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deposited a golden egg by his bundle of wood. In
a little while the woodcutter awoke, and seeing
the egg, picked it up and wrapped it in his
kamarband. He then took up his load and went to
the woni who generally bought it. He sold him the
egg for a trifle. He did not know what a
wonderful egg it was, but the woni knew, and
asked him to go and get the bird that laid it, and
he would give him a rupee as a gift. The man
promised, and on the following day went to the
jungle as usual to prepare his load of wood. On
the way back he sat down to rest under the tree
where he had found the egg, and pretended to
sleep. The bird Humá came again, and noticing
that he was still as poor and as ill-looking as
before, thought that he had not seen the egg,
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