. Household stories from the collection of the bros. Grimm . •THE -TWELVE • BROTHERS. NCE upon a time there lived a King andQueen very peacefully together ; theyhad twelve children, all boys. Nowthe King said to the Queen one day, If our thirteenth child should bea girl the twelve boys shall die, so thather riches may be the greater, and thekingdom fall to her alone. Then he caused twelve coffins to bemade ; and they Avere filled with shavings, and a little pillowlaid in each, and they were brought and put in a locked-uproom ; and the King gave the key to the Queen, and told herto say nothing
. Household stories from the collection of the bros. Grimm . •THE -TWELVE • BROTHERS. NCE upon a time there lived a King andQueen very peacefully together ; theyhad twelve children, all boys. Nowthe King said to the Queen one day, If our thirteenth child should bea girl the twelve boys shall die, so thather riches may be the greater, and thekingdom fall to her alone. Then he caused twelve coffins to bemade ; and they Avere filled with shavings, and a little pillowlaid in each, and they were brought and put in a locked-uproom ; and the King gave the key to the Queen, and told herto say nothing about it to any one. But the mother sat the whole day sorrowing, so that heryoungest son, who never left her, and to whom she had giventhe Bible name Benjamin, said to her, Dear mother, why are you so sad ? Dearest child, answered she, I dare not tell he let her have no peace until she went and unlockedthe room, and showed him the twelve coffins with the shavingsand the little pillows. Then she said, My dear Benjamin, your father has caused these coffinsto be made for you
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