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When the day came for the wedding to be celebrated, the bridegroom
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appeared, and the miller had invited all his relations and
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friends. As they sat at table, each was bidden to relate
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something. The bride sat still, and said nothing. Then said the
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bridegroom to the bride, come, my darling, do you know nothing.
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Relate something to us like the rest. She replied, then I will
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relate a dream. I was walking alone through a wood, and at last
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I came to a house, in which no living soul was, but on the wall
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there was a bird in a cage which cried,
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turn back, turn back, young maiden dear,
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'tis a murderer's house you enter here.
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And this it cried once more. My darling, I only dreamt this.
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Then I went through all the rooms, and they were all empty, and
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there was something so horrible about them. At last I went down
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into the cellar, and there sat a very very old woman, whose head
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shook. I asked her, does my bridegroom live in this house. She
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answered, alas poor child, you have got into a murderer's den,
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your bridegroom does live here, but he will hew you in pieces,
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and kill you, and then he will cook you, and eat you. My darling
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I only dreamt this. But the old woman hid me behind a great
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hogshead, and scarcely was I hidden, when the robbers came home,
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dragging a maiden with them, to whom they gave three kinds of
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wine to drink, white, red, and yellow, with which her heart broke
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in twain. My darling, I only dreamt this. Thereupon they pulled
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off her pretty clothes, and hewed her fair body in pieces on a
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table, and sprinkled them with salt. My darling, I only dreamt
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this. And one of the robbers saw that there was still a ring on
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her little finger, and as it was hard to draw off, he took an axe
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and cut it off, but the finger sprang up in the air, and sprang
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behind the great hogshead, and fell in my bosom. And there is the
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finger with the ring. And with these words she drew it forth, and
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showed it to those present.
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The robber, who had during this story become as pale as ashes,
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leapt up and wanted to escape, but the guests held him fast, and
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delivered him over to justice. Then he and his whole troop were
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executed for their infamous deeds.
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