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                            wedding ceremony there was a great feast, with music and dancing and contests
                            and games.
         
                            The minister's daughter had just gotten married. After the
                            wedding ceremony there was a great feast, with music and dancing and contests
                            and games. 
         
                              When they got to playing hide-and-seek, the bride decided to hide in her
                              grandfather's trunk up in the attic. 
         
                                "They'll never find me there," she thought. 
         
                                  As she was climbing into the trunk, the lid came down and cracked her on
                                  the head, as she fell unconscious inside. The lid slammed shut and locked. 
         
                                    No one will ever know how long she called for help or how hard she struggled
                                    to free herself from that tomb. Everyone in the village searched for her,
                                    and they looked almost everywhere. But no one thought of looking in the
                                    trunk. After a week her brand-new bridegroom and all the others gave her
                              up for lost. 
                                   
                            Years later a maid went up into the attic looking for something she needed.
  "Maybe
                            it is in the trunk," she thought. She opened it - and screamed. There lay
                            the missing bride in her wedding dress, but by then she was only a skeleton. 
                          
                             
 
                            
                              
                                    
                              
                                    
                              
                            
                            