string and pole of wood
I've made myself a whip.
And now I tie a hook on it
And, whistling, make it flip.
This small worm, dug in the earth,
He was alive and glad.
And now he's squirming on my hook,
And by a fish will soon be had.
Why aren't you sleeping?
Sleep, Father, I'll go to bed soon.
Good morning,
my formidable giants!
You're doing a good job
guarding the road to my forest.
Thank you, my brothers!
Oh, here you are...
And here's another you...
There're so many of you, my brothers.
I remember all of you and I love you.
Good morning, sun!
Ah, it's you, Letika?
Look at her.
Lovely, isn't she?
A divine painting.
In consideration of the circumstances
there's something disposing in it.
I caught three small fish and
something else thick as a bladder.
Quiet, Letika.
Let's get away from here.
Why do you look at me like that?
Am waiting for your instructions,
Captain.
We shall head for Caperna.
What's this?
Whose joke is this?
The prince!
Can you tell, Letika,
with your experienced eye,
where the local tavern is?
It ought to be that high rooftop
over there.
- But maybe it isn't.
- What's so special about it?
I don't know, Captain, it's nothing
more than the voice of my heart.
Do you hear me, my brothers?
I'm so happy!
Goodbye to you too, grandpa,
the most severe of all.
Forgive me, I must go. I must hurry.
A brave prince from far away
is waiting for me.
I'd like to know the name of the girl
with a black apron
and red stockings.
I would say she's about 17.
I met her in the forest.
That must be << Sailing Ship Assol>>,
daughter of the toy maker Longren.
She's not right upstairs.
She's a half-wit.
Really?
And her father is a real scoundrel.
My father, heaven rest his soul,
was nearly drowned because of him.
Luckily, he was pulled in
by the fishermen.
Little basket, little basket!
Cheat us all with every basket.
But just you fear to land right here,
in our Palestine!
Loaded up again, you damned old
whaleboatie. Get out of here!
Not a man, just garbage.
You say she's crazy?
Is that really so?
She says she met a magician
as a child.
And can you imagine? He had predicted
that when she grows up,
a prince will come for her
on scarlet sails,
I mean, red sails,
and take her away with him.
Of course, people laugh at her.
That's why she wanders around alone,
waiting for her sails.
Like I said, she's not right upstairs.
I mean, out of her mind.
You're a liar!
You lie so outrageously and
hypocritically that you made me sober.
You can be certain, Assol is as
healthy in the head as you and l.
I've talked with her 184 times,
or maybe a little less.
Of course, she wouldn't say two
words to you, Manners.
But I, dear sir, a freeman
and a coal seller,
despise loose talk and gossip.
Get out of here!
She talks like a grown-up person,
but her way of talking is a bit queer.
You listen, and it's exactly
what you and I might have said,
but still not quite the same.
<> she says.
<>
She says this to me. << You're a human
being, so you must dream.>>
Dream of what?
<>
Yes, only of good things.
And Manners is lying.
They're great liars, the Manners.
So was his father,
and his mother for that matter.
That's the breed they are.
Thank you, coal man.
Thank you.
I'll take this scarlet silk.
The whole piece?
How many yards, please?
- Two thousand yards.
- How many?
Two thousand yards?!
- Two thousand?
- Yes, two thousand yards.
Zimmer! What wind of providence
brings you here?
A good wind, Captain.
Lisse is my second home.
This is my new companion, Douce.
I told him how I met you
in Zurbagan,
and he's loved you without even
ever having seen you.
Yes, I love gestures and generosity.
Two thousand yards!
Two thousand yards!
Get me an orchestra, friends,
but not those fancy dandies
who lose the soul of the music.
Gather your... beggars
who can make the

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