But at daybreak the woodcutter started off into the wood , and this time asked his second daughter to bring his food . ' I will take a bag of lentils , ' said he ; ` they are larger than millet , and the girl will see them better and be sure to find her way . ' At midday the maiden took the food , but the lentils had all gone ; as on the previous day , the wood birds had eaten them all . The maiden wandered about the wood till nightfall , when she came in the same way to the old man 's house , and asked for food and a night 's lodging . The man with the white hair again asked the beasts : Pretty cock , Pretty hen , And you , pretty brindled cow , What do you say now ? The beasts answered , ` Duks , ' and everything happened as on the former day . The girl cooked a good meal , ate and drank with the old man , and did not trouble herself about the animals . And when she asked for a bed , they replied : You have eaten with him You have drunk with him , Of us you have not thought , Now sleep as you ought ! And when she was asleep , the old man shook his head over her , and let her fall into the cellar . On the third morning the woodcutter said to his wife , ` Send our youngest child to-day with my dinner . She is always good and obedient , and will keep to the right path , and not wander away like her sisters , idle drones ! ' But the mother said , ` Must I lose my dearest child too ? ' ` Do not fear , ' he answered ; ` she is too clever and intelligent to lose her way . I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them along ; they are even larger than lentils , and will show her the way . ' But when the maiden started off with the basket on her arm , the wood pigeons had eaten up the peas , and she did not know which way to go . She was much distressed , and thought constantly of her poor hungry father and her anxious mother . At last , when it grew dark , she saw the little light , and came to the house in the wood . She asked prettily if she might stay there for the night , and the man with the white beard asked his beasts again : Pretty cock , Pretty hen , And you , pretty brindled cow , What do you say now ? ` Duks , ' they said . Then the maiden stepped up to the stove where the animals were lying , and stroked the cock and the hen , and scratched the brindled cow between its horns .
And when at the bidding of the old man she had prepared a good supper , and the dishes were standing XXXXX the table , she said , ` Shall I have plenty while the good beasts have nothing ?
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