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things by the dozen,' he replied, sitting down in front of the table.
The woman said no more, but set before him a bottle of his favourite wine, and soon he began to wish to display his prize.
'Show me what you can do, cock,' cried he. And the cock stood up and flapped his wings three times, crowing
The Wonderful Cock
'coquerico' with a voice like a trumpet, and at each crow there fell from his beak golden drops, and diamonds as large as peas.
This time Father Grumbler did not invite the inn-keeper's wife to pick up his treasures, but put his own hat under the cock's beak, so as to catch everything he let
