THE WONDERFUL BASKET
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was so large that all of them put together could not bring it in.
'I will go and see about it,' answered the girl, and she made it small so that she could easily carry it, but as soon as she laid it down in the house, it became as large as ever. She knelt on the floor and unpacked the basket, and the house could hardly contain all that was in it; and the village people came and feasted likewise. Only the mother ate so much that she grew very ill, and never got any better.
To this day luck befalls every man who hears Mountain Dweller chopping the wood.
