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Our mother, exclaimed one, must be several words scratched out a Sorceress; she must be full of evil--else wherefore does she things in secret which passes our comprehension?
Our mother, exclaimed the other, has bewildered our minds and taken our word scratched out sense away from us. She must be full of evil.
Our mother, exclaimed both, is being full of evil, ought not to love. Let us kill our mother, both exclaimed, she has word marked out taken away our reason, she has word scratched out perplexed our thoughts, and -lined out she is full of evil, -- words scratched out we must kill our mother.
And so the two sons entered into the house.
Their mother stood by the hearth; the corn & the beans were before her; she was preparing the -scratched ourfood for her sons, word scratched out and yet she knew her sons had come to kill her, though they spoke not words scratched out.
The mother looked upon her sons. Sons, exclaimed she, you are come to kill your mother. Have you not said to each other. Our mother is full of evil; she has bewildered our minds and taken away our sense and
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