There was once a young girl who was so lazy that one day, in sheer desperation, her mother began to beat her. At that very moment, the queen happened to pass by and, hearing the commotion, she went in to see what the cause was. The mother was so ashamed of the truth of the matter that what she finally said was the exact opposite: ‘My daughter insists on working day and night on her spinning wheel, but I can’t afford the flax.’The queen had always been very impressed by people who worked hard, and so she look the young woman to the palace and left her with three huge chambers full of flax, ‘When you have spun this flax,’ said the queen, ‘you shall marry my son.’
The young girl obviously did not even know where to begin. Luckily her three cousins came to her aid, and they were all highly skilled spinners. Unfortunately, as a result of acquiring this skill, one had an enormous foot from constantly working the pedal to make the wheel turn; the second had a thumb which was horribly swollen from twisting the flax, and the third, from constantly wetting the flax, had a grotesquely wetting the flax, had q grotesquely large bottom lip.
When the queen’s son, the prince, saw the three cousins, he at once ordered his wife-to-be never go to near a spinning wheel again.
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