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 ceremony to conduct his Queen to the palace. They made a very magnificent entry into the capital city, she riding in a triumphal car, with her two children beside her.

Some time after, the King went to make war with the Emperor Cantalabute, his neighbour.

He left the government of the Kingdom to the Queen his mother, and earnestly recommended to her the care of his wife and children.

As soon as he was departed, the Queen sent for her daughter-in-law to come oto [sic] her, and then sent her to a country-house among the woods, that she might with more ease and secrecy gratify her inclinations.

Some few days after she went to this country-house herself, and calling for the clerk of the kitchen, she said to him, I have a mind to eat little Morning for my dinner to-morrow.

Ah! Madam, cried the clerk of the kitchen, in a very great surprise.--

No excuse, replied she, interrupting him, I will have it so, and thus she spoke in the tone of an Ogress, seeming to have a strong desire to taste fresh meat; and to make the dish more delicious, added she, I will eat her with Sauce Robert