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843 B
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14 lines
843 B
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Brides On Their Trial
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There was once a young shepherd who wished much to marry, and was
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acquainted with three sisters who were all equally pretty, so that it
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was difficult to him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give
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the preference to any one of them. Then he asked his mother for advice,
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and she said, “Invite all three, and set some cheese before them, and
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watch how they eat it.” The youth did so; the first, however, swallowed
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the cheese with the rind on; the second hastily cut the rind off the
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cheese, but she cut it so quickly that she left much good cheese with
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it, and threw that away also; the third peeled the rind off carefully,
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and cut neither too much nor too little. The shepherd told all this to
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his mother, who said, “Take the third for thy wife.” This he did, and
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lived contentedly and happily with her.
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