But when he saw that a cross had been made on the door of the house where the Soldier lived , he took a piece of chalk also , and made crosses on all the doors in the town ; and that was very clever , for now the lady-in-waiting could not find the right house , as there were crosses on all the doors . Early next morning the King , Queen , ladies-in-waiting , and officers came out to see where the Princess had been . ` There it is ! ' said the King , when he saw the first door with a cross on it . ` No , there it is , my dear ! ' said the Queen , when she likewise saw a door with a cross . ` But here is one , and there is another ! ' 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 .
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