` Good evening , ' it said . ` Thanks , Maiden Bright-eye , ' said the dog . ` Where is my brother ? ' ` He is in the serpent-pit . ' ` Where is my wicked sister ? ' ` She is with the noble king . ' ` Alas ! alas ! now I shall never come again . ' With this it slipped out again , but in the meantime the cook had posted himself at the outer end of the drain with a net , which he threw over it as it came out . In this way he caught it , and came in to the others with the most beautiful duck they had ever seen -- with so many golden feathers on it that everyone marvelled . No one , however , knew what was to be done with it ; but after what they had heard they knew that there was something uncommon about it , so they took good care of it . At this time the brother in the serpent-pit dreamed that his right sister had come swimming to the king 's palace in the shape of a duck , and that she could not regain her own form until her beak was cut off . He got this dream told to some one , so that the king at last came to hear of it , and had him taken up out of the pit and brought before him . The king then asked him if he could produce to him his sister as beautiful as he had formerly described her . The brother said he could if they would bring him the duck and a knife . Both of them were brought to him , and he said , ' I wonder how you would look if I were to cut the point off your beak . ' With this he cut a piece off the beak , and there came a voice which said , ` Oh , oh , you cut my little finger ! ' Next moment Maiden Bright-eye stood there , as lovely and beautiful as he had seen her when he was home . This was his sister now , he said ; and the whole story now came out of how the other had behaved to her .
The wicked sister was put into a barrel XXXXX spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses , and so she came to her end. : But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye , and immediately made her his queen , while her brother became his prime minister .
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