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to take him about the neck, and

ask him for some sugar candy.

Upon which he began to weep,

the great 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 that

she had never eaten anything so

good in her life.

He had at the same time taken

up little Morning, and carried

her to his wife, to conceal her in

the lodging he had at the bottom

of the courtyard. About eight

days afterward the wicked queen

said to the clerk of the kitchen,

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