It is true
that Three-eyes shut it, but only in her cunning, to pretend it was asleep
too, but it blinked, and could see everything very well. And when Two-eyes
thought that Three-eyes was fast asleep, she used her little charm,
"Bleat, my little goat, bleat,
Cover the table with something to eat,"
and ate and drank as much as her heart desired, and then ordered the
table to go away again,
"Bleat, bleat, my little goat, I pray,
And take the table quite away,"
and Three-eyes had seen everything. Then Two-eyes came to her, waked her
and said, "Have you been asleep, Three-eyes? You are a good care-taker!
Come, we will go home." And when they got home, Two-eyes again did not
eat, and Three-eyes said to the mother, "Now, I know why that high-minded
thing there does not eat. When she is out, she says to the goat,
"Bleat, my little goat, bleat,
Cover the table with something to eat,"
and then a little table appears before her covered with the best of food,
much better than any we have here, and when she has eaten all she wants,
she says,
"Bleat, bleat, my little goat, I pray,
And take the table quite away,"
and all disappears.
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