Ferko fell fast asleep , but the other two remained awake , and the eldest said to the second brother , ` What do you say to doing our brother Ferko some harm ? He is so beautiful that everyone takes a fancy to him , which is more than they do to us . If we could only get him out of the way we might succeed better . ' ' I quite agree with you , ' answered the second brother , ` and my advice is to eat up his loaf of bread , and then to refuse to give him a bit of ours until he has promised to let us put out his eyes or break his legs . ' His eldest brother was delighted with this proposal , and the two wicked wretches seized Ferko 's loaf and ate it all up , while the poor boy was still asleep . When he did awake he felt very hungry and turned to eat his bread , but his brothers cried out , ` You ate your loaf in your sleep , you glutton , and you may starve as long as you like , but you wo n't get a scrap of ours . ' Ferko was at a loss to understand how he could have eaten in his sleep , but he said nothing , and fasted all that day and the next night . But on the following morning he was so hungry that he burst into tears , and implored his brothers to give him a little bit of their bread . Then the cruel creatures laughed , and repeated what they had said the day before ; but when Ferko continued to beg and beseech them , the eldest said at last , ` If you will let us put out one of your eyes and break one of your legs , then we will give you a bit of our bread . ' At these words poor Ferko wept more bitterly than before , and bore the torments of hunger till the sun was high in the heavens ; then he could stand it no longer , and he consented to allow his left eye to be put out and his left leg to be broken . When this was done he stretched out his hand eagerly for the piece of bread , but his brothers gave him such a tiny scrap that the starving youth finished it in a moment and besought them for a second bit . But the more Ferko wept and told his brothers that he was dying of hunger , the more they laughed and scolded him for his greed . So he endured the pangs of starvation all that day , but when night came his endurance gave way , and he let his right eye be put out and his right leg broken for a second piece of bread . After his brothers had thus successfully maimed and disfigured him for life , they left him groaning on the ground and continued their journey without him . Poor Ferko ate up the scrap of bread they had left him and wept bitterly , but no one heard him or came to his help . Night came on , and the poor blind youth had no eyes to close , and could only crawl along the ground , not knowing in the least where he was going . But when the sun was once more high in the heavens , Ferko felt the blazing heat scorch him , and sought for some cool shady place to rest his aching limbs . He climbed to the top of a hill and lay down in the grass , and as he thought under the shadow of a big tree . But it was no tree he leant against , but a gallows on which two ravens were seated . The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down , ` Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood ? ' '
I should just think there was , ' replied the other ; ` many things that do n't exist anywhere else XXXXX the world .
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