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(1880) [MARC] Author: Richard Gustafsson Translator: Albert Alberg
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The Boulder Stone. 69

“Now, there is a chance for me!” thought the
boulder stone, and called out to the bull, “I say,
you, who are so big and strong might help me to
get away from here!”

“If anybody can help you to that, I think it
would be myself,” the bull answered ; “I alone am
stronger than twelve men put together, and to be
sure I will give you such a shove that you will
turn upside down.”

The bull placed himself in front, below the
block, and put his horns against the granite head.
He pushed with all his might, but the massive
stone did not move an inch. Then the bull got
into a rage, and dashed his horns so hard against
the block that they broke close to the head. With
bleeding forehead the bull turned away and roared
out, “There is no helping you; you will have
to bide your time till the crack of doom.”

Peter, a shepherd boy who tended the cattle, had
seen how the bull rushed against the boulder stone,
and as he approached, he said, “I have a good
mind to roll down that block; won’t it thunder in
the mountains, I warrant!”

There was an echo in the stony head at the
sound of a human voice, but it thought, “When
Master Fox said no, when the north wind stormed
in vain, and when the bull, who is stronger than
twelve men, could do nothing, what can be expected
from a poor stripling?”

Peter sought until he found a couple of strong
branches of pinewood that lay scattered about,

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