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Then the wise woman said, "Wipe away thy tears, Two-eyes, and I will tell thee something to stop thee ever suffering from hunger again; just say to thy goat, "Bleat, my little goat, bleat, Cover the table with something to eat,"
It is the grandest tribute ever paid to American manhood. With more barbaric mummery, flummery and vulgar waste of wealth than characterized even the late Marlborough- Vanderbilt wedding, Nicholas Two-Eyes was crowned Emperor of the rag-tag and bob-tail of creation, officially known as "all the Russias."
To-day they have given me so little that I am still quite hungry. Then the wise woman said, 'Little Two-eyes, dry your eyes, and I will tell you something so that you need never be hungry again. Only say to your goat, "Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear," and a beautifully spread table will stand before you, with the most delicious food on it, so that you can eat as much as you want.
But they did not know how the tree had grown up in the night; only Little Two-eyes knew that it had sprung from the heart of the goat, for it was standing just where she had buried it in the ground.
But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a woman beside her who asked, 'Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for? Little Two-eyes answered, 'Have I not reason to cry? Because I have two eyes like other people, my sisters and my mother cannot bear me; they push me out of one corner into another, and give me nothing to eat except what they leave.
They did not know how the tree could have come there during the night, but Two-eyes saw that it had grown up out of the entrails of the goat, for it was standing on the exact spot where she had buried them. Then the mother said to One-eye, "Climb up, my child, and gather some of the fruit of the tree for us."
The brothers were pleased with this decision, and said, "It is better thus than that we should be at variance with each other." Then each of them received half a kingdom, and they lived with their father in the greatest happiness as long as it pleased God. 130 One-eye, Two-eyes, and Three-eyes
Then Two-eyes, quite comforted, came from beneath the barrel, and the knight was surprised at her great beauty, and said, "Thou, Two-eyes, canst certainly break off a branch from the tree for me." "Yes," replied Two-eyes, "that I certainly shall be able to do, for the tree belongs to me."
But Little Two-eyes bade them welcome, and was so good to them that they both repented from their hearts of having been so unkind to their sister. Grimm. There was once upon a time a castle in the middle of a thick wood where lived an old woman quite alone, for she was an enchantress.
Come, we will go home. So they went home, and Little Two-eyes again left her little dish untouched, and Little One-eye could not tell her mother why she would not eat, and said as an excuse, 'I was so sleepy out-of-doors.
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