The shepherd stooped and saw the blood , and cried out : ` Ah ! so it is you , is it ? then take that ! ' and with his stick he gave the puma such a blow on the head that he died then and there . Then the monkey got up and went to the dairy , and drank all the milk he could find . Afterwards he returned home and married , and that is the last we heard of him . -LSB- Adapted from Folk-lore Bresilien . -RSB- The Knights of the Fish Once upon a time there lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night , and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat . But , industrious as he was , he could hardly buy bread and cheese for himself and his wife , and they grew thinner and thinner daily . For a long while whey pretended to each other that they had no appetite , and that a few blackberries from the hedges were a great deal nicer than a good strong bowl of soup . But at length there came a day when the cobbler could bear it no longer , and he threw away his last , and borrowing a rod from a neighbour he went out to fish . Now the cobbler was as patient about fishing as he had been about cobbling . From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream , without hooking anything better than an eel , or a few old shoes , that even he , clever though he was , felt were not worth mending . At length his patience began to give way , and as he undressed one night he said to himself : ` Well , I will give it one more chance ; and if I do n't catch a fish to-morrow , I will go and hang myself . ' He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life . But he nearly fell into the water from surprise , when the fish began to speak to him , in a small , squeaky voice : ` Take me back to your hut and cook me ; then cut me up , and sprinkle me over with pepper and salt . Give two of the pieces to your wife , and bury two more in the garden . ' The cobbler did not know what to make of these strange words ; but he was wiser than many people , and when he did not understand , he thought it was well to obey . His children wanted to eat all the fish themselves , and begged their father to tell them what to do with the pieces he had put aside ; but the cobbler only laughed , and told them it was no business of theirs . And when they were safe in bed he stole out and buried the two pieces in the garden .
By and by two babies , exactly alike , lay XXXXX a cradle , and in the garden were two tall plants , with two brilliant shields on the top .
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