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 up to him jumping and laughing, to take him about the neck and asked him for some sugar candy; on which he began to weep, and the knife fell out of his hand and he went into the back yard and killed a little lamb, and dressed it with such good sauce, that his mistress assured him, she had never ate any thing so good in all her life.



He had, at the same time, taken up little Morning, and carried her to his wife, in order that she might be concealed in a lodging he had at the bottom of the court yard.

The Queen’s lascivious appetite (according to her own apprehensions) being once humoured, she began to long for another dainty bit;