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diff --git a/503-h/503-h.htm b/503-h/503-h.htm index 14d9809..1adb8a2 100644 --- a/503-h/503-h.htm +++ b/503-h/503-h.htm @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ <title> The Blue Fairy Book | Project Gutenberg </title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> <style> body { margin:10%; text-align:justify} @@ -4879,7 +4880,7 @@ faithful Beast dead. You will not need any chariot to bring you back. Only say good-by to all your brothers and sisters the night before you come away, and when you have gone to bed turn this ring round upon your finger - and say firmly: ‘I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.’ + and say firmly: ‘I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.’ Good-night, Beauty. Fear nothing, sleep peacefully, and before long you shall see your father once more.” </p> @@ -7060,22 +7061,22 @@ “‘I must say that we consider it somewhat troublesome of your Majesty to insist upon tasting our fruit; but to save you annoyance, my sisters and I will consent to give you as much as you can carry away, on one condition—that - is, that you shall give us your little daughter to bring up as our own.’ + is, that you shall give us your little daughter to bring up as our own.’ </p> <p> “‘Ah! my dear madam,’ cried the Queen, ‘is there nothing else that you - will take for the fruit? I will give you my kingdoms willingly.’ + will take for the fruit? I will give you my kingdoms willingly.’ </p> <p> “‘No,’ replied the old fairy, ‘we will have nothing but your little daughter. She shall be as happy as the day is long, and we will give her everything that is worth having in fairy-land, but you must not see her - again until she is married.’ + again until she is married.’ </p> <p> “‘Though it is a hard condition,’ said the Queen, ‘I consent, for I shall certainly die if I do not taste the fruit, and so I should lose my little - daughter either way.’ + daughter either way.’ </p> <p> “So the old fairy led her into the castle, and, though it was still the @@ -7083,7 +7084,7 @@ beautiful than she had been told, which you can easily believe, Prince,” said the White Cat, “when I tell you that it was this castle that we are now in. ‘Will you gather the fruit yourself, Queen?’ said the old fairy, - ‘or shall I call it to come to you?’ + ‘or shall I call it to come to you?’ </p> <p> “‘I beg you to let me see it come when it is called,’ cried the Queen; @@ -7092,7 +7093,7 @@ </p> <p> “‘Apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, pears, melons, grapes, - apples, oranges, lemons, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, come!’ + apples, oranges, lemons, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, come!’ </p> <p> “And in an instant they came tumbling in one over another, and yet they @@ -9219,7 +9220,7 @@ </p> <p> “I gave myself up for lost, but presently a voice said: ‘Ungrateful - Prince, even this fire is hardly enough to warm your cold heart!’ + Prince, even this fire is hardly enough to warm your cold heart!’ </p> <p> “‘Who complains of my coldness in this dismal place?’ I cried. @@ -9234,17 +9235,17 @@ </p> <p> “‘Why, Ragotte,’ I said, for that was the fairy’s name, ‘what is the - meaning of all this? Is it by your orders that I am here?’ + meaning of all this? Is it by your orders that I am here?’ </p> <p> “‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never understood me until now? Must a powerful fairy like myself condescend to explain her doings to you who are no better than an ant by comparison, though you - think yourself a great king?’ + think yourself a great king?’ </p> <p> “‘Call me what you like,’ I said impatiently; ‘but what is it that you - want—my crown, or my cities, or my treasures?’ + want—my crown, or my cities, or my treasures?’ </p> <p> “‘Treasures!’ said the fairy, disdainfully. ‘If I chose I could make any @@ -9252,13 +9253,13 @@ treasures, but,’ she added softly, ‘if you will give me your heart—if you will marry me—I will add twenty kingdoms to the one you have already; you shall have a hundred castles full of gold and five hundred - full of silver, and, in short, anything you like to ask me for.’ + full of silver, and, in short, anything you like to ask me for.’ </p> <p> “‘Madam Ragotte,’ said I, ‘when one is at the bottom of a pit where one has fully expected to be roasted alive, it is impossible to think of asking such a charming person as you are to marry one! I beg that you will - set me at liberty, and then I shall hope to answer you fittingly.’ + set me at liberty, and then I shall hope to answer you fittingly.’ </p> <p> “‘Ah!’ said she, ‘if you really loved me you would not care where you were—a @@ -9287,7 +9288,7 @@ </p> <p> “‘I intend to make you feel my power. It seems that you are a lion at - present, I mean you to be a sheep.’ + present, I mean you to be a sheep.’ </p> <p> “So saying, she touched me with her wand, and I became what you see. I did @@ -9297,7 +9298,7 @@ <p> “‘For five years,’ she said, ‘you shall be a sheep, and lord of this pleasant land, while I, no longer able to see your face, which I loved so - much, shall be better able to hate you as you deserve to be hated.’ + much, shall be better able to hate you as you deserve to be hated.’ </p> <p> “She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too @@ -9858,7 +9859,7 @@ much last night.” </p> <p> - Then he went to the bed where the girls lay; and, having found the boys’ + Then he went to the bed where the girls lay; and, having found the boys’ little bonnets, </p> <p> @@ -12931,7 +12932,7 @@ </p> <p> “Fifth. If an express requires extraordinary speed the Man-Mountain shall - be obliged to carry in his pocket the messenger and horse a six days’ + be obliged to carry in his pocket the messenger and horse a six days’ journey, and return the said messenger (if so required) safe to our imperial presence. </p> @@ -15079,7 +15080,7 @@ <p> The third dochter says to her mither: “Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I’m gaun awa’ to seek my fortune.” Her mither did - sae; and awa’ she gaed to the auld witch-wife. She bade her look out o’ + sae; and awa’ she gaed to the auld witch-wife. She bade her look out o’ her back door, and see what she could see. She did sae; and when she came back said she saw nocht. The second day she did the same, and saw nocht. The third day she looked again, and on coming back said to the auld wife @@ -15089,8 +15090,8 @@ back, and awa’ they went. </p> <p> - Aye they traveled, and on they traveled, till the lady grew faint wi’ - hunger. “Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ + Aye they traveled, and on they traveled, till the lady grew faint wi’ + hunger. “Eat out o’ my right lug,” says the Black Bull, “and drink out o’ my left lug, and set by your leavings.” Sae she did as he said, and was wonderfully refreshed. And lang they gaed, and sair they rade, till they came in sight o’ a very big and bonny castle. “Yonder we maun be this @@ -15122,7 +15123,7 @@ <p> And aye they gaed, and on they rade, till they came to a dark and ugsome glen, where they stopped, and the lady lighted down. Says the bull to her: - “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the deil. Ye maun seat yoursel’ + “Here ye maun stay till I gang and fight the deil. Ye maun seat yoursel’ on that stane, and move neither hand nor fit till I come back, else I’ll never find ye again. And if everything round about ye turns blue I hae beated the deil; but should a’ things turn red he’ll hae conquered me.” @@ -15167,7 +15168,7 @@ </pre> <p> Next day she kentna what to do for grief. She then brak the pear, and - found it filled wi’ jewelry far richer than the contents o’ the apple. Wi’ + found it filled wi’ jewelry far richer than the contents o’ the apple. Wi’ thae jewels she bargained for permission to be a second night in the young knight’s chamber; but the auld wife gied him anither sleeping-drink, and he again sleepit till morning. A’ night she kept sighing and singing as @@ -15226,7 +15227,7 @@ <p> The lad gaed away wi’ the can to the well, and filled it wi’ water, and then came away hame again; but the can being broken the maist part of the - water had run out before he got back. So his cake was very sma’; yet sma’ + water had run out before he got back. So his cake was very sma’; yet sma’ as it was, his mother asked if he was willing to take the half of it with her blessing, telling him that, if he chose rather to have the hale, he would only get it wi’ her curse. The young man, thinking he might hae to @@ -15328,7 +15329,7 @@ might bake a cake for him. The can being broken, he brought hame as little water as the other had done, and the cake was as little. She asked whether he would have the hale cake wi’ her malison, or the half wi’ her blessing; - and, like his brither, he thought it best to have the hale cake, come o’ + and, like his brither, he thought it best to have the hale cake, come o’ the malison what might. So he gaed away; and everything happened to him that had happened to his brother! </p> @@ -15410,7 +15411,7 @@ which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent young man. Next day they a’ set out for the King’s Court, and a gallant company they made. And the King married his daughter to the young man that had delivered her, and - gave a noble’s daughter to ilk ane o’ the other young men; and so they a’ + gave a noble’s daughter to ilk ane o’ the other young men; and so they a’ lived happily a’ the rest o’ their days.(1) </p> <p> diff --git a/503-h/images/cover.jpg b/503-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..daf486f --- /dev/null +++ b/503-h/images/cover.jpg |
