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Updated: May 13, 2025
'Yes, answered Jégu, 'I remember it very well, and I opened the net and let him go. 'Well, I was that robin redbreast, and ever since I have vowed to be your friend, and as you want to marry Barbaïk, I will prove the truth of what I say by helping you to do so. 'Ah! my little brownie, if you can do that, there is nothing I won't give you, except my soul.
But what was her surprise when she saw that each tear-drop was a round and shining pearl. Barbaik, who also beheld this marvel, uttered a cry of astonishment, and threw herself on her knees to pick them up from the floor. She was still gathering them when the door opened and in came Denis. 'Pearls!
'What does fortune matter when one is young and strong? asked Tephany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish. 'What does fortune matter? repeated Barbaik, in a shocked voice. 'Is it possible that you are really so foolish as to despise money?
This, also, she thought was the work of Jegu, and she could not help feeling that a husband of this sort would be very useful to a girl who liked to lie in bed and to amuse herself. Indeed, Barbaik had only to express a wish for it to be satisfied.
But the brownie, who was standing by, burst out laughing, and confessed that all the good offices she spoke of had been performed by him, for the sake of Jégu, but that now he had other business to do, and it was high time that she looked after her house herself. Barbaïk was furious.
Next evening, at the moment when Denis was accustomed to wait for her in the shadow of the cowhouse, Tephany stuck the pin in her dress, and at the very same instant Barbaik took up her sabots or wooden shoes and went through the orchard and past to the fields, to the plot where the cabbages grew.
'What does fortune matter when one is young and strong? asked Téphany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish. 'What does fortune matter? repeated Barbaïk, in a shocked voice. 'Is it possible that you are really so foolish as to despise money?
Now amongst all the young men who wanted to marry Barbaïk, the one whose heart was most set on her was her father's head man, but as his manners were rough and he was exceedingly ugly she would have nothing to say to him, and, what was worse, often made fun of him with the rest. Jégu, for that was his name, of course heard of this, and it made him very unhappy.
You might have walked a whole day without meeting anyone happier or more contented, for he had a large farm, plenty of money, and above all, a daughter called Barbaik, the most graceful dancer and the best-dressed girl in the whole country side.
That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix. From 'Le Foyer Breton, par E. Souvestre. The Winning of Olwen There was once a king and queen who had a little boy, and they called his name Kilweh.
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