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 of an arm , and stuck a bit of dirt in the empty socket for an eye , and took the child with her to the castle . When all the people were gathered together , the King 's son stepped in among the crowd and cried : ` The maiden whose finger this ring slips over , whose head this golden hoop encircles , and whose foot this shoe fits , shall be my bride . ' What a great trying on there was now among them all ! The things would fit no one , however . ` The cinder wench is not here , ' said the Prince at last ; ` go and fetch her , and let her try on the things . ' So the girl was fetched , and the Prince was just going to hand the ornaments to her , when the witch held him back , saying : ` Do n't give them to her ; she soils everything with cinders ; give them to my daughter rather . ' Well , then the Prince gave the witch 's daughter the ring , and the woman filed and pared away at her daughter 's finger till the ring fitted . It was the same with the circlet and the shoes of gold . The witch would not allow them to be handed to the cinder wench ; she worked at her own daughter 's head and feet till she got the things forced on . What was to be done now ?
The Prince had to take the witch 's daughter for his bride whether he would or no ; he sneaked away to her father 's house XXXXX her , however , for he was ashamed to hold the wedding festivities at the palace with so strange a bride .
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