“Two eyes, are you sleeping?”

and sang all the time,

“Three eyes, are you waking?

Two eyes, are you sleeping?”

“Three eyes, are you waking? Two eyes, are you sleeping?”

Then two of the eyes which Three-eyes had, shut and fell asleep, but the third, as it had not been named in the song, did not sleep. It is true that Three-eyes shut it, but only in her cunning, to pretend it was asleep too, but it blinked, and could see everything very well. And when Two-eyes thought that Three-eyes was fast asleep, she used her little charm,