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THE MAGIC CANDLE

               

One day, young wanderer got lost in the wood. Suddenly, he saw a light from an old hut. He knocked on the door and old woman opened it. She was crying. She said that a devil had stolen her magic candle. The candle could grant anything she asked. The wanderer asked her where the devil lived. “in a castle not far from here”, said the old woman.

            The wanderer went to the castle. There he found the devil, but he was old an weak. Therefore, when the wanderer grabbed the magic candle from the devil’s table and ran away. He couldn’t chase him.

            However, the wanderer wasn’t a kind man. He didn’t return the magic candle to the old woman, but kept it for himself.he lit the candle and made a wish , “i want to go far away from here”.

            Suddenly, a genie appeared and took him to a beautiful palace. The wanderer wanted to make some money. So, he lit the candle again and wished for some jewelry. He sold them to the guest and was soon making a lot of money. Then, a princess came to buy some jewelry, but there was nothing left. The wanderer feel in love with her and asked her to marry him. The kind princess said yes, and they got married the next day.

            In his happines, the wanderer told the princess about his adventure and the magic candle. hearingthat, the princess got very angry.At night, she lit the candle and wished the wanderer disoppeared.

            In the morning the wanderer awoke and found himself back in his ugly house in the village.

The Hen with the Silver Eggs

One day, in an Arabian city, a woman went to the market and bought a beautiful hen.

A few days later, to her surprise, the hen she bought laid a silver egg.

 "this is fantastic, i have a silver egg", said woman.

 And she was thinking.

If the hen could only be persuaded to lay more than one egg each day, the woman was sure she would never have to work again.

So the woman decided to make the hen eat more, so that it could lay more eggs. But the only result was that the hen died of indigestion and did not lay more eggs at all. 

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