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was going to the field after provender, and she shut up her Kids in the barn, with injunctions not to let any one in. Said she:—

"But when you hear my voice then open the door."

A Wolf overheard, crept up to the barn, and sang after the manner of the Goat:— "Little children, open the door; your mother has come with some food for you."

The Kids peered out of the window, and said:—

"The voice is our mamma's, but the legs are those of a wolf. We cannot let you in."

wife was annoyed by mice eating up the tallow in her cellar. She shut the cat into the cellar, so that the cat might catch the mice.

But the cat ate up, not only the tallow, but the milk and the meat also.

sheep went out to pasture.

Suddenly an Eagle appeared, swooped down from