Encouraged by the goldsmith they nearly all ran off the very next morning to the river ; and , in order that they might get down quickly to the beautiful place the goldsmith told them of , they tied great stones on to their feet and their necks , and one after another they jumped into the water as fast as the could , and were drowned . And whenever any one of them waved his hands about and struggled the goldsmith would cry out : ` Look ! he 's beckoning the rest of you to come ; he 's got a fine buffalo ! ' And others who were doubtful would jump in , until not one was left . Then the cunning goldsmith went back and took all the village for himself , and became very rich indeed . But do you think he was happy ? Not a bit . Lies never made a man happy yet . Truly , he got the better of a set of wicked and greedy people , but only by being wicked and greedy himself ; and , as it turned out , when he got so rich he got very fat ; and at last was so fat that he could n't move , and one day he got the apoplexy and died , and no one in the world cared the least bit . The Enchanted Wreath -LSB- Told by a Pathan to Major Campbell . -RSB- Once upon a time there lived near a forest a man and his wife and two girls ; one girl was the daughter of the man , and the other the daughter of his wife ; and the man 's daughter was good and beautiful , but the woman 's daughter was cross and ugly . However , her mother did not know that , but thought her the most bewitching maiden that ever was seen . One day the man called to his daughter and bade her come with him into the forest to cut wood . They worked hard all day , but in spite of the chopping they were very cold , for it rained heavily , and when they returned home , they were wet through . Then , to his vexation , the man found that he had left his axe behind him , and he knew that if it lay all night in the mud it would become rusty and useless . So he said to his wife : ' I have dropped my axe in the forest , bid your daughter go and fetch it , for mine has worked hard all day and is both wet and weary . ' But the wife answered : ` If your daughter is wet already , it is all the more reason that she should go and get the axe . Besides , she is a great strong girl , and a little rain will not hurt her , while my daughter would be sure to catch a bad cold . ' By long experience the man knew there was no good saying any more , and with a sigh he told the poor girl she must return to the forest for the axe . The walk took some time , for it was very dark , and her shoes often stuck in the mud , but she was brave as well as beautiful and never thought of turning back merely because the path was both difficult and unpleasant .
At last , with her dress torn by brambles that she could not see , and her fact scratched by the twigs on the trees , she reached the spot where she and her father had been cutting in the morning , and found the axe in the place he had XXXXX it .
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