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WONDER TALES OF THE FOREST 45
both began to cry. They cried and sobbed until
their eyes were red with weeping.
That evening, when the husbands came home,
the sisters tried to conceal what they had done ;
but in vain.
"What has been your trouble to-day
husbands asked.
?" the
"What have you been crying
about 1"
"We
have had no trouble, and we have not
been crying at all," they said,
the truth.
afraid to tell
"But
surely you have," said the husbands.
"And you have been looking down through
the trap-door. You are lonely up here,
and you long to get away." They said this
very kindly.
"It is true,"
the sisters said, at last,
"we
looked under the stone to-day, and we long to
return to our own world."
"Very well,"
said the husbands, "you may
go back if you wish. To-night, when you lie
down to sleep, you must follow our directions ;
and in the morning, you will find yourselves
on the spot in the forest where you lay when
you invited us to become your husbands."
Now all they had to do was to fall asleep;
but they must not be in haste to uncover their
faces, or to open their eyes.
"Wait until you hear a chickadee sing,"
the
husbands said;
"and even then you must not