. The boy who knew what the birds said . The Hen-wifes Son and thePrincess Bright-brow The Hen-wifes Son and thePrincess Bright-brow. E VERYONE in and aroundthe Kings Castle despisedMell, the Hen-wifes Son, saidthe Stonechecker, the bird thatbuilt within the stones of theTower. And it was not be-cause there was anything meanabout the lad himself: it wasbecause his mother, the Hen-wife, had the lowest officeabout the Kings Castle. This is what a Hen-wife did:She had to mind the fowl andkeep count of them, she had togather the eggs and put theminto a basket and send themto the Kings Steward ever
. The boy who knew what the birds said . The Hen-wifes Son and thePrincess Bright-brow The Hen-wifes Son and thePrincess Bright-brow. E VERYONE in and aroundthe Kings Castle despisedMell, the Hen-wifes Son, saidthe Stonechecker, the bird thatbuilt within the stones of theTower. And it was not be-cause there was anything meanabout the lad himself: it wasbecause his mother, the Hen-wife, had the lowest officeabout the Kings Castle. This is what a Hen-wife did:She had to mind the fowl andkeep count of them, she had togather the eggs and put theminto a basket and send themto the Kings Steward everyday. And for doing this she had as wages the right to go to the back-door of 85 THE BOY WHO KNEW WHAT THE BIRDS SAID the Stewards house and get from the under-serv-ants two meals a day for herself and Mell, her son. And everybody, as I said, despised this son ofhers—horse-boys and dog-boys and the groomsaround the Castle. But of course no one de-spised Mell more than did the Kings daughter,Princess Bright Brow. She used to go into a wood and whisper alongthe branch of a tree. And one day the Hen-wifesson whom she despised so
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