The Snake Prince Episode 3
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???????? The Snake Prince Episode Two:
A long, long time passed by, and still the princess lived in mourning for her prince, and saw no one, and went nowhere away from her house on the river bank and the garden that surrounded it.
One morning, when she woke up, she found a stain of fresh mud upon the carpet.
She sent for the guards, who watched outside the house day and night, and asked them who had entered her room while she was asleep.
They declared that no one could have entered, for they kept such careful watch that not even a bird could fly in without their knowledge; but none of them could explain the stain of mud.
The next morning, again, the princess found another stain of wet mud, and she questioned everyone most carefully; but none could say how the mud came there.
The third night the princess determined to lie awake herself and watch; and, for fear that she might fall asleep, she cut her finger with a penknife and rubbed salt into the cut, that the pain of it might keep her from sleeping.
So she lay awake, and at midnight she saw a snake come wriggling along the ground with some mud from the river in its mouth; and when it came near the bed, it reared up its head and dropped its muddy head on the bedclothes.
She was very frightened, but tried to control her fear, and called out:
‘Who are you, and why are you here?’
And the snake answered:
‘I am the prince, your husband, and I am come to visit you.’
Then the princess began to weep; and the snake continued:
‘Alas! did I not say that if I told you my secret you would repent it? and have you not repented?’
‘Oh, indeed!’ cried the poor princess, ‘I have repented it, and shall repent it all my life! Is there nothing I can do?’
And the snake answered:
‘Yes, there is one thing, if you dared to do it.’
Only tell me,’ said the princess, ‘and I will do anything!’
‘Then,’ replied the snake, ‘on a certain night you must put a large bowl of milk and sugar in each of the four corners of this room.
All the snakes in the river will come out to drink the milk, and the one that leads the way will be the queen of the snakes.
You must stand in her way at the door, and say: “Oh, Queen of Snakes, Queen of Snakes, give me back my husband!” and perhaps she will do it.
But if you are frightened, and do not stop her, you will never see me again.
And he glided away
On the night of which the snake had told her, the princess got four large bowls of milk and sugar, and put one in each corner of the room, and stood in the doorway waiting.
At midnight there was a great hissing and rustling from the direction of the river, and presently the ground appeared to be alive with horrible writhing forms of snakes, whose eyes glittered and forked tongues quivered as they moved on in the direction of the princess’s house.
Foremost among them was a huge, repulsive scaly creature that led the dreadful procession.
TO Be Continued
