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HERE was once a man, whose wife was
dead, and a woman, whose husband
was dead ; and the man had a daughter.
and so had the woman. The girls were
acguainted with each other, and used
to play together sometimes in the
womans house. So the woman saic
to the mans daughter,
“ Listen to me, tell your father that ]
will marry him, and then you shall have milk to wash in ever
morning and wine to drink, and my daughter shall have wate:
to wash in and water to drink,”
The girl went home and told her father what the womar
had said. The man said,
‘What shall I do! Marriage is a joy, and also a torment.’
At last, as he could come to no conclusion, he took off hi
boot, and said to his daughter,
“Take this boot, it has a hole in the sole; go up with 1
into the loft, hang it on the big nail and pour water init. I
it holds water, I will once more take to mea wife; if it let
out the water, so will I not.”
The girl did as she was told, but the water held the hol
together, and the boot was full up to the top. So she wen
and told her father how it was. And he went up to see wit
his own eyes, and as there was no mistake about it, he went t
the widow and courted her, and then they had the wedding.
The next morning, when the two girls awoke, there stoo
by the bedside of the man’s daughter milk to wash in an
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