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A Riddling Tale
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Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one
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of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day
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was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in
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the field and become a flower again, she said to her husband, "If thou
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wilt come this afternoon and gather me, I shall be set free and
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henceforth stay with thee." And he did so. Now the question is, how did
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her husband know her, for the flowers were exactly alike, and without
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any difference? Answer: as she was at her home during the night and not
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in the field, no dew fell on her as it did on the others, and by this
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her husband knew her.
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