HOW DIFFERENT WE ARE - Kompalita

“Ok! Take the smallest one, I’ll show you off until the gate. “
Near the gate he said again: “Come with me! “
Then they walked by the cow shepherd, the shepherd’s dog started
to bark. After that, they walked by the swine shepherd, there was a
dog too and it did the same.
The poor little orphan didn’t pay attention to the dogs. Soon they
arrived at the big gate. The old man opened the gate and moved her
back in the middle of the misstress’s courtyard. But the box wasn’t
opened on that day but she put it into the barn. The next morning the
poor little orphan opened the box which was full of bright gold. When
they saw it, the mistress anxiously asked the poor little orphan where
she had got the gold.
And so she said:
«I jumped in to the well shaft after the spindle – I fell in the
meadow, the green meadow, all along the way, I came across a house
with an old man, there was my spindle. But he did not give me it until
I had heated his bath house. Well, and only then he handed me my
spindle and even this box. »
„Well, well” The misstress said and as soon as posible she sent her
daughter by the well to spin wool, because she didn’t want her to feel
inferior to the orphan.
The daughter of the mistress spun and spun, untill she deliberately
ripped the thread and threw the spindle into the well.
The mistress ran out and shouted: „Jump into the well shaft and
get it back!”
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