I'll undertake the task, and you'll hear from me again before sunset to-morrow.
Then Ferko went straight to the palace and told the King that he was ready to perform the third task if he would come to the hill and see it done.
Then the King had Ferko brought before him, and said, 'You are accused of being a magician who wishes to rob me of my daughter, and I condemn you to death; but if you can fulfil three tasks which I shall set you to do your life shall be spared, on condition you leave the country; but if you cannot perform what I demand you shall be hung on the nearest tree.'
But Thistle could not stay, for half his task was not yet done; and he longed for sunlight and Lily-Bell.
Then his second task was done, and he flew gayly back to the green earth and slumbering Lily-Bell.
Yet it is my last task, and for Lily-Bell's sake I must not fear or falter now," said Thistle.
But Thistle wished for none of these, and when his tale was told, the kindly Spirits pitied him; and little Pearl sighed, as she told him of the long and weary task he must perform, ere he could win a crown of snow-white pearls like those they wore.
Yet Tom was by no means the most unmanageable of my pupils: sometimes, to my great joy, he would have the sense to see that his wisest policy was to finish his
tasks, and go out and amuse himself till I and his sisters came to join him; which frequently was not at all, for Mary Ann seldom followed his example in this particular: she apparently preferred rolling on the floor to any other amusement: down she would drop like a leaden weight; and when I, with great difficulty, had succeeded in rooting her thence, I had still to hold her up with one arm, while with the other I held the book from which she was to read or spell her lesson.
Day after day has been employed upon this senseless task, and yet it is not half accomplished.
'"Our dear mother," faltered the fair Alice, "was living when these long tasks began, and bade us, when she should be no more, ply them in all discretion and cheerfulness, in our leisure hours; she said that if in harmless mirth and maidenly pursuits we passed those hours together, they would prove the happiest and most peaceful of our lives, and that if, in later times, we went forth into the world, and mingled with its cares and trials--if, allured by its temptations and dazzled by its glitter, we ever forgot that love and duty which should bind, in holy ties, the children of one loved parent--a glance at the old work of our common girlhood would awaken good thoughts of bygone days, and soften our hearts to affection and love."
The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it's no light
task, I admit, but a real art."
From house to house warm winter robes are spread, And through the pine-woods red Floats up the sound of the washerman's bat who plies His hurried
task ere the brief noon wanes and dies.
To find clothing seemed no easy
task; but Tip boldly ransacked the great chest in which Mombi kept all her keepsakes and treasures, and at the very bottom he discovered some purple trousers, a red shirt and a pink vest which was dotted with white spots.
All one's little household tasks keep one from being lonely.
"Because I was talking about `household tasks' in the sentence before, and it IS one of my household tasks.
