So saying, she ran home and fetched apair of scissors and a needle and thread. Then she cut open the monster's hairy coat, and had scarcely made one slit before one little Goat put his head out, and, as she cut further, out jumped one after another, all six, still alive and without any injury: for the monster, in his eagerness, had guiped them down quite whole. There was a joy! They hugged their dear mother, and jumped about like tailors keeping their wedding-day. Rut the old mother said, "Go and pick up at once some large