they all exclaimed ; wherever they looked there was a cross on the door . Then they realised that the sign would not help them at all . But the Queen was an extremely clever woman , who could do a great deal more than just drive in a coach . She took her great golden scissors , cut up a piece of silk , and made a pretty little bag of it . This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains , and tied it round the Princess ' neck ; this done , she cut a little hole in the bag , so that the grains would strew the whole road wherever the Princess went . In the night the dog came again , took the Princess on his back and ran away with her to the Soldier , who was very much in love with her , and would have liked to have been a Prince , so that he might have had her for his wife . The dog did not notice how the grains were strewn right from the castle to the Soldier 's window , where he ran up the wall with the Princess . In the morning the King and the Queen saw plainly where their daughter had been , and they took the Soldier and put him into prison . There he sat . Oh , how dark and dull it was there ! And they told him : ` To-morrow you are to be hanged . ' Hearing that did not exactly cheer him , and he had left his tinder-box in the inn . Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged . He heard the drums and saw the soldiers marching ; all the people were running to and fro . Just below his window was a shoemaker 's apprentice , with leather apron and shoes ; he was skipping along so merrily that one of his shoes flew off and fell against the wall , just where the Soldier was sitting peeping through the iron grating . ` Oh , shoemaker 's boy , you need n't be in such a hurry ! ' said the Soldier to him . ` There 's nothing going on till I arrive . But if you will run back to the house where I lived , and fetch me my tinder-box , I will give you four shillings . But you must put your best foot foremost . '
The shoemaker 's boy was very willing XXXXX earn four shillings , and fetched the tinder-box , gave it to the Soldier , and -- yes -- now you shall hear .
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