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THE ONE-HANDED GIRL
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for daring to marry the king’s son. Then she can do no more hurt to anyone.’

‘We cannot kill her,’ answered they; ‘if we did, our son would assuredly kill us. Let us do as the others did,

The one-handed girl befriends a snake
The one-handed girl befriends a snake

and put her out of the town.’ And with this the envious brother was forced to be content.

The poor girl loved her husband very much, but just then the baby was more to her than all else in the world,

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