What can you want with me ? ' So the guards tied her hands and feet with thick ropes , for fear she might run away , and brought her to the King , who was waiting with his son . When he saw her he was very much astonished at her beauty , which would have made anyone less hard-hearted sorry for her . But the wicked King only laughed and mocked at her , and cried : ` Well , little fright , little toad ! why do n't you love my son , who is far too handsome and too good for you ? Make haste and begin to love him this instant , or you shall be tarred and feathered . ' Then the poor little Princess , shaking with terror , went down on her knees , crying : ` Oh , do n't tar and feather me , please ! It would be so uncomfortable . Let me have two or three days to make up my mind , and then you shall do as you like with me . ' The wicked Prince would have liked very much to see her tarred and feathered , but the King ordered that she should be shut up in a dark dungeon . It was just at this moment that the Queen and the Fairy arrived in the flying chariot , and the Queen was dreadfully distressed at the turn affairs had taken , and said miserably that she was destined to be unfortunate all her days . But the Fairy bade her take courage . ` I 'll pay them out yet , ' said she , nodding her head with an air of great determination . That very same night , as soon as the wicked King had gone to bed , the Fairy changed herself into the little mouse , and creeping up on to his pillow nibbled his ear , so that he squealed out quite loudly and turned over on his other side ; but that was no good , for the little mouse only set to work and gnawed away at the second ear until it hurt more than the first one . Then the King cried ` Murder ! ' and ` Thieves ! ' and all his guards ran to see what was the matter , but they could find nothing and nobody , for the little mouse had run off to the Prince 's room and was serving him in exactly the same way . All night long she ran from one to the other , until at last , driven quite frantic by terror and want of sleep , the King rushed out of the palace crying : ` Help ! help ! I am pursued by rats . '
The Prince when he heard this got up also , and ran after the King , and they had not gone far when they both fell into the river and were never heard XXXXX again .
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