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705 B
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12 lines
705 B
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The Wilful Child
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Once upon a time there was a child who was willful, and would not do at
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her mother wished. For this reason God had no pleasure in her, and let
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her become ill, and no doctor could do her any good, and in a short
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time she lay on her death-bed. When she had been lowered into her
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grave, and the earth was spread over her, all at once her arm came out
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again, and stretched upwards, and when they had put it in and spread
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fresh earth over it, it was all to no purpose, for the arm always came
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out again. Then the mother herself was obliged to go to the grave, and
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strike the arm with a rod, and when she had done that, it was drawn in,
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and then at last the child had rest beneath the ground.
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