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- [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/201/) — But the Simpleton contradicted them, saying:
- [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/202/) — "They're telling lies! we're carrying money; here, just take a look at it."
- [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/203/) — The Diachok uttered such an "Oh!"--then he flung himself on the gold, and began seizing handfuls of it and stuffing them into his pocket.
- [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/204/) — The Simpleton grew angry, dealt him a blow with his hatchet, and struck him dead.
- [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/205/) — "Heigh, Simpleton! what have you been and done!" cried his brothers. "
- [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/206/) — You're a lost man, and you'll be the cause of our destruction, too!
- [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/207/) — Wherever shall we put the dead body?"
- [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/208/) — They thought and thought, and at last they dragged it to an empty cellar and flung it in there.
- [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/209/) — But later on in the evening the eldest brother said to the second one:--

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