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The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
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and pecked at the bread; but the dog said to it: 'Wretched glutton,
you can eat like that when you see that your master is dying?' The
cock answered: 'Let him die, if he is so stupid. I have a hundred
wives, which I call together when I find a grain of corn, and as soon
as they are there I swallow it myself; should one of them dare to be
angry, I would give her a lesson with my beak. He has only one
wife, and he cannot keep her in order.'

As soon as the man understood this, he got up out of the coffin,
seized a stick, and called his wife into the room, saying: 'Come, and
I will tell you what you so much want to know'; and then he began
to beat her with the stick, saying with each blow: 'It is that, wife, it
is that!' And in this way he taught her never again to ask why he
had laughed.



The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret

Once upon a time there lived a poor widow who had one little boy.
At first sight you would not have thought that he was different from
a thousand other little boys; but then you noticed that by his side
hung the scabbard of a sword, and as the boy grew bigger the
scabbard grew bigger too. The sword which belonged to the
scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in
the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into
the scabbard. But though it was plainly becoming longer and
longer, it was some time before the two would fit.

However, there came a day at last when it slipped in quite easily.
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