The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-17
THREE GOLDEN HAIRS
FROM THE DEVIL S HEAD
A Poems Tale in Mexican Market Place.

lTii'- al all Iney asked why such
misfortune had befallen them, and be
replied:
When | return / will tell YOU"
He Went still further and came to a
river which he had to cross. He called
the boatman. who while he rowed the
youth across asked him:
Why do I have to be the boatmal
always over this river? 1 should like
to leave my office to others"
When L return l viii tell you," said
the youth.
He reached the other bank and there
found the black mouth of the devils
home. He entered and soon met the
DEVILS wife. Without fear. he explain
ed his desire to obtain three hairs OF
gold from her husbands head, and told
her of the three questions asked him
on the way.
The wife of the devil spoke thus:
Thou hast been very daring, Mozo, in
coming to this place, but as thou art
pleasing to me L shall serve thee we'll
| will change thee at once into an ant
then thou must run up in fold of my
dress and be very attentive to what
my husband replies when l ask him the
questions of which thou hast told me-
Hardly had the youth been changed
into a tiny ant when the devil entered
the cavern; he came in a very bad
humor and Immediately went to sleeu
in a corner. The woman went close
to him and pulled out one of the golden
hairs on his head. He awakened with
a cry and she said:
1T is nothing, but L have dreamed
that fountain which flowed water in
great abundance has gone dry. What
can be done to make it flow again?"
They must kill the toad hidden
under stone of the same fountain, y
said the devil. and he returned to
sleep.
The woman pulled out the second hair
and the devil awakened, furious. The
woman said:
dreamed that 1 found myself in a town
where great tree which bore apples
of gold has withered and bears moth
ing
They must kill the mouse hidden
among its roots, then the tree will pro-
duce its rich apples again." said the
devil, in very bad humor, and slept
again.
Then the woman pulled out the third
hair of gold and this time the devil
awoke a devil indeed, but the wise
woman soothed him, saying:
1T is nothing, only another time ]
have dreamed. and L saw a boatman
who rowed people from one side of a
river to the other, and he exclaimed,
saying: What can 1 do in order that
some other take this heavy work from
me?'
The fool man. cried the devil; "he
has but to say to the first one who
enters his boat, putting the oar in his
hand, Take it, now thou remainest.'
In this way he can march off a free
man.
The devils wife dreamed no more,
and it was barely day when she re-
changed the ant to it's true form of a
noble youth, and giving him the three
hairs said:
Now thou hast what thou didst
seek, co.
The youth reached the river and
when on the other side he said to the
boatman:
ITO the first who enters thy boat
thou remainest.' Then thou canst go
thy way in freedom
When he reached the town of the tree
of golden apples he said to it's guard
ians:
XIII the mouse hidden in it's roots
and the tree will bloom again"
In reward for this counsel they gave
him two asses laden with gold.
He arrived at the town of the foun-
tain and told it's guardians: Kill the
toad hidden under one of its stones.
then the water will flow abundantly
again.
They also gave him two asses laden
with gold in return for this wise ad-
vice.
With all these riches and the three
golden hairs of the devil he arrived
at the palace, where he was greeted
with great joy by the princess, so well
had he fulfilled a difficult and danger
Gus enterprise.
The king, envious and avaricious as
he was, asked where he had found so
much gold. The youth answered, in
the sands of a river he had seen.
At nightfall the king left his palace
secretly in search of that river with
golden sand. He reached the bank and,
seeing the boatman, called to him to
come and take him over to the other
side.
Scarcely was the king in the boat
when the boatman thrust the oar into
his hand. saying: Take ii, now thou
remainest.'
For his great sins the king remained
changed to a boatman-so truly that
verify believe he is there yet.
HAwAII'S PICTURED ROCKS.