The Magpie Or The Maid

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This work presents an interesting children's poem about a young maid named Annette who falls in love with a man named Blaisot while working as a servant for a wealthy farmer. When Annette's father shows up at the farmhouse, she discovers that he has committed a crime and is in danger of punishment. Annette sells her father's silverware to a Jewish peddler for gold and plans to use the money to help her father. However, when she returns to the tree where she had hidden the gold, she is confronted by Julianne, the farmer's wife, who has discovered the missing silverware. The poem ends with Annette's fate uncertain.