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A man and his
wife were sitting n a small room and were lamenting that they were
poor. "Oh," said the man, "if there were only some good fairies who
would say to one, ‘What do you wish for? I will grant it.' Then I
would wish for something that would make me happy, all my life."
The man had scarcely ceased speaking when the door opened and a
beautiful fairy walked in. "I heard the words you spoke, and will
not only grant you one wish, but three, so wish for something good."
And the fairy disappeared.
The poor people were very happy and bethought themselves of
something to wish for. The man said, "Let us eat our dinner first
and meanwhile we will think of something to wish for."
These people were so poor they had only potatoes without either
butter or meat for their dinner, and as they were very hungry the
woman said, "Oh, if I only had a fine sausage!" A sausage came
flying into her room and lay on her plate; a voice said, "One wish
is now fulfilled."
Her husband became very angry and called out, "I only wish the
sausage was hanging to your nose!" the sausage hopped from the plate
and hung on to his wife's nose, and so the second wish was granted.
The poor woman looked very funny with a sausage on her nose; she
lamented and wept and tried every way to take it off, but it hung so
tight that the only thing for her to do was to make another wish and
wish that it was off. Both man and wife exclaimed, "If sausage was
only a thousand mils away!" The sausage immediately flew out of the
window and the people were happy. They made no more wishes and were
satisfied the rest of their lives.
Foolish Wishes
A Fictional Short Story by
Agnes Taylor Ketchum & Ida M. Jorgensen
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