` Besides , ' she said , ` if there is a single spark of life in you when the day comes , the stuff that is in this bottle will make you as sound as ever you were . ' With all this the Irishman decided to stay ; but that night there were three at him for every one that was there the two nights before , and it looked very unlikely that he would be alive in the morning after all that he got . When morning dawned , and the Princess came to see if he was still alive , she found him lying on the floor as if dead . She tried to see if there was breath in him , but could not quite make it out . Then she put her hand on his pulse , and found a faint movement in it . Accordingly she poured what was in the bottle on him , and before long he rose up on his feet , and was as well as ever he was . So that business was finished , and the Princess was freed from the spell . The Princess then told the Irishman that she must go away for the present , but would return for him in a few days in a carriage drawn by four grey horses . He told her to ` be aisy , ' and not speak like that to him . ' I have paid dear for you for the last three nights , ' he said , ` if I have to part with you now ; ' but in the twinkling of an eye she had disappeared . He did not know what to do with himself when he saw that she was gone , but before she went she had given him a little rod , with which he could , when he pleased , waken the men who had been sleeping there , some of them for sixteen years . After being thus left alone , he went in and stretched himself on three chairs that were in the room , when what does he see coming in at the door but a little fair-haired lad . ` Where did you come from , my lad ? ' said the Irishman . ' I came to make ready your food for you , ' said he . ` Who told you to do that ? ' said the Irishman . ` My mistress , ' answered the lad -- ` the Princess that was under the spell and is now free . ' By this the Irishman knew that she had sent the lad to wait on him . The lad also told him that his mistress wished him to be ready next morning at nine o'clock , when she would come for him with the carriage , as she had promised .
He was greatly pleased XXXXX this , and next morning , when the time was drawing near , went out into the garden ; but the little fair-haired lad took a big pin out of his pocket , and stuck it into the back of the Irishman 's coat without his noticing it , whereupon he fell sound asleep .
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