THE THREE BROTHERS.

PUERE were, once upon. a time,
three brothers, and the third was
a fool. And in their little garden
erew golden apple-trees with
golden apples, and not far off
lived a hog that had taken a fancy
to these apples. So the father
sent his sons into the garden to
guard the trees. The eldest went first, and sat and sat
and watched and watched till he was tired of watch-
ing, and fell asleep. Then the hog crept in, and
dug and dug till he had digged up an apple-tree,
which he ate up, and then went his way. The father
got up next morning and counted his apple-trees,
and one of them was gone. The next night the father
sent the second son to watch. He waited and watched
till he also fell asleep, and the hog came again and

dug up and ate another golden apple-tree and made
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