THE THREE WISHES
A poor woodcutter earned just enough money for two square meals for his wife and himself. One day, he was about to cut down a peepal tree, when a woman’s voice called out to him. He spun around, but saw nobody! She spoke again, saying that she was a fairy. She beseeched him to spare the peepal tree as she lived in it, and instead promised him three wishes. Feeling sorry for her, the woodcutter cut another tree. When he returned, he told his wife about the fairy and the three wishes. As she set out a dish of porridge for him, the disappointed farmer said: ‘I wish fresh hot loaves of bread would pour down from the chimney.’ Immediately, fresh hot loaves floated out of the chimney! His wife was angry to see that one wish had been wasted and said: ‘I wish these would hang from the tip of your nose.’ And that’s exactly what happened! The woodcutter cursed his wife. She said they still had one wish left and could ask for all the world’s riches. In pain, the farmer cried out: T wish these bread loaves would leave my nose and go where they came from.’ At that, the loaves floated up out of the chimney!
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