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‘Go to the beach,’ her grandmother told her. ‘Sit on our favorite bench,’ her grandmother told her. ‘Here’s a sandwich. Wait there until noon,’ her grandmother told her. ‘And then watch closely,’ her grandmother told her. Ambelinda followed her grandmother’s instructions without hesitation. For her grandmother was wonderful, magical, enchanting, and she had raised Ambelinda […]

A long time ago a maid by the name of Hanna tended the three cows of the master, milking them, taking them to pasture in season, and returning with them to the byre each evening, where Hanna ate her gruel and then bedded down on straw in the loft. She was content with her lot, […]