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14 it off, but durst not do it when she was awake, so she resolved to do it when she was asleep: therefore, one night he took a pair of shears and put them under his pillow, which his wife perceiving, said to one of the maids, go to bed to my husband, for he intends to cut off my and I will give thee as good a kit- hair to-night, let him cut off thy hair, and I will give thee as good a kit- tle as ever thou didst see. The maid did so, and feigned herself asleep, which the man perceiving, cut off the maid's hair, and wrapped it about the shears, and laid them under the pillow, and then fell asleep. The maid arose, and the wife took the hair and shears, and went to the hall and there burnt the hair. The man had a fine horse that he loved much, and the good wife went into the stable, and cut off the hair of the horse's tail, wrapped the shears up in it, and laid them under the pillow again. Her husband seeing her combing her head in the morning, marvelled very much thereat. The girl seeing her master in a deep study, said, What the devil ails the horse in the stable, he has lost his tail? The