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shall have enough to eat." He led him straight to
the king's courtyard, where all the meal in the
kingdom had been collected and baked into a
mountain of bread. The man out of the forest
settled himself down before it and hastened to
eat, and in one day the whole mountain had
disappeared. Then the Simpleton asked for his
bride the third time. The king, however, found
one more excuse, and said he must have a ship
that should be able to sail on land or on water.
"So soon," said he, "as you come sailing along
with it, you shall have my daughter for your
wife." The Simpleton went straight to the forest,
and there sat the little old grey man with whom
he had shared his cake, and he said, "I have eaten
for you, and I have drunk for you, I will also give
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