The Blue-Haired Ogre

NCE upon a time in the
heart of an old forest
there lived a woodcutter,
his wife, and children.
They were very poor, and
I suppose the children ate
a good deal—when they
could get it—for it sometimes seemed to
the man as if they were always at the last
crumb. They were never quite starved, be-
cause when he had powder he could go out
and shoot some of the many birds and

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