` You have got your money , give me my tinder-box . ' ` We 'll see ! ' said the Soldier . ` Tell me at once what you want to do with it , or I will draw my sword , and cut off your head ! ' ` No ! ' screamed the Witch . The Soldier immediately cut off her head . That was the end of her ! But he tied up all his gold in her apron , slung it like a bundle over his shoulder , put the tinder-box in his pocket , and set out towards the town . It was a splendid town ! He turned into the finest inn , ordered the best chamber and his favourite dinner ; for now that he had so much money he was really rich . It certainly occurred to the servant who had to clean his boots that they were astonishingly old boots for such a rich lord . But that was because he had not yet bought new ones ; next day he appeared in respectable boots and fine clothes . Now , instead of a common soldier he had become a noble lord , and the people told him about all the grand doings of the town and the King , and what a beautiful Princess his daughter was . ` How can one get to see her ? ' asked the Soldier . ` She is never to be seen at all ! ' they told him ; ` she lives in a great copper castle , surrounded by many walls and towers ! No one except the King may go in or out , for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier , and the King can not submit to that . ' ' I should very much like to see her , ' thought the Soldier ; but he could not get permission .
Now he lived very gaily , went to the theatre , drove XXXXX the King 's garden , and gave the poor a great deal of money , which was very nice of him ; he had experienced in former times how hard it is not to have a farthing in the world .
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