The wife died , and the man married again . His new wife had an only daughter , who was both ugly and untidy , whereas her stepdaughter was a beautiful girl , and was known as Maiden Bright-eye . Her stepmother was very cruel to her on this account ; she had always to do the hardest work , and got very little to eat , and no attention paid to her ; but to her own daughter she was all that was good . She was spared from all the hardest of the housework , and had always the prettiest clothes to wear . Maiden Bright-eye had also to watch the sheep , but of course it would never do to let her go idle and enjoy herself too much at this work , so she had to pull heather while she was out on the moors with them . Her stepmother gave her pancakes to take with her for her dinner , but she had mixed the flour with ashes , and made them just as bad as she could . The little girl came out on the moor and began to pull heather on the side of a little mound , but next minute a little fellow with a red cap on his head popped up out of the mound and said : ` Who 's that pulling the roof off my house ? ' ` Oh , it 's me , a poor little girl , ' said she ; ` my mother sent me out here , and told me to pull heather . If you will be good to me I will give you a bit of my dinner . ' The little fellow was quite willing , and she gave him the biggest share of her pancakes . They were not particularly good , but when one is hungry anything tastes well . After he had got them all eaten he said to her : ` Now , I shall give you three wishes , for you are a very nice little girl ; but I will choose the wishes for you . You are beautiful , and much more beautiful shall you be ; yes , so lovely that there will not be your like in the world . The next wish shall be that every time you open your mouth a gold coin shall fall out of it , and your voice shall be like the most beautiful music . The third wish shall be that you may be married to the young king , and become the queen of the country . At the same time I shall give you a cap , which you must carefully keep , for it can save you , if you ever are in danger of your life , if you just put it on your head . Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often , and drove home her sheep in the evening . By that time she had grown so beautiful that her people could scarcely recognise her . Her stepmother asked her how it had come about that she had grown so beautiful . She told the whole story -- for she always told the truth -- that a little man had come to her out on the moor and had given her all this beauty .
She did not tell , however , that she had given him a share XXXXX her dinner .
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