Page 27 - Flower and Flowerstem
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- Well, never mind! Now I have
          married her, what else can I do?
            The father and stepmother went
          home, and they left Flowerstem at
          the palace.
            That ugly wife said to the King:
            - Cast him out! I do not want to
          see him around here.
            She said this because she was afraid
          that Flowerstem could unmask her.
            The King then, having mercy on
          him, gave the poor guy the job of
          minding the geese.
            Flowerstem would take the geese,
          and bing them to pasture where his
          sister had been imprisoned in the
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