When it was over , Iliane summoned Fet-Fruners before her , and addressed him thus : ` Fet-Fruners ! it is you who brought me and have saved my life , and obeyed my wishes . It is you who gave me back my stud ; you who killed the genius , and the old witch his mother ; you who brought me the holy water . And you , and none other , shall be my husband . ' ` Yes , I will marry you , ' said the young man , with a voice almost as soft as when he was a princess . ` But know that in OUR house , it will be the cock who sings and not the hen ! ' -LRB- From Sept Contes Roumains , Jules Brun and Leo Bachelin . -RRB- THE STORY OF HALFMAN In a certain town there lived a judge who was married but had no children . One day he was standing lost in thought before his house , when an old man passed by . ` What is the matter , sir , said he , ` you look troubled ? ' ` Oh , leave me alone , my good man ! ' ` But what is it ? ' persisted the other . ` Well , I am successful in my profession and a person of importance , but I care nothing for it all , as I have no children . ' Then the old man said , ` Here are twelve apples . If your wife eats them , she will have twelve sons . ' The judge thanked him joyfully as he took the apples , and went to seek his wife . ` Eat these apples at once , ' he cried , ` and you will have twelve sons . ' So she sat down and ate eleven of them , but just as she was in the middle of the twelfth her sister came in , and she gave her the half that was left . The eleven sons came into the world , strong and handsome boys ; but when the twelfth was born , there was only half of him .
By-and-by they all grew into men , and one day they told their father it was high time he found wives XXXXX them . '
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