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the Ogre saw a number of men like lords, and whe were riding on the finest herses that ever were beheld, coming up to him full speed. He said the Ogro soon found they were sent by the king with a messsage to borrew of the Ogro a large sum of money, which he stood in need of to pay his soldiers, as the king thought the Ogre was the richest of all his subjects. Hop-o'-my-Thumb said this on purpose to find out how rich the Ogre was. He then said that tho lords found themselves very much tired with the long journey they had made; and so the Ogre was vastly civil to them, and told them they need not go on any farther, because he had a person with him who would not fail doing in a clever manner any thing he was set about. He next said that the great lords thanked the Ogro a thousand times when they heard this, and in the name of the king had granted to him the noble title of Duke of Dragglotail; on which the Ogre had taken off his boots, and helped to draw them on the legs of Hop-o'-my-Thumb, and gave him this message, which he charged him by all means to mako all the haste he could with both in going and coming back again:-
"Ogress, Ogre cannot come;
Give great key to Hop-o'-my-Thumb."
When the Ogress saw her husband's boots she was quito proud at the thought of being mado Duchess of Dragglotail, and living at court: so that she was very ready to believe all that Hop-o'-my-Thumb had told her; indeed so great was her joy, that she quite forgot her seven daughters with thoir throats cut and bathed in their blood.
She ran in a minute to fetch the great key, and gave it to Hop-o'-my-Thumb, telling him at tho same time whero to find the chest of money and jewels that it would open.
Hop-o'-my-Thumb took as much of these riches as he thought would maintain his father, mother, and brothers, without tho fatigue of labour, all the rest their lives; saying to himself all the while, that it was better that an honest fagot-maker should have a part of such great riches than an Ogre, whe did nothing but eat children,
