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Title: The yellow fairy book
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
Subjects: Fairy tales
Publisher: London : New York : Longmans, Green, And Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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greedily the Queen devouredthe meat, and how much she ate of it, and were no longer surprisedthat she took so little when she sat at table with the King. Assoon as she had finished it the Giant disappeared with the troughby the same way as he had come, and the Queen returned to herhuman shape. Now we must go back to the Kings son after he had been putin charge of the nurse. One evening, after she had lit a candleand was holding the child, several planks sprang up in the floor ofthe room, and out at the opening came a beautiful woman dressedin white, with an iron belt round her waist, to which was fastenedan iron chain that went down into the ground. The woman cameup to the nurse, took the child from her, and pressed it to herbreast; then she gave it back to the nurse and returned by thesame way as she had come, and the floor closed over her again.Although the woman had not spoken a single word to her, the nursewas very much frightened, but told no one about it. Sicurd hews the chain A
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THE WITCH IN THE STONE BOAT 277 Next evening the same thing happened again, just as before, butas the woman was going away she said in a sad tone, Two are gone,and one only is left, and then disappeared as before. The nursewas still more frightened when she heard the woman say this, andthought that perhaps some danger was hanging over the child,though she had no ill-opinion of the unknown woman, who, indeed,had behaved towards the child as if it were her own. The mostmysterious thing was the woman saying and only one is left; butthe nur-e guessed that this must mean that only one day was left,since she had come for two days already. At last the nurse made up her mind to go to the King, and toldhim the whole story, and asked him to be present in person nextday about the time when the woman usually came. The Kingpromised to do so, and came to the nurses room a little before thetime, and sat down on a chair with his drawn sword in his hand.Soon after the planks in the floor sprang up as

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