Extra Reading Notes; A Visitor From Paradise

Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs; A visitor From Paradise; Link

The story starts as a women mishears a man who says he is from Paris and thinks he is from Paradise
She believes that this is where her late husband was and asks the man if he knows him
The man realizes she is bit senile and plays along
She gives the man some of her late husbands things and he also takes a horse
They go looking for the man and end up coming across thieves.
The thieves get spooked by them and they take all the loot they had and live happily ever after

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