There was a man and a woman very poor, and over-burdened with
children. They had seven boys. When they had grown up a little, they
said to their mother that it would be better that they should go on
their own way--that they would get on better like that. The mother
let them go with great regret. After their departure she gave birth
to a little girl, and when this little girl was grown up a little she
went one day to a neighbor's to amuse herself, and having played some
childish trick the neighbor said to her:
"You will be a good one, you too, as your brothers have been." [165]
The child goes home and says to her mother, "Mother, have I some
brothers?" [165]