At first he felt as if his liver was already being taken from his body , but soon he began to wonder if there was no means of escaping this terrible death , and at length he invented a plan which he thought would do . For a few days he pretended to be gay and happy as before , but when the sun went in , and rain fell in torrents , he wept and howled from dawn to dark , till the turtle , who was his head keeper , heard him , and came to see what was the matter . Then the monkey told him that before he left home he had hung his liver out on a bush to dry , and if it was always going to rain like this it would become quite useless . And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted a heart of stone , and nothing would content him but that somebody should carry him back to land and let him fetch his liver again . The queen 's councillors were not the wisest of people , and they decided between them that the turtle should take the monkey back to his native land and allow him to get his liver off the bush , but desired the turtle not to lose sight of his charge for a single moment . The monkey knew this , but trusted to his power of beguiling the turtle when the time came , and mounted on his back with feelings of joy , which he was , however , careful to conceal . They set out , and in a few hours were wandering about the forest where the ape had first been caught , and when the monkey saw his family peering out from the tree tops , he swung himself up by the nearest branch , just managing to save his hind leg from being seized by the turtle . He told them all the dreadful things that had happened to him , and gave a war cry which brought the rest of the tribe from the neighbouring hills . At a word from him they rushed in a body to the unfortunate turtle , threw him on his back , and tore off the shield that covered his body . Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore , and into the sea , which he was only too thankful to reach alive . Faint and exhausted he entered the queen 's palace for the cold of the water struck upon his naked body , and made him feel ill and miserable . But wretched though he was , he had to appear before the queen 's advisers and tell them all that had befallen him , and how he had suffered the monkey to escape . But , as sometimes happens , the turtle was allowed to go scot-free , and had his shell given back to him , and all the punishment fell on the poor jelly-fish , who was condemned by the queen to go shieldless for ever after . -LRB- Japanische Marchen . -RRB- THE HEADLESS DWARFS There was once a minister who spent his whole time in trying to find a servant who would undertake to ring the church bells at midnight , in addition to all his other duties . Of course it was not everyone who cared to get up in the middle of the night , when he had been working hard all day ; still , a good many had agreed to do it . But the strange thing was that no sooner had the servant set forth to perform his task than he disappeared , as if the earth had swallowed him up . No bells were rung , and no ringer ever came back . The minister did his best to keep the matter secret , but it leaked out for all that , and the end of it was that no one would enter his service . Indeed , there were even those who whispered that the minister himself had murdered the missing men !
It was to no purpose XXXXX Sunday after Sunday the minister gave out from his pulpit that double wages would be paid to anyone that would fulfil the sacred duty of ringing the bells of the church .
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