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"In what direction are you going?" asked the old iven a more definite answer

"Does the forest extend much further in that direction?"

"Oh! for h I have

lived on the borders of it all my life, I have been too busy to make

journeys of discovery into it Nor do I see what I could discover It

is only trees and trees, till one is sick of them By the way, if you

follow the eastward track from here, you will pass close to what the

children say is the very house of the ogre that Hop-o'-hters with the crowns of gold"

"Oh, father! ate his little daughters! No; he only changed their gold

crowns for nightcaps; and the great long-toothed ogre killed them in

mistake; but I do not think even he ate theresses"

"Well, well, child; you know all about it a great deal better than I do

However, the house has, of course, in such a foolish neighbourhood as

this, a bad enough na