The Nightingale (15)

The Nightingale (15)

  And the bandmaster wrote a work of twenty-five five volumes about the artificial birds

  It was so learned, long and so full of the hardest Chinese words that everyone said that they had read it and understood it ; for once they had been very stupid about a book, and had been trampled under foot in consequences

  So a whole year passed.

  The Emperors the entire Courts and all the people knew every single not of the artificial bird's song  by heart.

  But they liked it all the better for this ; they could even sing with it.

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