ipl Story Hour: Kate Crackernuts

    
  The Sisters Go off to Seek Their Fortune
Her own daughter, Kate, however, took a fine linen cloth and
wrapped it round her sister’s head and took her by the hand
and they both went out to seek their fortune. They went on, and
they went on, and they went on, till they came to a castle. Kate
knocked at the door and asked for a night’s lodging for
herself and a sick sister. They went in and found it was a
king’s castle, who had two sons, and one of them was
sickening away to death and no one could find out what ailed him.
And the curious thing was that whoever watched him at night was
never seen any more. So the king had offered a peck of silver to
anyone who would stop up with him. Now Kate thought that a peck of
silver would go a long way towards finding a cure for Katherine,
so she offered to sit up with him.
 
    

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