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Once upon a time there lived an old man and his old wife, and they had no children, and what on earth did they not do to get them! How did not they beseech God! But for all that the wife bore no children. One day the old man went into the forest to look for mushrooms, and an old gaffer met him.
"I know your thoughts. You are thinking of children," he said. "Go to the village and collect one little egg from every house and put a brood hen over them, and, what will ensue, you will yourself see."