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embrace his children and after he went to find
his poor wife, who was reduced to skin and
bones and was on the verge of death. He knelt
before her and begged her pardon. Then he
summoned her sisters and the midwife, and
when they were in his presence, he said to the
bird, «Bird, you who have told me everything
may now pronounce their sentence.»
«Well, if you want me to sentence them, your
majesty, I say that the midwife is to be thrown
head-first from the window, and your sisters-
in-law are to be cast into a kettle of boiling
oil.»
The king had the bird’s sentence carried out.
The midwife was immediately thrown out of
the window, and the aunts were cast into a
kettle. Afterwards, the king never tired of
embracing his wife. Meanwhile, the bird
departed, and the king and his wife and
children lived together in blissed peace.

They lived forever happily in peace
And here we are clenching our teeth

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