e tears upon it all the time, because he was so cross, and
when she had lined the dish with crust, and had cut the crust all ready
to fit the top, the Captain called out: '_I_ see the meat in the glass!'
And the bride looked up at the glass, just in time to see the Captain
cutting her head off; and he chopped her in pieces, and peppered her,
and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and
ate it all, and picked the bones.

Captain Murderer went on in this way, prospering exceedingly, until he
came to choose a bride from two twin sisters, and at first didn't know
which to choose; for, though one was fair and the other dark, they were
both equally beautiful. But the fair twin loved him, and the dark twin
hated him, so he chose the fair one. The dark twin would have prevented
the marriage if she could, but she couldn't. However, on the night
before it, much suspecting Captain Murderer, she stole out and climbed
his garden-wall, and looked in at his window through a chink in the
shutter, and saw him having his teeth filed sharp. Next day she listened
all day, and heard him make his joke about the house-lamb. And that day
month he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and
chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in
the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the
bones.

Now, the dark twin had had her suspicions much increased by the filing
of the Captain's teeth, and again by the house-lamb joke. Putting all
things together when he gave out that her sister was dead, she divined
the truth, and determined to be revenged. So she went up to Captain
Murderer's house and knocked at the knocker and pulled at the bell, and
when the Captain came to the door, said: 'Dear Captain Murderer, marry
me next, for I always loved you, and was jealous of my sister.' The
Captain took it as a compliment, and made a polite answer, and the
marriage was quickly arranged. On the night before it the bride again
climbed to his window, and again saw him having his teeth filed sharp.
At this sight she laughed such a terrible laugh at the chink in the
shutter that the Captain's blood curdled, and he said: 'I hope nothing
has disagreed with me!' At that she laughed again--a still more terrible
laugh--and the shutter was opened and search made, but she was nimbly
gone, and there was no one. Next day they went to church in a
coach-and-twelve and were married. And