Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885, Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen, 1813-1882, Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896 · Putnam · leaf 207
her fellow-servants had given out that she was good to spina pound of flax in four and twenty hours. And here am I, wretch that I am, shut upto spin all that heap in a day and a night, when Ihave never even seen a spinning-wheel in all mybom days. Well, never mind, child, said the old woman/if… … The Three Aunts L. The Three Aunts 189 Next morning when she awoke, there lay allthe flax spun on the table, and that so clean andfine, no one had ever seen such even and pretty-yam. The queen was very glad to get such niceyarn, and she set greater store by the lassie thanever. But the rest were…
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