THE JESTER

“Was she fair?” I asked, but he only chuckled, listening to the bells

jingling on his cap.

“Stabbed,” he tittered. “Think of the long journey, the days of peril,

the dreadful nights! Think how he wandered, for her sake, year after

year, through hostile lands, yearning for kith and kin, yearning for

her!”

“Stabbed,” he tittered, listening to the bells jingling on his cap.

“Was she fair?” I asked, but he only snarled, muttering to the bells

jingling on his cap.

“She kissed him at the gate,” he tittered, “but in the hall his

brother’s welcome touched his heart.”

“Was she fair?” I asked.

“Stabbed,” he chuckled. “Think of the long journey, the days of peril,

the dreadful nights! Think how he wandered, for her sake, year after

year through hostile lands, yearning for kith and kin, yearning for

her!”

“She kissed him at the gate, but in the hall his brother’s welcome

touched his heart.”

“Was she fair?” I asked; but he only snarled, listening to the bells

jingling in his cap.

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