BLOOM-OF-YOUTH AND THE WITCH
else except prepare a meal against the time when her husband would be back from his hunting.
One morning her husband left his coat down on the bench. "My coat is torn; sew it for me," he said. Bloom-of-Youth said she would do that. But she did no more to the coat than take it up and leave it down again on the bench.
The next day her husband said "My vest is torn too; have it and the coat sewn for me." He left the vest beside the coat and went out to his hunting.
Bloom-of-Youth did nothing to the coat and nothing to the vest, and every day for a week her husband went out without coat or vest upon him.
One day he put on his torn coat and his torn vest and went out to his hunting. When he came home that evening he had a bundle of wool with him. "Your step-mother," said he, "sends you this bundle of wool and she bids you spin it that there may be cloth for new clothes for me." "I will spin it," said Bloom-of-Youth.
But the next day when her husband went away she did what she had always done before. She
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