Long, long ago, there lived an old bamboo woodcutter. He was very poor and sad also, for no child ha...
2009-10-03
For three days the festival was kept up with song and dance and music. All the friends and relations...
Then the Princess answered that she felt sure that she was not as beautiful as perhaps report made h...
The five Knights on receiving this stern answer returned to their several homes, and pondered over t...
The old man then went out to the expectant Knight, who had now approached the house, and asked where...
But after a time, when they thought of the Princess, the love in their hearts revived for her, and t...
The bamboo-cutter took the box from the Knight and, as usual, carried it in to her and tried to coax...
At this time her foster-parents noticed that night after night the Princess would sit on her balcony...
At this point all the servants he had sent out to find the jewel came to see him, and were surprised...
In a short time the sky was entirely obscured, till at last the cloud lay over the dwelling only ten...