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How the Tiger Got His Stripes (after R. Kipling)

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It is an old tale. In the beginning of the Jungle, all the animals walked together, having no fear of one another. In those days there was no drought, and all of them ate only leaves and flowers and grass and fruit and twigs and bark.

The Lord of the Jungle was Tha, the First of the Elephants. He drew the Jungle out of deep waters with his trunk; and where he made furrows in the ground with his tusks, there the rivers ran; and where he struck with his foot, there rose ponds of good water.

In those days the Jungle Peoples lived in the Jungle together, making one people. But presently they began to dispute over their food, though there was enough of it for all. They were lazy. Tha, the First of the Elephants, was busy making new jungles. He could not walk in all places; therefore he made the First of the Tigers the master and the judge of the Jungle. In those days the First of the Tigers ate fruit and grass with the others. He was large, very beautiful and yellow all over. All the Jungle People came before him without fear.

Yet upon a night there was a dispute between two deer. As the two spoke together before the First of the Tigers lying among the flowers, one of them pushed him with his horns, and the First of the

Tigers forgot that he was the master and judge of the Jungle, and broke his neck.

Till that night never one of the Jungle People had died, and the First of the Tigers, seeing what he had done, and mad at the scent of the blood, ran away. The Jungle people, left without a judge, started fighting among themselves and ran to and fro in circles, crying out and shaking their heads.

Tha heard the noise of it and came back and saw the killed deer and gave an order to the trees that hung low: "Mark the murderer so that I should know him".

Then Tha said, "Who will now be the master of the Jungle People?" Then up leaped the Grey Ape who lived in the branches, and said, "I will now be the master of the Jungle." At this Tha laughed, and said, "So be it," and went away very angry.

At first the Grey Ape made a wise face for himself, but in a little while he began to scratch and to leap up and down, and when Tha came back he found the Grey Ape hanging, head down, from a tree, mocking those who stood below; and they mocked him in return. And so there was no Law in the Jungle – only foolish talk and senseless words. Then Tha said: "The first of your masters has brought Death into the Jungle, and the second Shame".

And the trees on the path of the First of the Tigers, remembering the order that Tha had given, let down their branches and marked him as he ran, drawing their fingers across his back and his forehead. Wherever they touched him there was a mark and a stripe upon his yellow back. The First of the Tigers was ashamed, and ran howling.

Tha heard him and said, "What is the sorrow?" And the First of the Tigers, lifting up his muzzle to the new-made sky, said: "O Tha. I am made ashamed before all the Jungle. I am smeared with the mud". "Swim, then, and roll on the wet grass, and if it is mud it will wash away," said Tha; and the First of the Tigers swam, and rolled and rolled upon the grass, till the Jungle ran round and round before his eyes, but not one little bar upon all his back was changed, and Tha, watching him, laughed.

Then the First of the Tigers said: "What have I done that this comes to me?" Tha said, "You have killed the deer, and you have let Death loose in the Jungle, and with that the people of the Jungle are afraid of one of the other." The First of the Tigers said, "They will never fear me, for I knew them since the beginning." Tha said, "Go and see." And the First of the Tigers ran to and fro, calling aloud to the roe and the pig and the peacock and all the Jungle Peoples and they all ran away from him who had been their judge, because they were afraid.

Then the First of the Tigers came back, and his pride was broken in him, and, beating his head upon the ground, he tore up the earth with all his feet.

And those stripes his children wear to this day!

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Caporushes

Once upon a time, a long, long while ago, when all the world was young and all sorts of strange things happened, there lived a very rich gentlemen whose wife had died leaving him three lovely daughters. They were as the apple of his eye, and he loved them exceedingly.

Now one day he wanted to find out if they loved him in return, so he said to the eldest, "How much do you love me my dear?"

And she answered, "As I love my life."

"Very good, my dear", said he, and gave her a kiss. Then he said to the second girl, "How much do you love me, my dear?"

And she answered, "Better than all the world beside."

"Good!" he replied and patted her on the cheek. Then he turned to the youngest, who was also the prettiest.

"And how much do you love me, my dearest?"

Now the youngest daughter was not only pretty, she was clever. So she thought a moment, then she said slowly: "I love you as fresh meat loves salt!" When her father heard this he was very angry, because he really loved her more than the others and turned the poor

girl out of the home where she had been born and bred, and shut the door in her face.

Not knowing where to go, she wandered on and she wandered on, till she came to a big lake where reeds grew tall and rushes swayed in the wind like a field of com. There she sat down and made herself an overall and a cap of rushes, so as to hide her fine clothes, and her beautiful golden hair. For she was a wise girl and thought that in such a lonely country some robber might kill her to get her fine clothes and jewels. In her new clothes she looked quite a common country girl.

By the evening the girl came in a great house on the edge of the forest. It had a fine front door to it; but mindful of her dress of rushes she went round to the back. And there she saw a fat maid washing pots and pans with a very sulky face. So, being a clever girl, she guessed what the maid was wantingand said: "If I may have a night's lodging I will scrub the pots and pans for you." The maid was very pleased, and went for a walk with her sweetheart telling the girl to scrub the pots clean. Now next morning the pots were scraped so clean that they looked like new, and the saucepans were polished like silver. The cook asked the maid who had done the job and she had to tell the truth. So Caporushes – for so they called her since she would give no other name – stayed in the house and cleaned the pots and scraped the saucepans.

Now it so happened that her master's son came of age, and to celebrate the occasion a ball was given to the neighbourhood, for the young man was a great dancer and loved dancing more than anything. It was a very fine party, and the servants were allowed to go and watch the guests from the gallery of the ballroom. But Caporushes refused to go, for she also was a great dancer and she was afraid that when she heard the fiddles playing a merry jig, she might start dancing. But alas! The door of the ballroom had been left open, and as she lay in her bed she could hear the fiddles. So she upped and in a minute she was in the ballroom joining in the jig, and none was more beautiful or better dressed than she – this time she had left her cap and robe of rushes behind.

Her master's son singled her out at once, and engaged her as his partner for the rest of the night. So she danced to her heart's content and

slipped away before the ball finished; so when her fellow-servants came to bed, there she was in hers in her cap and robe of rushes, pretending to be fast asleep. Next morning, however, the maids could talk of nothing but the beautiful stranger.

"You should have seen that lovely lady," they said. And

Caporushes only smiled and said with a twinkle in her eye, "I should like to see her, but I don't think I ever shall."

"Oh yes, you will," they replied, "for young master has ordered another ball tonight. He hopes she will come to dance again."

Once again Caporushes danced with the young master down the ballroom. It was a sight of sights! Never were such dancers! So young, so handsome, so fine, so happy! And once again the house was full of stories of the beautiful young lady. On the third night the young man implored her to tell him who she was. But she only told him that she never, never, never would come to dance any more, and that he must say goodbye. This time he held her hand so fast that his ring came off his finger, and as she ran up to her bed there it was in her hand.

The young man spent his whole time looking for his beautiful dancer. And day by day he grew thinner and thinner, and paler and paler, until at last he took to his bed. One day the housekeeper came crying to the kitchen and said to the cook that the young master was dying for love of the beautiful dancer. "Prepare some gruel for him. And although he eats nothing, maybe he'd take that." So the cook made the gruel, and Caporushes secretly slipped young master's ring into it. The old butler who took the gruel, upstairs begged the young man to taste it. So the young master took a silver spoon and stirred the gruel; and he felt something hard at the bottom of the cup. And he fished up his own ring! Now he knew where to look for his sweetheart. When Caporushes saw the young man so weak and worn with love for her, her heart melted and there she took off her cap and robe of rushes, and there she was as fine and tidy as ever, with her beautiful golden hair set with pearls. And the young man drew her to him and gave her a great big kiss.

So, of course, they were to be married in spite of her being only a kitchen-maid, for she told no one who she really was. Now everyone far and near was asked to the wedding. Among the invited guests was Caporushes' father, who from grief at losing his favourite daughter, had lost his sight, and was very dull and miserable. However, as a friend of the family, he had to come to the young master's wedding. Caporushes went to her friend the cook and said: "Dress every dish without one mite of salt." Now when the company sat down to table their faces were full of smiles and content, for all the dishes looked so nice and tasty; but when the guests began to eat their faces fell, for nothing can be tasty without salt.

Then Caporushes' blind father, whom his daughter had seated next to her, burst out crying.

"What's matter?" she asked.

Then the old man sobbed, "I had a daughter whom I loved dearly. And I asked her how much she loved me, and she replied, "As fresh meat loves salt." And I was angry with her and turned her out of the house, for I thought she didn't love me at all. But now I see she loved me best of all."

And as he said the words his eyes were opened, and there beside him was his daughter lovelier than ever.

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Catskin

Once upon a time there lived a gentleman who owned fine lands and houses, and he very much wanted to have a son to be heir to them. So when his wife brought him a daughter, though she was bonny as bonny could be, he didn't care for her, and said: "Let me never see her face."

So she grew up to be a beautiful maiden and was ready to be married. Then her father said roughly, "She shall marry the first that comes for her." Now when this became known there came a nasty, horrid, old man. The girl didn't want to marry him and said, "I will not take him unless you give me a robe of silver cloth." Well, they gave her a robe of silver cloth, but she still wouldn't take the old man and said, "I will not take him unless you give me a robe of gold." They gave her a

robe of gold, but she still wouldn't take the old man and asked for a robe made of the feathers of all the birds of the air. And they gave her such a robe and she asked for a robe of catskin; and she put it on, and tied up her other robes into a bundle, and when it was night-time ran away with it into the woods.

Now she went along, and went along, and went along, till at the end of the wood she saw a fine castle. Then she hid her fine robes by a crystal waterfall and went up to the castle-gates and asked for work. They sent her into the kitchen and called her Catskin, because of her dress. Well, soon after that it happened that the young lord of the castle came home, and there was to be a grand ball in honour of the occasion. And when they were speaking about it among the servants, "Dear me," said Catskin, "how much I should like to go!"

"What! You dirty impudent slut," said the cook, who was very cruel to the girl and made her life miserable, "you go among all the fine lords and ladies with your filthy catskin? A fine figure you'd cut!" And with that she took a basin of water and dashed it into Catskin's face. But Catskin only shook her head and said nothing.

When the day of the ball arrived, Catskin slipped out of the house and went to the edge of the forest where she had hidden her other robes. She bathed herself in a crystal waterfall, and put on her robe of silver cloth, and went to the ball. As soon as she entered all were overcome by her beauty and grace, while the young lord at once lost his heart to her; and he would dance with none other the livelong night. When it came to parting time the young lord said, "Pray tell me, fair maid, where you live?"

But Catskin curtsied and said:

"Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,

At the sign of the "Basin of Water" I dwell."

Then she flew from the castle and put on her catskin robe again, and slipped into the kitchen. The young lord went the very next day and searched for – the sign on the "Basin of Water"; but he couldn't find it.

Soon another ball was arranged in hope that the beautiful maid would appear again. So Catskin said to the cook, "Oh, how I should

like to go!" But the cook screamed at her in rage, took a ladle and broke it across Catskin's back. Catskin only shook her head, ran to the forest, bathed, put on her robe of gold, and off she went to the ballroom. As soon as she entered all eyes were upon her; and the young lord at once recognized her. At the end of the ball he once again asked her where she lived. But all that she would say was:

"Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,

At the sign of the "Broken Ladle" I dwell;"

and with that she curtsied and flew from the ball.

The next day, when the young lord could not find where the sign of the "Broken Ladle" was, he begged his mother to have another grand ball, so that he might meet the beautiful maid once more. Then Catskin said to the cook, "Oh, how I wish I could go to the ball!" The cook shouted "A fine figure you'd cut!" and broke the skimmer across her head. But Catskin said nothing, went off to the forest, where she first bathed in the crystal spring, and then put on her coat of feathers. When she entered the ballroom everyone was surprised at such a beautiful face and such a rich and rare robe, but the young lord at once recognized his sweetheart and danced with none but her the whole evening. When the ball came to an end he pressed her to tell him where she lived, but all she answered was:

"Kind sir, if the truth I must tell

At the sign of the "Broken Skimmer" I dwell";

and with that she curtsied, and was off to the forest. But this time the young lord followed her, and watched her change her fine dress of feathers for her catskin dress, and then he knew her for his own kitchen-maid.

Soon they were married and a little son was born to them. One day Catskin told her husband, the young lord, all about her father and begged him to go and find out what had become of her parents. So he set out in the lord's grand coach, and travelled through the forest till he came to the house of Catskin's father.

Now her father had never had any other child, and his wife had died; so he was all alone in the world. Catskin's husband came to visit him alone and asked him, "Pray sir, is it true that once you had a young

daughter whom you didn't want to see?" And the miserable man said with tears, "It's true. But I would give all my worldly goods if I could see her once before I die."

Then the young lord told him what had happened to Catskin, and afterwards brought his father-in-law to his own castle, where they lived happily.

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The Baron and the Poor Man's Daughter.

Once upon a time there lived a baron who was a great magician, and could tell by his arts and charms everything that was going to happen at any time. This great lord had a little son born to him as heir to all his castles and lands. When the little boy was about four years old, the baron looked in his Book of Fate to see what the boy's future would be.

The baron was horrified to find out that his much loved heir was to marry a low-born maiden. The book also said that the girl had just been born in a very poor house. The baron called for his horse and rode away, and away, until he came to the poor man's house, and there he found the poor man sitting at his doorstep very sad. He told the baron that a little lass had just been born to their house; and they had five children already and he didn't have the bread to fill the six mouths. The baron said he was looking for a little lass to companion his son and offered the poor man ten crowns for her.

Well! The man jumped for joy, since he was to get good money, and his daughter, so he thought, a good home. The baron took the babe and rode away. But when he got to the river he flung the little thing into the stream and said to himself as he galloped back to his castle: "There goes fate!" But, you see, he was badly mistaken.

For the little lass didn't sink. The stream was very swift, and her long clothes kept her up till she was noticed by a fisherman who was mending his nets.

Now the fisherman and his wife had no children, and they were just longing for a baby; so when the good man saw the little lass he was overcome with joy, and took her home to his wife, who

received her with open arms. And there she grew up, the apple of their eyes, into the most beautiful maiden that ever was seen. When she was about fifteen years of age it so happened that baron and his friends went hunting along the banks of the river and stopped to get a drink of water at the fisherman's hut. And it was the fisherman's daughter who brought the water out.

Now the young man of the party noticed her beauty and asked the baron to read them her fate. To cast her horoscope by the stars the baron asked the girl when she was born.

"That I cannot tell, sir," replied the girl, "for I was picked up in the river about fifteen years ago."

Then the baron grew pale for he guessed at once that she was the little lass he had flung into the stream, and that the fate had been stronger than he was. So he thought out another plan.

"I shall make your fortune," he said to the girl. "Take this letter to my brother, who needs a good servant, and you will be settled for life."

The fisherman and his wife were growing old and needed help; so the girl said she would go, and took the letter. And the baron rode back to his castle saying to himself once more: "There goes fate!" For what he had written in the letter was this:

"Dear Brother – Take the bearer and put her to death immediately."

But once again he was so mistaken; since on the way to the town where his brother lived, the girl had to spend the night in a little inn. And it so happened that that very night a gang of thieves broke into the inn. They searched the pockets of the guests, and found the letter which the girl carried. And when they read it, they agreed that it was a mean trick and a shame. So their captain sat down, and taking pen and paper wrote instead:

"Dear Brother – Take the bearer and marry her to my son without delay."

Soon the girl arrived at the brother's house with the letter. Though rather surprised, he gave orders for a wedding feast to be prepared. And the baron's son, who was staying with his uncle, seeing the girl's great beauty, fell in love with her, so they were fast wedded.

When the news was brought to the baron he was beside himself with anger. He rode to his brother's and pretended to be quite pleased. And then one day he asked the young bride to come for a walk with him, and when they were close to some cliffs, he took off his gold ring from his finger and flung it over the cliffs into the sea and said: "Never dare to show me your face again till you can show me that ring, or I'll kill you."

And with that he let her go.

Well! The girl wandered on and she wandered on, until she came to a nobleman's castle; and there she stayed, as they needed a kitchen girl. One day as she was cleaning a big fish, she looked out of the kitchen window and saw the baron and his young son, her husband, driving up to dinner. At first, she thought that to keep her promise, she must run away; but afterwards she remembered they would not see her in the kitchen, so she went on with her cleaning of the big fish. And suddenly she saw something shine in its inside, and there, sure enough, was the baron's ring! She was very glad to see it, I can tell you; so she slipped it on to her thumb. But she went on with her work, and dressed the fish as nicely as she could, and served it up as pretty as may be, with parsley sauce and butter.

Now when it came to table the guests liked it so well that they asked the host who cooked it.

When the girl heard she was wanted she made herself ready, and with that gold ring on her thumb, went boldly into the dining hall. And all the guests when they saw her were struck dumb by her wonderful beauty. But the baron, recognizing her, jumped up angrily and looked as if he would kill her. So, without one word, the girl held up her hand before his face and the gold ring shone and glittered on it.

Then the baron understood that fate had been too strong for him; so he took her by the hand, and turned to the guests and said: "This is my son's wife. Let us drink a toast in her honour."

After dinner he took her and his son home to his castle, where they all lived as happy as could be for ever afterwards.

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