So she was taken thither and she also had to scrape for four-and-twenty hours.
" Then the boy went thither, but no castle was to be seen, or heard of.
" At twelve o'clock at night, the dragon came flying thither, and asked for his dinner.
He had a fresh and joyous heart, and as he was going thither, whistling upon a leaf, an ugly old crone came up, who spoke to him and said, "Good-day, dear huntsman, truly you are merry and contented, but I am suffering from hunger and thirst, do give me an alms.
" His comrade ran thither and brought him what he wanted.
One morning, when the husband was sitting on the table before the window, his wife brought him his coffee, and when he had poured it out into the saucer, and was just going to drink, the sun shone on it and the reflection gleamed hither and thither on the wall above, and made circles on it.
When, therefore, Hans the hedgehog came riding thither, they all pressed forward against him with their pikes, but he spurred the cock and it flew up over the gate in front of the king's window and lighted there, and Hans cried that the king must give him what he had promised, or he would take both his life and his daughter's.
Thither the shoemaker guided the blind tailor, and then left him alone and went his way.
So Hans went thither, and did what he was bidden, and when he had finished the work, he carried the scythe, whetstone, and hay to the house, and asked if it was not yet time for her to give him his reward.
"If that's the case," said the bear, "I should very much like to see his royal palace, come, take me thither.
" He caused the innkeeper to be brought thither, paid him and even put a purse full of gold into the poor old man's pocket.
So he rode thither, and told him everything, how his brothers had betrayed him, and how he had nevertheless kept silence.
The king was hunting too, and heard that and went thither, and when he met the youth, he said, "Who has given you leave to hunt here?
Then he cried for the third time, God be with you, and thought, I must see what these three are about, and went thither and asked why they were beating each other so furiously.
I will go thither and soften the lion, so that I may return to you safely.
Hans goes thither, and throws a crust of black bread in front of the basket with the bird in it, and the little bird comes out, and looks up.
Then he came to another door, knocked at it, and heard somebody inside calling - little green waiting-maid, waiting-maid with the limping leg, little dog of the limping leg, hop hither and thither, and quickly see who is without.
The eldest went thither, and sought the whole day, but when it came to an end, he had only found one hundred, and what was written on the table came true, and he was turned into stone.
It was not long before the seven-headed dragon came thither with loud roaring.
When the faithful maiden heard of this, she grew so sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither, but the other girls came and took her.
