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—He acted in a most absurd and blundering way. It wouldn't be easy for him to ask three wishes more useless than the three that he asked for. I don't know in the world what came over him. He was to have three wishes at his own choice and judgment, and he could have them without any condition or impediment, and he must needs go and trample them under foot,