The emperor's horse is nailed with golden shoes (Note: the original text is guldskoe, which literally means "golden shoes". Because horses are involved here, it is always translated as horseshoe.); there is a golden shoe on each foot. Why does he have a golden horseshoe?
He is a beautiful animal, with slender legs and intelligent eyes; his mane hangs around his neck like a silk veil. He turned his back on his master and galloped through the hail of bullets, and heard the bullets whizzing. He kicked and bit those around him and fought against his enemies as they approached. He turned his back on his master and jumped over the enemy's fallen horse, saved the red gold crown, and saved the emperor's life, which was more precious than red gold. Therefore, the emperor's horse was nailed with golden shoes, and there was a golden shoe on each foot.
The beetle then crawled over.
"The big ones come first, then the little ones," he said. "It's not the size of the body that matters." He stretched out his skinny legs as he said this.
"What do you want?" asked the blacksmith.
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