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There was once a poor man who had a large family. He was so poor that he had nothing to feed the children. For three days they had had no food. On the third day as the father was out cutting osiers he saw, sitting in a bush, a small bird that shone like gold.
"If I could snare that bird," he thought to himself, "and take it home, the children would be amused and perhaps forget they were hungry."