` Well , if you only want them for a short time , perhaps I could manage , ' answered the asp ; ` but I ca n't do without them for long . ' ` Oh , it is only for a very short time that I need them , ' said the fox ; ' I have a pair of my own just behind that hill , and when I find them I will bring yours back to you . Perhaps you will keep these till them . ' So he took the eyes out of his own head and popped them into the head of the asp , and put the asp 's eyes in their place . As he was running off he cried over his shoulder : ` As long as the world lasts the asps ' eyes will go down in the heads of foxes from generation to generation . ' And so it has been ; and if you look at the eyes of an asp you will see that they are all burnt ; and though thousands and thousands of years have gone by since the fox was going about playing tricks upon everybody he met , the asp still bears the traces of the day when the sly creature cooked the salmon . -LSB- Lapplandische Mahrchen . -RSB- Kisa the Cat Once upon a time there lived a queen who had a beautiful cat , the colour of smoke , with china-blue eyes , which she was very fond of . The cat was constantly with her , and ran after her wherever she went , and even sat up proudly by her side when she drove out in her fine glass coach . ` Oh , pussy , ' said the queen one day , ` you are happier than I am ! For you have a dear kitten just like yourself , and I have nobody to play with but you . ' ` Do n't cry , ' answered the cat , laying her paw on her mistress 's arm . ` Crying never does any good . I will see what can be done . ' The cat was as good as her word . As soon as she returned from her drive she trotted off to the forest to consult a fairy who dwelt there , and very soon after the queen had a little girl , who seemed made out of snow and sunbeams . The queen was delighted , and soon the baby began to take notice of the kitten as she jumped about the room , and would not go to sleep at all unless the kitten lay curled up beside her . Two or three months went by , and though the baby was still a baby , the kitten was fast becoming a cat , and one evening when , as usual , the nurse came to look for her , to put her in the baby 's cot , she was nowhere to be found . What a hunt there was for that kitten , to be sure ! The servants , each anxious to find her , as the queen was certain to reward the lucky man , searched in the most impossible places .
Boxes were opened that would hardly have held the kitten 's paw ; books were taken from bookshelves , lest the kitten should have got XXXXX them , drawers were pulled out , for perhaps the kitten might have got shut in .
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