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s soon as she arrived home, her mother
and her ugly sister were mad with envy
and disappointment; and that star was
for them like a thorn stuck in their
eyes. The ugly sister said, "I too want to go to
the fairies. Mother, send me to give them the
sieve back." They thus used the sieve and then the
ugly girl put it under her arm and headed
towards the forest of the fairies. When she was
entering the forest, she too met the old man,
who asked her, "Where are you going, hasty girl?”
She haughtily answered, "I go where I like, __

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