` Ah ! ' said the goldsmith , ` you little know what delightful adventures I have had ! Why , down in that place in the river where you threw me in I found meadows , and trees , and fine pastures , and buffaloes , and all kinds of cattle . In fact , I could hardly tear myself away ; but I thought that I must really let you all know about it . ' ` Oh , oh ! ' thought the greedy village people ; ` if there are buffaloes to be had for the taking we 'll go after some too . ' 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 XXXXX 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 .
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