Two farmers
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There was once upon a time, two farmers, and their names were Hudden and Duden. They had poultry in their yards, sheep on the uplands, and scores of cattle in the meadow land alongside the river, but for all that, they weren't happy. For just between their two farms, there lived a poor man by the name of Donald O'neary. He had a hovel over his head and a strip of grass that was barely enough to keep his one cow Daisy from starving. And though she did her best, it was but seldom that Donald got a drink of milk or a roll of butter from Daisy.
You would think there was little here to make Hudden and Duden jealous, but so it is. The more one has, the more one wants. And Donald's neighbors lay awake of night, scheming how they might get hold of his little strip of grass, lance Daisy, poor thing, they never thought of she was just a bag of bones. Hudden and dudden. One day Hudden met Dudden, and they were soon grumbling as usual, and all to the tune of if only we could get that vagabond Donald O'neri out of the country.
Let's kill Daisy, said Hudden. At last. If that doesn't make him clear out, nothing will. No sooner said than agreed, and it wasn't dark before Hudden and Duden crept up to the little shed, where lay poor Daisy, trying her best to chew the cud, though she hadn't had as much grass in the day as would cover your hand. And when Donald came to see if Daisy was all snug for the night, the poor beast had only time to lick his hand once before she died.
Well, Donald was a shrewd fellow, and downhearted though he was, began to think if he could get any good out of Daisy's death. He thought, and he thought, and the next day you could have seen him trudging off early to the fair, daisy's hide over his shoulder, every penny he had jingling in his pockets. Just before he got to the fair, he made several slits in the hide, put a penny in each slit, walked into the best inn of the town as bold as if it belonged to him, and hanging the hide up to a nail in the wall, sat down. Some of your best whiskey, says he to the landlord. But the landlord didn't like his looks.
Is it fearing I won't pay you? You are, says Donald. Why, I have a hide here that gives me all the money I want. And with that, he hit it a whack with his stick and outhopped a penny. The landlord opened his eyes.
As you may fancy.