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The Crumbs on the Table
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A countryman one day said to his little puppies, “Come into the parlour
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and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your
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mistress has gone out to pay some visits.” Then the little dogs said,
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“No, no, we will not go. If the mistress gets to know it, she will beat
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us.” The countryman said, “She will know nothing about it. Do come;
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after all, she never gives you anything good.” Then the little dogs
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again said, “Nay, nay, we must let it alone; we must not go.” But the
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countryman let them have no peace until at last they went, and got on
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the table, and ate up the bread-crumbs with all their might. But at
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that very moment the mistress came, and seized the stick in great
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haste, and beat them and treated them very hardly. And when they were
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outside the house, the little dogs said to the countryman, “Dost, dost,
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dost, dost, dost thou see?” Then the countryman laughed and said,
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“Didn’t, didn’t, didn’t, you expect it?” So they just had to run away.
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