Excerpt: ...son, 'The queen's eye is on you; get down and run for your life till you get to the hollow pg 75 tarn-stones among the hills! But if you stay here, when you wake to-morrow you will be dead.' When the queen's messengers came once more to the forest they found it all wintry again, and without leaf; only the sycamore was in full green, clapping its hands for joy in the keen and bitter air. The messengers searched, and beat down the leaves, but the king's son was not there. They went back to the queen. She looked ...
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Excerpt: ...son, 'The queen's eye is on you; get down and run for your life till you get to the hollow pg 75 tarn-stones among the hills! But if you stay here, when you wake to-morrow you will be dead.' When the queen's messengers came once more to the forest they found it all wintry again, and without leaf; only the sycamore was in full green, clapping its hands for joy in the keen and bitter air. The messengers searched, and beat down the leaves, but the king's son was not there. They went back to the queen. She looked long in her magic crystal, but little could she see; for the king's son had hidden himself in a small cave beside the tarn-stones, and into the darkness the crystal could not pry. Presently she saw a flight of birds crossing the blue, and every bird carried a few crumbs of bread in its beak. Then she ran and called to her villains, 'Follow the birds, and they will take you to where the little wizard is; for they are carrying pg 76 bread to feed him, and they are all heading for the tarn-stones up on the hills.' The birds said to the king's son, 'Now you are rested; we have fed you, and you are not hungry. The queen's eye is on you. Up, and run for your life! If you stay here, when you wake up to-morrow you will be dead.' 'Where shall I go?' said the king's son. 'Go, ' answered the birds, 'and hide in the rushes on the island of the pool of sweet waters!' When the queen's messengers came to the tarn-stones, it was as though five thousand people had been feeding: they found crumbs enough to fill twelve baskets full, lying in the cave; but no king's son could they lay their hands on. The king's son was lying hidden among the rushes on the island of the great pool of sweet waters; and thick and fast came silver-scaled fishes, feeding him. pg 77 It took the queen three days of hard gazing in her crystal, before she found how the fishes all swam to a point among the rushes of the island in the pool of sweet waters, and away again. Then she knew: and...
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