The Bell of Justice
-> Donfono ot aktojudi
per Horace E Scudder
(androamerika, morta 1902)
A Roman emperor had the ill fortune to lose his sight. He wished that his people might not be the worse for this loss; so he hung a bell in his palace, and a law was made that anyone who had a wrong to be righted must pull the rope with his own hands and thus ring the bell. When the bell rang, a judge went down to hear the complaint and right the wrong.
-> Uni androimper romapaleo abe pas kas benine ot prisne ot optik ot auto. Ili abe pas optima, na demo abe ne perdi pro perdi ot ili. Prona ili plas pas uni donfono in dommaga ot auto. E ili fakto pas lega, na antroptuta kon abe aktodestrane pro judi trakta korda per mani, e je fakto, na donfono fono auto. Temkia donfono fono, antropjudi aribe pro oto kritik e don judi.
It chanced that a serpent had its home under the end of the bell rope. Here it brought up its young, and one day, when the little serpents could leave the place, it led them out for fresh air. While they were gone, a toad came and took a fancy to the place. Nor would he go away when the serpent came back.
-> Unitem aribeespekne, uni serpen abe pas dom ot auto sub fini ot korda ot donfono. Plasdis ili don pas instruk a infan multi. Bitritem, temkia serpen mikro tuta inergo pas paso eks dom, ili sefal pas ilis pro aer neo. Intem na ilis es eks, uni ran aribe pas, e senti pas filo a plas na. E ili pasoeks pas ne, temkia serpen aribere.
The serpent could not drive the toad out, so it coiled its tail about the bell rope, and rang the bell of justice. Down came the judge, but saw nobody, and went back. Again the serpent rang the bell in the same way.
-> Serpen inergo ne pas sineeks ran. Prona ili kober korda per ura, e trakto pas donfono ot judi. Uni androjudi aribe pas. Promulti ili optik pas nul antrop, e aribere. Serpen trakto re pas donfono per maner omo.
This time the judge looked about with care and espied the serpent and the toad. He went back to the emperor and told him what he had seen.
-> Tem na, androjudi optik pas per maner atentif, e optik pas serpen e ran. Ili aribere a androimper, e logo pas na ili optik pas pas.
"It is very clear," said the emperor, "that the toad is in the wrong. Go down, drive out the toad, kill it, and let the serpent have its place again."
-> Androimper logo pas: Es kones. Ran es judine. Pasosub, sineeks ran, e don autorite, na serpen abe re plas ot auto.
All this was done. Now, not many days after, as the emperor lay in his bed, the serpent came into the room, and toward the emperor's bed. The servants were about to drive the serpent away, but the emperor forbade them.
-> Ili akto pas tuta. Poste jur multine, intem androimper fisa sur stofdorm, serpen aribe pas in samber e a stofdorm ot androimper. Antropserbis desir pas sineeks serpen, sed androimper don pas ne autorite.
"It will do me no harm," said he; "I have been just to it. Let us see what it will do."
-> Ili logo pas: Ili akto ne benne; mi akto pas ben a ili. Mis optik futur, na ili akto kia.
At that the serpent glided up the bed, and laid a precious stone which it carried in its mouth upon the emperor's eyes. Then it slipped out of the room and no one saw it again. But no sooner had the stone lain on the eyes of the emperor than his sight was restored and he could see as well as other men.
-> Kon na, serpen paso pas per lapso sur stofdorm, e plas pas uni joelo, na ili porta in buka, sur optik ot androimper. Poste na, ili paso pas per lapso eks samber. Nul antrop optik re ili. Sed, temkia joelo takti optik ot androimper, temna inergooptik ot ili abe pas sanire. Ili inergo pas optik je antrop tuta.
