But I left her alone , till she became black . Then there was the dancer , who inflicted the wound which has caused me to be here now ; she was very violent ! My own hair-brush was in love with me , and lost all her hair in consequence . Yes , I have experienced much in that line ; but I grieve most of all for the garter,-I mean , the girdle , who threw herself into a wash-tub . I have much on my conscience ; it is high time for me to become white paper ! ' And so he did ! he became white paper , the very paper on which this story is printed . And that was because he had boasted so terribly about things which were not true . We should take this to heart , so that it may not happen to us , for we can not indeed tell if we may not some day come to the rag-bag , and be made into white paper , on which will be printed our whole history , even the most secret parts , so that we too go about the world relating it , like the shirt-collar . The Princess in the Chest Translated from the Danish . There were once a king and a queen who lived in a beautiful castle , and had a large , and fair , and rich , and happy land to rule over . From the very first they loved each other greatly , and lived very happily together , but they had no heir . They had been married for seven years , but had neither son nor daughter , and that was a great grief to both of them . More than once it happened that when the king was in a bad temper , he let it out on the poor queen , and said that here they were now , getting old , and neither they nor the kingdom had an heir , and it was all her fault . This was hard to listen to , and she went and cried and vexed herself . Finally , the king said to her one day , ` This ca n't be borne any longer . I go about childless , and it 's your fault . I am going on a journey and shall be away for a year . If you have a child when I come back again , all will be well , and I shall love you beyond all measure , and never more say an angry word to you . But if the nest is just as empty when I come home , then I must part with you . '
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