But his mother had soothed him with soft words , assuring him that this was not so . So the Princess took heart when she saw how kindly she was treated , and asked : ` But how in the world is it possible for the Sun to be angry ? He is so beautiful and so good to mortals . ' ` This is how it happens , ' replied the Sun 's mother . ` In the morning when he stands at the gates of paradise he is happy , and smiles on the whole world , but during the day he gets cross , because he sees all the evil deeds of men , and that is why his heat becomes so scorching ; but in the evening he is both sad and angry , for he stands at the gates of death ; that is his usual course . From there he comes back here . ' She then told the Princess that she had asked about her hus-band , but that her son had replied that he knew nothing about him , and that her only hope was to go and inquire of the Wind . Before the Princess left the mother of the Sun gave her a roast chicken to eat , and advised her to take great care of the bones , which she did , wrapping them up in a bundle . She then threw away her second pair of shoes , which were quite worn out , and with her child on her arm and her staff in her hand , she set forth on her way to the Wind . In these wanderings she met with even greater difficulties than before , for she came upon one mountain of flints after another , out of which tongues of fire would flame up ; she passed through woods which had never been trodden by human foot , and had to cross fields of ice and avalanches of snow . The poor woman nearly died of these hardships , but she kept a brave heart , and at length she reached an enormous cave in the side of a mountain . This was where the Wind lived . There was a little door in the railing in front of the cave , and here the Princess knocked and begged for admission . The mother of the Wind had pity on her and took her in , that she might rest a little . Here too she was hidden away , so that the Wind might not notice her . The next morning the mother of the Wind told her that her husband was living in a thick wood , so thick that no axe had been able to cut a way through it ; here he had built himself a sort of house by placing trunks of trees together and fastening them with withes and here he lived alone , shunning human kind . After the mother of the Wind had given the Princess a chicken to eat , and had warned her to take care of the bones , she advised her to go by the Milky Way , which at night lies across the sky , and to wander on till she reached her goal . Having thanked the old woman with tears in her eyes for her hospitality , and for the good news she had given her , the Princess set out on her journey and rested neither night nor day , so great was her longing to see her husband again . On and on she walked until her last pair of shoes fell in pieces . So she threw them away and went on with bare feet , not heeding the bogs nor the thorns that wounded her , nor the stones that bruised her .
At last she reached a beautiful green meadow on the edge XXXXX a wood .
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