More English Fairy Tales by Unknown
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"Oven, oven, hide me, So the old witch can't find me; If she does she'll break my bones, And bury me under the marble stones." And the oven said, "I've no room, ask the baker," and the baker hid her behind the oven. When the witch came up she looked here and there and everywhere, and then said to the baker: "Man of mine, man 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?" So the baker said, "Look in the oven." The old witch went to look, and the oven said, "Get in and look in the furthest corner." The witch did so, and when she was inside the oven shut her door, and the witch was kept there for a very long time. The girl then went off again, and reached her home with her money bags, married a rich man, and lived happy ever afterwards. The other sister then thought she would go and do the same. And she went the same way. But when she reached the oven, and the bread said, "Little girl, little girl, take us out. Seven years have we been baking, and no one has come to take us out," the girl said, "No, I don't want to burn my fingers." So she went on till she met the cow, and the cow said, |
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