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THE THREE WISHES.

THIS well-known story appears in one of its commonest forms in the tale of “Loppi and Lappi” (Kreutzwald), a quarrelsome couple who are granted three wishes by a fairy. At supper-time the wife wishes for a sausage, which is wished on and off her nose, and the couple remain as poor as before.


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