` Where are you ? ' he called . ` Do not be afraid , I will do you no harm . ' But the girl was still silent . ` Come out , I tell you , ' repeated the ogre . ` Your life is quite safe . If you are an old man , you shall be my father . If you are a boy , you shall be my son . If your years are as many as mine , you shall be my brother . If you are an old woman , you shall be my mother . If you are a young one , you shall be my daughter . If you are middle-aged , you shall be my wife . So come out , and fear nothing . ' Then the maiden came out of her hiding-place , and stood before him . -LSB- Illustration : The Maiden creeps out of the Pot . -RSB- ` Fear nothing , ' said the ogre again ; and when he went away to hunt he left her to look after the house . In the evening he returned , bringing with him hares , partridges , and gazelles , for the girl 's supper ; for himself he only cared for the flesh of men , which she cooked for him . He also gave into her charge the keys of six rooms , but the key of the seventh he kept himself . And time passed on , and the girl and the ogre still lived together . She called him ` Father , ' and he called her ` Daughter , ' and never once did he speak roughly to her .
One day the maiden said to him , ` XXXXX , give me the key of the upper chamber . '
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