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Brewery of Eggshells
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and listened. Then she heard one of the children say to the other:

          Acorn before oak I knew,
              An egg before a hen,
          But I never heard of an eggshell brew
              A dinner for harvest men.

So she went back into the house, seized the children and threw them into the Llyn, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended.