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Odds And Ends
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There was once on a time a maiden who was pretty, but idle and
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negligent. When she had to spin she was so out of temper that if there
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was a little knot in the flax, she at once pulled out a whole heap of
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it, and strewed it about on the ground beside her. Now she had a
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servant who was industrious, and gathered together the bits of flax
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which were thrown away, cleaned them, span them fine, and had a
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beautiful gown made out of them for herself. A young man had wooed the
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lazy girl, and the wedding was to take place. On the eve of the
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wedding, the industrious one was dancing merrily about in her pretty
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dress, and the bride said,—
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“Ah, how that girl does jump about, dressed in my odds and ends.”
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The bridegroom heard that, and asked the bride what she meant by it?
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Then she told him that the girl was wearing a dress make of the flax
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which she had thrown away. When the bridegroom heard that, and saw how
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idle she was, and how industrious the poor girl was, he gave her up and
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went to the other, and chose her as his wife.
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