You yourself asked me my trade . If you kill me you will break your royal word . ' ` Very well , ' said the king , ' I will not kill you . I pardon you . But from this hour you shall be shut up in a dark dungeon . Here , guards ! away with him to the prison . But you six Simons follow me and be assured of my royal favour . ' So the six Simons followed the king . The seventh Simon was seized by the guards , who put him in chains and threw him in prison with only bread and water for food . Next day the king gave the first Simon carpenters , masons , smiths and labourers , with great stores of iron , mortar , and the like , and Simon began to build . And he built his great white pillar far , far up into the clouds , as high as the nearest stars ; but the other stars were higher still . Then the second Simon climbed up the pillar and saw and heard all that was going on through the whole world . When he came down he had all sorts of wonderful things to tell . How one king was marching in battle against another , and which was likely to be the victor . How , in another place , great rejoicings were going on , while in a third people were dying of famine . In fact there was not the smallest event going on over the earth that was hidden from him . Next the third Simon began . He stretched out his arms , once , twice , thrice , and the wonder-ship was ready . At a sign from the king it was launched , and floated proudly and safely like a bird on the waves .
Instead of ropes it had wires for rigging , and musicians played XXXXX them with fiddle bows and made lovely music .
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