And he rushed out of the house as if he were running after some one , whom no one else saw . The barber , determined not to lose his razor , pursued the man , and they both continued running at full speed till they had got well out of the town , when all of a sudden the man fell head foremost down a precipice , and never was seen again . So he too , like the others , had been forced against his will to follow the voice that called him . The barber , who went home whistling and congratulating himself on the escape he had made , described what had happened , and it was noised abroad in the country that the people who had gone away , and had never returned , had all fallen into that pit ; for till then they had never known what had happened to those who had heard the voice and obeyed its call . But when crowds of people went out from the town to examine the ill-fated pit that had swallowed up such numbers , and yet never seemed to be full , they could discover nothing . All that they could see was a vast plain , that looked as if it had been there since the beginning of the world . And from that time the people of the country began to die like ordinary mortals all the world over . -LRB- 13 -RRB- -LRB- 13 -RRB- Roumanian Tales from the German of Mite Thremnitz . THE SIX SILLIES ONCE upon a time there was a young girl who reached the age of thirty-seven without ever having had a lover , for she was so foolish that no one wanted to marry her . One day , however , a young man arrived to pay his addresses to her , and her mother , beaming with joy , sent her daughter down to the cellar to draw a jug of beer . As the girl never came back the mother went down to see what had become of her , and found her sitting on the stairs , her head in her hands , while by her side the beer was running all over the floor , as she had forgotten to close the tap . ` What are you doing there ? ' asked the mother . ' I was thinking what I shall call my first child after I am married to that young man . All the names in the calendar are taken already . ' The mother sat down on the staircase beside her daughter and said , ' I will think about it with you , my dear . ' The father who had stayed upstairs with the young man was surprised that neither his wife nor his daughter came back , and in his turn went down to look for them . He found them both sitting on the stairs , while beside them the beer was running all over the ground from the tap , which was wide open . ` What are you doing there ? The beer is running all over the cellar . '
` We were thinking what we should call the children XXXXX our daughter will have when she marries that young man .
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