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Updated: June 8, 2025
Little One-eye sat down, and as she was very much tired by the long walk to which she was not used, and by the hot day, and as Little Two-eyes went on singing. 'Little One-eye, are you awake? Little One-eye, are you asleep? she shut her one eye and fell asleep. When Little Two-eyes saw that Little One-eye was asleep and could find out nothing, she said,
Then she vanished, and Two-eyes went home and said to her sisters, "Dear sisters, do give me some part of my goat; I don't wish for what is good, but give me the entrails." Then they laughed and said, "If that's all you want, you can have it." So Two-eyes took the entrails and buried them quietly in the evening, in front of the house-door, as the wise woman had counselled her to do.
The first and second times her sisters did not notice this, but when it happened continually, they remarked it and said, 'Something is the matter with Little Two-eyes, for she always leaves her food now, and she used to gobble up all that was given her.
"That is a delightful way of keeping house!" thought Two-eyes, and was quite glad and happy. In the evening, when she went home with her goat, she found a small earthenware dish with some food, which her sisters had set ready for her, but she did not touch it. Next day she again went out with her goat, and left the few bits of broken bread which had been handed to her, lying untouched.
She was not cast down, but smiled at the sky, and talked of the new doll, which she intended to name Edwarda. "Should think you'd name her after One-Eye," went on Johnnie; "long's he's givin' her to you." "How could I name her after him?" she retorted. "What would I call her? Two-Eyes? I'm not going to spoil her by giving her a crazy name."
And when you have had enough and don't want the little table any more, you have only to say, "Little goat, bleat, Little table, away," and then it will vanish. Then the wise woman went away. But Little Two-eyes thought, 'I must try at once if what she has told me is true, for I am more hungry than ever'; and she said, 'Little goat, bleat, Little table appear,
The mother took them away from her, and instead of treating poor Two-eyes any better for this, she and One-eye and Three-eyes were only envious, because Two-eyes alone had been able to get the fruit, and they treated her still more cruelly. It so befell that once when they were all standing together by the tree, a young knight came up.
But because Little Two-eyes did not look any different from other children, her sisters and mother could not bear her. They would say to her, 'You with your two eyes are no better than common folk; you don't belong to us. They pushed her here, and threw her wretched clothes there, and gave her to eat only what they left, and they were as unkind to her as ever they could be.
Then he said, 'Little Two-eyes, what shall I give you for this? 'Ah, answered Little Two-eyes, 'I suffer hunger and thirst, want and sorrow, from early morning till late in the evening; if you would take me with you, and free me from this, I should be happy! Then the knight lifted Little Two-eyes on his horse, and took her home to his father's castle.
One-eye and Three-eyes answered that they had another sister, who was not allowed to show herself, for she had only two eyes like any common person. The knight, however, desired to see her, and cried, "Two-eyes, come forth."
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