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In a village of Musashi Province
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there lived two woodcutters:
Mosaku and Minokichi.
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Mosaku was an old man
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and Minokichi, his apprentice,
was a boy of eighteen.
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Everyday, they went to a forest
a few miles away
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from the village.
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One cold day, a great snowstorm
overtook them on their way home.