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A certain queen wished to have a palace built of the bones of
all kinds of birds. The king ordered birds to be caught, and the
building was begun. Bones of all kinds were brought and cleaned,
and the walls were rising, but they could not find a hedge-sparrow,
and, as the queen wanted all sorts of birds, a search was made for the
missing one. At last the hedge-sparrow was found, and brought before
the king, who asked where she had been. 'Mighty monarch! I have been
flying all over the kingdom counting the men and women; unfortunately
there are twice as many women as men.' The king ordered the bird
to be punished for telling him such a shameless falsehood. 'King of
kings,' said the hedge-sparrow, 'perhaps I did not count in the same
way as you do.' 'How did you count, then?' 'I counted all those men
who are under the slipper of women as old women.' The hedge-sparrow
thus hinted that the king himself was an old woman, because he had
not strength of mind enough to resist the foolish whims of his wife.