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, a few days after, she called for the clerk of the kitchen, and told him that she intended that night to lap upon little Day; he answered never a word, being resolved to cheat her as he had done before. He went out to find little Day, and saw him with a foil, in his hand, with which he was fencing with a monkey, the child being but three years old: He took him up in his arms, and carried him to his wife, that she might conceal him in her chamber along with his sister, and in the room of little Day, cooked up a young kid, very tender, and which the Ogress praised as much at the former, saying it was wonderfully good.

All hitherto was mighty well, but a few evenings after, this craving Ogress said to the clerk of the kitchen, I will also eat the young Queen with the same sauce that I had with her children.

Now was the critical time that the poor clerk desapired of being able to deceive her.

The young Queen was turned off twenty years of age (not counting the hundred she had been asleep) tho her skin was somewhat tough, yet fair and