This was repeated for two nights , and on the third the Duck said to the Scullion : ` Go and tell the King to swing his sword three times over me on the threshold . ' The Scullion did as the creature bade him , and the King came with his sword and swung it three times over the bird , and lo and behold ! his wife stood before him once more , alive , and as blooming as ever . The King rejoiced greatly , but he kept the Queen in hiding till the Sunday on which the child was to be christened . After the christening he said : ` What punishment does that person deserve who drags another out of bed , and throws him or her , as the case may be , into the water ? ' Then the wicked old stepmother answered : ` No better fate than to be put into a barrel lined with sharp nails , and to be rolled in it down the hill into the water . ' ` You have pronounced your own doom , ' said the King ; and he ordered a barrel to be made lined with sharp nails , and in it he put the bad old woman and her daughter . Then it was fastened down securely , and the barrel was rolled down the hill till it fell into the river . -LRB- 19 -RRB- -LRB- 19 -RRB- Grimm . DAPPLEGRIM THERE was once upon a time a couple of rich folks who had twelve sons , and when the youngest was grown up he would not stay at home any longer , but would go out into the world and seek his fortune . His father and mother said that they thought he was very well off at home , and that he was welcome to stay with them ; but he could not rest , and said that he must and would go , so at last they had to give him leave . When he had walked a long way , he came to a King 's palace . There he asked for a place and got it . Now the daughter of the King of that country had been carried off into the mountains by a Troll , and the King had no other children , and for this cause both he and all his people were full of sorrow and affliction , and the King had promised the Princess and half his kingdom to anyone who could set her free ; but there was no one who could do it , though a great number had tried . So when the youth had been there for the space of a year or so , he wanted to go home again to pay his parents a visit ; but when he got there his father and mother were dead , and his brothers had divided everything that their parents possessed between themselves , so that there was nothing at all left for him . ` Shall I , then , receive nothing at all of my inheritance ? ' asked the youth . ` Who could know that you were still alive -- you who have been a wanderer so long ? ' answered the brothers . ` However , there are twelve mares upon the hills which we have not yet divided among us , and if you would like to have them for your share , you may take them . '
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