In her desperation she determined to pull down the church , and thus to destroy her two victims for ever . She stamped three times on the ground , and the earth trembled , and both the church and the monk began to shake . As soon as the Fairy saw this she retreated to some distance from the building , so as not to be hurt herself by its fall . But once more her scheme was doomed to failure , for hardly had she gone a yard from the church than both it and the monk disappeared , and she found herself in a wood black as night , and full of wolves and bears and wild animals of all sorts and descriptions . Then her wrath gave place to terror , for she feared every moment to be torn in pieces by the beasts who one and all seemed to defy her power . She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the forest , and then to pursue the fugitives once more and accomplish their destruction either by force or cunning . In the meantime the Prince and the black girl had again assumed their natural forms , and were hurrying on as fast as they could to reach the river . But when they got there they found that there was no way in which they could cross it , and the girl 's magic art seemed no longer to have any power . Then turning to the Prince she said , ` The hour for my deliverance has not yet come , but as you promised to do all you could to free me , you must do exactly as I bid you now . Take this bow and arrow and kill every beast you see with them , and be sure you spare no living creature . ' With these words she disappeared , and hardly had she done so than a huge wild boar started out of the thicket near and made straight for the Prince . But the youth did not lose his presence of mind , and drawing his bow he pierced the beast with his arrow right through the skull . The creature fell heavily on the ground , and out of its side sprang a little hare , which ran like the wind along the river bank . The Prince drew his bow once more , and the hare lay dead at his feet ; but at the same moment a dove rose up in the air , and circled round the Prince 's head in the most confiding manner . But mindful of the black girl 's commands , he dared not spare the little creature 's life , and taking another arrow from his quiver he laid it as dead as the boar and the hare . But when he went to look at the body of the bird he found instead of the dove a round white egg lying on the ground . While he was gazing on it and wondering what it could mean , he heard the sweeping of wings above him , and looking up he saw a huge vulture with open claws swooping down upon him . In a moment he seized the egg and flung it at the bird with all his might , and lo and behold ! instead of the ugly monster the most beautiful girl he had ever seen stood before the astonished eyes of the Prince . But while all this was going on the wicked old Fairy had managed to make her way out of the wood , and was now using the last resource in her power to overtake her daughter and the Prince .
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