Then out came a youth so young and handsome , that everyone fell in love with him , and Bella-Flor most of all . As for the old king , he saw that he had lost the game ; and in despair he flung himself into the caldron , and was fried instead of Jose . Then Jose was proclaimed king , on condition that he married Bella-Flor which he promised to do the next day . But first he went to the stables and sought out the horse , and said to him : ` It is to you that I owe my life and my crown . Why have you done all this for me ? ' And the horse answered : ' I am the soul of that unhappy man for whom you spent all your fortune . And when I saw you in danger of death I begged that I might help you , as you had helped me . For , as I told you , Good deeds bear their own fruit ! ' The Bird of Truth -LSB- From Cuentos , Oraciones , y Adivinas , por Fernan Caballero . -RSB- Once upon a time there lived a poor fisher who built a hut on the banks of a stream which , shunning the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns , flowed quietly past trees and under bushes , listening to the songs of the birds overhead . One day , when the fisherman had gone out as usual to cast his nets , he saw borne towards him on the current a cradle of crystal . Slipping his net quickly beneath it he drew it out and lifted the silk coverlet . Inside , lying on a soft bed of cotton , were two babies , a boy and a girl , who opened their eyes and smiled at him . The man was filled with pity at the sight , and throwing down his lines he took the cradle and the babies home to his wife . The good woman flung up her hands in despair when she beheld the contents of the cradle . ` Are not eight children enough , ' she cried , ` without bringing us two more ? How do you think we can feed them ? ' ` You would not have had me leave them to die of hunger , ' answered he , ` or be swallowed up by the waves of the sea ? What is enough for eight is also enough for ten . ' The wife said no more ; and in truth her heart yearned over the little creatures .
Somehow or other food was never lacking in the hut , and the children grew up and were so good and gentle that , in XXXXX , their foster-parents loved them as well or better than their own , who were quarrelsome and envious .
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