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Then Lina said: 'Fundevogel, never leave me, and I will never

leave you.' Fundevogel said: 'Neither now; nor ever.' Said Lina:

'Then do you become a church, and I'll be the chandelier in it.'

So when the three servants came, nothing was there but a church,

with a chandelier in it. They said therefore to each other: 'What

can we do here, let us go home.' When they got home, the cook

asked if they had not found them; so they said no, they had found

nothing but a church, and there was a chandelier in it. And the

cook scolded them and said: 'You fools! why did you not pull the

church to pieces, and bring the chandelier home with you?' And

now the old cook herself got on her legs, and went with the three

servants in pursuit of the children. The children, however, saw

from afar that the three servants were coming, and the cook

waddling after them.