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Updated: June 28, 2025
'Follow me, cried the Hare, and it ran through the wood till it came to a pool of water. And at the bottom of the pool the piece of yellow gold was lying. 'How shall I thank thee? said the Star-Child, 'for lo! this is the second time that you have succoured me. 'Nay, but thou hadst pity on me first, said the Hare, and it ran away swiftly.
And he was filled with joy, and seized it, and said to the Hare, 'The service that I did to thee thou hast rendered back again many times over, and the kindness that I showed thee thou hast repaid a hundred-fold. 'Nay, answered the Hare, 'but as thou dealt with me, so I did deal with thee, and it ran away swiftly, and the Star-Child went towards the city.
And his companions followed him, for he was fair, and fleet of foot, and could dance, and pipe, and make music. And wherever the Star-Child led them they followed, and whatever the Star-Child bade them do, that did they. And when he pierced with a sharp reed the dim eyes of the mole, they laughed, and when he cast stones at the leper they laughed also.
'Nay, he cried, laughing, 'but we will sell the foul thing for a slave, and his price shall be the price of a bowl of sweet wine. And an old and evil-visaged man who was passing by called out, and said, 'I will buy him for that price, and, when he had paid the price, he took the Star-Child by the hand and led him into the city.
And when the Woodcutter, who was cleaving logs in a haggard hard by, saw what the Star-Child was doing, he ran up and rebuked him, and said to him: 'Surely thou art hard of heart and knowest not mercy, for what evil has this poor woman done to thee that thou shouldst treat her in this wise?
So Rosy-red left the cave with her granny, and mounting a camel was led through the woods to her new home where she knew naught but happiness and the days of her sufferings were quite forgotten. And always she wore her magic red slippers. The Star-Child When Abraham was born, his father, Terah, who was one of the chief officers of King Nimrod, gave a banquet to a large number of his friends.
And the woman answered him, 'I am thy mother. 'Thou art mad to say so, cried the Star-Child angrily. 'I am no son of thine, for thou art a beggar, and ugly, and in rags. Therefore get thee hence, and let me see thy foul face no more. 'Nay, but thou art indeed my little son, whom I bare in the forest, she cried, and she fell on her knees, and held out her arms to him.
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 yellow gold? And the Star-Child said to him, 'I have it not. So the Magician fell upon him, and beat him, and loaded him with chains, and cast him again into the dungeon.
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