" The brothers were pleased with this decision, and said, "It is
better thus than that we should be at variance with each other." Then
each of them received half a kingdom, and they lived with their father
in the greatest happiness as long as it pleased God.
130 One-eye, Two-eyes, and Three-eyes
THERE was once a woman who had three daughters, the eldest of whom
was called One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her
forehead, and the second, Two-eyes, because she had two eyes like other
folks, and the youngest, Three-eyes, because she had three eyes; and her
third eye was also in the centre of her forehead. However, as Two-eyes
saw just as other human beings did, her sisters and her mother could not
endure her. They said to her, "Thou, with thy two eyes, art no better than
the common people; thou dost not belong to us!" They pushed her about, and
threw old clothes to her, and gave her nothing to eat but what they left,
and did everything that they could to make her unhappy. It came to pass
that Two-eyes had to go out into the fields and tend the goat, but she
was still quite hungry, because her sisters had given her so little to
eat.
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