HOW DIFFERENT WE ARE - Kompalita

world. But she was waiting for some golden things, so she got angry
and didn’t go home in the evening. In the morning the man brought
her into some special room and asked which box she wanted: „The
smallest or the biggest?”
”The biggest” the hauskeeper’s daughter said thinking how to bring
more gold home than Orphan.
The man gave the biggest box and showed the way back home. At
the big gate he said:
”Go in front of me, you know the way and I will follow you.”
She went in front. Soon they had to go by the man who took care of
cows. The dog barked in a way to warn her but she didn’t understand it.
Soon they had to go by the man who took care of swines. The dog
barned again.
Finally, when they got to the big gate, the man opened it and moved
the houskeeper’s daughter in the middle of her yard. Immediately the
houskeeper ran to her daughter. She said her to bring the box into the
barn and show her how much she had brought.
They brought it into the barn and while they were laughing they
opened it. But instead of gold ,the fire set up! Within minutes the
whole building was blazing. The barn burnt down, but the little
orphan’s box remained untouched.
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