Japanese Fairy Tale Series #16- The Wooden Bowl, japonski, Piękne, stare, japońskie baśnie ENG
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Xjince upon
a
time
there
lived
an
old
couple
who
had
seen better
days. Formerly
they
had been
well to
do,
but misfortune
came
upon
them,
through
no
fault
of
their
own,
and
in
their
old
age
they
had become
so
poor
that
they
were
only
just
able
to
earn
their
daily
bread.
One
joy
however
remained
to
them, This
was
their
only
child,
a
good
and
gentle
maiden,
of
such wonderful
beauty,
that,
in
all
that
land bhe had
no
equal.
At
length
the
father fell
sick
and
died,
and
the
mother
and
her
daughter
had
to
work
harder than
ever.
Soon
the
mother
felt
her
strength
failing
her,
and
great
was
her sorrow
at
the
thought
of
leaving
her
child
aluno
in
the world.
The
beauty
of
the
maiden
was
so
Jhdl^^l^^
dazzling
that
it
be-
came
the
cause
of
much
thongbt
and
anxiety
to
the
dying
mother,
She
knew
that
in
one
so
pow
and
friend-
less
as her
child,
it
would
be
likely
to
prove
a
.misfortune
instead
of
a
blessing,
Feeling
her
end
to
be
very
near,
the
mother
called the
maiden
to
her
bedside,
and, with
many
words
of
love
and
warning,
entreated
her
to
continue
pure,
and
good,
and
true,
as she
had
ever been, She
told
her that her
beauty
was
a
perilous
gift
which
might
become
her
ruin,
and
com-
manded
her
to
hide
it,
as
much
as
possible,
from the
sight of
all
men,
That
she
might
do
this the better,
ff^fc
the
mother
placed
on her
daughter's
head
a
lacquered
wooden
bowl,
which she earned
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