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(1899) [MARC] Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Selma Ahlström Trotz
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a great man’s wife

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" However it was a very beautiful horse, and a
young gentleman in Palermo, Prince Montefiascone,
became very much charmed with it. ’ There is no
more joy for me, if I cannot buy that horse,’ he
said to his steward. ’ Signor Duca,’ answered his
steward,* I can tell you where you can find a gold coin.
When your father died and was taken away to the
Capuchins, I placed, according to ancient custom, a
gold coin in his mouth. Why not take that, signor ? ’
" For know, Donna Micaela, that in Palermo
they do not bury their dead in the ground. They
convey them to the monastery of the Capuchins,
and hang them up in their sepulchers. Ah, how
many there are hanging in those chambers ! So
many ladies dressed in silk and silver-gauze, so
many grand gentlemen with orders on their
dress-coats, and so many priests in gown and calotte, over
the skeleton and death-skull.

" The young prince followed the advice. He
proceeded to the Capuchin’s monastery, took the gold
coin out of his father’s mouth, and bought the horse
with it.

" But mark that the king had sent out his servant
with the horse only to find out if any one still
possessed money. And now the prince was brought
before the king. ’ How happens it that you still
have gold coins?’ said Guglielmo the Wicked.
4 Sire, it was not mine, it was my father’s. And
he related how he had got the coin. ’ You speak
truly,’ said the king. 41 had forgotten that the
dead still own money.’ And he sent his servants
to the Capuchins and had all the coins removed
from the mouths of the dead."

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