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THE ENCHANTED DEER

the door, and the farmer and his wife begged him to come in, and share their breakfast.

‘Ah, you have a gun,’ said the farmer as the young

Instead of a deer a woman with long black hair was standing there
Instead of a deer a woman with long black hair was standing there

man placed it in a corner. ‘That is well, for a deer comes every evening to eat my corn, and I cannot catch it. It is fortune that has sent you to me.’

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