[Original]

‘Why, you are twelve miles from Hergnies,’ said the farmer; and he gave Johnny a sheaf of corn, and sent him on his road.

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Well, Johnny lost himself again, and sat down against a wall and lunched off part of his hunch of bread.

[Original]

Then, as he was tired, he fell asleep, and a chicken came and ate all the grains of corn out of his sheaf. Then Johnny woke, and when he found he had nothing left of his sheaf but straw he fell a-crying.