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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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