“Three-Eyes, are you sleeping?”
as she ought to have done, she thoughtlessly sang:
“Two-Eyes, are you sleeping?”
and sang all the time,
“Three-Eyes, are you waking?
Two-Eyes, are you sleeping?”
Then two of the eyes which Three-Eyes had, shut and fell asleep, but the third, as it had not been named in the song, did not sleep. 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, 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.