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title: Opening, part 11 — The Orange Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 2
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# Opening, part 11 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/101/) — For as he can't swim he'll drown, and we sha'n't have any more trouble with him!'
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/102/) — Now the goldsmith really could not swim, and as soon as he was thrown into the deep river he sank below the surface; so his enemies went away believing that they had seen the last of him.
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/103/) — But, in reality, he was carried down, half drowned, below the next bend in the river, where he fortunately came across a 'snag' floating in the water (a snag is, you know, a part of a tree or bush which floats very nearly under the surface of the water); and he held on to this snag, and by great good luck eventually came ashore some two or three miles down the river.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/104/) — At the place where he landed he came across a fine fat cow buffalo, and immediately he jumped on her back and rode home.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/105/) — When the village people saw him, they ran out in surprise, and said:

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