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A tankard, rapping a table near-by, called Gretchen to her duties There was solance, in the sudden fall of the sood wife," said Carmichael

The vintner scowled at his tankard

"He is not sure of her," thought Carmichael Aloud he said: "What a funny world it is!"

"How?"

"Gretchen is beautiful enough to be a queen, and yet she is merely a Hebe in a tavern"

"Hebe?" suspiciously The peasant is always suspicious of anything he doesn't understand

"Hebe was a cup-bearer to the ods in olden times," Carmichael explained He had set a trap, but the vintner had not fallen into it

"A fairy-story" The vintner nodded; he understood now

Carlance once more rested on the vintner's hand He would lay another trap

"What happened to her?"

"Oh," said Carod one day, and they banished her"