and the servants that he used to be boasting to were soon flocking from the castle , and grinning , and huzzaing , and beating tunes on tongs and shovels and pans ; and he cursing and swearing , and the eyes ready to start out of his head , and he so black in the face , and kicking out his legs behind him like mad . At last she pitied him , and removed the charm , and the horns dropped down on the ground , and he would have killed her on the spot , only he was as weak as water , and his fellow-servants came in and carried him up to the big house . Well , some way or other the story came to the ears of the prince , and he strolled down that way . She had only the dress of a countrywoman on her as she sat sewing at the window , but that did not hide her beauty , and he was greatly puzzled after he had a good look , just as a body is puzzled to know whether something happened to him when he was young or if he only dreamed it . Well , the witch 's daughter heard about it too , and she came to see the strange girl ; and what did she find her doing but cutting out the pattern of a gown from brown paper ; and as she cut away , the paper became the richest silk she ever saw . The witch 's daughter looked on with greedy eyes , and , says she , ` What would you be satisfied to take for that scissors ? ' ` I 'll take nothing , ' says she , ` but leave to spend one night outside the prince 's chamber . ' Well , the proud lady fired up , and was going to say something dreadful ; but the scissors kept on cutting , and the silk growing richer and richer every inch . So she promised what the girl had asked her . When night came on she was let into the palace and lay down till the prince was in such a dead sleep that all she did could n't awake him . She sung this verse to him , sighing and sobbing , and kept singing it the night long , and it was all in vain : Four long years I was married to thee ; Three sweet babes I bore to thee ; Brown Bear of Norway , turn to me . At the first dawn the proud lady was in the chamber , and led her away , and the footman of the horns put out his tongue at her as she was quitting the palace . So there was no luck so far ; but the next day the prince passed by again and looked at her , and saluted her kindly , as a prince might a farmer 's daughter , and passed one ; and soon the witch 's daughter passed by , and found her combing her hair , and pearls and diamonds dropping from it . Well , another bargain was made , and the princess spent another night of sorrow , and she left the castle at daybreak , and the footman was at his post and enjoyed his revenge . The third day the prince went by , and stopped to talk with the strange woman . He asked her could he do anything to serve her , and she said he might . She asked him did he ever wake at night . He said that he often did , but that during the last two nights he was listening to a sweet song in his dreams , and could not wake , and that the voice was one that he must have known and loved in some other world long ago . Says she , ` Did you drink any sleepy posset either of these evenings before you went to bed ? ' ' I did , ' said he .
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