SEPPY WAS DRAWN UP THE CHIMNEY, WHERE THE SOUP WAS BOILING OVER THE FIRE

Seppy never grumbled again. From henceforth Bella busied herself with her household duties. Seppy worked in the fields as before.

Seppy said to the pots, he said to the pans,
And likewise to the stools,
That men who try to do women’s work
Are all a parcel of fools.

The Death, Misery, the Old Man, and the Tree

THE ENCHANTED
APPLE-TREE

NCE upon a time there lived an old woman whose name was Misery.