So she try to turn back
to a cat an' she can't 'cause it's pas' twelve erclock, an' she
jest swivvle an' swivvle tell fine'ly she jest swivvle all up.
An' that was the las' of the ole witch an' her husban' live
happy ever after. Amen."
"Once upon a time," said Lina, "there was a beautiful maiden and
she was in love, but her wicked old parent wants her to marry a
rich old man threescore and ten years old, which is 'most all the
old you can get unless you are going to die; and the lovely
princess said, `No, father, you may cut me in the twain but I
will never marry any but my true love.' So the wicked parent
shut up the lovely maiden in a high tower many miles from the ground,
and made her live on turnips and she had nothing else to eat; so
one day when she was crying a little fairy flew in at the window
and asked, `Why do you weep, fair one?' And she said, `A wicked
parent hath shut me up and I can't ever see my lover any more.'
So the fairy touched her head with her wand and told her to hang
her hair out of the window, and she did and it reached the
ground, and her lover, holding a rope ladder in one hand and
playing the guitar and singing with the other, climbed up by her
hair and took her down on the ladder and his big black horse was
standing near, all booted and spurred, and they rode away and
lived happy ever after.
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