[00:02.58]and don't move.
[00:03.90]You must pretend to be dead," he told her.
[00:06.29]Then he lay down beside her,
[00:07.82]crossing his arms over his chest.
[00:09.84]And so they lay and waited.
[00:13.65]Meanwhile, as soon as Matenko had left the
[00:15.54]palace with his purse of coins,
[00:17.68]the King hurried to his wife's chamber
[00:19.56]to tell her that the old jester's wife had died
[00:23.02]"But, my dear, you must be mistaken,"
[00:25.92]said the Queen.
[00:26.84]"It is the jester,
[00:28.18]not the jester's wife who is dead."
[00:31.02]Then they began to quarrel about
[00:32.38]which one of them was right.
[00:33.93]In the end,
[00:34.74]they agreed to go to the jester's cottage
[00:36.29]to find out.
[00:39.18]When they knocked and walked into the little
[00:40.63]cottage they found the candles lit,
[00:43.11]the purses on the sideboard
[00:44.83]and Matenko and Wanda,
[00:46.46]who were obviously dead.
[00:48.79]"But which of them died first?" asked the Queen
[00:52.26]"It must have been Matenko."
[00:54.84]"No, it must have been Wanda," said the King.
[00:58.26]They began to quarrel again,
[00:59.53]when Matenko jumped up from the bed and said,
[01:02.87]"Your Majesty, my wife died first,
[01:05.32]but I was dead before her."
[01:08.19]When they had recovered from their astonishment
[01:10.16]the King and Queen were too happy to see
[01:11.54]the old couple still alive to be really angry.
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