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 the Ogre saw a number of men like lords, and whewho [sic] were riding on the finest herseshorses [sic] that ever were beheld, coming up to him full speed. He said the OgroOgre [sic] soon found they were sent by the king with a messsagemessage [sic] to borrewborrow [sic] of the OgroOgre [sic] a large sum of money, which he stood in need of to pay his soldiers, as the king thought the Ogre was the richest of all his subjects. Hop-o'-my-Thumb said this on purpose to find out how rich the Ogre was. He then said that thothe [sic] lords found themselves very much tired with the long journey they had made; and so the Ogre was vastly civil to them, and told them they need not go on any farther, because he had a person with him who would not fail doing in a clever manner any thing he was set about. He next said that the great lords thanked the OgroOgre [sic] a thousand times when they heard this, and in the name of the king had granted to him the noble title of Duke of Dragglotail; on which the Ogre had taken off his boots, and helped to draw them on the legs of Hop-o'-my-Thumb, and gave him this message, which he charged him by all means to makomake [sic] all the haste he could with both in going and coming back again:-

When the Ogress saw her husband's boots she was quitoquite [sic] proud at the thought of being madomade [sic] Duchess of Dragglotail, and living at court: so that she was very ready to believe all that Hop-o'-my-Thumb had told her; indeed so great was her joy, that she quite forgot her seven daughters with thoirtheir [sic] throats cut and bathed in their blood.

She ran in a minute to fetch the great key, and gave it to Hop-o'-my-Thumb, telling him at thothe [sic] same time wherowhere [sic] to find the chest of money and jewels that it would open.

Hop-o'-my-Thumb took as much of these riches as he thought would maintain his father, mother, and brothers, without thothe [sic] fatigue of labour, all the rest their lives; saying to himself all the while, that it was better that an honest fagot-maker should have a part of such great riches than an Ogre, whewho [sic] did nothing but eat children,