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title: The Enchanted Pig — The Red Fairy Book · full text with trees · page 3
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# The Enchanted Pig · page 3

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- [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/201/) — Next morning they set out early to return to his father’s kingdom.
- [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/202/) — Great was the rejoicing of all the people when they saw him and his wife; his father and his mother embraced them both, and there was feasting in the palace for three days and three nights.
- [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/203/) — Then they set out to see her father.
- [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/204/) — The old King nearly went out of his mind with joy at beholding his daughter again.
- [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/205/) — When she had told him all her adventures, he said to her:
- [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/206/) — ‘Did not I tell you that I was quite sure that that creature who wooed and won you as his wife had not been born a Pig?
- [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/207/) — You see, my child, how wise you were in doing what I told you.’
- [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/208/) — And as the King was old and had no heirs, he put them on the throne in his place.
- [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/209/) — And they ruled as only kings rule who have suffered many things.
- [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/210/) — And if they are not dead they are still living and ruling happily.
- [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/211/) — \[8\]
- [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/212/) — \[8\] Rumänische Märchen übersetzt von Nite Kremnitz.

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