And they replied , ` How should we not hear you ? Are you not our father as well as our brother ? ' ` Then this is my advice . Let us take our sister back to our father and mother , that we may see them once more before they die . ' And the young men agreed , and they mounted their horses and placed their sister in a litter on the camel . So they set out . At the end of five days ' journey they reached the old home where their father and mother dwelt alone . And the heart of their father rejoiced , and he said to them , ` Dear sons , why did you go away and leave your mother and me to weep for you night and day ? ' ` Dear father , ' answered the son , ` let us rest a little now , and then I will tell you everything from the beginning . ' ` All right , ' replied the father , and waited patiently for three days . And on the morning of the fourth day the eldest brother said , ` Dear father , would you like to hear our adventures ? ' ` Certainly I should ! ' ` Well , it was our aunt who was the cause of our leaving home , for we agreed that if the baby was a sister she should wave a white handkerchief , and if it was a brother , she should brandish a sickle , for then there would be nothing to come back for , and we might wander far away . Now our aunt could not bear us , and hated us to live in the same house with her , so she brandished the sickle , and we went away . That is all our story . ' And that is all this story . -LSB- Märchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis . Von Hans Stumme . -RSB- THE WHITE WOLF Once upon a time there was a king who had three daughters ; they were all beautiful , but the youngest was the fairest of the three . Now it happened that one day their father had to set out for a tour in a distant part of his kingdom .
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