"I must be losing my strength", the woodcutter thought.

“我一定是力气越来越小了。”伐木工暗自思忖。

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"The only safe thing for me to do, thought he," is to find a job at once, "and he got up and went to a neighboring woodcutter and hired himself for the day."

他想：“我唯一可以做的保全自己的事，就是马上去找份差事。”于是他站起身来，到邻近的樵夫那里干了一天的活。

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