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the same voice, so that he was obliged to go on till, gasping for breath, he had carried the girls and the gold into the parents' house.

At home, meanwhile, the bride was preparing for the wedding festivities. She took one of his victims' heads, put a smart head-dress and wreath of flowers upon it, and placed it looking out of the garret window. She then invited all the wedding-guests, and when that was done, she got into a barrel of honey, and then cut open a