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Such a thing as that had never yet come under the king's notice,

and he said: 'When you come to the royal table you must take your

hat off.' He answered: 'Ah, Lord, I cannot; I have a bad sore

place on my head.' Then the king had the cook called before him

and scolded him, and asked how he could take such a boy as that

into his service; and that he was to send him away at once. The

cook, however, had pity on him, and exchanged him for the

gardener's boy.