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there was a young shepherd, who wished much to marry. He was acquainted with
three sisters. They were all equally pretty. So it was difficult to him to
make a choice. He could not decide, which one to take.
Then he asked his mother for advice. The mother said, "Invite all three to your home. Serve some cheese to 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 very quickly. She left much good cheese
with it, and threw that away too.
The third sister peeled the rind off carefully, and cut neither too much nor too
little.
The shepherd told all this to his mother, and she said, "Take the third for your wife."
The shepherd took advise of his mother.
He married the third sibling, and they lived happily ever after.
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