Here and áczKúthere and everywhere he searched about, and now his long white beard reached below his knee, and his eyelids were so heavy that he had to raise them on high with his hands, and he found he could scarce totter along. All he found there was a huge old coffer which he opened, but inside it there was nothing. Yet he lifted up the cover, and then a voice spoke to him out of the depths of the coffer and said: “Welcome, for hadst thou kept me waiting much longer, I also would have perished.”
Then his Death, who was already shrivelled up like a withered leaf at the bottom of the coffer, rose up and laid his hand upon him, and Boy Beautiful instantly fell dead to the ground and crumbled into dust. But had he remained away but a little time longer his Death would have died, and he himself would have been living now. And so I mount my nag and utter an “Our Father” ere I go.
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY.
[1] He has described his experience in the picturesque and popular _Anatóliai Képek_ (“Anatolian Pictures”) published at Pest in 1891.
[8] _Lit._ the place of the mill was cold one morning.
[10] The same incident occurs in the Cossack fairy-tale of the Bird Zhar and the Russian fairy-tale of the Bird Mogol.
[11] Boiled rice, with flesh added and scalded butter.
[18] _Fet frumosŭ_, the favourite name for all young heroes in Roumanian fairy-tales.
[19] Compare the incident of the Bird Zhar in my _Russian Fairy Tales_.
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