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HERE was a man who had three sons,
the youngest of whom was called the
Simpleton, and was despised, laughed at,
and neglected, on every occasion, It
happened one day that the eldest son
wished to go into the forest to cut wood,
and before he went his mother gave him
a delicious pancake and a flask of wine,
that he might not suffer from hunger or
thirst. When he came into the forest a little old grey man
met him, who wished him good day, and said,
“Give me a bit of cake out of your pocket, and let me
have a drink of your wine; I am so hungry and thirsty.”
But the prudent youth answered,
“Give you my cake and my wine? I haven't got any;
be off with you.”
And leaving the little man standing there, he went off.
Then he began to fell a tree, but he had not been at it long
before he made a wrong stroke, and the hatchet hit him in
the arm, so that he was obliged to go home and get it bound
up. That was what came of the little grey man.
Afterwards the second son went into the wood, and the
mother gave to him, as to the eldest, a pancake and a flask of
wine. The little old grey man met him also, and begged for
a little bit of cake and a drink of wine. But the second son
spoke out plainly, saying,
‘‘ What I give you I lose myself, so be off with you.”
And leaving the little man standing there, he went off.
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