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THE BEAR AND THE OLD MAN'S DAUGHTERS.

There was once an old man and he had three little daughters, and one day he said to them: “I am going out into the fields to plough, and you, my little daughters, bake me a loaf and bring it to me.” “But how are we to find you, daddy?” they said.

“As I go along,” he said, “I shall drop shavings in a row along the path, and that will help you to find me.” And as the old man rode along he threw down the shavings one after the other, and a bear came and drew them all aside on to the path that led to his den.