. Children's ballads from history and folklore . She picked up the glittering circlet of gold; The King then commanded the heralds to stand Her big woollen apron in many a fold .^nd blow from each corner the news thro the She wrapped round her treasure without more land, delay, That the maids of Russia of every degree, And then, undiscovered, soft trotted away. Might search if they would, all diligently. • A maiden Im seeking whose tidy and iitat,To milk and make butter, and cut up my peat,To dust and to sweep, and to go to the mill,And care for my geese when Im bu^y or ill. Then Drontha said
. Children's ballads from history and folklore . She picked up the glittering circlet of gold; The King then commanded the heralds to stand Her big woollen apron in many a fold .^nd blow from each corner the news thro the She wrapped round her treasure without more land, delay, That the maids of Russia of every degree, And then, undiscovered, soft trotted away. Might search if they would, all diligently. • A maiden Im seeking whose tidy and iitat,To milk and make butter, and cut up my peat,To dust and to sweep, and to go to the mill,And care for my geese when Im bu^y or ill. Then Drontha said quickly, Take me for your maid, Of hard work I am not in the least stranc;e how thick goose-girls appeared on For Drontha the oracle kept in her mind, each hand ! For perhaps it is /who the crown shall find ! Old crones, too, for mistresses, came in demand !Small service they got, when their poor backs were ^^ turned —To hunt for that crown every girls fingers
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