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I shall deceive the queen once more, by giving her another young kid in your stead.
Upon this he forthwith conducted her to her chamber, where he left her to embrace her children, and cry aloud with them; and he then went and dressed a young kid, which the queen had for supper, and devoured it with the same appetite as though it had bcen the young queen
Now was she exceedingly delighted with this unhcard-of cruelty, and she had invented a story to tell thc king at his return, how the mad wolves had eaten up the qucen his wife, with her two children.
One evening some time after, as she was, according to her usual custom, rambling about the court and yards of the palace, to sce if she could smell any fresh meat, she heard, in a groundroom, little Day crying, for his mother was going to whip him because he had becn guilty of some fault, and she heard at the same time little Morning solieiting pardon for her brother
The ogress presently knew the voice of the queen and her children, and, being quite in a rage to think she had been thus deceived, she commanded the next morning, by break of day, in a most terrible voiee, which made every one tremble, that they should bring into the middle of the court a very large tub, which she caused
