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14 lines
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The Rose
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There was once a poor woman who had two children. The youngest had to
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go every day into the forest to fetch wood. Once when she had gone a
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long way to seek it, a little child, who was quite strong, came and
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helped her industriously to pick up the wood and carry it home, and
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then before a moment had passed the strange child disappeared. The
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child told her mother this, but at first she would not believe it. At
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length she brought a rose home, and told her mother that the beautiful
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child had given her this rose, and had told her that when it was in
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full bloom, he would return. The mother put the rose in water. One
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morning her child could not get out of bed, the mother went to the bed
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and found her dead, but she lay looking very happy. On the same
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morning, the rose was in full bloom.
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