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the young servant to pick up all the                                                                                         and was neatly bagged up again, and



            seeds by the morning. The servant                                                                                            next to it stood the ant that he had




            sat down in the grassy plain and                                                                                             saved earlier. The ant and his people



            considered how it might be possible                                                                                          had picked up all the seed and put



            to perform this task, but nothing                                                                                            in them back into the bag while the




            came to mind as these small seed                                                                                             servant was sleeping.



            were hardly visible to the human                                                                                             Moments later the king's daughter



            eye, how was he suppose to pick                                                                                              walked down to the garden only to




            them up. The young servant gave up                                                                                           be amazed, to see that the young man



            and took a long nap and waited his                                                                                           had done the task she had given him.




            death the next morning. The next                                                                                             But she could not yet conquer her



            morning the young servant woke up                                                                                            proud heart, told the young servant




            and to his surprise all the seeds on                                                                                         to complete one last task before they



            the patch of  grass were picked up                                                                                           are to be wed. She told him to go and
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