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Rh &ensp;My sister loved me best of all; &ensp;She laid her kerchief over me, &ensp;And took my bones that they might lie &ensp;Underneath the juniper tree. Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!"

When he had finished, he flew away. He had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went "Click clack, click clack, click clack." Inside the mill were twenty miller's men hewing a stone, and as they went "Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack," the mill went "click clack, click clack, click clack."

The bird settled on a lime-tree in front of the mill and sang—

then one of the men left off,

two more men left off and listened,

then four more left off,

now there were only eight at work,

and now only five,