` Here is another new book about our famous bird ! ' said the Emperor . But it was not a book , but a little mechanical toy , which lay in a box -- an artificial nightingale which was like the real one , only that it was set all over with diamonds , rubies , and sapphires . When it was wound up , it could sing the piece the real bird sang , and moved its tail up and down , and glittered with silver and gold . Round its neck was a little collar on which was written , ` The Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan is nothing compared to that of the Emperor of China . ' ` This is magnificent ! ' they all said , and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of ` Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale . ' ` Now they must sing together ; what a duet we shall have ! ' And so they sang together , but their voices did not blend , for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes . ` It is not its fault ! ' said the bandmaster ; ` it keeps very good time and is quite after my style ! ' Then the artificial bird had to sing alone . It gave just as much pleasure as the real one , and then it was so much prettier to look at ; it sparkled like bracelets and necklaces . Three-and-thirty times it sang the same piece without being tired . People would like to have heard it again , but the Emperor thought that the living Nightingale should sing now -- but where was she ? No one had noticed that she had flown out of the open window away to her green woods . ` What SHALL we do ! ' said the Emperor . And all the Court scolded , and said that the Nightingale was very ungrateful . ` But we have still the best bird ! '
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