A Widow who had great reputation
as a
housekeeper, because she was
so fond of
cleaning, was waited upon by two little Maid-
ens.
She waked before the dawn herself, and at
cock-crowing rose and called her little Maids.
The Maidens, who had no
taste for such
excessive tidiness, and who were kept weary
by such constant labor, held a spite
against
the poor cock, for rousing
their mistress so
early. "If it were not
for him," they said,
"she would sleep t ill the sun is well up.
Let
us kill the cock, since there is
no other way
to stop his loud crowing."
But the mistress,
no longer hearing the
cock, was unable to tell the time, and so often
woke her Maidens in the middle of the
night,
and set them at work.
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