Atondido Stories
“Not so, old dog!” cried the woman. “It’s chink-chink before
him, and chink-chink behind him!”
But the old dog kept on barking and saying:
“No, no, bow-wow, it’s rattle-rattle before him and rattle-
rattle behind him!”
In a rage the woman took a stick and beat the dog.
Then the man stepped into the cottage and at once his wife
brought out a basket for the ducats. But when he shook out the
table-cloth there was only the rattle-rattle of bones.
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