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The Man Who Died on Holy Innocents' Day
v. Sydow-Lund) has a Danish variant. Its innocently malicious humor is worthy of Gottfried Keller.
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In a village there lived two men who had the self-same name. Both were named Claus. But one of them owned four horses, and the other owned only one horse; so to distinguish between them people called the man who had four horses Big Claus, and the man who had only one horse Little Claus. Now I'll tell you what happened to these two, for this is a true story.
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