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It happened this way. One Monday morning, Marthe and Juliette were having breakfast in the Solarium when the quaintest little old beggar woman came knocking at the back door. Juliette was suffering from a headache, and called out to the poor old thing to go away, while Marthe did what they normally would in this circumstance, and acting out of very appropriate charity, wrapped up some crusts of day old bread in brown paper, and sent the woman on her way with a few kind words.
That very same night, after supper, the sweetest and shyest of the three sisters, Germaine, was doing the washing up, and so was alone in the kitchen. Well, wouldn't you just know it, the very same beggar woman came knocking at the door, but when Germaine looked for the day old crusts, there were none left to give, so she took half a baguette left over from their meal, a ripe peach, and half a bottle of beaujolais, and then finding no brown paper, wrapped it all up in a clean piece of linen she'd used to practice some lovely embroidery work the week before.
When the old woman cast her eyes on what Germaine put into her hands, she leapt into the air with a whoop and a whistle, spinning about three times before her feet had yet again touched the ground, and then ran off, all a'skitter and a'skatter, much to the surprise of Germaine, who could only shake her head, smile a gentle smile and say," Poor old thing."
Well, that very next morning, Juliette awoke with a little of the same bothersome headache she'd suffered from the day before,
Marthe awoke with twice the brains she'd gone to bed with,
And Germaine? Germaine woke up with incredible confidence, a head of perfectly shiny and marvelously spit-curled hair, Gypsy eyes, and feet that just naturally knew all the new dance steps! Furthermore, even in the bath, her hair never lost its perfect shape and shine. When she put on a strand of pearls they naturally wound themselves about her neck in the sexiest possible way, and the strand never broke unless there was a terribly handsome young man there to pick them all up with her.
Now, you may think that Marthe got a bit of a raw deal, since she, after all, did what was kind, charitable and proper, but the truth is, she was never particularly racy to begin with. And with her newly enhanced intelligence, she wrote a bestselling existential fantasy, had a short, steamy affair with Jean Paul Sarte, had no difficulty at all working out both the forward and reverse modes of the Charleston, and oh yes, invented a headache cure for poor Juliette, who soon became so very cheerful and chic, that she gave even Germaine quite a run for her money.
So you see, they all three of them, three being a very lucky number indeed, lived quite happily ever after.
A very nice unposted card in fine condition, but with album paste residue on the back side's four corners.