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 she was thinking of what would be enough for dinner; but as soon as she and her husband had done eating, she cried out, "Alas! where are my poor children? How they would feast on what we have left! It was all your fault, Richard! I told you over and over that we would repent the hour when wowe [sic] left them to starve in the forest!” and she spokospoke [sic] this so loud, that the children, who were all at the door, cried out, "Here wowe [sic] are, mother, herohere [sic] wowe [sic] are!" ShoShe [sic] flew immediately to them, and kissed them, saying, " How glad I am to seosee [sic] you, you little rogues! Ah, poor littlolittle [sic] Bobby! why, thou are dirt all over, my child! let me wash thy face."

Bobby was the youngest of the boys except Hop-o'-my-Thumb; and as he had red hair, likolike [sic] his mother, hohe [sic] had always been her darling. The children sat down to dinner, and ate very heartily. They then gave an account of their return home.

The fagot-maker and his wife were charmed at having their children once moromore [sic] along with them: but their money being all spent, they again thought of leaving them in the forest; and that the young ones might not come back a second time, they resolved to take them farther away than they did at first.

Hop-o'-my-Thumb was now quitoquite [sic] at a loss what to do; but soon after this his mother gavogave [sic] each of thothe [sic] children a piece of bread for breakfast; and then it camocame [sic] into his head that he could make his share do as well as the pebbles, by dropping crumbs of it all thothe [sic] way as they went. So he did not eat his piece, but put it into his pockotpocket [sic].

It was not long beforobefore [sic] they all set out, and their parents took care to lead them into thothe [sic] very thickest and darkest part of thothe [sic] forest. They then slipped away by a by-path, as before, and left the children, which did not give Hop-o'-my-Thumb any concern, for hohe [sic] thought himself quite surosure [sic] of getting back by means of thothe [sic] crumbs that hohe [sic] had dropped by the way; but when he came to look for them he found that the birds had eaten them all up.

Hop-o'-my-Thumb climbed up to the top of a tree, and looked round on all sides to seosee [sic] if he could find any way of getting help. He saw a small light like that of