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hills to cut wood. That is, the kind one cut all the wood
since the mean and spiteful one was very lazy and was always telling
his companion;
"Ay!, how sick I am today. It is better if you go and cut the
wood this week." His partner, being kind-hearted, would go into the
mountains and do all the work week after week.
One day, when the mean one had stayed at home as usual, the
good woodcutter worked very hard and was very tired. Since his
house was far away, he decided to camp near a small spring. About
midnight, the woodcutter heard someone singing. At first he thought
that somebody had camped near by but when he had listened to what
3was being sung, he realized that the voices he heard were not human.
Very cautiously he arose and silently walked to the place where
the singing came from. Imagine his surprise when he saw a group of
fairies singing and dancing around a blazing fire.
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday three,
Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday three.
That was all the fairies sang, they repeated the same line over
and over again. It seemed that it was the only song they knew. The
woodcutter then decided that he would talk to them. Naturally, as
soon as he heard them singing again, he went near the fire and the
fairies saw him at once.
"What do you want, oh mortal?" asked the fairies. "Why do you
come to bother us?"
"Because I can help you. Listen tome and you will see that your
song will sound better this way." Then he sang:
4Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday three,
Thursday and Friday and Saturday six.
Oh! The fairies were filled with joy. They noticed then that the
good woodcutter was a hunchback. They told him to kneel down a