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by love that they forget this great
danger and declared themselves as
suitor. This had also happened to the
young servant, as he glanced into
the beauty of the princesses he ran
up to the king to declare himself a
suitor. The king accepted his offer
and took the young lad out to the
ocean. When taken to the sea the found the ring. All the people felt
king threw in a golden ring into the sorrow for the young servant and
ocean. The task was simply to fetch went away and left him to complete
him the ring in which he had just his task.
threw into the ocean, but the catch He stood on the shore and
was he was not to return until he considered what he should do, when