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s soon as the princess came home, she placed the
cage in the garden, just by the hall; and the bird no sooner
began to sing, but he was surrounded by nightingales,
chaffinches, goldfinches, larks, linnets, and a great many other
sorts of birds. As for the branch of the singing tree, it was no
sooner set in the midst of the parterre, some distance from the

house, but it took root, and in a little time became a large tree,
the leaves of which, in a short time, gave as harmonious a
concert as those of the tree from which it was gathered. As to
the flaggon of the yellow golden water, a large marble bason
was made in the midst of another parterre, and when it was
finished, the princess poured all the yellow water that was in
the flaggon into it, which increased and swelled so much, that it
soon reached up to the edges of the bason, and afterwards
formed a fountain twenty feet high, which fell again into the

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