` Put thy finger in the mare 's ear and throw behind thee whatever thou findest in it , ' and the king 's son found a splinter of grey stone , and threw it behind him , and in a twinkling twenty miles of solid rock lay between them and the giant . ` My daughter 's tricks are the hardest things that ever met me , ' said the giant , ` but if I had my lever and my crowbar , I would not be long in making my way through this rock also , ' but as he had got them , he had to go home and fetch them . Then it took him but a short time to hew his way through the rock . ' I will leave the tools here , ' he murmured aloud when he had finished . ` If thou leavest them , we will steal them , ' said a hoodie who was perched on a stone above him , and the giant answered : ` Steal them if thou wilt ; there is no time to go back . ' ` My father 's breath is burning my back , ' cried the girl ; ` look in the mare 's ear , king 's son , or we are lost , ' and he looked , and found a tiny bladder full of water , which he threw behind him , and it became a great lock . And the giant , who was striding on so fast , could not stop himself , and he walked right into the middle and was drowned . The blue-grey mare galloped on like the wind , and the next day the king 's son came in sight of his father 's house . ` Get down and go in , ' said the bride , ` and tell them that thou hast married me . But take heed that neither man nor beast kiss thee , for then thou wilt cease to remember me at all . ' ' I will do thy bidding , ' answered he , and left her at the gate . All who met him bade him welcome , and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him , but as he greeted them his old greyhound leapt on his neck , and kissed him on the mouth . And after that he did not remember the giant 's daughter . All that day she sat on a well which was near the gate , waiting , waiting , but the king 's son never came . In the darkness she climbed up into an oak tree that shadowed the well , and there she lay all night , waiting , waiting . On the morrow , at midday , the wife of a shoemaker who dwelt near the well went to draw water for her husband to drink , and she saw the shadow of the girl in the tree , and thought it was her own shadow . ` How handsome I am , to be sure , ' said she , gazing into the well , and as she stopped to behold herself better , the jug struck against the stones and broke in pieces , and she was forced to return to her husband without the water , and this angered him . ` Thou hast turned crazy , ' said he in wrath . ` Go thou , my daughter , and fetch me a drink , ' and the girl went , and the same thing befell her as had befallen her mother . ` Where is the water ? '
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