And she flung the bucket so high in the air that it stuck in the branches of an oak . ' I met a wolf , ' she told the bricklayer , ` and I broke the bucket across his nose . ' The bricklayer asked her no more questions , but took down a broom and gave her such a beating that her pride was humbled a little . Then he handed to her an old copper milk-can , and said : ` If you do n't bring it back full , your bones shall suffer for it . ' XI Titty went off rubbing her sides ; but this time she did not dare to disobey , and in a very bad temper stooped down over the well . It was not at all easy to fill the milk-can , which was large and round . It would not go down into the well , and the gypsy had to try again and again . At last her arms grew so tired that when she did manage to get the can properly under the water she had no strength to pull it up , and it rolled to the bottom . On seeing the can disappear , she made such a miserable face that Zizi , who had been watching her all this time , burst into fits of laughter . Titty turned round and perceived the mistake she had made ; and she felt so angry that she made up her mind to be revenged at once . ` What are you doing there , you lovely creature ? ' she said to Zizi . ' I am waiting for my lover , ' Zizi replied ; and then , with a simplicity quite natural in a girl who so lately had been a canary , she told all her story . The gypsy had often seen the young Prince pass by , with his gun on his shoulder , when he was going after crows . She was too ugly and ragged for him ever to have noticed her , but Titty on her side had admired him , though she thought he might well have been a little fatter . ` Dear , dear ! ' she said to herself . ` So he likes yellow women ! Why , I am yellow too , and if I could only think of a way -- ' It was not long before she did think of it . ` What ! '
cried the sly Titty , ` they are coming with great pomp to fetch you , and you are not afraid to show yourself to so many fine lords and ladies XXXXX your hair down like that ?
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