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He left the government of the kingdom to the queen his mother, and earnestly recommended to her the care of his wife and ehildren.
As soon as he was departed, the queen sent for her daughter-in-law to come to her, and then sent her to a country house among the woods, that she might with more ease and secrccy gratify her inclinations.
Some few days after she went to this country house herself, and ealling for the clerk of the kitchen, she said to him, I have a mind to eat little Morning for my dinner to-morrow.
Ah! madam, eried the clerk of the kitehen, in a very great surprise. No cxcuse, replied she, interrupting him; I will have it so;—and this she spoke in the tone of an ogress, seeming te have a strong desire to taste fresh meet. And to make the dish more delieious, added she, I will cat her with sauce made of Robert.
This poor man, knowing very well how dangerous it was to play tricks with ogresses, took his great knifc and went up into little Morning’s chamber. She was then four years old, and came up to him leaping and laughing, to take him about the neek, and asked him for some sugar eandy, on which he began to weep, and the knife fell out of his hand; and he went into the back yard and killed a lamb, which he dressed with
