I watched everything closely. She put two of my
eyes to sleep by using a certain form of words, but luckily the one in
my forehead kept awake." Then the envious mother cried, "Dost thou want
to fare better than we do? The desire shall pass away," and she fetched
a butcher's knife, and thrust it into the heart of the goat, which fell
down dead.
When Two-eyes saw that, she went out full of trouble, seated herself
on the ridge of grass at the edge of the field, and wept bitter
tears. Suddenly the wise woman once more stood by her side, and said,
"Two-eyes, why art thou weeping?" "Have I not reason to weep?" she
answered. "The goat which covered the table for me every day when I spoke
your charm, has been killed by my mother, and now I shall again have to
bear hunger and want." The wise woman said, "Two-eyes, I will give thee
a piece of good advice; ask thy sisters to give thee the entrails of the
slaughtered goat, and bury them in the ground in front of the house,
and thy fortune will be made." Then she vanished, and Two-eyes went
home and said to her sisters, "Dear sisters, do give me some part of my
goat; I don't wish for what is good, but give me the entrails.
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