Ep. 1128 - The Blue Fairy Book - The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, Pt. 2
When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket, set out on the hard high road, and kept muttering to himself: ‘If I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!’ Just at this moment a man came by who heard the youth speaking to himself, and when they had gone on a bit and were in sight of the gallows the man said to him: ‘Look! there is the tree where seven people have been hanged, and are now learning to fly; sit down under it and wait till nightfall, and then you’ll pretty soon learn to shudder.’ ‘If that’s all I have to do,’ answered the youth, ‘it’s easily done; but if I learn to shudder so quickly, then you shall have my fifty dollars. Just come back to me to-morrow morning early.’ Then the youth went to the gallows-tree and sat down underneath it, and waited for the evening; and because he felt cold he lit himself a fire.
