And a voice answered him : ` Your wish is heard ; a rich man you shall be ! ' At the sound of the voice the stone-cutter looked round , but could see nobody . He thought it was all his fancy , and picked up his tools and went home , for he did not feel inclined to do any more work that day . But when he reached the little house where he lived , he stood still with amazement , for instead of his wooden hut was a stately palace filled with splendid furniture , and most splendid of all was the bed , in every respect like the one he had envied . He was nearly beside himself with joy , and in his new life the old one was soon forgotten . It was now the beginning of summer , and each day the sun blazed more fiercely . One morning the heat was so great that the stone-cutter could scarcely breathe , and he determined he would stay at home till the evening . He was rather dull , for he had never learned how to amuse himself , and was peeping through the closed blinds to see what was going on in the street , when a little carriage passed by , drawn by servants dressed in blue and silver . In the carriage sat a prince , and over his head a golden umbrella was held , to protect him from the sun 's rays . ` Oh , if I were only a prince ! ' said the stone-cutter to himself , as the carriage vanished round the corner . ` Oh , if I were only a prince , and could go in such a carriage and have a golden umbrella held over me , how happy I should be ! ' And the voice of the mountain spirit answered : ` Your wish is heard ; a prince you shall be . ' And a prince he was . Before his carriage rode one company of men and another behind it ; servants dressed in scarlet and gold bore him along , the coveted umbrella was held over his head , everything heart could desire was his . But yet it was not enough . He looked round still for something to wish for , and when he saw that in spite of the water he poured on his grass the rays of the sun scorched it , and that in spite of the umbrella held over his head each day his face grew browner and browner , he cried in his anger : ` The sun is mightier than I ; oh , if I were only the sun ! ' And the mountain spirit answered : ` Your wish is heard ; the sun you shall be . ' And the sun he was , and felt himself proud in his power . He shot his beams above and below , on earth and in heaven ; he burnt up the grass in the fields and scorched the faces of princes as well as of poorer folk .
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