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But instead of +catching any fish, what do you +think he caught? Why! a great +big tortoise, with a hard shell +and such a funny wrinkled old +face and a tiny tail. Now I +must tell you something which +very likely you don’t know; and +that is that tortoises always live +a thousand years,—at least Japanese +tortoises do. So Urashima +thought to himself: “A fish would +do for my dinner just as well as +this tortoise,—in fact better. Why +should I go and kill the poor +thing, and prevent it from enjoying +itself for another nine hundred +and ninety-nine years? No, no! +I won’t be so cruel. I am sure +mother wouldn’t like me to.” +And with these words, he threw +the tortoise back into the sea.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img007.jpg" width="375" height="505" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The next thing that happened +was that Urashima went to sleep +in his boat; for it was one of +those hot summer days when +almost everybody enjoys a nap +of an afternoon. And as he slept, +there came up from beneath the +waves a beautiful girl, +who got into the boat and said: +“I am the daughter of the Sea-God, +and I live with my father +in the Dragon Palace beyond +the waves. It was not a tortoise +that you caught just now, +and so kindly threw back into the +water instead of killing it. It was +myself. My father the Sea-God +had sent me to see whether you +were good or bad.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 558px;"> +<img src="images/img009.jpg" width="558" height="255" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>“We now know that you are a +good, kind boy who doesn’t like +to do cruel things; and so I have +come to fetch you. You shall +marry me, if you like; and we +will live happily together for a +thousand years in the Dragon +Palace beyond the deep blue sea.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;"> +<img src="images/img011.jpg" width="598" height="208" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So Urashima took one oar, and +the Sea-God’s daughter took the +other; and they rowed, and they +rowed, and they rowed till at last +they came to the Dragon Palace +where the Sea-God lived and ruled +as King over all the dragons +and the tortoises and the fishes.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;"> +<img src="images/img013.jpg" width="598" height="361" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Oh dear! what a lovely place +it was! The walls of the Palace +were of coral, the trees had +emeralds for leaves and rubies +for berries, the fishes’ scales were +of silver, and the dragons’ tails +of solid gold. Just think of the +very most beautiful, glittering +things that you have ever seen, +and put them all together, +and then you will know what +this Palace looked like. And +it all belonged to Urashima; +for was he not the son-in-law of +the Sea-God, the husband of the +lovely Dragon Princess?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img014.jpg" width="375" height="601" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img015.jpg" width="375" height="477" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Well, they lived on happily +for three years, wandering about +every day among the beautiful +trees with emerald leaves and +ruby berries. But one morning +Urashima said to his wife: “I +am very happy here. Still I +want to go home and see my +father and mother and brothers +and sisters. Just let me go for +a short time, and I’ll soon be +back again.” “I don’t like you +to go,” said she; “I am very +much afraid that something dreadful +will happen. However, if you +will go, there is no help for it. +Only you must take this box, and +be very careful not to open it. +If you open it, you will never +be able to come back here.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img017.jpg" width="375" height="378" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>So Urashima promised to take +great care of the box, and not +to open it on any account; and +then, getting into his boat, he +rowed off, and at last landed on +the shore of his own country.</p> + +<p>But what had happened while +he had been away? Where had +his father’s cottage gone to? +What had become of the village +where he used to live? The +mountains indeed were there as +before; but the trees on them +had been cut down. The little +brook that ran close by his +father’s cottage was still running; +but there were no women washing +clothes in it any more. It +seemed very strange that everything +should have changed so +much in three short years. So +as two men chanced to pass +along the beach, Urashima went +up to them and said: “Can you +tell me please where Urashima’s +cottage, that used to stand here, +has been moved to?”—“Urashima?” +said they; “why! it was +four hundred years ago that he +was drowned out fishing. His +parents, and his brothers, and +their grandchildren are all dead +long ago. It is an old, old story. +How can you be so foolish as to +ask after his cottage? It fell to +pieces hundreds of years ago.”</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;"> +<img src="images/img021.jpg" width="598" height="336" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Then it suddenly flashed +across Urashima’s mind that the +Sea-God’s Palace beyond the +waves, with its coral walls and +its ruby fruits and its dragons +with tails of solid gold, must be +part of fairy-land, and that one +day there was probably as long +as a year in this world, so that +his three years in the Sea-God’s +Palace had really been hundreds +of years. Of course there was +no use in staying at home, now +that all his friends were dead +and buried, and even the village +had passed away. So Urashima +was in a great hurry to get back +to his wife, the Dragon Princess +beyond the sea. But which was +the way? He couldn’t find it +with no one to show it to him. +“Perhaps,” thought he, “if I +open the box which she gave me, +I shall be able to find the way.” +So he disobeyed her orders not +to open the box,—or perhaps +he forgot them, foolish boy that +he was. Anyhow he opened +the box; and what do you +think came out of it? +Nothing but a white cloud which +floated away over the sea. Urashima +shouted to the cloud to +stop, rushed about and screamed +with sorrow; for he remembered +now what his wife had told him, +and how, after opening the box, +he should never be able to go +to the Sea-God’s Palace again. +But soon he could neither run +nor shout any more.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;"> +<img src="images/img025.jpg" width="598" height="464" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Suddenly his hair grew as white +as snow, his face got wrinkled, +and his back bent like that of a +very old man. Then his breath +stopped short, and he fell down +dead on the beach.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img027.jpg" width="375" height="287" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Poor Urashima! He died because +he had been foolish and +disobedient. If only he had done +as he was told, he might have +lived another thousand years. +Wouldn’t you like to go and +see the Dragon Palace beyond +the waves, where the Sea-God +lives and rules as King over the +Dragons and the tortoises and +the fishes, where the trees have +emeralds for leaves and rubies +for berries, where the fishes’ tails +are of silver and the dragons’ +tails all of solid gold?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/img028.jpg" width="375" height="599" alt="back cover" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center" style="font-size: small;"><em>Printed by the Kobunsha in Tokyo, Japan.</em></p> + +</div> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30024 ***</div> +</body> +</html> |