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Stupid's Cries
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Оглавление - 1 | 2 |
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THERE was once a little boy, and his mother sent him to buy a sheep's head and pluck; afraid he should forget it, the lad kept saying all the way along: ‘Sheep's head and pluck! Sheep's head and pluck!’ Trudging alone, he came to a stile; but in getting over he fell and hurt himself, and beginning to blubber, forgot what he was sent for. So he stood a little while to consider; at last he thought he recollected it, and began to repeat: ‘Liver and lights and gall and all! Liver and lights and gall and all!’ Away he went again, and came to where a man had a pain in his liver, bawling out: ‘Liver and lights and gall and all! Liver and lights and gall and all!’ Whereon the man laid hold of him and beat him, bidding him say: ‘Pray God send no more! Pray God send no more!’ The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a field where a hind was sowing wheat: ‘Pray God send no more! Pray God send no more!’ This was all his cry. So the sower began to thrash him, and charged him to repeat: ‘Pray God send plenty more! Pray God send plenty more!’ Off the child scampered with these words in his mouth till he reached a churchyard and met a funeral, but he went on with his: ‘Pray God send plenty more! Pray God send plenty more!’ The chief mourner seized and punished him, and bade him repeat: ‘Pray God send the soul to heaven! Pray God send the soul to heaven!’ Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his cry rang out: ‘Pray God send the soul to heaven! Pray God send the soul to heaven!’ The good folk nearby were furious, seized and struck him, charging him to say: ‘A dog and a cat agoing to be hung! A dog and a cat agoing to be hung!’ This the poor fellow did, till he overtook a man and a woman going to be married. ‘Oh, oh!’ he shouted: ‘A dog and a cat agoing to be hung! A dog and a cat agoing to be hung!’ The man was enraged, as we may well think, gave him many a thump, and ordered him to repeat: ‘I wish you much joy! I wish you much joy!’ This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch. The lad kept bawling out: ‘I wish you much joy! I wish you much joy!’ This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength, scrambled out, beat the crier, and told him to say: ‘The one is out, I wish the other was! The one is out, I wish the other was!’ On went young ‘un till he found a fellow with only one eye; but he kept up his song: ‘The one is out, I wish the other was! The one is out, I wish the other was!’ This was too much for Master One-eye, who grabbed him and chastised him, bidding him call: ‘The one side gives good light, I wish the other did! The one side gives good light, I wish the other did!’ So he did, to be sure, till he came to a house, one side of which was on fire. The people here thought it was he who had set the place a-blazing, and straightway put him in prison. The end was, the judge put on his black cap, and condemned him to die. The End. | | ||||||||
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