Not A Pin To Choose Between Them
by Sir George Webbe DesentGenre: Folktale
Setting: Fantasy
Format of Original Source: Short Story
Recommended Adaptation Length:
Candidate for Adaptation? Promising
EXCERPT:
Once on a time there was a man, and he had a wife. Now this couple wanted to sow their fields, but they had neither seed-corn nor money to buy it with. But they had a cow, and the man was to drive it into town and sell it, to get money to buy corn for seed. But when it came to the pinch, the wife dared not let her husband start for fear he should spend the money in drink, so she set off herself with the cow, and took besides a hen with her.
Close by the town she met a butcher, who asked:
‘Will you sell that cow, Goody?’
‘Yes, that I will’, she answered.
‘Well, what do you want for her?’
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