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Then said Lina: 'Fundevogel, never leave me, and I will never

leave you.' Then said Fundevogel: 'Neither now, nor ever.' Said

Lina: 'Be a fishpond, and I will be the duck upon it.' The cook,

however, came up to them, and when she saw the pond she lay down

by it, and was about to drink it up. But the duck swam quickly to

her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and

there the old witch had to drown. Then the children went home

together, and were heartily delighted, and if they have not died,

they are living still.

THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR