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The Three Presents Adapted from a Ludwig Bechstein story

One day, a wealthy lady passed the house of a young weaver and was so upset by how poor he was, she gave him one hundred gold coins.

The weaver was astounded by his good fortune and couldn’t decide what to do with the coins.

“I’ll talk about it with my wife when she’s home from the market,” he thought. “She’ll know what to do.”

So he hid the money in a basket of

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