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So Janko went in to his father and said: "You have told my brothers why one of your eyes is always laughing and the other always weeping. Now please tell me for I, too, want to know." In a rage the farmer snatched up the knife again and lifted his arm to hurl it. But Janko stood perfectly still. Why should he turn and run away as though he had done something wrong?
God has blessed you in your undertaking and will continue to bless you so long as you are good and kind. Farewell now and think sometimes of your sister, the Little Lame Fox." Janko wept at thought of parting with the Little Fox and the Little Fox promised him that she would help him again if ever he needed her. Then she turned and trotted off into the woods and Janko rode homewards without her.
"Then suppose Janko take the left-hand road." "And I'll take the middle road," the second cried. "And I," the eldest said, "will take the one that's left. So farewell, brothers, and let us meet here in a year's time." "God bless us all," Janko called out, "and grant that one of us may find our dear father's Magic Grape-Vine."
Instantly at the word fox the false maiden turned to a fox and went scampering off. "See what you've done!" cried the king in a fury. "You have changed my Golden Maiden into a fox with your nonsense! You shall pay for this with your life!" And he had him executed at once. The Little Fox meantime had caught up with Janko and the Golden Maiden and the Golden Horse.
The Bastille to the stick, or the stick to me?" "Both." He grew serious. "What would you do if I lost my head?" "I should stand by till your head was severed in order that you might look on your beloved to the last. Then I should take poison." "My Cleopatra!" Her fitful face changed. "Or marry Janko!" "That weakling is he still hovering?" "He passed the winter with us.
Who was calling him Jankó? It seemed to him as though it were one of his old schoolfellows, from whom he had just parted in his dream. He jumped out of bed and ran to the window. "Who is it?" he repeated. "It is I," was the answer, "Máté Billeghi from your old home. Come out, Jankó, no, I mean of course, please come out, your reverence. I've brought something." The priest dressed hastily.
The Golden Maiden and the old farmer were not in the least surprised to see him for things were so happy again that they just knew it must be because Janko was coming back. But his two brothers when they caught sight of him alive and well were so frightened that they took to their heels and ran off as fast as they could go and what's more they've never shown themselves since.
"But, father," the Golden Maiden said she called him father now and it pleased him mightily; "father, I should rather marry Janko!" "Marry Janko!" the farmer cried. "Why, my dear, Janko is a stupid lad, not nearly so clever as his two brothers!" "I don't care if he is stupid. He's got a good heart and that's more than the other two have.
The bewildered Helene, whom he left in the dark, confused by the unexpected appearance of her mother, was thrown into the last stage of dazed distress by being recklessly restored to the maternal bosom. He kissed her good-bye, and she vanished from his sight for ever. For he had reckoned without his Janko, always at hand to cover up a scandal.
When the Fox caught up with the Golden Horse, she said to Janko: "Now, my brother, it is time for us to part. You have the Magic Grape-Vine and soon your father's left eye will no longer weep. Besides, you are carrying home the Golden Maiden on her own Golden Horse and with her Golden Apple-Tree and her Golden Cradle.
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