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Then master Bëninhë answered him:
- If you want to climb down, let me live as many
more years as I have already lived.
Then Death answered:
- May this be granted to you.
He allowed him to climb down and Death went
about his business.
When all the time that had been granted to him
had passed, the Master called Death another time
to send him to the blacksmith. Death did not
want to go, but he had to return to the door of
master Bëninhë. Master Bëninhë told him:
- As soon as I finish mending this ploughshare, we
will go. Sit down on this little chair.
Death sat down on the little chair. After two or
three hours, he called master Bëninhë:
- Let us go now.

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