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 This poor man, knowing very well how dangerous it was to play tricks with Ogresses, took his great knife and went up into little Morning's chamber; she was then four years old, and came 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 apprehenson) being once humoured, she again began to long for another dainty bit; accordingly a few days after, she called for the clerk of the kitchen, and told him, that she intended that night to sup 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