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again repaired to the house of Serena, where
she found the girl alone. With crafty speech
she inquired of Serena whether she had in
deed got the singing apple, and the girl made
answer that she had. Then said the cunning
woman: 'Ah, my daughter, you must think that
you have nothing at all if you do not get one
thing more, the most beautiful, the most

graceful thing in the world.' 'Good mother,
what may this fair thing be?' said the girl. The
old woman replied: 'It is the Green Beaubird,
my child, which talks night and day, and speaks
words of marvellous wisdom. If you had it in
your keeping you might indeed call your self
happy;' and, having thus spoken, she went her

way.

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