The Fairy then changed herself back into the form of a mouse , and this delayed her a few seconds , after which she ran nimbly down the straw rope , but only to find when she got to the bottom that the baby had disappeared . In the greatest terror she ran up again to the Queen , crying : ` All is lost ! my enemy Cancaline has stolen the Princess away . You must know that she is a cruel fairy who hates me , and as she is older than I am and has more power , I can do nothing against her . I know no way of rescuing Delicia from her clutches . ' When the Queen heard this terrible news she was heart-broken , and begged the Fairy to do all she could to get the poor little Princess back again . At this moment in came the gaoler , and when he missed the little Princess he at once told the King , who came in a great fury asking what the Queen had done with her . She answered that a fairy , whose name she did not know , had come and carried her off by force . Upon this the King stamped upon the ground , and cried in a terrible voice : ` You shall be hung ! I always told you you should . ' And without another word he dragged the unlucky Queen out into the nearest wood , and climbed up into a tree to look for a branch to which he could hang her . But when he was quite high up , the Fairy , who had made herself invisible and followed them , gave him a sudden push , which made him lose his footing and fall to the ground with a crash and break four of his teeth , and while he was trying to mend them the fairy carried the Queen off in her flying chariot to a beautiful castle , where she was so kind to her that but for the loss of Delicia the Queen would have been perfectly happy . But though the good little mouse did her very utmost , they could not find out where Cancaline had hidden the little Princess . Thus fifteen years went by , and the Queen had somewhat recovered from her grief , when the news reached her that the son of the wicked King wished to marry the little maiden who kept the turkeys , and that she had refused him ; the wedding-dresses had been made , nevertheless , and the festivities were to be so splendid that all the people for leagues round were flocking in to be present at them . The Queen felt quite curious about a little turkey-maiden who did not wish to be a Queen , so the little mouse conveyed herself to the poultry-yard to find out what she was like . She found the turkey-maiden sitting upon a big stone , barefooted , and miserably dressed in an old , coarse linen gown and cap ; the ground at her feet was all strewn with robes of gold and silver , ribbons and laces , diamonds and pearls , over which the turkeys were stalking to and fro , while the King 's ugly , disagreeable son stood opposite her , declaring angrily that if she would not marry him she should be killed . The Turkey-maiden answered proudly : ' I never will marry you I you are too ugly and too much like your cruel father . Leave me in peace with my turkeys , which I like far better than all your fine gifts . ' The little mouse watched her with the greatest admiration , for she was as beautiful as the spring ; and as soon as the wicked Prince was gone , she took the form of an old peasant woman and said to her : ` Good day , my pretty one ! you have a fine flock of turkeys there . '
The young XXXXX turned her gentle eyes upon the old woman , and answered : ` Yet they wish me to leave them to become a miserable Queen !
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