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But when they beheld him coming, they mocked him and said, 'Why, thou art as foul as the toad, and as loathsome as the adder. Get thee hence, for we will not suffer thee to play with us, and they drave him out of the garden. And the Star-Child frowned and said to himself, 'What is this that they say to me? I will go to the well of water and look into it, and it shall tell me of my beauty.
And the Hare said to him, 'The piece of red gold that thou seekest is in the cavern that is behind thee. Therefore weep no more but be glad. 'How shall I reward thee? cried the Star-Child, 'for lo! this is the third time thou hast succoured me. 'Nay, but thou hadst pity on me first, said the Hare, and it ran away swiftly.
'Nay, said the Star-Child, 'but thou art too foul to look at, and rather would I kiss the adder or the toad than thee. So the woman rose up, and went away into the forest weeping bitterly, and when the Star-Child saw that she had gone, he was glad, and ran back to his playmates that he might play with them.
And the Star-Child had pity on it, and released it, and said to it, 'I am myself but a slave, yet may I give thee thy freedom. And the Hare answered him, and said: 'Surely thou hast given me freedom, and what shall I give thee in return? And the Star-Child said to it, 'I am seeking for a piece of white gold, nor can I anywhere find it, and if I bring it not to my master he will beat me.
But when the Star-Child saw her, he said to his companions, 'See! There sitteth a foul beggar-woman under that fair and green-leaved tree. Come, let us drive her hence, for she is ugly and ill- favoured. So he came near and threw stones at her, and mocked her, and she looked at him with terror in her eyes, nor did she move her gaze from him.
From time to time Abraham was visited by his father and mother, and not until he was ten years old did they think it safe to bring him from the cave in the forest to their home. Even then they deemed it best to be careful. Their elder son, Haran, was a maker of idols and Abraham became his helper without Haran being told it was his brother. Abraham, the star-child, was a strange little boy.
And the leper seeing him coming, stood in the centre of the road, and cried out, and said to him, 'Give me the piece of red money, or I must die, and the Star-Child had pity on him again, and gave him the piece of red gold, saying, 'Thy need is greater than mine. Yet was his heart heavy, for he knew what evil fate awaited him.
And the Star-Child went out of the gate of the city, and came to the wood of which the Magician had spoken to him. Now this wood was very fair to look at from without, and seemed full of singing birds and of sweet-scented flowers, and the Star- Child entered it gladly.
'Alack, goodman! she murmured, 'have we not children of our own, that thou must needs bring a changeling to sit by the hearth? And who knows if it will not bring us bad fortune? And how shall we tend it? And she was wroth against him. 'Nay, but it is a Star-Child, he answered; and he told her the strange manner of the finding of it.
And when he came to the Magician's house, the Magician opened to him, and brought him in, and said to him, 'Hast thou the piece of white gold? And the Star-Child answered, 'I have it not. So the Magician fell upon him, and beat him, and set before him an empty trencher, and said, 'Eat, and an empty cup, and said, 'Drink, and flung him again into the dungeon.
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