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Rh "That means that my sons never put the brush back into its place and say the proper blessing."

"Then I went to lie under the fence, and I heard a cry: 'Pull me out and stick me in again!

"That means that the stick's upside-down."

"Then I went and lay under the cauldron. And I heard a cry of 'I am hanging on the cross-beam! I am falling on the cross-beam!

"That means," said the master, "that, when I die, my entire house will fall."