Towards midnight the beautiful girl appeared , and placing her in front of him on his horse , the Prince and she flew like the wind till they reached the Flower Queen 's dwelling . But the dragons had noticed their flight , and woke their brother out of his year 's sleep . He flew into a terrible rage when he heard what had happened , and determined to lay siege to the Flower Queen 's palace ; but the Queen caused a forest of flowers as high as the sky to grow up round her dwelling , through which no one could force a way . When the Flower Queen heard that her daughter wanted to marry the Prince , she said to him : ' I will give my consent to your marriage gladly , but my daughter can only stay with you in summer . In winter , when everything is dead and the ground covered with snow , she must come and live with me in my palace underground . ' The Prince consented to this , and led his beautiful bride home , where the wedding was held with great pomp and magnificence . The young couple lived happily together till winter came , when the Flower Queen 's daughter departed and went home to her mother . In summer she returned to her husband , and their life of joy and happiness began again , and lasted till the approach of winter , when the Flower Queen 's daughter went back again to her mother . This coming and going continued all her life long , and in spite of it they always lived happily together . THE FLYING SHIP -LRB- 24 -RRB- -LRB- 24 -RRB- From the Russian . Once upon a time there lived an old couple who had three sons ; the two elder were clever , but the third was a regular dunce . The clever sons were very fond of their mother , gave her good clothes , and always spoke pleasantly to her ; but the youngest was always getting in her way , and she had no patience with him . Now , one day it was announced in the village that the King had issued a decree , offering his daughter , the Princess , in marriage to whoever should build a ship that could fly . Immediately the two elder brothers determined to try their luck , and asked their parents ' blessing . So the old mother smartened up their clothes , and gave them a store of provisions for their journey , not forgetting to add a bottle of brandy . When they had gone the poor Simpleton began to tease his mother to smarten him up and let him start off . ` What would become of a dolt like you ? ' she answered . ` Why , you would be eaten up by wolves . ' But the foolish youth kept repeating , ' I will go , I will go , I will go ! '
Seeing that she could do nothing with him , the mother gave him a crust of bread and a bottle XXXXX water , and took no further heed of him .
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