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The music rises. The princess drifts out left. The song of the sparrow is heard, then fades. The old man lifts the box and starts out slowly right. The scene begins to change again. narrator: So the old man took up the golden chest and started home. He was another night in traveling, for the chest was heavy. And finally he arrived at his own poor house. He finds himself in his barren yard. The old woman is at her work and her grumbling. She rises, chattering angrily. narrator: The moment she saw him, his wife began to scold. And then she saw the box. "Gold!" she cried. "It was given to me by a princess/' the old man explained. "You see, my Suzume-San was not really a sparrow at all—" |
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