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Task: recovering crown from sea.

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“" " All right," answered the tailor, " if only it suits you to go into a big town where there is no lack of work." "That is just where I want to go," answered the shoemaker. " In a small nest there is nothing to earn, and in the country, people like to go barefoot." They travelled therefore onwards together, and always set one foot before the other like a weasel in the snow. Both of them had time enough, but little to bite and to break.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 107 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Task: recovering lost object from sea.

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Task: recovering lost ring from seaTask: recovering lost key from seaTask: recovering strap from seaTask: recovering pen from seaTask: recovering lost fish-hook. Done by Sea-kingTask: recovering cooking-spit from sea
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Speaking beeTask: building exact replica of castle in wax
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