After a little while, the old man came along, panting and blowing. Seeingthe woman in the field, he called out, Woman, have you seen two children go by and which way did they go? The woman pretended that she was deaf, she answered, I am in the flax field pulling up the weeds. Woman, 1 ask you, if…
Fairy tales
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