<h3><SPAN name="chap155"></SPAN>155 Brides On Their Trial</h3>
<p>There was once a young shepherd who wished much to marry, and was acquainted
with three sisters who were all equally pretty, so that it was difficult to him
to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to any one of
them. Then he asked his mother for advice, and she said, “Invite all
three, and set some cheese before them, and watch how they eat it.” The
youth did so; the first, however, swallowed the cheese with the rind on; the
second hastily cut the rind off the cheese, but she cut it so quickly that she
left much good cheese with it, and threw that away also; the third peeled the
rind off carefully, and cut neither too much nor too little. The shepherd told
all this to his mother, who said, “Take the third for thy wife.”
This he did, and lived contentedly and happily with her.</p>
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