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Choose a wife where the golden
balls will stop”. So the three
princes went up the mountain and
each threw down his ball,
following their father’s order.”
The ball of the eldest one rolled
into a bakeress’ shop, the ball of
the middle brother went into a
butcheress’ shop, and the ball of
the youngest, named Nicolino,
went into a ditch.
The older brothers went at once
where their balls had stopped and
they told the girls that were there
that they would marry them. Later
they started mocking Nicolino,
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