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a tree till morning. In the morning, at six o'clock, there
was a bellman out, proclaiming that every one who killed a
raven would get a fourpenny-bit, At last you could not
find man or boy without a gun, nor, if you were to walk
three miles, a raven that was not killed. I had to make

 

a nest in the top of the parlour chimney, and hide myself
all day till night came, and go out to pick up a bit to
support me, till I spent a month. Here she is herself to
say if it is a lie I am telling.

“Tt is not,” said she.

Then I saw her out walking. I went up to her, and I