Now it happened once that as the spindle was bloody, she dipped it into the well to wash it, but it slipped out of her hand and fell in.  Then she began to cry and ran to her stepmother to tell her of her misfortune, and her stepmother scolded her without mercy and said in her rage,  »As you have let the spindle fall in, you must go and fetch it out again!« 

 

 

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