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 forthwith, the very ſame day, married the princeſs.

Puſs became a great lord, and never ran after mice any more, but only for his diverſion. 



HERE was, once upon a time, a widow, who had two daughters. The eldeſt was ſo much like her in the face and humour, that whocverwhoever [sic] looked upon the daughter, ſaw the mother. They were both ſo diſagreeable and ſo proud, that there was no living with them. The youngeſt, who was the very picture of her father for courteſy and ſweetneſs of temper, was alſo one of the moſt beautiful girls ever ſeen. As people naturally love their own likeneſs, this mother, even doated on her eldeſt daughter, and at the ſame time, had a horrible averſion for the youngeſt. She made her eat in the kitchen, and work continually.

Among other things, this poor child was forced twice a day, to draw water above a mile and a half off the houſe, and bring home a pitcher full of it. One day, as she was at the fountain, there came to her a poor woman, who begged of her to let her drink "O ay, with all my heart, Goody," ſaid this pretty little girl, and riding immediately the pitcher, ſhe took ſome water from the cleareſt part of the fountain, and gave it to her, holding up the pitcher all the while, that ſhe might drink the eaſier.

The good women having drank, ſaid to her, "You are ſo very pretty, my dear, ſo good, and ſo mannerly, that I cannot help giving you a gift, (for this was a Fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country woman, to ſee how far the civility