The crimson fairy book . e wished to be taken aw^ay. Tiidu toldthem the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promisedthat he should come on board, and sail with them back toKungla ; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer,and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes w^hen-ever he w^as asked to do so. They had a quick voyage, and it was not long before Tiidufound himself again in the streets of the capital of Kungla,playing as he went along. The people had heard no musiclike his since he w^ent aw^ay, and they crowded roundhim, and in their joy gave him whatever money they hadi
The crimson fairy book . e wished to be taken aw^ay. Tiidu toldthem the story of his shipwreck, and the captain promisedthat he should come on board, and sail with them back toKungla ; and thankful indeed was Tiidu to accept the offer,and to show his gratitude by playing on his pipes w^hen-ever he w^as asked to do so. They had a quick voyage, and it was not long before Tiidufound himself again in the streets of the capital of Kungla,playing as he went along. The people had heard no musiclike his since he w^ent aw^ay, and they crowded roundhim, and in their joy gave him whatever money they hadin their pockets. His first care was to buy himself somenew clothes, which he sadly needed, taking care, however,that they should be made after a foreign fashion. Whenthey were ready, he set out one day w^ith a small basketof his famous apples, and went up to the palace. He did TIIDU THE PIPEB 119 not have to wait long before one of the royal servantspassed by and bought all the apples, begging as he did *—^o-fv^j-^^i^-. SO that the merchant should return and bring some Tiidu promised, and hastened away as if he had a 120 TIIDU THE PIPER mad bull behind him, so afraid was he that the manshould begin to eat an apple at once. It is needless to say that for some days he took no moreapples back to the palace, but kept well away on the otherside of the town, wearing other clothes, and disguised bya long black beard, so that even his own mother would nothave kno\vn him. The morning after his visit to the castle the whole citywas in an uproar about the dreadful misfortune that hadhappened to the Eoyal Family, for not only the king buthis wife and children, had eaten of the strangers apples,and all, so said the rumour, were very ill. The most famousdoctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summonedto the palace, Init they shook their heads and came awayagain ; never had they met with such a disease in all thecourse of their experience. By-and-bye a story went roundthe
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