The Story of Halfman · page 31 2 3201‘Yes, that is it,’ replied Halfman.202Then he seized her hand and said, ‘Oh, let me see my son, and how he looks, and what he is doing.’203The ogress was silent, but stuck her staff hard in the earth, and the earth opened, and the boy appeared and said, ‘Dear father, have you come too?’204And his father clasped him in his arms, and began to cry.205But the boy struggled to be free, saying ‘Dear father, put me down.206I have got a new mother, who is better than the old one; and a new father, who is better than you.’207Then his father sat him down and said, ‘Go in peace, my boy, but listen first to me.208Tell your father the ogre and your mother the ogress, that never more shall they have any children of mine.’209‘All right,’ replied the boy, and called ‘Mother!’210‘What is it?’211‘You are never to take away any more of my father and mother’s children!’212‘Now that I have got you, I don’t want any more,’ answered she.213Then the boy turned to his father and said, ‘Go in peace, dear father, and give my mother greeting and tell her not to be anxious any more, for she can keep all her children.’214And Halfman mounted his horse and rode home, and told his wife all he had seen, and the message sent by Mohammed--Mohammed the son of Halfman, the son of the judge.215(Marchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis.216Hans von Stumme.)1 2 3← previousThe Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3next →The Prince Who Wanted to See the World↑ back to The Violet Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/page/3/