Shrimpfish (LibriVox reader)
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2,477 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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The minnow scudded through the water and reached a pond, where beautiful maidens were washing linen and wringing it out.
He changed himself into a golden ring and lay close by the hand of the merchant's daughter.
The merchant's daughter saw the ring and put it on her finger.
The wizard changed himself into a man once more, and said
Give me your golden ring.
Take it, said the beautiful maiden, and threw the ring onto the ground.
As soon as it struck the ground, in that moment it changed into a seed pearl.
The wizard changed himself into a cock and ran to pick up the seed pearl, but before he had picked it up the pearl changed into a hawk, and the hawk immediately flew at the cock and killed him.
After that he changed once more into a fine lad, and fell in love with the beautiful maiden, the daughter of the merchant, and married her, and they lived happily and merrily together.
That is the end of the story.
End of section eleven
Section twelve of the Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Barring This Libervox recording is in the public domain read by Shrimpfish.
ORESTES and the Dragon
There was once upon a time a king who had three sons and one daughter.
Not far from the king's palace there was a large garden, and in this garden lived a dragon.
The king told his children never to go into the garden, lest they should be caught by the dragon, which had wings, and
But one evening the youngest of the king's sons, whose name was Oristes, went with his sister into the garden and began to play.
No sooner had they begun to play than the dragon appeared, and seizing the little princess with its tail, flew away into the air and took her to a high mountain which no one could climb.
When Oristes went home and told of the misfortune, the king was very sad, and a black flag was hoisted on the top of the palace, and the whole court went into mourning.
Now Oreskies, since it had been through his fault that his sister had been lost, was
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