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of the leather. Then the shoemaker and his wife hid themselves in the corner and waited for the elves to come.

At midnight in they came, jumping about and looking for their work. But in place of the leather they found the pretty coats and shoes.

How they laughed and shouted and clapped their hands!

They pulled on the coats and they pulled on the shoes, then they danced around the the room and over the chairs, until at last they danced right out of the window, and all the time they were singing:—

Smart and pretty boys are we;
Shoemakers we'll no longer be.

After that evening they never came again, but the shoemaker was always very rich and very happy.

-Grimm

COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

My dame has lost her shoe;

My master's lost his fiddling stick,
And knows not what to do.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

What is my dame to do?

Till master finds his fiddling stick,
She'll dance without her shoe.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

My dame has found her shoe,

And master's found his fiddling stick,
Sing doodle-doodle-doo.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

My dame will dance with you,

While master fiddles his fiddling stick,

For dame and doodle-doo.

-Mother Goose

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THE BEAR AND THE TWO FRIENDS

Once upon a time two friends set out together upon a dangerous journey. They promised to help each other if they got into trouble.

The friends had not gone far on the journey when they saw a great bear coming toward them. They knew they could not run away from the bear, for he would surely catch them.

One of the men, being quicker than the

other, climbed a tall tree. The other man could only throw himself flat on the ground. But he held his breath and acted as if he were dead, for he remembered that bears never eat dead men.

The bear came up and after smelling of the man on the ground, he left him and

went on.

Then the man in the tree called out, "Well, my friend, what did the bear say to you? He acted as if he were telling you something."

"He did tell me something," said the other man. "He told me not to be friends with a man who will climb a tree and leave

me in danger."

Cowards cannot be true friends.

-Aesop

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