And now she became brisk and well again , and grew so rosy , and plump , and fair that the Queen and her scraggy daughter turned blue and white with vexation at it . The Queen could not imagine how her step-daughter could look so well on such bad food , so she ordered one of her handmaidens to follow her into the wood and watch her , and see how it was , for she thought that some of the servants must be giving her food . So the maid followed her into the wood and watched , and saw how the step-daughter took the cloth out of the Blue Bull 's ear , and spread it out , and how the cloth was then covered with the most delicate dishes , which the step-daughter ate and regaled herself with . So the waiting-maid went home and told the Queen . And now the King came home , and he had conquered the other King with whom he had been at war . So there was great gladness in the palace , but no one was more glad than the King 's daughter . The Queen , however , pretended to be ill , and gave the doctor much money to say that she would never be well again unless she had some of the flesh of the Blue Bull to eat . Both the King 's daughter and the people in the palace asked the doctor if there were no other means of saving her , and begged for the Bull 's life , for they were all fond of him , and they all declared that there was no such Bull in the whole country ; but it was all in vain , he was to be killed , and should be killed , and nothing else would serve . When the King 's daughter heard it she was full of sorrow , and went down to the byre to the Bull . He too was standing there hanging his head , and looking so downcast that she fell a-weeping over him . ` What are you weeping for ? ' said the Bull . So she told him that the King had come home again , and that the Queen had pretended to be ill , and that she had made the doctor say that she could never be well again unless some of the flesh of the Blue Bull was given her to eat , and that now he was to be killed . ` When once they have taken my life they will soon kill you also , ' said the Bull . ` If you are of the same mind with me , we will take our departure this very night . ' The King 's daughter thought that it was bad to go and leave her father , but that it was worse still to be in the same house with the Queen , so she promised the Bull that she would come . At night , when all the others had gone to bed , the King 's daughter stole softly down to the byre to the Bull , and he took her on his back and got out of the courtyard as quickly as he could . So at cock-crow next morning , when the people came to kill the Bull , he was gone , and when the King got up and asked for his daughter she was gone too . He sent forth messengers to all parts of the kingdom to search for them , and published his loss in all the parish churches , but there was no one who had seen anything of them . In the meantime the Bull travelled through many lands with the King 's daughter on his back , and one day they came to a great copper-wood , where the trees , and the branches , and the leaves , and the flowers , and everything else was of copper .
But before they entered the wood the Bull said to the King 's daughter : ` When we enter into this wood , you must take the greatest care not to touch a leaf XXXXX it , or all will be over both with me and with you , for a Troll with three heads , who is the owner of the wood , lives here . '
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