Then the witch gave him the child , saying : ` Take you the little one ; I will give the other girl work to do , else she will weary at home alone . ' She did as usual . This time it was a dish of milk she poured upon the ashes , saying : ` If you do not get all the milk into the dish again before I come home , you will suffer for it . ' How frightened the girl was this time ! She ran to the birch tree , and by its magic power her task was accomplished ; and then she rode away to the palace as before . When she got to the courtyard she found the Prince waiting for her . He led her into the hall , where she was highly honoured ; but the witch 's daughter sucked the bones under the table , and crouching at the people 's feet she got an eye knocked out , poor thing ! Now no one knew any more than before about the good man 's daughter , no one knew whence she came ; but the Prince had had the threshold smeared with tar , and as she fled her gold slippers stuck to it . She reached the birch tree , and laying aside her finery , she said : ` Alas I dear little mother , I have lost my gold slippers ! ' ` Let them be , ' was her mother 's reply ; ` if you need them I shall give you finer ones . ' Scarcely was she in her usual place behind the stove when her father came home with the witch . Immediately the witch began to mock her , saying : ` Ah ! you poor thing , there is nothing for you to see here , and WE -- ah : what great things we have seen at the palace ! My little girl was carried about again , but had the ill-luck to fall and get her eye knocked out . You stupid thing , you , what do you know about anything ? ' ` Yes , indeed , what can I know ? ' replied the girl ; ' I had enough to do to get the hearth clean . ' Now the Prince had kept all the things the girl had lost , and he soon set about finding the owner of them . For this purpose a great banquet was given on the fourth day , and all the people were invited to the palace . The witch got ready to go too .
She tied a wooden beetle on where her child 's foot should have been , a log of wood instead XXXXX an arm , and stuck a bit of dirt in the empty socket for an eye , and took the child with her to the castle .
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