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 and ſaid to her, "Siſter Anne, (for that was her name,) go up, I beg you, upon the tower, and look if my brothers are not coming: They promiſed me that they would come to-day, and if you ſee them give them a ſign to make haſte." Her ſiſter Anne went up upon the top of the tower, and the poor afflicted wife, called from time to time, "Anne, ſiſter Anne, do you ſee any one coming?" and ſiſter Anne ſaid, "I ſee nothing but the ſun, which makes a duſt, and the graſs which looks green." In the mean while, Blue Beard, holding a great ſcymitar in his hand, cried out as loud as he could, "Come down inſtantly, or I ſhall come up to you." "One moment longer, if you pleaſe," ſaid his wife, and then ſhe cried out very ſoftly, "Anne, ſiſter Anne, doſt thou ſee any body coming and ſiſter Anne anſwered, "I ſee nothing but the ſun, which makes a duſt, and the graſs looking green." "Come down quickly," cried Blue Beard, "or I will come up to you." "I am coming," anſwered his wife, and then ſhe cried, "Anne, ſiſter Anne. doſt thou ſee any one coming;" "I ſee, replied her ſiſter Anne, a great duſt which comes from this ſide here." "Are they my brothers?" "Alas no, my ſiſter, I ſee a flock of ſheep:" "Will you not come down," cried Blue Beard. "One moment longer," ſaid his wife, and then ſhe cried out, "Anne, ſiſter Anne, doſt thou ſee nobody coming". "I ſee two horſemen coming, but they are yet a great way off" "God be praiſed," replied the poor wife joyfully, "they are my brothers; I am making them a ſign as well as I can, for them to make haſte." Then Blue Beard bawled out ſo loud, that he made the whole houſe tremble

The diſtreſſed wife came down and threw herſelf at his feet all in tears, with her hair all about her ſhoulders. "This ſignifies nothing, ſaid Blue BcardBeard [sic], you muſt die." Then taking hold of her