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THE SEVEN-LEGGED BEAST.

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the tigress and young tigers to be your helpers. Praise he to His name!" Then she embraced her son, and wept bitterly.

Within a short time of these things the king married the princess, and spent the rest of his life in peace and prosperity.[1]

  1. ↑ Cf. article, "The Forbidden Chamber," in Folk-Lore Journal, vol. iii. pp. 193-242, for other stories presenting this prohibition; also en passant, vol. v. p. 66 of the same journal.
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