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And he turned his tail around.

Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door. She stood up and opened it, and she saw a small black impet with a long tail. He looked at her and asked

I’ll shut you here tomorrow with some food and some flax, and if you do not spin five skeins by the night, .” And he went away.

There was nothing in it but a spinning-wheel and a stool

However, the last day of the last month he takes her to a new room.

she thought only about a grand marriage.

she took her spinning to the door,

If you plant them over-night, by morning they grow right up to the sky[65].”

And all the day the girl was trying to guess his name in order to[12] say it when the impet came at night.