You lot are so spoilt by Diddily, she is missng her grand daughter Molly, whose in Disney land at the moment.
KATE
CRACKERNUTS
Once upon a time there was a king and a
queen, as in many lands have
been. The king had a daughter, Anne, and the queen
had one named Kate,
but Anne was far bonnier than the queens daughter,
though they loved
one another like real sisters. The queen was
jealous of the kings
daughter being bonnier than her own, and cast about
to spoil her
beauty. So she took counsel of the henwife, who
told her to send the
lassie to her next morning fasting.
So next morning early, the queen said to
Anne, Go, my dear, to the
henwife in the glen, and ask her for some eggs. So
Anne set out, but
as she passed through the kitchen she saw a crust,
and she took and
munched it as she went along.
When she came to the henwifes she asked
for eggs, as she had been
told to do; the henwife said to her, Lift the lid
off that pot there
and see. The lassie did so, but nothing happened.
Go home to your
minnie and tell her to keep her larder door better
locked, said the
henwife. So she went home to the queen and told her
what the henwife
had said. The queen knew from this that the lassie
had had something
to eat, so watched the next morning and sent her
away fasting; but the
princess saw some country-folk picking peas by the
roadside, and being
very kind she spoke to them and took a handful of
the peas, which she
ate by the way.
When she came to the henwifes, she said,
Lift the lid off the pot
and youll see. So Anne lifted the lid but nothing
happened. Then the
henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, Tell your
minnie the pot
wont boil if the fires away. So Anne went home
and told the queen.
The third day the queen goes along with
the girl herself to the
henwife. http://seligorscastle.zoomshare.com/
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