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ONCE upon a time there was
‘a servant who served a wise
man, and cooked for him his
cabbage and his onions and his
pot-herbs and his broth, day
after day, time in and time out,
for seven years.
In those years the servant
was well enough contented, but
iB no one likes to abide in the same
ys : place for ever, and so one day
ny he took it into his head that he
y would like to go out into the
e world to see what kind of a for-
tune a man might make there for

( himself. ‘ Very well,” says the
ae wise man, the servant’s master ;
¢ “you have served me faithfully

these seven years gone, and
now that you ask leave to go you shall go. But it is
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