TABAKIERA, THE SNUFF-BOX. [91]

Like many others in the world, there was a lad who wished to travel,

and off he went. He finds a snuff-box, and opens it. And the snuff-box

said to him--

"Que quieres?" ("What do you wish for?")

He is frightened, and puts it at once into his pocket. Luckily he

did not throw it away. He goes on, and on, and on, and at last he

said to himself,

"(I wonder) if it would say to me again, 'Que quieres?' I should well

know what to answer."

He takes it out again, and opens it, and it says to him again,

"Que quieres?"

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