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What the Straws Said.

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On the lake there glided a boat, and the
party within it sang Swedish and Danish songs;
but by the shore, under that tall, hanging birch,
sat four young girls – so pretty – so sylph-like!
and they each plucked up from the grass four
long straws, and bound these straws two and
two together, at the top and the bottom.

“We shall now see if they will come together
in a square,” said the girls: “if it be so, then
that which I think of will be fulfilled,” and they
bound them, and they thought.

No one got to know the secret thought, the

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