THE PRETTY BUT IDLE GIRL. [54]

Once upon a time there was a mother who had a very beautiful

daughter. The mother was always bustling about, but the daughter

would not do anything. So she gave her such a good beating that she

sat down on a flat stone to cry. One day the young owner of the castle

went by. He asks:

"What makes such a pretty girl cry like that?"

The woman answers him:

"As she is too pretty she will not work."

The young man asks if she knows how to sew.

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