THE STORY OF THE FORTY-FIRST BROTHER.

S HERE was once upon a time an old
man who had forty-one sons. Now
when this old man was at the point
of death, he divided all he had
amongst his sons, and gave to each

 

of the forty a horse; but when he came to the
forty-first he found he had no more horses left,
so the forty-first brother had to be content with a
foal. When their father was dead, the brothers
said to each other: “Let us go to Friday and
get married !”—But the eldest brother said: “No,
Friday has only forty daughters, so one of us
would be left without a bride.”—Then the second
brother said: “Let us go then to Wednesday—
Wednesday has forty-one daughters, and so the whole
lot of us can pair off with the whole lot of them.”
So they went and chose their brides. The eldest
brother took the eldest sister, and the youngest the