` Wash yourself ! ' answered the woman 's daughter . Then the second head appeared . ` Brush me , girl ! ' said the head . ` Brush yourself ! ' said the woman 's daughter . So down it went to the bottom , and the third head came up . ` Kiss me , girl ! ' said the head . ` As if I would kiss your ugly mouth ! ' said the girl . So again the heads talked together about what they should do for this girl who was so ill-tempered and full of her own importance , and they agreed that she should have a nose that was four ells long , and a jaw that was three ells , and a fir bush in the middle of her forehead , and every time she spoke ashes should fall from her mouth . When she came back to the cottage door with her pails , she called to her mother who was inside , ` Open the door ! ' ` Open the door yourself , my own dear child ! ' said the mother . ' I ca n't get near , because of my nose , ' said the daughter . When the mother came and saw her you may imagine what a state of mind she was in , and how she screamed and lamented , but neither the nose nor the jaw grew any the less for that . Now the brother , who was in service in the King 's palace , had taken a portrait of his sister , and he had carried the picture away with him , and every morning and evening he knelt down before it and prayed for his sister , so dearly did he love her . The other stable-boys had heard him doing this , so they peeped through the key-hole into his room , and saw that he was kneeling there before a picture ; so they told everyone that every morning and evening the youth knelt down and prayed to an idol which he had ; and at last they went to the King himself , and begged that he too would peep through the key-hole , and see for himself what the youth did .
At first the King would not believe this , but after a long , long time , they prevailed XXXXX him , and he crept on tip-toe to the door , peeped through , and saw the youth on his knees , with his hands clasped together before a picture which was hanging on the wall .
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