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THE JUNIPER TREE

And when he had done singing, he flew away, holding the shoes in one claw and the chain in the other. And he flew a long, long way off, till at last he came to a mill. The mill was going clipper! clapper! clipper! clapper! and in the mill were twenty millers, who were all hard at work hewing a millstone; and the millers hewed, hick! hack! hick! hack! and the mill went on, clipper! clapper! clipper! clapper!

So the bird perched upon a linden tree close by the mill, and began its song:

here two of the millers left off their work and listened:

now all the millers but one looked up and left their work:

Just as the song was ended, the last miller heard it, and started up, and said, "O bird! how sweetly you 212