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# Two in a Sack · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/101/) — Here are two ruffians pommelling me fit to break my bones.’
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/102/) — Her husband only strolled up and down and laughed, as he said: ‘Yes, they’ll beat you well, old lady.’
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/103/) — And the two thumped away and sang again:
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/104/) — ‘Blows will hurt, remember, crone, We mean you well, we mean you well; In future leave the stick alone,
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/105/) — For how it hurts, you now can tell, One--two--’
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/106/) — At last her husband took pity on her, and cried:
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/107/) — ‘Two into the sack.’
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/108/) — He had hardly said the words before they were back in the sack again.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/109/) — From this time the man and his wife lived so happily together that it was a pleasure to see them, and so the story has an end.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/110/) — (From Russiche Marchen.)

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