The yellow fairy book . This was the moment the youth was waitingfor, and he swung his mighty sword in the air with all his strengthand the witchs head fell off, and her blond spurted up on thewalls. Without fear of any further danger, he packed up all thetreasures of the castle into great chests, and gave his brothers asignal to pull them up out of the abyss. First the treasures wereattached to the rope and then the three lovely girls. And noweverything was up above and only he; himself remained as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavystone on to the rope a
The yellow fairy book . This was the moment the youth was waitingfor, and he swung his mighty sword in the air with all his strengthand the witchs head fell off, and her blond spurted up on thewalls. Without fear of any further danger, he packed up all thetreasures of the castle into great chests, and gave his brothers asignal to pull them up out of the abyss. First the treasures wereattached to the rope and then the three lovely girls. And noweverything was up above and only he; himself remained as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavystone on to the rope and let them pull it up. At first they heaved 136 TEE THREE BBOTHEBS with a will, but when the stone was half way up they let it dropsuddenly, and it fell to the bottom broken into a hundred pieces. So thats what would have happened to my bones had I trustedmyself to them, said the youth sadly; and he began to cry bitterly,not because of the treasures, but because of the lovely girl with herswaulike neck and golden Then the youth swung his mighty sword in the air, and withone blow cut off the serpents head For a long time he wandered sadly all through the beautifulunderworld, and one day he met a magician who asked him thecause of his tears. The youth told him all that had befallen him,and the magician said: Do not grieve, young man! If you will guard the childrenwho are hidden in the golden apple-tree, I will bring you at once THE THREE BROTHERS 137 up to the earth. Another magician who lives in this land alwayseats my children up. It is in vain that I have hidden them underthe earth and locked them into the castle. Now I have hidden themhi the apple-tree; hide yourself there too, and at midnight you willsee my enemy. The youth climbed up the tree, and picked some of the beautifulgolden apples, which he ate for his supper. At midnight the wind began to rise, and a rustling sound washeard at the foot of the tree. The youth looked down and behelda long thick serpent beginn
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