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Thus Chanticleer was left alone with his dead Partlet; and having

dug a grave for her, he laid her in it, and made a little hillock

over her. Then he sat down by the grave, and wept and mourned,

till at last he died too; and so all were dead.

RAPUNZEL

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for

a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant

her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their

house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full

of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however,

surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because

it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was

dreaded by all the world. One day the woman was standing by this

window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which

was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it

looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined

away, and began to look pale and miserable.