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05/06/2022

Mr Seven Inches loosened the silver chain that fastened the boat, and pushed away, and after grinning at the four men, said to them. ‘Say your byes to your daughters and your brides for awhile.
Pointing to the youngest, who had seen the reflection of his sweetheart on the shiny head of Seven Inches, he said 'you need not fear, you’ll recover your princess all in good time, and together you and she will be as happy as the day is long. Even if bad people were rolling stark naked in gold, they would still not be rich. Goodbye.
They sailed away; and the ladies stretched out their hands, but weren’t able to say a word; and the poor men couldn’t move hand or foot to follow them. Staring at Seven Inches handing the three princesses out of the boat, and letting them down by a basket into a draw-well was all they could do.
When the last princess was out of sight, the men regained the strength in their limbs. They ran, and they didn't get tired until they came to the well and windlass; and there was the thick silken rope rolled on the axle, and the nice white basket hanging to it.
‘Let me down,’ the youngest prince said; ‘I’ll recover them or I'll die trying.
‘No,’ the second daughter’s sweetheart says, ‘it is my turn first.’
‘I am the eldest.’ breaks in the voice of the other prince, 'let me go in and bring them back. So they gave way to him, and he got into the basket, and down they let him. They lost sight of him at first, and then, after winding off about a hundred perches of the thick rope, it slackened, and they stopped turning.
The men waited for hours but there was no pull on the rope. They set guards till the next morning but there was no sign of pressure on the thick silken rope.

Old-time folk and fairies retold by Uncle Olive

31/05/2022

Once upon a time there was a king who had three very beautiful daughters. The two eldest were very proud and often quarrelsome, but the youngest princess was as good as they were bad. It happened that three princes came to court them, and two of them were, rather coincidentally, exactly like the eldest ladies. As you would guess the youngest one was just as lovable as the youngest princess. A day came and they were all strolling down to one of the creeks tributary to the Trust. When they met a poor beggar; and neither the king, the eldest princesses, nor their sweethearts would give him anything. The youngest daughter and her true love did what was better than all. They gave him something, and kind words along with it. When they got to the edge of the creek they found a very beautifully designed boat. They would be heard describing how wonderful the boat looked.‘I’ll take a sail in this fine boat’, said the eldest; and said the second eldest, ‘I’ll take a sail, in this fine boat too’. The youngest lady was cautious however, she said ‘I won’t take a sail in that fine boat, I am afraid the boat is enchanted.’ But the others persuaded her to go in, and her father was just going in after her, when a little man sprung up on the deck. This very, so very, little man is only seven inches high, five from his feet to his neck. His head measured the other two inches. His head shone like a golden mirror. The youngest prince could see the reflection of his sweetheart on the small man's shinny head. One could guess there has never been hair on that head of his. So Seven Inches ordered the king to stand back. Well, all the men put their hands to their swords, but they weren’t able to draw them, for their arms were made very weak....

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