` Oh , none at all , ' replied the jelly-fish , ` but your liver is the only thing that will cure our queen , and how can we get at it without killing you ? You had better submit to your fate , and make no noise about it , for though I pity you from my heart there is no way of helping you . ' Then he went away , leaving the ape cold with horror . At first he felt as if his liver was already being taken from his body , but soon he began to wonder if there was no means of escaping this terrible death , and at length he invented a plan which he thought would do . For a few days he pretended to be gay and happy as before , but when the sun went in , and rain fell in torrents , he wept and howled from dawn to dark , till the turtle , who was his head keeper , heard him , and came to see what was the matter . Then the monkey told him that before he left home he had hung his liver out on a bush to dry , and if it was always going to rain like this it would become quite useless . And the rogue made such a fuss and moaning that he would have melted a heart of stone , and nothing would content him but that somebody should carry him back to land and let him fetch his liver again . The queen 's councillors were not the wisest of people , and they decided between them that the turtle should take the monkey back to his native land and allow him to get his liver off the bush , but desired the turtle not to lose sight of his charge for a single moment . The monkey knew this , but trusted to his power of beguiling the turtle when the time came , and mounted on his back with feelings of joy , which he was , however , careful to conceal . They set out , and in a few hours were wandering about the forest where the ape had first been caught , and when the monkey saw his family peering out from the tree tops , he swung himself up by the nearest branch , just managing to save his hind leg from being seized by the turtle . He told them all the dreadful things that had happened to him , and gave a war cry which brought the rest of the tribe from the neighbouring hills . At a word from him they rushed in a body to the unfortunate turtle , threw him on his back , and tore off the shield that covered his body . Then with mocking words they hunted him to the shore , and into the sea , which he was only too thankful to reach alive . Faint and exhausted he entered the queen 's palace for the cold of the water struck upon his naked body , and made him feel ill and miserable . But wretched though he was , he had to appear before the queen 's advisers and tell them all that had befallen him , and how he had suffered the monkey to escape . But , as sometimes happens , the turtle was allowed to go scot-free , and had his shell given back to him , and all the punishment fell on the poor jelly-fish , who was condemned by the queen to go shieldless for ever after . -LRB- Japanische Marchen . -RRB- THE HEADLESS DWARFS There was once a minister who spent his whole time in trying to find a servant who would undertake to ring the church bells at midnight , in addition to all his other duties . Of course it was not everyone who cared to get up in the middle of the night , when he had been working hard all day ; still , a good many had agreed to do it . But the strange thing was that no sooner had the servant set forth to perform his task than he disappeared , as if the earth had swallowed him up .
No bells were rung , and no ringer ever XXXXX back .
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