` You shall be that , ' says Seven Inches . ` And now I 'll bid you farewell . Continue as good and kind as you always were ; love your wife ; and that 's all the advice I 'll give you . ' So Seven Inches vanished ; and when the carriage door was opened in the yard , out walks the prince as fine as hands could make him , and the first thing he did was to run over to his bride and embrace her . Every one was full of joy but the two other princes . There was not much delay about the marriages , and they were all celebrated on the one day . Soon after , the two elder couples went to their own courts , but the youngest pair stayed with the old king , and they were as happy as the happiest married couple you ever heard of in a story . From ` West Highland Tales . ' The Story of a Very Bad Boy Once upon a time there lived in a little village in the very middle of France a widow and her only son , a boy about fifteen , whose name was Antoine , though no one ever called him anything but Toueno-Boueno . They were very poor indeed , and their hut shook about their ears on windy nights , till they expected the walls to fall in and crush them , but instead of going to work as a boy of his age ought to do , Toueno-Boueno did nothing but lounge along the street , his eyes fixed on the ground , seeing nothing that went on round him . ` You are very , very stupid , my dear child , ' his mother would sometimes say to him , and then she would add with a laugh , ` Certainly you will never catch a wolf by the tail . ' One day the old woman bade Antoine go into the forest and collect enough dry leaves to make beds for herself and him . Before he had finished it began to rain heavily , so he hid himself in the hollow trunk of a tree , where he was so dry and comfortable that he soon fell fast asleep . By and by he was awakened by a noise which sounded like a dog scratching at the door , and he suddenly felt frightened , why he did not know . Very cautiously he raised his head , and right above him he saw a big hairy animal , coming down tail foremost . ` It is the wolf that they talk so much about , ' he said to himself , and he made himself as small as he could and shrunk into a corner . The wolf came down the inside of the tree , slowly , slowly ; Antoine felt turned to stone , so terrified was he , and hardly dared to breathe . Suddenly an idea entered his mind , which he thought might save him still . He remembered to have heard from his mother that a wolf could neither bend his back nor turn his head , so as to look behind him , and quick as lightning he stretched up his hand , and seizing the wolf 's tail , pulled it towards him . Then he left the tree and dragged the animal to his mother 's house .
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