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My Daughter Has Spinned Five, Five Skeins to Day
The king was coming down the street and he heard her singing, but he could not make out the words. The woman was ashamed to let him know what her daughter had done,. So she sang instead of that, my daughter has spun five, five skeins to day. Well, said the king, i never heard of any one who could do that. All right, said the woman, for she was thinking what a fine marriage that would be. And as for those five skeins, well, there would be plenty of ways of getting out of that. Most likely, he'd forget about it.And so they were married. For 11 months, the girl had all the food she
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