The Twelve Dancing Princesses · page 31 2 3201So 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.202And this is why the country girls go about singing:203Nous n’irons plus au bois, Les lauriers sont coupés,204and dancing in summer by the light of the moon.1 2 3← previousOpeningnext →The Princess Mayblossom, part 1↑ back to The Red Fairy BookThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/2/page/3/