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Ferko, a attractive young man, was born into an extremely poor family with very wicked brothers. Because the family is so poor, the parents have to send the three brothers away, with only a loaf of bakery each. The brothers gang up on Ferko while he's sleeping, stealing his bakery and convincing him he used it in his sleeping. Taking advantage of his starvation, they trick him into allowing them to blind him and break his lower limbs. They leave him to pass away, but Ferko stumbles across a marvelous healing lake and can save himself. He also will take the time to save three wounded creatures - a wolf, a mouse, and a bee. Ferko, well and healed, finds a kingdom where he plans on requesting the King to use him in. To his dismay, he sees his brothers have been taken in to the King's service. The brothers fear that Ferko will inform the King what they have done, and immediately go directly to the King and tell him that Ferko is an evil magician who will steal his child. But when Ferko's brothers go after him again, by making use of the King, Ferko can utilize the three creatures whose lives he previously once kept. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish copy writer who accumulated fairy and folk stories from various ethnicities and put them together in twelve amounts of stories. He was observed for taking the stories from as many original sources as is possible, keeping the fairy stories near to their expected meanings.
