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Updated: July 17, 2025
"My mother went home and found the pumpkin-tree where never a tree had been growing before, and at its roots she buried the string of beads. Next morning, bright and early, she went to the pumpkin-tree and called for one pumpkin. Down it dropped from the tree. For a long time my mother and her children were happy and growing fat.
He said that she must bury the string of beads at the foot of the tree. "'That's a pity, exclaimed my mother; 'they are so beautiful. "But the old man declared that she must do as he said, and after that she was to go to the pumpkin-tree every day and ask for as many pumpkins as she wanted.
So my mother washed the coat and waistcoat. Then he asked her if she would comb his hair for him, and she did so. "The old man thanked her kindly, and took from his pocket a string of red beads and made her a present of them. Then he told her to go out behind the house when she got home, and there she'd find a pumpkin-tree growing.
Thimblefinger. "My mother was watching it, and she followed to see where it would go. It went down to the bank of the river. There it found the old man who had given my mother the string of beads, and asked him for something to eat. "'Comb my hair for me, said the old man. "But it refused, and then the old man told it to go to the pumpkin-tree and ask for twenty pumpkins.
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