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# The Twelve Dancing Princesses · page 3

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- [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/201/) — So he showed her the two laurels which had helped him, and she, like a prudent girl, thinking they gave him too much advantage over his wife, cut them off at the root and threw them in the fire.
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- [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/203/) — Nous n’irons plus au bois, Les lauriers sont coupés,
- [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/204/) — and dancing in summer by the light of the moon.

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