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 rambling about the court and yards of the palace, to see if she could smell any fresh meat, she heard in a ground room little Day crying, for his mother was going to whip him, because he had been guilty of some fault, and she heard at the same time little Morning soliciting for pardon for her brother

The Ogress presently knew the voice of the Queen and her children, and being quite in a rage to think she had been thus deceived, she commanded, the next morning, by break of day (in a most horrible voice, which made every one tremble) that they should bring into the middle of the great court a very large tub, which she caused to be filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents in order to have thrown into it the Queen and her children, the clerk of the kitchen, his wife and maid; all of whom she had given order to be brought thither with their hands tied behind them, to suffer the vengeance of the incensed Ogress.

They were brought out accordingly, and the executioners, were going to throw them into the tub, when the King fortunately entered the court on