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s they turned their backs on the
palace, it disappeared, and the
hermits vanished, for they had been
the three fairies. When the brothers and their
sister returned to the city, the servants came, and
there was a party that evening. The following day
they summoned a goldmith and had him make a
gold chain and attached it to the bird. When their
aunts looked out their window, they saw the
Dancing Water, the Singing Apple and the Talking
Bird in the palace opposite them.
«Well,» they said, «now we are in real trouble!»
Indeed, let me tell you what happened.
The bird cried out, «Mistress!»
«What do you want?» she asked.
«Call your brothers.»
«What do you want?» they asked.
«I want you to provide us a grandcoach, more
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