Hans the Hedgehog

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Hans the Hedgehog

Once there was a kind farmer who had plenty of money and land. But even though he was rich, he felt very sad because he had no children. When he walked into town with his friends, they would tease him and ask why he was all alone. This made him very angry. So, when he got home, he shouted, "I want a child! Even if he is a hedgehog!" Soon, his wife had a baby. The baby had a boy’s face and body, but his upper half was covered in soft, prickly spines like a hedgehog. When she saw him, she was terrified and cried, "You have brought bad luck to us!" The man was worried too. He said, "What can we do now? We have to give him a name, but who will be his godfather?" His wife said, "We cannot call him anything else but Hans the Hedgehog.

When the baby hedgehog was christened, the priest said, "He cannot sleep in a normal bed because of his spikes." So, they put some soft straw behind the warm stove. Hans the hedgehog was laid gently on the straw. His mother could not nurse him, for his sharp quills would hurt her. So, he stayed there behind the stove for eight long years. His father was tired of him and wished he would go away. But he did not go, and he did not die. He just stayed there, sleeping quietly.

Now there was a big fair in town, and the farmer wanted to go. He asked his wife what she would like. "Please bring me a little meat and some soft white rolls," she said. Then he asked the maid, and she wanted a pair of warm slippers and some stockings. At last, he asked Hans, the little hedgehog. "Dear father," Hans said softly, "please bring me a bagpipe." When the farmer came home, he gave his wife the meat and rolls. Then he gave the maid her slippers and stockings. Finally, he went behind the warm stove and gave Hans the bagpipes.

And when Hans the hedgehog had his bagpipes, he said, "Dear father, please go to the blacksmith and get the rooster's feet shod. Then I will ride away and never come back." At this, the father was happy to think he was getting rid of him. So, he had the rooster's feet shod for him. When it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on the rooster and rode away. He took his pigs and donkeys with him to keep in the forest. When they got there, he made the rooster fly up to a high tree. There he sat for many years and watched his animals grow into a big herd. His father knew nothing about him. While he sat in the tree, he played his bagpipes and made beautiful music.

The king told the servant to ask the animal why it was there. He also asked if it knew the way to the castle. Hans the hedgehog climbed down from the tree. He said he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he first saw in the castle yard when they arrived. The king thought, "That is easy. Hans the hedgehog does not understand anything. I can write whatever I want.

So the King took a pen and wrote something down. Then Hans the hedgehog showed him the way home, and the King got there safely. But when his daughter saw him from far away, she was so happy that she ran to meet him and gave him a big kiss. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog and told her what had happened. He said he had to promise that the first thing he saw when he got home would belong to a very strange animal. This animal sat on a rooster like a horse and made beautiful music. But instead of writing that he would get what he wanted, he wrote that he would not get it. The princess was very glad and said he had done well, because she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.

Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his donkeys and pigs. He was always happy and sat on a tree branch. He played his little bagpipes for fun. One day, a new king came walking through the forest. He was lost and did not know how to get home. The trees were very big and confusing. The king heard the happy music and asked his helper to go see what it was. The helper went to the tree and saw a big rooster sitting at the top. Hans the hedgehog was sitting on the rooster. The helper asked him what he was doing up there. Hans said, "I am keeping my donkeys and my pigs. But what do you want?

The messenger said they were lost and could not find their way home. He asked if Hans the hedgehog would help them. Hans climbed down from the tree with the rooster. He told the old king that he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he saw first in front of the palace. The king agreed and wrote the promise down. Then Hans rode on the rooster to lead the way. The king got back to his kingdom safely. When they arrived, everyone was so happy. The king had a beautiful daughter. She ran to meet him, hugged his neck, and was so glad to have her father back again.

She asked him where he had been for so long. So he told her how he had lost his way. He almost did not come back at all. But as he was walking through a big forest, a strange creature sat on a rooster in a high tree. The creature made music and showed him the way out. But in return, he promised to give the first thing he saw in the royal garden. That thing was her. That made him feel very sad. But she promised that, for love of her father, she would go with him if he came.

Hans the hedgehog, however, took good care of his pigs. The pigs grew and grew until there were so many of them that the whole forest was full of them. Then Hans decided he did not want to live in the forest anymore. He sent a message to his father to empty every pigsty in the village, because he was coming with such a big herd that anyone could take as many pigs as they wanted. When his father heard the news, he felt worried. He thought Hans had been gone for a long time. But Hans the hedgehog climbed onto the rooster and drove the pigs toward the village. He told everyone to start taking the pigs home.

Then there was a loud *clank, clank* at the forge. It sounded like a big storm. After that, Hans the hedgehog said, "Father, please put the iron shoes on my feet again. Then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live." The father put the iron shoes on his feet again. He was very happy that Hans the hedgehog would never come back.

Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There, the king had said that anyone who came on a rooster and played the bagpipes would be chased away. He did not want them to enter the palace. When Hans the hedgehog arrived, the guards ran at him with their spears. But Hans kicked his rooster, and it flew up high over the gate. It landed right in front of the king’s window. Hans called out that the king must keep his promise, or he would take the king’s life and his daughter’s. Then the king spoke to his daughter. He asked her to go with Hans to keep them both safe.

So she put on a white dress. Her father gave her a shiny carriage with six horses and many helpers. He gave her bags of gold, too. She sat in the carriage and took Hans the hedgehog with her. She also brought her pet rooster and her bagpipes. They said goodbye and drove away. The king thought he would never see her again. But he was wrong. When they were just a little way from the town, Hans the hedgehog took off her pretty clothes. Then he poked her with his sharp spines until she hurt all over. "That is the reward for being so unkind," said Hans. "Go home now. I do not want you." He chased her back to her house. She was very sad and ashamed for the rest of her life.

Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on the big horse. He played his bagpipes and went to the land of the second king. The king had made a special rule. If anyone looked like Hans, the guards had to stop and salute. They had to give him a safe path to the castle. They had to cheer for him and take him to the royal house.

But when the princess saw him, she felt very scared. He really did look quite strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, because she had promised her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table. She sat down by his side, and they ate and drank together.

When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was a little afraid of his prickly quills. But he told her not to worry, because he would never hurt her. He spoke to the old king and asked him to send four strong men to stand by the bedroom door. They should build a big, warm fire. When he came into the room and got ready for bed, he would slip out of his hedgehog skin and leave it on the floor. Then, the men would run quickly to the skin, throw it into the fire, and watch it burn until it was gone.

When the clock struck eleven, he went into the room and took off the hedgehog's skin. He left the skin by the bed. Then the men came and quickly took it. They put it in the fire. When the fire burned it up, he was safe. He lay in bed looking like a human boy, but he was very dark, as if he had been in the sun. The king called his doctor. The doctor washed him with soft creams and rubbed him until he was white and looked like a handsome young man. When the princess saw him, she was so happy. The next morning, they got up and ate breakfast together. Then they had a big party to celebrate their marriage. Finally, the old king gave the kingdom to Hans.

Many years later, Hans went to his father with his wife. He told him, "I am your son." But the father said, "I do not have a son. I only had one, and he was born with spikes like a hedgehog. He went out into the world long ago." Then Hans told him who he was. The old father was so happy! He went with Hans to his kingdom. My story is finished now, and it has run all the way to little Augusta's house.

Hans the Hedgehog

A king was riding by and got lost. He heard the lovely music and was amazed. He sent a servant to find out where it was coming from. The servant looked everywhere but could not see anything. Then he saw a little animal sitting high up in a tree. It looked like a hedgehog sitting on a cock. The music was coming from them. The king told the servant to ask the animal why it was there. He also asked if it knew the way to the castle. Hans the hedgehog climbed down from the tree. He said he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he first saw in the castle yard when they arrived. The king thought, "That is easy. Hans the hedgehog does not understand anything. I can write whatever I want.

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"There was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"",
"When he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.",
"Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.",
"Once a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like. So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire. The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.",
"Ha. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's. So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.",
"But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.",
"When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house."
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The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"\n\nWhen he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.\n\nNow it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.\n\nAnd when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.\n\nOnce a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like. So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire. The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.\n\nHa. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.\n\nHans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's. So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.\n\nBut when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.\n\nWhen the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.\n\nWhen several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house.",
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"Hans the Hedgehog",
"There was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"",
"When he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.",
"Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.",
"Once a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like. So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire. The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.",
"Ha. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's. So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.",
"But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.",
"When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house."
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"clean_text": "Hans the Hedgehog\n\nThere was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"\n\nWhen he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.\n\nNow it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.\n\nAnd when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.\n\nOnce a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like. So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire. The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.\n\nHa. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.\n\nHans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's. So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.\n\nBut when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.\n\nWhen the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.\n\nWhen several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house.",
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"Hans the Hedgehog",
"There was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"",
"When he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.",
"Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.",
"Once a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like.",
"So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire.",
"The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again.",
"She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.",
"Ha. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's.",
"So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.",
"But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank.",
"When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.",
"When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house."
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"Hans the Hedgehog",
"There was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"",
"When he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.",
"Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.",
"Once a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like. So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire. The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.",
"Ha. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's. So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.",
"But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.",
"When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house."
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"speech_safe_text": "Hans the Hedgehog\n\nThere was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"\n\nWhen he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.\n\nNow it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.\n\nAnd when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.\n\nOnce a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like. So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire. The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again. She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.\n\nHa. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.\n\nHans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's. So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.\n\nBut when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank. When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.\n\nWhen the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.\n\nWhen several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house.",
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"There was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"",
"When he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.",
"Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.",
"Once a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like.",
"So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire.",
"The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again.",
"She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.",
"Ha. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's.",
"So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.",
"But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank.",
"When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.",
"When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house."
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"There was once a country man who had money and land in plenty, but however rich he was, his happiness was still lacking in one respect - he had no children. Often when he went into the town with the other peasants they mocked him and asked why he had no children. At last he became angry, and when he got home he said, \"I will have a child, even if it be a hedgehog.\" Then his wife had a child that was a hedgehog in the upper part of his body and a boy in the lower, and when she saw the child, she was terrified, and said, \"See, there you have brought ill-luck on us.\" Then said the man, \"What can be done now? The boy must be christened, but we shall not be able to get a godfather for him.\" The woman said, \"And we cannot call him anything else but Hans the hedgehog.\"",
"When he was christened, the parson said, \"He cannot go into any ordinary bed because of his spikes.\" So a little straw was put behind the stove, and Hans the hedgehog was laid on it. His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills. So he lay there behind the stove for eight years, and his father was tired of him and thought, if he would but die. He did not die, however, but remained lying there.",
"Now it happened that there was a fair in the town, and the peasant was about to go to it, and asked his wife what he should bring back with him for her. \"A little meat and a couple of white rolls which are wanted for the house,\" said she. Then he asked the servant, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some stockings with clocks. At last he said also, \"And what will you have, Hans my hedgehog?\" \"Dear father,\" he said, \"do bring me bagpipes.\" When, therefore, the father came home again, he gave his wife what he had bought for her, meat and white rolls, and then he gave the maid the slippers, and the stockings with clocks, and, lastly, he went behind the stove, and gave Hans the hedgehog the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had the bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, do go to the forge and get the cock shod, and then I will ride away, and never come back again.\" At this, the father was delighted to think that he was going to get rid of him, and had the cock shod for him, and when it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on it, and rode away, but took swine and asses with him which he intended to keep in the forest. When they got there he made the cock fly on to a high tree with him, and there he sat for many a long year, and watched his asses and swine until the herd was quite large, and his father knew nothing about him. And while he was sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes, and made music which was very beautiful.",
"Once a king came traveling by who had lost his way and heard the music. He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came. He spied about, but saw nothing but a little animal sitting up aloft on the tree, which looked like a cock with a hedgehog on it which made this music. Then the king told the servant he was to ask why he sat there, and if he knew the road which led to his kingdom. So Hans the hedgehog descended from the tree, and said he would show the way if the king would write a bond and promise him whatever he first met in the royal courtyard as soon as he arrived at home. Then the king thought, I can easily do that, Hans the hedgehog understands nothing, and I can write what I like.",
"So the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and when he had done it, Hans the hedgehog showed him the way, and he got safely home. But his daughter, when she saw him from afar, was so overjoyed that she ran to meet him, and kissed him. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog, and told her what had happened, and that he had been forced to promise whatsoever first met him when he got home, to a very strange animal which sat on a cock as if it were a horse, and made beautiful music, but that instead of writing that he should have what he wanted, he had written that he should not have it. Thereupon the princess was glad, and said he had done well, for she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his asses and pigs, and was always merry and sat on the tree and played his bagpipes. Now it came to pass that another king came journeying by with his attendants and runner, and he also had lost his way, and did not know how to get home again because the forest was so large. He likewise heard the beautiful music from a distance, and asked his runner what that could be, and told him to go and see. Then the runner went under the tree, and saw the cock sitting at the top of it, and Hans the hedgehog on the cock. The runner asked him what he was doing up there. I am keeping my asses and my pigs, but what is your desire.",
"The messenger said that they had lost their way, and could not get back into their own kingdom, and asked if he would not show them the way. Then Hans the hedgehog descended the tree with the cock, and told the aged king that he would show him the way, if he would give him for his own whatsoever first met him in front of his royal palace. The king said, \"Yes,\" and wrote a promise to Hans the hedgehog that he should have this. That done, Hans rode on before him on the cock, and pointed out the way, and the king reached his kingdom again in safety. When he got to the courtyard, there were great rejoicings. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful, she ran to meet him, threw her arms round his neck, and was delighted to have her old father back again.",
"She asked him where in the world he had been so long. So he told her how he had lost his way, and had very nearly not come back at all, but that as he was traveling through a great forest, a creature, half hedgehog, half man, who was sitting astride a cock in a high tree, and making music, had shown him the way and helped him to get out, but that in return he had promised him whatsoever first met him in the royal court-yard, and how that was she herself, which made him unhappy now. But on this she promised that, for love of her father, she would willingly go with this Hans if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took care of his pigs, and the pigs became more pigs until there were so many in number that the whole forest was filled with them. Then Hans the hedgehog resolved not to live in the forest any longer, and sent word to his father to have every stye in the village emptied, for he was coming with such a great herd that all might kill who wished to do so. When his father heard that, he was troubled, for he thought Hans the hedgehog had died long ago. Hans the hedgehog, however, seated himself on the cock, and drove the pigs before him into the village, and ordered the slaughter to begin.",
"Ha. - Then there was a butchery and a chopping that might have been heard two miles off. After this Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, let me have the cock shod once more at the forge, and then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" Then the father had the cock shod once more, and was pleased that Hans the hedgehog would never return again.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There the king had commanded that whosoever came mounted on a cock and had bagpipes with him should be shot at, cut down, or stabbed by everyone, so that he might not enter the palace. When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's. Then the king began to speak to his daughter, and to beg her to go away with Hans in order to save her own life and her father's.",
"So she dressed herself in white, and her father gave her a carriage with six horses and magnificent attendants together with gold and possessions. She seated herself in the carriage, and placed Hans the hedgehog beside her with the cock and the bagpipes, and then they took leave and drove away, and the king thought he should never see her again. But he was deceived in his expectation for when they were at a short distance from the town, Hans the hedgehog took her pretty clothes off, and pierced her with his hedgehog's spikes until she bled all over. \"That is the reward of your falseness,\" said he. \"Go your way, I will not have you,\" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on further on the cock, with his bagpipes, to the dominions of the second king to whom he had shown the way. But this one had arranged that if any one resembling Hans the hedgehog should come, they were to present arms, give him safe conduct, cry long life to him, and lead him to the royal palace.",
"But when the king's daughter saw him she was terrified, for he really looked too strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, for she had given her promise to her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table, and she seated herself by his side, and they ate and drank.",
"When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was afraid of his quills, but he told her she was not to fear, for no harm would befall her, and he told the old king that he was to appoint four men to watch by the door of the chamber, and light a great fire, and when he entered the room and was about to get into bed, he would creep out of his hedgehog's skin and leave it lying there by the bedside, and that the men were to run nimbly to it, throw it in the fire, and stay by it until it was consumed.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the chamber, stripped off the hedgehog's skin, and left it lying by the bed. Then came the men and fetched it swiftly, and threw it in the fire, and when the fire had consumed it, he was saved, and lay there in bed in human form, but he was coal-black as if he had been burnt. The king sent for his physician who washed him with precious salves, and anointed him, and he became white, and was a handsome young man. When the king's daughter saw that she was glad, and the next morning they arose joyfully, ate and drank, and then the marriage was properly solemnized, and Hans the hedgehog received the kingdom from the aged king.",
"When several years had passed he went with his wife to his father, and said that he was his son. The father, however, declared he had no son - he had never had but one, and he had been born like a hedgehog with spikes, and had gone forth into the world. Then Hans made himself known, and the old father rejoiced and went with him to his kingdom. My tale is done, and away it has run to little augusta's house."
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"Once there was a kind farmer who had plenty of money and land. But even though he was rich, he felt very sad because he had no children. When he walked into town with his friends, they would tease him and ask why he was all alone. This made him very angry. So, when he got home, he shouted, \"I want a child! Even if he is a hedgehog!\" Soon, his wife had a baby. The baby had a boy’s face and body, but his upper half was covered in soft, prickly spines like a hedgehog. When she saw him, she was terrified and cried, \"You have brought bad luck to us!\" The man was worried too. He said, \"What can we do now? We have to give him a name, but who will be his godfather?\" His wife said, \"We cannot call him anything else but Hans the Hedgehog.",
"When the baby hedgehog was christened, the priest said, \"He cannot sleep in a normal bed because of his spikes.\" So, they put some soft straw behind the warm stove. Hans the hedgehog was laid gently on the straw. His mother could not nurse him, for his sharp quills would hurt her. So, he stayed there behind the stove for eight long years. His father was tired of him and wished he would go away. But he did not go, and he did not die. He just stayed there, sleeping quietly.",
"Now there was a big fair in town, and the farmer wanted to go. He asked his wife what she would like. \"Please bring me a little meat and some soft white rolls,\" she said. Then he asked the maid, and she wanted a pair of warm slippers and some stockings. At last, he asked Hans, the little hedgehog. \"Dear father,\" Hans said softly, \"please bring me a bagpipe.\" When the farmer came home, he gave his wife the meat and rolls. Then he gave the maid her slippers and stockings. Finally, he went behind the warm stove and gave Hans the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had his bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, please go to the blacksmith and get the rooster's feet shod. Then I will ride away and never come back.\" At this, the father was happy to think he was getting rid of him. So, he had the rooster's feet shod for him. When it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on the rooster and rode away. He took his pigs and donkeys with him to keep in the forest. When they got there, he made the rooster fly up to a high tree. There he sat for many years and watched his animals grow into a big herd. His father knew nothing about him. While he sat in the tree, he played his bagpipes and made beautiful music.",
"A king was riding by and got lost. He heard the lovely music and was amazed. He sent a servant to find out where it was coming from. The servant looked everywhere but could not see anything. Then he saw a little animal sitting high up in a tree. It looked like a hedgehog sitting on a cock. The music was coming from them.\n\nThe king told the servant to ask the animal why it was there. He also asked if it knew the way to the castle. Hans the hedgehog climbed down from the tree. He said he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he first saw in the castle yard when they arrived. The king thought, \"That is easy. Hans the hedgehog does not understand anything. I can write whatever I want.",
"So the King took a pen and wrote something down. Then Hans the hedgehog showed him the way home, and the King got there safely. But when his daughter saw him from far away, she was so happy that she ran to meet him and gave him a big kiss. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog and told her what had happened. He said he had to promise that the first thing he saw when he got home would belong to a very strange animal. This animal sat on a rooster like a horse and made beautiful music. But instead of writing that he would get what he wanted, he wrote that he would not get it. The princess was very glad and said he had done well, because she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his donkeys and pigs. He was always happy and sat on a tree branch. He played his little bagpipes for fun. One day, a new king came walking through the forest. He was lost and did not know how to get home. The trees were very big and confusing. The king heard the happy music and asked his helper to go see what it was. The helper went to the tree and saw a big rooster sitting at the top. Hans the hedgehog was sitting on the rooster. The helper asked him what he was doing up there. Hans said, \"I am keeping my donkeys and my pigs. But what do you want?",
"The messenger said they were lost and could not find their way home. He asked if Hans the hedgehog would help them. Hans climbed down from the tree with the rooster. He told the old king that he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he saw first in front of the palace. The king agreed and wrote the promise down. Then Hans rode on the rooster to lead the way. The king got back to his kingdom safely. When they arrived, everyone was so happy. The king had a beautiful daughter. She ran to meet him, hugged his neck, and was so glad to have her father back again.",
"She asked him where he had been for so long. So he told her how he had lost his way. He almost did not come back at all. But as he was walking through a big forest, a strange creature sat on a rooster in a high tree. The creature made music and showed him the way out. But in return, he promised to give the first thing he saw in the royal garden. That thing was her. That made him feel very sad. But she promised that, for love of her father, she would go with him if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took good care of his pigs. The pigs grew and grew until there were so many of them that the whole forest was full of them. Then Hans decided he did not want to live in the forest anymore. He sent a message to his father to empty every pigsty in the village, because he was coming with such a big herd that anyone could take as many pigs as they wanted. When his father heard the news, he felt worried. He thought Hans had been gone for a long time. But Hans the hedgehog climbed onto the rooster and drove the pigs toward the village. He told everyone to start taking the pigs home.",
"Then there was a loud *clank, clank* at the forge. It sounded like a big storm. After that, Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, please put the iron shoes on my feet again. Then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" The father put the iron shoes on his feet again. He was very happy that Hans the hedgehog would never come back.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There, the king had said that anyone who came on a rooster and played the bagpipes would be chased away. He did not want them to enter the palace. When Hans the hedgehog arrived, the guards ran at him with their spears. But Hans kicked his rooster, and it flew up high over the gate. It landed right in front of the king’s window. Hans called out that the king must keep his promise, or he would take the king’s life and his daughter’s. Then the king spoke to his daughter. He asked her to go with Hans to keep them both safe.",
"So she put on a white dress. Her father gave her a shiny carriage with six horses and many helpers. He gave her bags of gold, too. She sat in the carriage and took Hans the hedgehog with her. She also brought her pet rooster and her bagpipes. They said goodbye and drove away. The king thought he would never see her again. But he was wrong. When they were just a little way from the town, Hans the hedgehog took off her pretty clothes. Then he poked her with his sharp spines until she hurt all over. \"That is the reward for being so unkind,\" said Hans. \"Go home now. I do not want you.\" He chased her back to her house. She was very sad and ashamed for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on the big horse. He played his bagpipes and went to the land of the second king. The king had made a special rule. If anyone looked like Hans, the guards had to stop and salute. They had to give him a safe path to the castle. They had to cheer for him and take him to the royal house.",
"But when the princess saw him, she felt very scared. He really did look quite strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, because she had promised her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table. She sat down by his side, and they ate and drank together.",
"When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was a little afraid of his prickly quills. But he told her not to worry, because he would never hurt her. He spoke to the old king and asked him to send four strong men to stand by the bedroom door. They should build a big, warm fire. When he came into the room and got ready for bed, he would slip out of his hedgehog skin and leave it on the floor. Then, the men would run quickly to the skin, throw it into the fire, and watch it burn until it was gone.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the room and took off the hedgehog's skin. He left the skin by the bed. Then the men came and quickly took it. They put it in the fire. When the fire burned it up, he was safe. He lay in bed looking like a human boy, but he was very dark, as if he had been in the sun. The king called his doctor. The doctor washed him with soft creams and rubbed him until he was white and looked like a handsome young man. When the princess saw him, she was so happy. The next morning, they got up and ate breakfast together. Then they had a big party to celebrate their marriage. Finally, the old king gave the kingdom to Hans.",
"Many years later, Hans went to his father with his wife. He told him, \"I am your son.\" But the father said, \"I do not have a son. I only had one, and he was born with spikes like a hedgehog. He went out into the world long ago.\" Then Hans told him who he was. The old father was so happy! He went with Hans to his kingdom. My story is finished now, and it has run all the way to little Augusta's house."
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"child_friendly_text": "Hans the Hedgehog\n\nOnce there was a kind farmer who had plenty of money and land. But even though he was rich, he felt very sad because he had no children. When he walked into town with his friends, they would tease him and ask why he was all alone. This made him very angry. So, when he got home, he shouted, \"I want a child! Even if he is a hedgehog!\" Soon, his wife had a baby. The baby had a boy’s face and body, but his upper half was covered in soft, prickly spines like a hedgehog. When she saw him, she was terrified and cried, \"You have brought bad luck to us!\" The man was worried too. He said, \"What can we do now? We have to give him a name, but who will be his godfather?\" His wife said, \"We cannot call him anything else but Hans the Hedgehog.\n\nWhen the baby hedgehog was christened, the priest said, \"He cannot sleep in a normal bed because of his spikes.\" So, they put some soft straw behind the warm stove. Hans the hedgehog was laid gently on the straw. His mother could not nurse him, for his sharp quills would hurt her. So, he stayed there behind the stove for eight long years. His father was tired of him and wished he would go away. But he did not go, and he did not die. He just stayed there, sleeping quietly.\n\nNow there was a big fair in town, and the farmer wanted to go. He asked his wife what she would like. \"Please bring me a little meat and some soft white rolls,\" she said. Then he asked the maid, and she wanted a pair of warm slippers and some stockings. At last, he asked Hans, the little hedgehog. \"Dear father,\" Hans said softly, \"please bring me a bagpipe.\" When the farmer came home, he gave his wife the meat and rolls. Then he gave the maid her slippers and stockings. Finally, he went behind the warm stove and gave Hans the bagpipes.\n\nAnd when Hans the hedgehog had his bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, please go to the blacksmith and get the rooster's feet shod. Then I will ride away and never come back.\" At this, the father was happy to think he was getting rid of him. So, he had the rooster's feet shod for him. When it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on the rooster and rode away. He took his pigs and donkeys with him to keep in the forest. When they got there, he made the rooster fly up to a high tree. There he sat for many years and watched his animals grow into a big herd. His father knew nothing about him. While he sat in the tree, he played his bagpipes and made beautiful music.\n\nA king was riding by and got lost. He heard the lovely music and was amazed. He sent a servant to find out where it was coming from. The servant looked everywhere but could not see anything. Then he saw a little animal sitting high up in a tree. It looked like a hedgehog sitting on a cock. The music was coming from them.\n\nThe king told the servant to ask the animal why it was there. He also asked if it knew the way to the castle. Hans the hedgehog climbed down from the tree. He said he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he first saw in the castle yard when they arrived. The king thought, \"That is easy. Hans the hedgehog does not understand anything. I can write whatever I want.\n\nSo the King took a pen and wrote something down. Then Hans the hedgehog showed him the way home, and the King got there safely. But when his daughter saw him from far away, she was so happy that she ran to meet him and gave him a big kiss. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog and told her what had happened. He said he had to promise that the first thing he saw when he got home would belong to a very strange animal. This animal sat on a rooster like a horse and made beautiful music. But instead of writing that he would get what he wanted, he wrote that he would not get it. The princess was very glad and said he had done well, because she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, looked after his donkeys and pigs. He was always happy and sat on a tree branch. He played his little bagpipes for fun. One day, a new king came walking through the forest. He was lost and did not know how to get home. The trees were very big and confusing. The king heard the happy music and asked his helper to go see what it was. The helper went to the tree and saw a big rooster sitting at the top. Hans the hedgehog was sitting on the rooster. The helper asked him what he was doing up there. Hans said, \"I am keeping my donkeys and my pigs. But what do you want?\n\nThe messenger said they were lost and could not find their way home. He asked if Hans the hedgehog would help them. Hans climbed down from the tree with the rooster. He told the old king that he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he saw first in front of the palace. The king agreed and wrote the promise down. Then Hans rode on the rooster to lead the way. The king got back to his kingdom safely. When they arrived, everyone was so happy. The king had a beautiful daughter. She ran to meet him, hugged his neck, and was so glad to have her father back again.\n\nShe asked him where he had been for so long. So he told her how he had lost his way. He almost did not come back at all. But as he was walking through a big forest, a strange creature sat on a rooster in a high tree. The creature made music and showed him the way out. But in return, he promised to give the first thing he saw in the royal garden. That thing was her. That made him feel very sad. But she promised that, for love of her father, she would go with him if he came.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, took good care of his pigs. The pigs grew and grew until there were so many of them that the whole forest was full of them. Then Hans decided he did not want to live in the forest anymore. He sent a message to his father to empty every pigsty in the village, because he was coming with such a big herd that anyone could take as many pigs as they wanted. When his father heard the news, he felt worried. He thought Hans had been gone for a long time. But Hans the hedgehog climbed onto the rooster and drove the pigs toward the village. He told everyone to start taking the pigs home.\n\nThen there was a loud *clank, clank* at the forge. It sounded like a big storm. After that, Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, please put the iron shoes on my feet again. Then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" The father put the iron shoes on his feet again. He was very happy that Hans the hedgehog would never come back.\n\nHans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There, the king had said that anyone who came on a rooster and played the bagpipes would be chased away. He did not want them to enter the palace. When Hans the hedgehog arrived, the guards ran at him with their spears. But Hans kicked his rooster, and it flew up high over the gate. It landed right in front of the king’s window. Hans called out that the king must keep his promise, or he would take the king’s life and his daughter’s. Then the king spoke to his daughter. He asked her to go with Hans to keep them both safe.\n\nSo she put on a white dress. Her father gave her a shiny carriage with six horses and many helpers. He gave her bags of gold, too. She sat in the carriage and took Hans the hedgehog with her. She also brought her pet rooster and her bagpipes. They said goodbye and drove away. The king thought he would never see her again. But he was wrong. When they were just a little way from the town, Hans the hedgehog took off her pretty clothes. Then he poked her with his sharp spines until she hurt all over. \"That is the reward for being so unkind,\" said Hans. \"Go home now. I do not want you.\" He chased her back to her house. She was very sad and ashamed for the rest of her life.\n\nHans the hedgehog, however, rode on the big horse. He played his bagpipes and went to the land of the second king. The king had made a special rule. If anyone looked like Hans, the guards had to stop and salute. They had to give him a safe path to the castle. They had to cheer for him and take him to the royal house.\n\nBut when the princess saw him, she felt very scared. He really did look quite strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, because she had promised her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table. She sat down by his side, and they ate and drank together.\n\nWhen the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was a little afraid of his prickly quills. But he told her not to worry, because he would never hurt her. He spoke to the old king and asked him to send four strong men to stand by the bedroom door. They should build a big, warm fire. When he came into the room and got ready for bed, he would slip out of his hedgehog skin and leave it on the floor. Then, the men would run quickly to the skin, throw it into the fire, and watch it burn until it was gone.\n\nWhen the clock struck eleven, he went into the room and took off the hedgehog's skin. He left the skin by the bed. Then the men came and quickly took it. They put it in the fire. When the fire burned it up, he was safe. He lay in bed looking like a human boy, but he was very dark, as if he had been in the sun. The king called his doctor. The doctor washed him with soft creams and rubbed him until he was white and looked like a handsome young man. When the princess saw him, she was so happy. The next morning, they got up and ate breakfast together. Then they had a big party to celebrate their marriage. Finally, the old king gave the kingdom to Hans.\n\nMany years later, Hans went to his father with his wife. He told him, \"I am your son.\" But the father said, \"I do not have a son. I only had one, and he was born with spikes like a hedgehog. He went out into the world long ago.\" Then Hans told him who he was. The old father was so happy! He went with Hans to his kingdom. My story is finished now, and it has run all the way to little Augusta's house.",
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"Once there was a kind farmer who had plenty of money and land. But even though he was rich, he felt very sad because he had no children. When he walked into town with his friends, they would tease him and ask why he was all alone. This made him very angry. So, when he got home, he shouted, \"I want a child! Even if he is a hedgehog!\" Soon, his wife had a baby. The baby had a boy’s face and body, but his upper half was covered in soft, prickly spines like a hedgehog. When she saw him, she was terrified and cried, \"You have brought bad luck to us!\" The man was worried too. He said, \"What can we do now? We have to give him a name, but who will be his godfather?\" His wife said, \"We cannot call him anything else but Hans the Hedgehog.",
"When the baby hedgehog was christened, the priest said, \"He cannot sleep in a normal bed because of his spikes.\" So, they put some soft straw behind the warm stove. Hans the hedgehog was laid gently on the straw. His mother could not nurse him, for his sharp quills would hurt her. So, he stayed there behind the stove for eight long years. His father was tired of him and wished he would go away. But he did not go, and he did not die. He just stayed there, sleeping quietly.",
"Now there was a big fair in town, and the farmer wanted to go. He asked his wife what she would like. \"Please bring me a little meat and some soft white rolls,\" she said. Then he asked the maid, and she wanted a pair of warm slippers and some stockings. At last, he asked Hans, the little hedgehog. \"Dear father,\" Hans said softly, \"please bring me a bagpipe.\" When the farmer came home, he gave his wife the meat and rolls. Then he gave the maid her slippers and stockings. Finally, he went behind the warm stove and gave Hans the bagpipes.",
"And when Hans the hedgehog had his bagpipes, he said, \"Dear father, please go to the blacksmith and get the rooster's feet shod. Then I will ride away and never come back.\" At this, the father was happy to think he was getting rid of him. So, he had the rooster's feet shod for him. When it was done, Hans the hedgehog got on the rooster and rode away. He took his pigs and donkeys with him to keep in the forest. When they got there, he made the rooster fly up to a high tree. There he sat for many years and watched his animals grow into a big herd. His father knew nothing about him. While he sat in the tree, he played his bagpipes and made beautiful music.",
"A king was riding by and got lost. He heard the lovely music and was amazed. He sent a servant to find out where it was coming from. The servant looked everywhere but could not see anything. Then he saw a little animal sitting high up in a tree. It looked like a hedgehog sitting on a cock. The music was coming from them.\n\nThe king told the servant to ask the animal why it was there. He also asked if it knew the way to the castle. Hans the hedgehog climbed down from the tree. He said he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he first saw in the castle yard when they arrived. The king thought, \"That is easy. Hans the hedgehog does not understand anything. I can write whatever I want.",
"So the King took a pen and wrote something down. Then Hans the hedgehog showed him the way home, and the King got there safely. But when his daughter saw him from far away, she was so happy that she ran to meet him and gave him a big kiss. Then he remembered Hans the hedgehog and told her what had happened. He said he had to promise that the first thing he saw when he got home would belong to a very strange animal. This animal sat on a rooster like a horse and made beautiful music. But instead of writing that he would get what he wanted, he wrote that he would not get it. The princess was very glad and said he had done well, because she never would have gone away with the hedgehog.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, looked after his donkeys and pigs. He was always happy and sat on a tree branch. He played his little bagpipes for fun. One day, a new king came walking through the forest. He was lost and did not know how to get home. The trees were very big and confusing. The king heard the happy music and asked his helper to go see what it was. The helper went to the tree and saw a big rooster sitting at the top. Hans the hedgehog was sitting on the rooster. The helper asked him what he was doing up there. Hans said, \"I am keeping my donkeys and my pigs. But what do you want?",
"The messenger said they were lost and could not find their way home. He asked if Hans the hedgehog would help them. Hans climbed down from the tree with the rooster. He told the old king that he would show the way, but only if the king promised to give him whatever he saw first in front of the palace. The king agreed and wrote the promise down. Then Hans rode on the rooster to lead the way. The king got back to his kingdom safely. When they arrived, everyone was so happy. The king had a beautiful daughter. She ran to meet him, hugged his neck, and was so glad to have her father back again.",
"She asked him where he had been for so long. So he told her how he had lost his way. He almost did not come back at all. But as he was walking through a big forest, a strange creature sat on a rooster in a high tree. The creature made music and showed him the way out. But in return, he promised to give the first thing he saw in the royal garden. That thing was her. That made him feel very sad. But she promised that, for love of her father, she would go with him if he came.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, took good care of his pigs. The pigs grew and grew until there were so many of them that the whole forest was full of them. Then Hans decided he did not want to live in the forest anymore. He sent a message to his father to empty every pigsty in the village, because he was coming with such a big herd that anyone could take as many pigs as they wanted. When his father heard the news, he felt worried. He thought Hans had been gone for a long time. But Hans the hedgehog climbed onto the rooster and drove the pigs toward the village. He told everyone to start taking the pigs home.",
"Then there was a loud *clank, clank* at the forge. It sounded like a big storm. After that, Hans the hedgehog said, \"Father, please put the iron shoes on my feet again. Then I will ride away and never come back as long as I live.\" The father put the iron shoes on his feet again. He was very happy that Hans the hedgehog would never come back.",
"Hans the hedgehog rode away to the first kingdom. There, the king had said that anyone who came on a rooster and played the bagpipes would be chased away. He did not want them to enter the palace. When Hans the hedgehog arrived, the guards ran at him with their spears. But Hans kicked his rooster, and it flew up high over the gate. It landed right in front of the king’s window. Hans called out that the king must keep his promise, or he would take the king’s life and his daughter’s. Then the king spoke to his daughter. He asked her to go with Hans to keep them both safe.",
"So she put on a white dress. Her father gave her a shiny carriage with six horses and many helpers. He gave her bags of gold, too. She sat in the carriage and took Hans the hedgehog with her. She also brought her pet rooster and her bagpipes. They said goodbye and drove away. The king thought he would never see her again. But he was wrong. When they were just a little way from the town, Hans the hedgehog took off her pretty clothes. Then he poked her with his sharp spines until she hurt all over. \"That is the reward for being so unkind,\" said Hans. \"Go home now. I do not want you.\" He chased her back to her house. She was very sad and ashamed for the rest of her life.",
"Hans the hedgehog, however, rode on the big horse. He played his bagpipes and went to the land of the second king. The king had made a special rule. If anyone looked like Hans, the guards had to stop and salute. They had to give him a safe path to the castle. They had to cheer for him and take him to the royal house.",
"But when the princess saw him, she felt very scared. He really did look quite strange. Then she remembered that she could not change her mind, because she had promised her father. So Hans the hedgehog was welcomed by her, and married to her, and had to go with her to the royal table. She sat down by his side, and they ate and drank together.",
"When the evening came and they wanted to go to sleep, she was a little afraid of his prickly quills. But he told her not to worry, because he would never hurt her. He spoke to the old king and asked him to send four strong men to stand by the bedroom door. They should build a big, warm fire. When he came into the room and got ready for bed, he would slip out of his hedgehog skin and leave it on the floor. Then, the men would run quickly to the skin, throw it into the fire, and watch it burn until it was gone.",
"When the clock struck eleven, he went into the room and took off the hedgehog's skin. He left the skin by the bed. Then the men came and quickly took it. They put it in the fire. When the fire burned it up, he was safe. He lay in bed looking like a human boy, but he was very dark, as if he had been in the sun. The king called his doctor. The doctor washed him with soft creams and rubbed him until he was white and looked like a handsome young man. When the princess saw him, she was so happy. The next morning, they got up and ate breakfast together. Then they had a big party to celebrate their marriage. Finally, the old king gave the kingdom to Hans.",
"Many years later, Hans went to his father with his wife. He told him, \"I am your son.\" But the father said, \"I do not have a son. I only had one, and he was born with spikes like a hedgehog. He went out into the world long ago.\" Then Hans told him who he was. The old father was so happy! He went with Hans to his kingdom. My story is finished now, and it has run all the way to little Augusta's house."
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