Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There was a king wan time and had three sons.”
(continued from previous page)morning. He got up then, and the old man was busy preparing the breakfast. The breakfast was the very same as the supper the night before. He got another woodquest and roasted it in the same way as before and then himself and the king's son had their breakfast in the parlour. Then the old man told the young man it was time for him to be making a move, so the young man thanked him and was about to depart, when the old man called him, and says he "You are quite different from your two brothers. When they saw how poor I was they wouldn't sleep in this poor cabin with me at all but insulted me, and went on their way. They had to pass through a wood on their way to my brother's house, and they were killed by two angry wolves that are living(continues on next page)