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The ogre's seven daughters had gone-to-bed ^ early. They were ail in the same bed, and each one had a gold crown on /icr head. Under this bed lay Little Thumb, but he did not sleep '^ at ail.

He noticed the gold crowns, but he said nothing. Towards mid-

niglit he took his cap, and put it sciflly on the head of one of the girls, after having taken off her crown, which he put on his [own] head.

" The ogre," said he to himself,^ •' w ill take me for his daughter, and the dauglUer for me ; and if the affair succeeds as I think it luill, he will kill her instead'' of me, whom he wishes to kill."'

The ogre awoke a little after midnight. "Why,"'' thought he, "hâve I deferred what I vn'g/ti hâve doue last night?" Then he took liis big knife, and said : " I will go and see how my little chap is doing."

1 Reflex. vcrb. * dormir ; rot at o.\\ — ne — ? * Reflex. pron.

* au lieu. ^ pourquoi.