Mrs. J. S. Adams

Capitolo 9

goes to the top and harbors the flower to console his/her heart. You offered, as
you compensate, fruits of first quality and flax from his/her shops;  but all had some excuse,
even if they softly loved the old man:  anybody he felt equal to I strive him/it.

Toward midday, a pale girl, fragile, from a distant part of the it is worth,
appeared that you/he/she had felt of his/her desire and you/he/she had witnessed him the door of his
cottage and it knocked.

"What dost do you desire?" he asked from among.

"To go to the mountain for the flower and to put him/it in thy damage", her
he/she answered, as she entered his/her room and mildly it was standing in front of him.

"You the very fragile art of body", he responded, "but strong of heart. Goes,
you try, and my soul will follow and will strengthen thee equitable daughter."

You kissed his/her hand, and past.

The morning came, and she didn't return. The end of the second day
drawn nearby, and she didn't return yet.

"Pooh, pooh!" exclaimed one of a near group of wood-cutters from the
cottage. "Such foolish-dared errand will only be satisfied from death. The old one
men should be happy to die without sight of his/her flower when it costs
then a lot of job to find him/it."

"Then think of me", says his/her comrade among the puffs of his/her pipe,;  "therefore
think of me. Our flowers are beautiful, and good 'nough, also. Sure, him
orter is happy with what grows 'you round off him, and you/he/she is not sending people
a-climbing." This said, him vigorously taken back his/her smoke, and it looked
very wise.

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The elderly man of the mountain was quickly passing street. Some kind
neighbors placed him/it for the last time on his/her hut, and he/she sat cryingly around
the room. Some were standing out in groups, while anxiously looking toward the
mountain;  for their kind hearts to see to depart him/it without could not be born
the flower to cheer his/her eyes.

"The girl has gone long once", remarked one of the women.

"The longest she has gone, the surest the signal she has reached the mountain