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girl, and at once falled in love with her, and
begged the woodcutter to accept him as a son-in-
law. Of course the man agreed, and the marriage
was celebrated. Henceforth money without stint
flowed into the woodcutter's hands, so that he
was able to resign his calling, to build for himself
a beautiful house, and to marry his seven
daughters into good and respectable families.
Meanwhile the prince was living very happily
with his beautiful wife, under the idea that she
was the woodcutter's daughter. One day,
however, he discovered the truth of the matter.
He had given an alms to a poor man in the
presence of his wife, when she casually remarked
that he had done a hátamí, meaning a generous
act, a Hatam-like act ; whereupon the prince
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