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The wise woman lifted her tenderly, and washed and dressed her far more / carefully than even her nurse. Then she set her down by the fire, and / prepared her breakfast. The princess was very hungry, and the bread and / milk as good as it could be, so that she thought she had never in her / life eaten any thing nicer. Nevertheless, as soon as she began to have / enough, she said to herself,-
"Ha! I see how it is! The old woman wants to fatten me! That is why she / gives me such nice creamy milk. She doesn't kill me now because she's / going to kill me then! She _is_ an ogress, after all!"