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" If I had my seven league boots, I would go attd catch him at once. Give them to me quick," cried the ogre to his wife. "The wretch shall pay me [for] what^ he has done."

He ran in ail directions. At last he came '^ to the road where Little Thumb was walking,^ very weary of his long mardi,* at less than two hundred paces from his father's house.

He saw the ogre, but the latter did not see him. With ^ one step he traversed mountains and rivers without the least trouble.® Soon he came near the place where Little Thumb was.

The latter crept into a hollow rock and hid himself there. "I will watch/' says he, " what becomes'-of the ogre."' At last the ogre, wishing to rest, sat down on the rock where Little Thumb had hidden.*

'^ ce que. '^arriver, ^ aller. ^ v: arche,/. ^ de. ^ peine./.

"! Fut. tense. 8 Reflex. verb.