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HERE was once a woman who was a
witch, and she had two daughters, one
ugly and wicked, whom she loved the
best, because she was her very own
daughter, and one pretty and good,
whom she hated because she was her
step-daughter. One day the step¬
daughter put on a pretty apron, which
the other daughter liked so much that
she became envious, and said to her mother that she must
and should have the apron.
" Be content, my child,” said the old woman, "thou shalt
have it. Thy step-sister has long deserved death, and to¬
night, while she is asleep, I shall come and cut off her head.
Take care to lie at the farthest side of the bed, and push her
to the outside.”
And it would have been all over with the poor girl, if she
had not been standing in a corner near and heard it all. She
did not dare to go outside the door the whole day long, and
when bed-time came the other one got into bed first, so as to
lie on the farthest side ; but when she had gone to sleep, the
step-daughter pushed her towards the outside, and took the
inside place next the wall. In the night the old woman came
sneaking ; in her right hand she held an axe, and with her left
she felt for the one who was lying outside, and then she heaved
up the axe with both hands, and hewed the head off her only
daughter.
When she had gone away, the other girl got up and went