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CZECHOSLOVAK FAIRY TALES
that they were again going out into the world to look for work. The young king urged them to stay.
“I will give you everything you need as long as you live,” he promised them, “and you won’t have to exert yourselves at all.”
But such an idle life was not to their liking. So they took their leave and started out again and to this day they are still knocking around somewhere.