not know!" answered Bluebeard; "I do, right well. You have been into my closet. Very well, Madam, you shall go in again, and take your place with the ladies you saw there."

She threw herself at her husband's feet, weeping, and begged his pardon for her fault, and showed her sorrow for her action. It seemed as though her appearance would soften a stone, but Bluebeard's heart was harder than that, and he was not moved at all. "You must die, Madam, at once," said he. "If I must die," said she, looking up at him with streaming eyes, “give me a little time to say my prayers." Said Bluebeard, "I will give you ten minutes, and not one moment more.'

Bluebeard left the room, and when she found herself alone, she called to her sister, and said, "Sister Anne, go up to the top of the tower, I pray you, and see if my brothers are coming; they promised to come to see me to-day; and if they are in sight, beckon them to come quickly." Her sister went up the tower, and from time to time came the call from below, "Sister Anne, do you see any one coming?" Her sister answered, "I see nothing but the green grass and the sunshine."

In the meantime Bluebeard was calling out, "Come down, or I shall go up for you." His wife replied, "Yet one little moment, I pray you!" Then she

called out softly, "Sister Anne, do you see any one coming?" and the answer was the same as before.

Bluebeard, holding a great scimiter in his hand, had grown very impatient, and called out, "Come down quickly, or I shall have to

bring you!" "I am com-
ing," replied his wife.
Then she cried again,
"Sister Anne, do you see
any one coming?" “I
see," said Anne, “a great
cloud of dust coming
"Is it my

this way."
brothers?" "Alas, no,
sister, it is only a flock
of sheep." "Come down!
Come down!" shouted

Bluebeard. "Yet one little moment!" answered his wife. And then she called, "Anne, Sister Anne, do you see any one coming?" "I see two horsemen riding toward me, but they are still a great way off." "Heaven be praised," cried she a moment after; "they are my brothers, and I am beckoning with might and main for them to hasten."

Bluebeard now began to shout so loud that the house shook. The poor lady went down and fell on her knees before him, her face soiled with tears and her

hair flying loose. Bluebeard roared, "No use, Madam; you shall die." Then taking hold of her hair with one hand, he raised his scimiter to cut off her head. The poor lady turned towards him, and looking up with eyes of terror, begged for one moment more to prepare her

self. "No, no," said he, "this is your last moment." Then raising his arm for the stroke, suddenly there was heard such a loud knocking at the gates that Bluebeard stopped. The door opened, and in came two knights, who, sword in hand, rushed toward him. He saw at once that they were his wife's brothers, and turned to flee, but he was soon overtaken and killed. His poor

wife was nearly dead, not having enough strength left to rise.

However, she was soon well again, and as Bluebeard had no heirs, she had all his wealth. She gave a part of this to her sister Anne, and a part to her two brothers. Some time afterward she married a man whose kind treatment made her forget her narrow escape from a horrible death.

And if you fell off,

You came down such a bump!
What a high camel!

D was a duck

With spots on his back,
Who lived in the water,
And always said "Quack!"
Dear little duck!

E was an elephant,

Stately and wise:

He had two tusks and a trunk,

And two queer little eyes.

Oh, what funny small eyes!

F was a fish

Who was caught in a net;

But he got out again,

And is quite alive yet.
Lively young fish!

G was a goat

Who was spotted with brown:

When he did not lie still

He walked up and down.

Good little goat!