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that to show thee yet. Just be so good as to sit down
on that chair, and I'll show and tell thee everything.”

Then they sat them down, and the poor man hung
up his sack upon a peg. * Sack, sack, meat and
drink!” he cried, and immediately the table was:
covered with all manner of dishes. So they ate and
ate, till they were full up to the ears. When they
had eaten and drunken their fill, the poor man called
to his son to bring the little ram into the hut. So
the lad brought in the ram, and the rich brother
wondered what they were going to do with it. Then
the poor man said: “ Little ram, scatter money !”
And the little ram scattered money, till there were
piles and piles of it on the floor. “ Pick it up!” said
the poor man to the rich man and his wife. So they
picked it up, and the rich brother and his wife
marvelled, and the brother said: “ Thou hast a very
nice piece of goods there, brother. If I had only
something like that I should lack nothing ;” then,
after thinking a long time, he said: ‘Sell 1t to me,
my brother.”—“ No,” said the poor man, © IT will not
sell it.’—After a little time, however, the rich brother
said again ; ‘Come now! I'll give thee for it six yoke
of oxen, and a plough, and a harrow, and a hay-fork,
and I'll give thee besides, lots of corn to sow, thus
thou wilt have plenty, but give me the ram and the
sack.” So at last they exchanged. The rich man