Then he answered : ` When I saw how many people sought you , and could not find you , and lost their lives in so doing , I invented this trick , and so I am come safely to you . ' The princess exclaimed : ` You have done well so to do ; but you must know that your wager is not yet won , for my father will change me and my maidens into ducks , and will ask you , `` Which of these ducks is the princess ? '' Then I will turn my head back , and with my bill will clean my wings , so that you may know me . ' When they had spent three days together , chatting and caressing one another , the herd came back to the king , and demanded his lamb . Then the king went to his daughter to bring it away , which troubled the princess very much , for she said they had played so nicely together . But the king said : ' I can not leave it with you , my daughter , for it is only lent to me . ' So he took it away with him , and gave it back to the shepherd . Then the young man threw the skin from off him , and went to the king , saying : ` Sire , I am persuaded I can find your daughter . ' When the king saw how handsome he was , he said : ` My lad , I have pity on your youth . This enterprise has already cost the lives of many , and will certainly be your death as well . ' But the young man answered , ' I accept your conditions , oh king ; I will either find her or lose my head . ' Thereupon he went before the king , who followed after him , till they came to the great door . Then the young man said to the king : ` Speak the words that it may open . ' And the king answered : ` What are the words ? Shall I say something like this : `` Shut ; shut ; shut '' ? ' ` No , ' said he ; ` say `` Open , Sartara Martara of the earth . '' ' When the king had so said , the door opened of itself , and they went in , while the king gnawed his moustache in anger . Then they came to the second door , where the same thing happened as at the first , and they went in and found the princess . Then spoke the king and said : ` Yes , truly , you have found the princess . Now I will turn her as well as all her maidens into ducks , and if you can guess which of these ducks is my daughter , then you shall have her to wife . '
And immediately the king changed all the maidens XXXXX ducks , and he drove them before the young man , and said : ` Now show me which is my daughter . '
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