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Title: The violet fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill
Subjects: Folklore Fairy tales
Publisher: London New York : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ny days, I have sprinkledfresh scent all over me, and it is that which you smell.What else could it be, master ? All this time the gazelle had been standing close tothe door, holding the sword in one of its front paws.And as the snake put one of his heads through the holethat he had made so as to get in and out comfortably, itcut it off so clean that the snake really did not feelit. The second blow was not quite so straight, for thesnake said to himself, Who is that who is trying toscratch me ? and stretched out his third head to see;but no sooner was the neck through the hole than thehead went rolling to join the rest. When six of his heads were gone the snake lashedhis tail with such fury that the gazelle and the oldwoman could not see each other for the dust he made.And the gazelle said to him, You have climbed all sorts of THE STORY OF A GAZELLE 139 trees, but this you cant climb, and as the seventh headcame darting through it went rolling to join the rest. tlhe Gazelle cutsof the
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Then the sword fell rattling on the ground, for thegazelle had fainted. 140 THE STORY OF A GAZELLE The old woman shrieked with delight when she sawher enemy was dead, and ran to bring water to thegazelle, and fanued it, and put it where the wind couldblow on it, till it grew better and gave a sneeze. Andthe heart of the old woman was glad, and she gave itmore water, till by-aud-by the gazelle got up. 1 Show me this house, it said, from beginning to end,from top to bottom, from inside to out. So she arose and showed the gazelle rooms full ofgold and precious things, and other rooms full of slaves. The)7 are all yours, goods and slaves, said she. But the gazelle answered, You must keep them safetill I call my master. For two days it lay and rested in the house, and fedon milk and rice, and on the third day it bade the oldwoman farewell and started back to its master. And when he heard that the gazelle was at the doorhe felt like a man who has found the time when allprayers are granted,

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