Hearing this, the shoemaker ran out of doors in his shirtsleeves, and looked up at his roof, and had to hold his hand in front of his eyes to keep the sun from blinding him. Bird, said he, how beautifully you can sing.

then he called in at his door, Wife, come outside. There is a bird here. Look at this bird. He certainly can sing. Then he called his daughter and her children, and the journeyman, and the apprentice, and the maid, and they all came out into the street and looked at the bird and saw how beautiful he was, and what fine red and GREen feathers he had, and how his neck was like pure gold, and how his eyes shone like stars in his head.

Bird, said the shoemaker, now sing that song again for me.

No, said the bird, I do not sing twice for nothing. You must give me something.

Wife, said the man, go into the shop. There is a pair of red shoes on the top shelf. Bring them down. Then the wife went and brought the shoes.

there, bird, said the man, now sing that piece again for me. Then the bird came and took the shoes in his left claw, and flew back to the roof, and sang:

My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.

When he had finished his song he flew away. In his right claw he had the chain and in his left one the shoes. He flew far away to a mill, and the mill went clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack. In the mill sat twenty millers apprentices cutting a stone, and chiseling chip-chop, chip-chop, chip-chop. And the mill went clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack.

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