I will say that it was my mother 's , and that I will not part with it , ' said the Princess . So Jack changed himself into a gold ring , and set himself on the Princess 's finger , and Farmer Weatherbeard could not get at him there . But then all that the youth had foretold came to pass . The King became ill , and there was no doctor who could cure him till Farmer Weatherbeard arrived , and he demanded the ring which was on the Princess 's finger as a reward . So the King sent a messenger to the Princess for the ring . She , however , refused to part with it , because she had inherited it from her mother . When the King was informed of this he fell into a rage , and said that he would have the ring , let her have inherited it from whom she might . ` Well , it 's of no use to be angry about it , ' said the Princess , ` for I ca n't get it off . If you want the ring you will have to take the finger too ! ' ' I will try , and then the ring will very soon come off , ' said Farmer Weatherbeard . ` No , thank you , I will try myself , ' said the Princess , and she went away to the fireplace and put some ashes on the ring . So the ring came off and was lost among the ashes . Farmer Weatherbeard changed himself into a hare , which scratched and scraped about in the fireplace after the ring until the ashes were up to its ears . But Jack changed himself into a fox , and bit the hare 's head off , and if Farmer Weatherbeard was possessed by the evil one all was now over with him . -LRB- 25 -RRB- -LRB- 25 -RRB- From P. C. Asbjornsen . MOTHER HOLLE ONCE upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters ; one of them was pretty and clever , and the other ugly and lazy . But as the ugly one was her own daughter , she liked her far the best of the two , and the pretty one had to do all the work of the house , and was in fact the regular maid of all work . Every day she had to sit by a well on the high road , and spin till her fingers were so sore that they often bled . One day some drops of blood fell on her spindle , so she dipped it into the well meaning to wash it , but , as luck would have it , it dropped from her hand and fell right in . She ran weeping to her stepmother , and told her what had happened , but she scolded her harshly , and was so merciless in her anger that she said : ` Well , since you 've dropped the spindle down , you must just go after it yourself , and do n't let me see your face again until you bring it with you . '
Then the poor girl returned to the well , and not knowing what she was about , in the despair and misery XXXXX her heart she sprang into the well and sank to the bottom .
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