` Yes , take the child away , take it to the wood with you to quiet it , ' said the Prince , and led the widow woman into the castle . ` How now ? you are going to send the child away to the wood ? ' said the witch in a suspicious tone , and tried to interfere . But the King 's son stood firm by what he had commanded , and said : ` Carry the child about the wood ; perhaps that will pacify it . ' So the widow woman took the child to the wood . She came to the edge of a marsh , and seeing a herd of reindeer there , she began all at once to sing -- ` Little Bright-eyes , little Redskin , Come nurse the child you bore ! That bloodthirsty monster , That man-eater grim , Shall nurse him , shall tend him no more . They may threaten and force as they will , He turns from her , shrinks from her still , ' and immediately the reindeer drew near , and nursed and tended the child the whole day long ; but at nightfall it had to follow the herd , and said to the widow woman : ` Bring me the child to-morrow , and again the following day ; after that I must wander with the herd far away to other lands . ' The following morning the widow woman went back to the castle to fetch the child . The witch interfered , of course , but the Prince said : ` Take it , and carry it about in the open air ; the boy is quieter at night , to be sure , when he has been in the wood all day . ' So the widow took the child in her arms , and carried it to the marsh in the forest . There she sang as on the preceding day -- ` Little Bright-eyes , little Redskin , Come nurse the child you bore ! That bloodthirsty monster , That man-eater grim , Shall nurse him , shall tend him no more . They may threaten and force as they will , He turns from her , shrinks from her still , ' and immediately the reindeer left the herd and came to the child , and tended it as on the day before . And so it was that the child throve , till not a finer boy was to be seen anywhere . But the King 's son had been pondering over all these things , and he said to the widow woman : ` Is there no way of changing the reindeer into a human being again ? ' ' I do n't rightly know , ' was her answer . ` Come to the wood with me , however ; when the woman puts off her reindeer skin I shall comb her head for her ; whilst I am doing so you must burn the skin . ' Thereupon they both went to the wood with the child ; scarcely were they there when the reindeer appeared and nursed the child as before .
Then the widow woman said XXXXX the reindeer : ` Since you are going far away to-morrow , and I shall not see you again , let me comb your head for the last time , as a remembrance of you . '
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