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Step on a tin, the tin bends. This is how my story ends.
Such things do happen, you know. (Russian gypsy)
That was just the beginning.
That's all there is!
That's all.
That's the way my grand mammy told me. And there's no contradicting this, for she heard it
with her own ears, just as you're hearing' it with yours.
The dreamer awakes, the shadow goes by, / When I tell you a tale, the tale is a lie. / But
listen to me, fair maiden, proud youth, / The tale is a lie, what it tells is the truth.
The end.
The happy pair lived in good health and cheer for many a long and prosperous year.
(Russian gypsy)
The happy pair lived long in peace and happiness by day and night. (Russian gypsy)
The moral of the story is quite simple: If you insist on inventing stories, you had better marry
an even better storyteller to back you up.
The tale is told. The tale is told.
The world is a story without a beginning we tell to each other from the day that we're born to
the day that we die.
Then three apples fell from heaven. One for the storyteller, one for he who listens, and one
for he who understands.
There now, I have chopped off half the winter.
There you have it.
There's many, many more like 'em, an' come some other time, maybe I'll tell you 'other.
They feasted and they drank, and if the wine hadn't run out, I'd still be there with them
instead of here talking to you.
They grew to be very old, and lived happily all the days of their life.
They had a great feast, and here we are with nothing!They lived happily ever after and were
never bothered again.
They lived happily ever after and were never bothered again.
They lived in peace, they died in peace, and there were buried in a pot of candle grease.
(Bahama)
They reached a ripe old age and died in peace. (Russia)