Page 15 - The Goose

nce upon a time there lived in very reduced
circumstances two sisters, and it was as much as
they could do to gain a livelihood by spinning flax
from morn till night, which they sold; but they
dragged on their wretched life, and it was
impossible but that some day the ball of necessity
would touch that of honour, and send it out; for
which matter Heaven, who is so great to
recompense good deeds, and so thin and slow
punishing the evil, put into the minds of these two
poor children that they should go to the market,
and sell some skeins of thread, so that with what
they received from it they should buy a goose. The
women did so, and carried the goose home, and
they loved her so well that they fed her, and let her
sleep in their own bed, as if she had been their
own sister. But sweep to-day and look to-morrow,
the good day came, and the goose began ____

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