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The Four Skillful Brothers Summary
Four brothers are sent away from home by their father to learn a trade. They return home and show their father the skills they have acquired. Their skills are put to the test when a king's daughter is kidnapped. The king promises to allow the one who saves the girl to marry her. Working together, the four brothers rescue her. The king cannot decide which one actually saved the princess, so instead of choosing one to marry his daughter, he instead gives each brother half a kingdom.
The Four Skillful Brothers Analysis
Although each brother has learned a skill, their greatest accomplishment was learning to work together to achieve a common goal. Notice that his story uses groupings of four instead of groupings of three. There are four brothers and four trades instead of just three.
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