Why the fish laughed
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The king had the pit dug, and commanded all the maids belonging to the palace to try to jump it. All of them tried, but only one succeeded. That one was found to be a man!!
Thus was the queen satisfied, and the faithful old vizier saved.
Afterwards, as soon as could be, the vizier's son married the old farmer's daughter; and a most happy marriage it was.
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The Shepherd's Nosegay: The Story of the Princess Who Learned to say "Please"
Category: Czechoslovak folktale
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Vitazko the Victorious: The Story of a Hero Whose Mother Loved a Dragon
Category: Czechoslovak folktale
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I.Kuratko the Terrible: The Story of an Ungrateful Chick
Category: Five Nursery Tales:
Read times: 12
There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
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