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diff --git a/v_windows/v/old/examples/word_counter/cinderella.txt b/v_windows/v/old/examples/word_counter/cinderella.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7399d01 --- /dev/null +++ b/v_windows/v/old/examples/word_counter/cinderella.txt @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ +A rich man's wife became sick, and when she felt that her end was drawing near, +she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, "Dear child, remain pious +and good, and then our dear God will always protect you, and I will look down +on you from heaven and be near you." With this she closed her eyes and died. + +The girl went out to her mother's grave every day and wept, and she remained +pious and good. When winter came the snow spread a white cloth over the grave, +and when the spring sun had removed it again, the man took himself another +wife. + +This wife brought two daughters into the house with her. They were beautiful, +with fair faces, but evil and dark hearts. Times soon grew very bad for the +poor stepchild. + +"Why should that stupid goose sit in the parlor with us?" they said. "If she +wants to eat bread, then she will have to earn it. Out with this kitchen maid!" + +They took her beautiful clothes away from her, dressed her in an old gray +smock, and gave her wooden shoes. "Just look at the proud princess! How decked +out she is!" they shouted and laughed as they led her into the kitchen. + +There she had to do hard work from morning until evening, get up before +daybreak, carry water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides this, the +sisters did everything imaginable to hurt her. They made fun of her, scattered +peas and lentils into the ashes for her, so that she had to sit and pick them +out again. In the evening when she had worked herself weary, there was no bed +for her. Instead she had to sleep by the hearth in the ashes. And because she +always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella. + +One day it happened that the father was going to the fair, and he asked his two +stepdaughters what he should bring back for them. + +"Beautiful dresses," said the one. + +"Pearls and jewels," said the other. + +"And you, Cinderella," he said, "what do you want?" + +"Father, break off for me the first twig that brushes against your hat on your +way home." + +So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls, and jewels for his two stepdaughters. +On his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed +against him and knocked off his hat. Then he broke off the twig and took it +with him. Arriving home, he gave his stepdaughters the things that they had +asked for, and he gave Cinderella the twig from the hazel bush. + +Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother's grave, and planted the branch on +it, and she wept so much that her tears fell upon it and watered it. It grew +and became a beautiful tree. + +Cinderella went to this tree three times every day, and beneath it she wept and +prayed. A white bird came to the tree every time, and whenever she expressed a +wish, the bird would throw down to her what she had wished for. + +Now it happened that the king proclaimed a festival that was to last three +days. All the beautiful young girls in the land were invited, so that his son +could select a bride for himself. When the two stepsisters heard that they too +had been invited, they were in high spirits. + +They called Cinderella, saying, "Comb our hair for us. Brush our shoes and +fasten our buckles. We are going to the festival at the king's castle." + +Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go to the +dance with them. She begged her stepmother to allow her to go. + +"You, Cinderella?" she said. "You, all covered with dust and dirt, and you want +to go to the festival?. You have neither clothes nor shoes, and yet you want to +dance!" + +However, because Cinderella kept asking, the stepmother finally said, "I have +scattered a bowl of lentils into the ashes for you. If you can pick them out +again in two hours, then you may go with us." + +The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, "You tame +pigeons, you turtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me +to gather: + +The good ones go into the pot, The bad ones go into your crop." Two white +pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and +finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit +around the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, +pick. And the others also began to pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all +the good grains into the bowl. Hardly one hour had passed before they were +finished, and they all flew out again. The girl took the bowl to her +stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would be allowed to go to the +festival with them. + +But the stepmother said, "No, Cinderella, you have no clothes, and you don't +know how to dance. Everyone would only laugh at you." + +Cinderella began to cry, and then the stepmother said, "You may go if you are +able to pick two bowls of lentils out of the ashes for me in one hour," +thinking to herself, "She will never be able to do that." + +The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, "You tame +pigeons, you turtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me +to gather: + +The good ones go into the pot, The bad ones go into your crop." Two white +pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and +finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit +around the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, +pick. And the others also began to pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all +the good grains into the bowls. Before a half hour had passed they were +finished, and they all flew out again. The girl took the bowls to her +stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would be allowed to go to the +festival with them. + +But the stepmother said, "It's no use. You are not coming with us, for you have +no clothes, and you don't know how to dance. We would be ashamed of you." With +this she turned her back on Cinderella, and hurried away with her two proud +daughters. + +Now that no one else was at home, Cinderella went to her mother's grave beneath +the hazel tree, and cried out: + +Shake and quiver, little tree, Throw gold and silver down to me. Then the bird +threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk +and silver. She quickly put on the dress and went to the festival. Her +stepsisters and her stepmother did not recognize her. They thought she must be +a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress. They never +once thought it was Cinderella, for they thought that she was sitting at home +in the dirt, looking for lentils in the ashes. + +The prince approached her, took her by the hand, and danced with her. +Furthermore, he would dance with no one else. He never let go of her hand, and +whenever anyone else came and asked her to dance, he would say, "She is my +dance partner." + +She danced until evening, and then she wanted to go home. But the prince said, +"I will go along and escort you," for he wanted to see to whom the beautiful +girl belonged. However, she eluded him and jumped into the pigeon coop. The +prince waited until her father came, and then he told him that the unknown girl +had jumped into the pigeon coop. + +The old man thought, "Could it be Cinderella?" + +He had them bring him an ax and a pick so that he could break the pigeon coop +apart, but no one was inside. When they got home Cinderella was lying in the +ashes, dressed in her dirty clothes. A dim little oil-lamp was burning in the +fireplace. Cinderella had quickly jumped down from the back of the pigeon coop +and had run to the hazel tree. There she had taken off her beautiful clothes +and laid them on the grave, and the bird had taken them away again. Then, +dressed in her gray smock, she had returned to the ashes in the kitchen. + +The next day when the festival began anew, and her parents and her stepsisters +had gone again, Cinderella went to the hazel tree and said: + +Shake and quiver, little tree, Throw gold and silver down to me. Then the bird +threw down an even more magnificent dress than on the preceding day. When +Cinderella appeared at the festival in this dress, everyone was astonished at +her beauty. The prince had waited until she came, then immediately took her by +the hand, and danced only with her. When others came and asked her to dance +with them, he said, "She is my dance partner." When evening came she wanted to +leave, and the prince followed her, wanting to see into which house she went. +But she ran away from him and into the garden behind the house. A beautiful +tall tree stood there, on which hung the most magnificent pears. She climbed as +nimbly as a squirrel into the branches, and the prince did not know where she +had gone. He waited until her father came, then said to him, "The unknown girl +has eluded me, and I believe she has climbed up the pear tree. + +The father thought, "Could it be Cinderella?" He had an ax brought to him and +cut down the tree, but no one was in it. When they came to the kitchen, +Cinderella was lying there in the ashes as usual, for she had jumped down from +the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress back to the bird in +the hazel tree, and had put on her gray smock. + +On the third day, when her parents and sisters had gone away, Cinderella went +again to her mother's grave and said to the tree: + +Shake and quiver, little tree, Throw gold and silver down to me. This time the +bird threw down to her a dress that was more splendid and magnificent than any +she had yet had, and the slippers were of pure gold. When she arrived at the +festival in this dress, everyone was so astonished that they did not know what +to say. The prince danced only with her, and whenever anyone else asked her to +dance, he would say, "She is my dance partner." When evening came Cinderella +wanted to leave, and the prince tried to escort her, but she ran away from him +so quickly that he could not follow her. The prince, however, had set a trap. +He had had the entire stairway smeared with pitch. When she ran down the +stairs, her left slipper stuck in the pitch. The prince picked it up. It was +small and dainty, and of pure gold. + +The next morning, he went with it to the man, and said to him, "No one shall be +my wife except for the one whose foot fits this golden shoe." + +The two sisters were happy to hear this, for they had pretty feet. With her +mother standing by, the older one took the shoe into her bedroom to try it on. +She could not get her big toe into it, for the shoe was too small for her. Then +her mother gave her a knife and said, "Cut off your toe. When you are queen you +will no longer have to go on foot." + +The girl cut off her toe, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, +and went out to the prince. He took her on his horse as his bride and rode away +with her. However, they had to ride past the grave, and there, on the hazel +tree, sat the two pigeons, crying out: + +Rook di goo, rook di goo! There's blood in the shoe. The shoe is too tight, +This bride is not right! Then he looked at her foot and saw how the blood was +running from it. He turned his horse around and took the false bride home +again, saying that she was not the right one, and that the other sister should +try on the shoe. She went into her bedroom, and got her toes into the shoe all +right, but her heel was too large. Then her mother gave her a knife, and said, +"Cut a piece off your heel. When you are queen you will no longer have to go on +foot." + +The girl cut a piece off her heel, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the +pain, and went out to the prince. He took her on his horse as his bride and +rode away with her. When they passed the hazel tree, the two pigeons were +sitting in it, and they cried out: + +Rook di goo, rook di goo! There's blood in the shoe. The shoe is too tight, +This bride is not right! He looked down at her foot and saw how the blood was +running out of her shoe, and how it had stained her white stocking all red. +Then he turned his horse around and took the false bride home again. "This is +not the right one, either," he said. "Don't you have another daughter?" + +"No," said the man. "There is only a deformed little Cinderella from my first +wife, but she cannot possibly be the bride." + +The prince told him to send her to him, but the mother answered, "Oh, no, she +is much too dirty. She cannot be seen." + +But the prince insisted on it, and they had to call Cinderella. She first +washed her hands and face clean, and then went and bowed down before the +prince, who gave her the golden shoe. She sat down on a stool, pulled her foot +out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper, and it fitted her +perfectly. + +When she stood up the prince looked into her face, and he recognized the +beautiful girl who had danced with him. He cried out, "She is my true bride." + +The stepmother and the two sisters were horrified and turned pale with anger. +The prince, however, took Cinderella onto his horse and rode away with her. As +they passed by the hazel tree, the two white pigeons cried out: + +Rook di goo, rook di goo! No blood's in the shoe. The shoe's not too tight, +This bride is right! After they had cried this out, they both flew down and +lit on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and +remained sitting there. When the wedding with the prince was to be held, the +two false sisters came, wanting to gain favor with Cinderella and to share her +good fortune. When the bridal couple walked into the church, the older sister +walked on their right side and the younger on their left side, and the pigeons +pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards, as they came out of the +church, the older one was on the left side, and the younger one on the right +side, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye from each of them. And +thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness as +long as they lived. + + |