It was all splendid . ` Now I must also give them a treat , ' thought the merchant 's son . And so he bought rockets , crackers , and all the kinds of fireworks you can think of , put them in his trunk , and flew up with them into the air . Whirr-r-r , how they fizzed and blazed ! All the Turks jumped so high that their slippers flew above their heads ; such a splendid glitter they had never seen before . Now they could quite well understand that it was the god of the Turks himself who was to marry the princess . As soon as the young merchant came down again into the wood with his trunk he thought , ` Now I will just go into the town to see how the show has taken . ' And it was quite natural that he should want to do this . Oh ! what stories the people had to tell ! Each one whom he asked had seen it differently , but they had all found it beautiful . ' I saw the Turkish god himself , ' said one . ` He had eyes like glittering stars , and a beard like foaming water . ' ` He flew away in a cloak of fire , ' said another . They were splendid things that he heard , and the next day was to be his wedding day . Then he went back into the wood to sit in his trunk ; but what had become of it ? The trunk had been burnt . A spark of the fireworks had set it alight , and the trunk was in ashes . He could no longer fly , and could never reach his bride . She stood the whole day long on the roof and waited ; perhaps she is waiting there still .
But he wandered through the world and told stories ; though they are not so merry XXXXX the one he told about the matches .
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