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 horseback: and asked, with the utmost



astonishment what was the meaning of his most horrible spectacle no one dared to tell him. When the Ogress, all enraged to see what had happened, threw herself, head formost [sic] into the tub, and was instantly devoured by the ugly creatures, she had ordered to be thrown into it for others.

The King could not but chuse being very sorry, for she was his mother; but he soon comforted himself with his beautiful wife, and his two pretty children And after all things were settled, he well rewarded the clerk of the kitchen for his wisdom, humanity, and compassion: