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o she set out walking and travelling she
arrived under the balcony of a very
beautiful palace, which belonged to
King of Spinningwheel.
«Can you please offer me shelter, just a little hut
where a can stay?» she called out.
«At this moment my lord and lady are seriously
troubled,» a servant woman answered her. «Their
son has been stolen from them, and they have no
way of finding him.»
But Nunzia simply repeated her request: «Just a
little hut, even a hen-house, just any place where
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