But the guests were less astonished at the brilliancy of the diamonds than at the beauty of the bride , which was beyond anything they had ever seen or heard of . The night was passed in singing and dancing , and then the bride and bridegroom went to their own house , where they lived till they died , and had many children , who were famous throughout Japan for their goodness and beauty . -LRB- Japanische Marchen . -RRB- THE MONKEY AND THE JELLY-FISH Children must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have no shells , like so many of the creatures that are washed up every day on the beach . In old times this was not so ; the jelly-fish had as hard a shell as any of them , but he lost it through his own fault , as may be seen in this story . The sea-queen Otohime , whom you read of in the story of Uraschimatoro , grew suddenly very ill . The swiftest messengers were sent hurrying to fetch the best doctors from every country under the sea , but it was all of no use ; the queen grew rapidly worse instead of better . Everyone had almost given up hope , when one day a doctor arrived who was cleverer than the rest , and said that the only thing that would cure her was the liver of an ape . Now apes do not dwell under the sea , so a council of the wisest heads in the nation was called to consider the question how a liver could be obtained . At length it was decided that the turtle , whose prudence was well known , should swim to land and contrive to catch a living ape and bring him safely to the ocean kingdom . It was easy enough for the council to entrust this mission to the turtle , but not at all so easy for him to fulfil it . However he swam to a part of the coast that was covered with tall trees , where he thought the apes were likely to be ; for he was old , and had seen many things . It was some time before he caught sight of any monkeys , and he often grew tired with watching for them , so that one hot day he fell fast asleep , in spite of all his efforts to keep awake . By-and-by some apes , who had been peeping at him from the tops of the trees , where they had been carefully hidden from the turtle 's eyes , stole noiselessly down , and stood round staring at him , for they had never seen a turtle before , and did not know what to make of it . At last one young monkey , bolder than the rest , stooped down and stroked the shining shell that the strange new creature wore on its back . The movement , gentle though it was , woke the turtle . With one sweep he seized the monkey 's hand in his mouth , and held it tight , in spite of every effort to pull it away . The other apes , seeing that the turtle was not to be trifled with , ran off , leaving their young brother to his fate . Then the turtle said to the monkey , ` If you will be quiet , and do what I tell you , I wo n't hurt you . But you must get on my back and come with me . '
The monkey , seeing there was no help for it , did XXXXX he was bid ; indeed he could not have resisted , as his hand was still in the turtle 's mouth .
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