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So when little Two Eyes started with her goat, Three Eyes followed and
said, "I am going with you to-day, to see if the goats are properly
fed and watched."
But Two Eyes knew her thoughts; so she led the goat through the long
grass to tire Three Eyes, and at last she said, "Let us sit down here
and rest, and I will sing to you, Three Eyes."
She was glad to sit down, for the walk and the heat of the sun had
really tired her; and, as her sister continued her song, she was
obliged to close two of her eyes, and they slept, but not the third.
In fact, Three Eyes was wide awake with one eye, and heard and saw all
that Two Eyes did; for poor little Two Eyes, thinking she was asleep,
said her speech to the goat, and the table came with all the good
things on it, and was carried away when Two Eyes had eaten enough; and
the cunning Three Eyes saw it all with her one eye. But she pretended
to be asleep when her sister came to wake her and told her she was
going home.
That evening, when little Two Eyes again left the supper they placed
aside for her, Three Eyes said to her mother, "I know where the proud
thing gets her good eating and drinking;" and then she described all
she had seen in the field.
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