witch took girls into her house as servants. And when she heard that
this girl had left her home to seek service, she said that she would try
her, and give her good wages. The witch told the girl what work she was
to do. "You must keep the house clean and tidy, sweep the floor and the
fireplace; but there is one thing you must never do. You must never look
up the chimney, or something bad will befall you."

So the girl promised to do as she was told, but one morning as she was
cleaning, and the witch was out, she forgot what the witch said, and
looked up the chimney. When she did this a great bag of money fell down
in her lap. This happened again and again. So the girl started to go off
home.

When she had gone some way she heard the witch coming after her. So she
ran to the apple tree and cried:

"Apple-tree, apple-tree hide me,
So the old witch can't find me;
If she does she'll pick my bones,
And bury me under the marble stones."

So the apple-tree hid her. When the witch came up she said:

[Illustration:

"Tree of mine, tree of mine,
Have you seen a girl
With a willy-willy wag, and a long-tailed bag,
Who's stole my money, all I had?"]