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W. F. Kirby, who contributed to the 10th volume of Sir
attention to an analogue of this tale in Geldart's Folk-Lore of Modern Greece:
were in feeble health, the other was poor.html">poor.html">poor.html">poor.html">poor and had seven children.html">children, who were in
twice a week to the house.html">house.html">house.html">house of the rich brother to bake bread. Her children were
all she could do was to wash.html">wash the dough off her hands for the children, who
poor woman to wash her hands before she left the house. The father found his
really purposing to kill himself by falling from a crag. But seeing a great
having climbed a tree, saw forty-nine dragons come out. When they were gone he
home he found his wife.html">wife weeping bitterly, but when he showed her the treasure.html">treasure,
they bought a house, and moved into it, but agreed only to buy what they
they went often to church and helped the poor, till, one day, the wife of the
received. She heard the story of the treasure, and the poor man offered to
left the castle, and the one left to watch killed and quartered him. Two days
and got a tailor to sew the quarters together. Next day the dragons called on
together the body. He showed them the house, and forty-eight dragons got into
playing about he chests, heard the dragons say, "Would that it were night,
them red hot, and thrust them into the chests, and then said that a trick had
sea. As often as the servant returned he pretended to him that he did not
whole number. In the morning when the last dragon came, the poor man told. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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