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 forest he thought he heard a little boy crying. He looked around everywhere until he found a fox’s hole.

“Oho!” he said to himself. “I believe that wicked old Lishka must have stolen Budulinek! She’s probably keeping him here with her own three children! I’ll soon find out.”

So he put down his organ and began to play. And as he played he sang softly:

Old Lishka heard the music playing and she said to her oldest child:

“Here, son, give the old man a penny and tell him to go away because my head aches.”

So the oldest little fox climbed out of the hole and gave the organ-grinder a penny and said:

“My mother says, please will you go away because her head aches.”

As the organ-grinder reached over to take the penny, he caught the oldest little fox and stuffed him into a sack. Then he went on playing and singing: