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Nunzia. «Are you now willing to tell me who was
here last night?».
«Oh! I could not tell you. Yet, if you only knew
who has come here!»
«Ah then,» replied the queen, «could it have been
my son!» And she carried on so much that the
maiden finally told her the whole story, starting
from where she went looking for soup greens and
everything up to the present. The queen said to
her, «And so you are my son’s wife?» and gave
giving her hugs and kisses. Then she said, «Ask
him, what does it take to free him?»
«I’ll ask him tonight.»
Night fell, and the fairies came again at the same
hour with the king’s son. And again they all
danced while he rocked his son singing like the
other night: «King of Spinningwheel should
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