When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan.
At length the cook took him into his service, and said he might carry wood and water, and rake the cinders together.
His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.
In the evening when she had worked till she was weary she had no bed to go to, but had to sleep by the hearth in the cinders.
