to me.\"\n\nThen he started to eat. \"Marlinchen, why are you crying? Your brother will surely come back.\"\n\nHe looked at his food. \"Ah, wife, this food tastes so good. Please give me some more.\"\n\nHe ate and ate. He wanted more and more. \"Give me some more! You can't have any. It feels like it is all mine.\"\n\nHe kept eating and threw the bones under the table. He finished every single bite.",
"Marlinchen went to her chest of drawers. She took her best silk handkerchief from the bottom drawer. She got all the bones from beneath the table. She tied them up in her silk handkerchief. She carried them outside the door, crying happy tears. Then she lay down under the juniper tree on the green grass. After she lay down there, she suddenly felt light and happy. She did not cry any more. Then the juniper tree began to move. The branches parted and moved together again, just as if someone were clapping their hands with joy.",
"A soft mist floated up from the tree. In the middle of the mist, it looked like a warm, glowing fire. A beautiful bird flew out of the light. He sang a lovely song and flew high up into the sky. When he was gone, the tree looked just the same as before. The handkerchief with the bones was not there anymore. Marlinchen, however, was as happy as if her brother were still alive. She went merrily into the house, sat down to dinner, and ate.",
"But the bird flew away and landed on a house with a goldsmith. Then it started to sing a sweet song. It sang about a sad story. It said, \"My mother killed me, and my father ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft silk cloth and put them under the big juniper tree. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird I am.",
"The goldsmith was sitting in his workshop making a golden chain. Suddenly, he heard a bird singing on the roof. The song was so pretty that he stopped working. He stood up to go outside, but he lost one of his slippers. He walked down the street with one shoe on and one sock. He still had his apron on, and in one hand he held the golden chain, while in the other he held his pincers. The sun was shining brightly on the street. He walked right on until he stopped. Then he looked up at the bird and said, \"Bird, you sing so beautifully. Please sing that song again for me.\" The bird replied, \"No, I will not sing it twice for nothing. Give me the golden chain, and then I will sing it again for you.",
"There,\" said the goldsmith, \"there is the golden chain for you, now sing me that song again.\" Then the bird came and took the golden chain in his right claw, and went and sat in front of the goldsmith, and sang -",
"My mother killed me, my father ate me, and my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft, silky handkerchief and laid them gently beneath the juniper tree. Then, with a happy song, she sang, \"Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird I am!",
"Then the bird flew away to a shoemaker, and landed on his roof and sang a happy song.",
"My mother killed me, and my father ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up all my bones. She tied them in a soft silk handkerchief and laid them beneath the juniper tree. Then, with a happy song, she sang, \"Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird I am!",
"The shoemaker heard that and ran out in his shirt sleeves. He looked up at his roof and put his hand over his eyes so the bright sun would not hurt them. \"Bird,\" he said, \"how beautifully you can sing.\" Then he called his wife. \"Wife, just come outside! There is a bird, look at that bird, he certainly can sing.\" Then he called his daughter and children, and the apprentices, and all the boys and girls. They all ran up the street and looked at the bird. They saw how beautiful he was, and how fine his red and green feathers were, and how his neck looked like real gold, and how the eyes in his head shone like bright stars. \"Bird,\" said the shoemaker, \"now sing me that song again.\" \"No,\" said the bird, \"I do not sing twice for nothing. You must give me something.",
"Come here, my dear,\" said the man. \"Go to the attic and bring down those red shoes for me.\" The wife went and got the shoes. \"Here you are, little bird,\" said the man. \"Now, please sing that song for me again.\" The bird flew down and took the shoes in his left claw. Then he flew back to the roof and sang:\n\n\"My mother she killed me,\nMy father he ate me,\nMy sister, little Marlinchen,\nGathered together all my bones,\nTied them in a silken handkerchief,\nLaid them beneath the juniper tree,\nKweet, kweet, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"When he finished his song, he flew away. In his right claw, he held the chain, and in his left, he held the shoes. He flew far away to a big mill. The mill went, *clack-clack, clack-clack*. Inside, twenty men were working hard. They were cutting a big stone. They went, *hick-hack, hick-hack*. The mill went *clack-clack, clack-clack* again.",
"Then the bird flew to a lime tree in front of the mill. It sang a sweet song. It sang, \"My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. My sister, little Marlinchen, gathered up my bones. She tied them in a soft silk handkerchief. She laid them beneath the juniper tree. Now only one bird is left. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"Then the last stopped also, and heard the last words. \"Bird,\" said he, \"how beautifully you sing. Let me, too, hear that. Sing that once more for me.",
"No,\" said the bird, \"I will not sing again for nothing. Give me the heavy stone, and then I will sing it again.",
"Yes,\" said the boy. \"If it belonged to me, you could have it.\" \"Yes,\" said the others. \"If he sings again, he can have it.\" Then the bird came down. The twenty millers worked together to lift the heavy stone. The bird stuck his neck through the hole and put the stone on like a collar. He flew back to the tree and sang a happy song. \"My mother she killed me, my father he ate me, my sister, little Marlinchen, gathered together all my bones, tied them in a soft cloth, and laid them beneath the juniper tree. Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"And when he had finished singing, he spread his wings. In his right claw, he held the chain. In his left, he held the shoes. Around his neck, he wore the heavy millstone. Then, he flew far away to his father's house.",
"In the room, the father, the mother, and Marlinchen were having dinner. The father said, \"I feel so light and happy today.\" The mother shook her head. \"No,\" she said, \"I feel so uneasy. It feels like a big storm is coming.\" Marlinchen just sat there crying and crying. Then, a little bird flew in and landed on the roof. The father smiled. \"Ah, I feel so happy,\" he said. \"The sun is shining so brightly. I feel just like I am going to see an old friend.\" The mother looked worried. \"No,\" she said, \"I feel so anxious. My teeth are shaking, and I feel hot like fire inside me.\" She opened her dress to let the air in. Marlinchen sat in a corner and cried. She held her plate in front of her face and cried until the plate was all wet.",
"Then the bird sat on the juniper tree and sang. It sang about my mother killing me. The mother covered her ears and shut her eyes tight. She did not want to see or hear anything. But a loud noise roared in her ears, like a big storm, and her eyes burned and flashed like lightning. The bird sang about my father eating me. \"Ah, mother,\" said the man. \"That is a beautiful bird. He sings so well. The sun is so warm, and it smells just like sweet cinnamon.\" My sister, little Marlinchen, put her head on her knees and cried. But the man said, \"I am going out. I want to see the bird up close.\" \"Oh, please do not go,\" said the woman. \"I feel like the whole house is shaking and on fire.\" But the man went out to look at the bird.",
"I gathered up my bones and tied them in a soft, silky cloth. I placed them gently under the big juniper tree. *Tweet, tweet,* what a beautiful bird I am now! The bird dropped the shiny golden chain. It fell right around the man’s neck. It fit him perfectly. He went inside and said, \"Look at this lovely bird! Look at the golden chain he gave me. He is so pretty!\" But the woman was very scared. She fell to the floor in the room, and her hat fell off. Then the bird sang again: *My mother she killed me.* \"I wish I were a thousand feet underground so I could not hear that.\" My father he ate me, then the woman fell down again as if she were dead.",
"My sister, little Marlinchen, said, \"Ah, I will go out and see if the bird will give me anything.\" So she went out. She gathered together all my bones and tied them in a soft, silky handkerchief. Then, the bird threw down the shoes to her. She laid them beneath the juniper tree. The bird sang, \"Kywitt, kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I.",
"She felt so happy and light. She put on her new red shoes and danced into the house. \"Look!\" she said. \"I was so sad when I left, but now I am so happy. The bird gave me these shoes!\" The woman stood up. Her hair looked like bright flames. She felt very sad. \"I feel like the world is ending,\" she said. She wanted to go out and see if she felt better. She walked to the door. Suddenly, *crash!* The bird threw a heavy millstone down. It fell right on her head. She was gone.",
"The father and Marlinchen heard what had happened and ran outside. Smoke and flames were rising from the place. But when the fire was gone, there stood the little brother. He took his father and Marlinchen by the hand. They were all so happy. They went inside for dinner and ate together."
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