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Title: The pink fairy book
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, ed
Subjects: Tales
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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eing her untilshe had completed her fourteenth year. She said further, that if he who had delivered herwould take her in marriage, she would be his. If not,she would go into a nunnery, and he could marry noother as long as she lived, for he was wedded to her withthe service of the dead, which he had heard. She was now the most beautiful young princess thatanyone could wish to see, and he was now lord of halfthe kingdom, which had been promised him for standingon guard the third night. So they agreed that theywould have each other, and love each other all theirdays. With the first sunbeam the watch came and openedthe church, and not only was the colonel there, but theking in person, come to see what had happened to thesentinel. He found them both sitting hand in hand onthe step in front of the altar, and immediately knew hisdaughter again, and took her in his arms, thanking Godand her deliverer. He made no objections to what theyhad arranged, and so Christian the smith held his wedding
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72 THE PRINCESS IN THE CHEST with the princess, and got half the kingdom at once, andthe whole of it when the king died. As for the other sentries, with so many doors andwindows open, no doubt they had run away, and goneinto the Prussian service. And as for what Christiansaid he saw, he had been drinking more wine than wasiifood for him. 73 THE THBEE BROTHERS^ There was once a man who had three sons, and noother possessions beyond the house in which he lived.Now the father loved his three sons equally, so that hecould not make up his mind which of them should havethe house after his death, because he did not wish tofavour any one more than the others. And he did notwant to sell the house, because it had belonged to hisfamily for generations; otherwise he could have dividedthe money equally amongst them. At last an idea struckhim, and he said to his sons: You must all go out intothe world, and look about you, and each learn a trade,and then, when you return, whoever can produce the bes

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