On Sunday some strangers were coming to the King 's palace , so Kari begged to have leave to carry up the water for the Prince 's bath , but the others laughed at her and said , ` What do you want there ? Do you think the Prince will ever look at such a fright as you ? ' She would not give it up , however , but went on begging until at last she got leave . When she was going upstairs her wooden gown made such a clatter that the Prince came out and said , ` What sort of a creature may you be ? ' ' I was to take this water to you , ' said Kari . ` Do you suppose that I will have any water that you bring ? ' said the Prince , and emptied it over her . She had to bear that , but then she asked permission to go to church . She got that , for the church was very near . But first she went to the rock and knocked at it with the stick which was standing there , as the Bull had told her to do . Instantly a man came forth and asked what she wanted . The King 's daughter said that she had got leave to go to church and listen to the priest , but that she had no clothes to go in . So he brought her a gown that was as bright as the copper wood , and she got a horse and saddle too from him . When she reached the church she was so pretty and so splendidly dressed that every one wondered who she could be , and hardly anyone listened to what the priest was saying , for they were all looking far too much at her , and the Prince himself liked her so well that he could not take his eyes off her for an instant . As she was walking out of church the Prince followed her and shut the church door after her , and thus he kept one of her gloves in his hand . Then she went away and mounted her horse again ; the Prince again followed her , and asked her whence she came . ` Oh ! I am from Bathland , ' said Kari . And when the Prince took out the glove and wanted to give it back to her , she said : ` Darkness behind me , but light on my way , That the Prince may not see where I 'm going to-day ! ' The Prince had never seen the equal of that glove , and he went far and wide , asking after the country which the proud lady , who rode away without her glove , had said that she came from , but there was no one who could tell him where it lay .
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