The Water of Life

So there was a kingdom long, long time ago, far, far away.

Uh, the king in the kingdom was dying, deathly ill.

Uh, all the physicians had come.

Nobody could figure out what was wrong with him, and it seemed inevitable that there would just be this long, slow, lingering death.

And he had three sons, and the three sons, um, in discouragement, um, um, were out in the garden one day just in this dismal mood around this, this illness of their father.

And an old man saw them and said, you know, "What grieves you?" And they said, "Our father is ill.

No one can make him better.

Um, we're, we're stuck in this limbo." The old man said, "Oh, the water of life will cure him.

It's hard to find, but it will cure him." And at that, the three brothers, you know, took this wave of hope.

The eldest, uh, ran straight to his father and said, "Father, I have learned of the cure, um, the water of life.

Give me permission to go find it.

I will." His father gave him the permission, and the brother took off with joy because he assumed that with this quest of finding the water of life, being the one that cured his father, he would therefore inherit the kingdom.

There was much to be gained for him, um, by doing this.

So he charged out on his horse, um, um, off in [laughs] who knows why that direction, but in that direction to go find the water of life.

Along the way, he was about to cross a bridge, and a little dwarf that...

And they make no...

I mean, the story's very clear.

It was a little dwarf, um, [laughs] um, came out from under the bridge, plopped up on top of the bridge to speak to the brother.

The brother had zero patience, um, or willingness to, um, hear anything the dwarf would say.

So even before the dwarf could speak, the brother said... [laughs] This is the way it says it in the story.

I don't know.

Is this the Americanized version that says this? It's from the Brothers Grimm.

"Be gone, you little shrimp." [laughs]

[laughs]

That just to me sounds very American, but, you know, [laughs] that's, that's what it said the story said.