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As he jogged along over the fields, singing and dancing, a little

dwarf met him, and asked him what made him so merry. 'Why, what

should make me down-hearted?' said he; 'I am sound in health and

rich in purse, what should I care for? I have saved up my three

years' earnings and have it all safe in my pocket.' 'How much may

it come to?' said the little man. 'Full threepence,' replied the

countryman.