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 The King slapped his thigh for joy. “Why, of course!” said he. “How is it that I did not myself think of such a simple solution? It seems to me, Wizard, that you have easily earned your thousand crowns!”

“Ah, Majesty,” the wizard made answer, “all things are simple when once you know them,”

And in this he was quite right.