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The Golden Key
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In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was
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forced to go out on a sledge to fetch wood. When he had gathered it
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together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not
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to go home at once, but to light a fire and warm himself a little. So
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he scraped away the snow, and as he was thus clearing the ground, he
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found a tiny, gold key. Hereupon he thought that where the key was, the
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lock must be also, and dug in the ground and found an iron chest. "If
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the key does but fit it!" thought he; "no doubt there are precious
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things in that little box." He searched, but no keyhole was there. At
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last he discovered one, but so small that it was hardly visible. He
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tried it, and the key fitted it exactly. Then he turned it once round,
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and now we must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid,
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and then we shall learn what wonderful things were lying in that box.
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