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The twelve months.
(Translatd from the French. 1/4/20)
I.

A peasant, who was left a widow,
lived with her two daughters into
a pretty house, near the forest. This
peasnat was ugly and wicked. The
eldest of the two daughters, who was
a step-daughter, was named Mary; the
second, who was as ugly as her mother,
was named Henrietta. The peasant
worshipped her daughter, but she
detested Mary, because she was as
beautiful as her sister was ugly. The
good Mary did not know that she
was pretty. She did not understand
why her mother

It poor child who did
all in the house: she was obliged to
to sweep, to cook, to wash, to sew, to
spin, to weave, to cut the grass, to watch
the cow. Henrietta did nothing, she
lived like a princess.Mary worked
gladly and received the reproaches and