Kingdom tales 37/6/2023 ![]() ![]() "Why should we give ourselves a great deal of trouble to search?" said they, and got some coarse handkerchiefs from the first shepherds' wives whom they met, and carried them home to the King. The two others had, however, looked on their youngest brother as so stupid that they believed he would find and bring nothing at all. The young toad brought the box, and the fat toad opened it, and gave Simpleton a carpet out of it, so beautiful and so fine, that on the earth above, none could have been woven like it. The fat toad asked what he wanted? He answered: "I should like to have the prettiest and finest carpet in the world." Then she called a young one and said: The door opened, and he saw a great, fat toad sitting, and round about her a crowd of little toads. He raised it up, found some steps, and went down them, and then he came to another door, knocked at it, and heard somebody inside calling: ![]() He sat down and was sad, then all at once he saw that there was a trap-door close by the feather. And now one brother went to the right, and the other to the left, and they mocked Simpleton, who was forced to stay where the third feather had fallen. Then he said to them: "Go forth, and he who brings me the most beautiful carpet shall be King after my death." And that there should be no dispute amongst them, he took them outside his castle, blew three feathers in the air, and said: "You shall go as they fly." One feather flew to the east, the other to the west, but the third flew straight up and did not fly far, but soon fell to the ground. When the King had become old and weak, and was thinking of his end, he did not know which of his sons should inherit the kingdom after him. There was once on a time a King who had three sons, of whom two were clever and wise, but the third did not speak much, and was simple, and was called the Simpleton. ![]()
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