Each morning when she was obliged to get up before dawn to milk the cows and go to market , and each evening when she had to sit up till midnight in order to churn the butter , her heart was filled with rage against the brownie who had caused her to expect a life of ease and pleasure . But when she looked at Jegu and beheld his red face , squinting eyes , and untidy hair , her anger was doubled . ` If it had not been for you , you miserable dwarf ! ' she would say between her teeth , ` if it had not been for you I should never have married that man , and I should still have been going to dances , where the young men would have brought me present of nuts and cherries , and told me that I was the prettiest girl in the parish . While now I can receive no presents except from my husband . I can never dance , except with my husband . Oh , you wretched dwarf , I will never , never forgive you ! ' In spite of her fierce words , no one knew better than Barbaik how to put her pride in her pocket when it suited her , and after receiving an invitation to a wedding , she begged the brownie to get her a horse to ride there . To her great joy he consented , bidding her set out for the city of the dwarfs and to tell them exactly what she wanted . Full of excitement , Barbaik started on her journey . It was not long , and when she reached the town she went straight to the dwarfs , who were holding counsel in a wide green place , and said to them , ` Listen , my friends ! I have come to beg you to lend me a black horse , with eyes , a mouth , ears , bridle and saddle . ' She had hardly spoken when the horse appeared , and mounting on his back she started for the village where the wedding was to be held . At first she was so delighted with the chance of a holiday from the work which she hated , that she noticed nothing , but very soon it struck her as odd that as she passed along the roads full of people they all laughed as they looked at her horse . At length she caught some words uttered by one man to another . ` Why , the farmer 's wife has sold her horse 's tail ! ' and turned in her saddle . Yes ; it was true . Her horse had no tail ! She had forgotten to ask for one , and the wicked dwarfs had carried out her orders to the letter !
` Well , at any rate , I shall soon be there , ' she thought , and shaking the reins , tried to urge the horse XXXXX a gallop .
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