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SLEEPY JOHN
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The king said: "You might have made even this twig."
So John produced the silver twig and said: "Afterwards the queen drove through the silver forest, and when I broke off this twig she fainted, and so she was until the devils brought her to life again."
The queen, seeing that all was known, cried out: "Let the earth swallow me!" and she was swallowed by the earth.
Sleepy John got the half of the kingdom, and, when the king died, the other half too.
