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- 2nd September 1994
- (C) Joona Palaste
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- The Carnival
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- At carnival time there lived a small family with a mother, two girls and one
- boy. They were all going to the carnival.
- "What shall you be in the carnival?" the mother asked.
- "I want to be a slave-girl!" the elder sister said. "And I, too!" said the
- younger one.
- "That is a pleasant choice indeed", said their mother, "here are two beautiful
- rag-dresses for you." She handed her daughters two beautiful ball-dresses made
- from a cloth looking just like old rags. The girls put them on happily.
- "Can we have high-heeled shoes and elbow-length gloves too, mummy?" the girls
- asked, so their mother gave them too to the girls, who put them on.
- "And you shall not be complete without a pretty flower in your hair", said the
- mother, as she put pretty flowers in her daughters' hair.
-
- Just as the girls were going outside, their mother stopped them.
- "You are going to be slave-girls, aren't you?" she asked. "So you must have
- neck-chains, just like real slave-girls." And she handed the girls two sturdy
- iron neck-chains, which they locked around their necks.
- When the girls asked their mother what they were to do with the key, she
- replied:
- "Melt it in a frying pan and pour the molten metal into the keyholes, so the
- neck-chains shall never be opened again and you'll be just like real
- slave-girls!" So the girls did just that.
-
- "Can I be a slave, too?" asked the son.
- "Now don't be foolish, brother", said his sister, "you know very well there
- is no such thing as slave-boys; as long as slavery has existed, all slaves have
- always been girls." "And very beautiful girls, too", her sister added.
- "It's not fair", said the son, so her mother comforted him:
- "I will give your sisters to you as real slave-girls after the carnival is
- over! That way they will be yours to command and will do whatever you please!"
- So the son agreed to that.
-
- As they were going outside to join the carnival, the girls asked their mother
- if slavery still existed.
- "Yes, it certainly does", she replied, "although some countries have outlawed
- slavery because the girls didn't like it, in this country girl-slavery is still
- as legal and lawful as it ever has been."
- When they joined the carnival, the girls were surprised to notice that every
- other girl had dressed up as a slave-girl too. All the girls had beautiful
- dresses or skirts on, although the individual dresses varied greatly.
- Some girls had silk dresses, while some had just lace and ordinary cloth.
- Some girls even had rubber dresses, which contoured their luscious bodies
- tightly.
-
- "I think there's going to be a slave-market here soon", said the mother.
- "Can we come to the slave-market, mummy?" the girls asked.
- "Of course, and what's more, you will actually be sold at the slave-market! I
- and your brother will buy you."
- So they went to the slave-market. There were hundreds of people there:
- beautiful girls and their families. In the centre was a large stage with a man
- standing on it.
- "Would every girl dressed as a slave-girl please come here on stage?" asked
- the man. The girls climbed onto the stage.
- "Is there any girl here who has not dressed up as a slave-girl?" asked the
- man. No girl replied. "So all girls here must be slave-girls! My goodness!"
-
- "Now let's begin the slave-market!" said the man. As he moved towards the two
- girls, he said: "And who wants to buy these little girls here?"
- The girls' mother made a bid, and another person doubled it. The mother
- doubled again and bought her daughters back.
- The man moved to a little girl with a pretty mini-skirt. "Now here's a little
- beauty", he said. "Can I look under your skirt?"
- The girl nodded, so the man looked under her skirt. "You are a most beautiful
- little girl", said the man. "Who will buy her?" The girls' mother made a bid
- and bought the girl.
- Next the man moved beside a beautiful teenage girl dressed in a lovely
- princess-style silk ball-dress.
- "Here we have a real beauty", he said, "who wants to buy her?" A competent
- bid was made, and the mother replied with another bid, buying the girl.
- Then the man moved towards two girls dressed in ordinary ball-dresses. "Who
- will buy these two little girls?" Furious competition arose, and the mother won
- it and bought the girls.
-
- "We can withdraw from the slave-market now", the mother said to her son, "we
- have bought your sisters back and four other girls too. You'll have a lot of
- slave-girls now!"
- The boy agreed, and they left the slave-market. The mother and her son held
- the loose ends of the girls' neck-chains.
- The son held her sisters and the little girl, while his mother held the
- teenage girl and the other two girls.
- As they walked, the girls conversated with each other.
- "I've always wanted to be a slave-girl", said one of them.
- "So have I. I had no idea slavery was still legal", another girl replied.
- "It's a wonderful thing that boys are not allowed to be slaves - it makes you
- proud to be a girl, so you can be a slave."
- "Yes. I think girls were actually meant to be boys' slaves. As far as I know,
- girl-slavery has always existed."
- And so the mother, her son and their six slave-girls went home.
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