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sers, or J will lay a yard measure about your ears ! ” Then
ahe remarked in what street the young lord had been born,
and told her complaint the next rooming to the king, begging"
he would save her from her husband, who was nothing else but
a tailor. Tbe king comforted her, saying, li Leave the sleep­
ing chamber open to-morrow night* and ray servants shall
enter, bind him, and bear him off to a ship, which shall cany
him away into the wide world.*' The bride was satisfied with
this, but the king’s squire, who bad heard all, broke tbe whole
plot to him, u 1 will shut a bolt on the aifair,” said the tailor*
and in the evening be laid himself in his usual place In his bed;
and when his wife thought he was asleep, she got up, and
opening the door, laid herself down again. The tailor, feigning
to be asleep, began to call out, in a loud voice* ■' Boy, make
me a waisfcoat and patch these trowsers, or I will lay a yard
measure about your cars! Seven have I slain at one blow,
two giants have I killed* an unicorn have I led away, and wild
boars have I caught; and shall 1 fear those who stand outside
the chamber ! " As soon as thty heard the tailor deliver this
speech, a great fear overcame them, and they ran away as if
“ the wild huntsmen'* were behind them; nor dare any one
again oppose him. So the tailor became king, and so he
remained, all the rest of his lifetime.

THE CHARMED FAWN,

A rtTTTiE boy took hia sister by the hand, saying, Since
our mother's death, we have not had one happy hour. Ottr
step-mother beats U3 every day, and if we come near her, aht