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followed the boy, and, bowing low, laid them down before the king. The monarch looked at the loaves for a moment without speaking, then he said:
'Good. The man who can do this can also find the ring which my eldest daughter dropped into the sea.'
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The prince hastened back to his room and summoned the dove, and when she heard this new command she said: 'Now listen. To-morrow take a knife and a basin and go down to the shore and get into a boat you will find there.'
The young man did not know what he was to do when he was in the boat or where he was to go, but as