inquired the old woman ; `` maybe you are she who ought to have had him . '' `` Yes , indeed , I am , '' she said . `` So it is you , then ? '' said the old woman ; `` I know nothing about him but that he dwells in a castle which is east of the sun and west of the moon . You will be a long time in getting to it , if ever you get to it at all ; but you shall have the loan of my horse , and then you can ride on it to an old woman who is a neighbor of mine : perhaps she can tell you about him . When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again ; but you may take the golden apple with you . '' So the girl seated herself on the horse , and rode for a long , long way , and at last she came to the mountain , where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding-comb . The girl asked her if she knew the way to the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon ; but she said what the first old woman had said : `` I know nothing about it , but that it is east of the sun and west of the moon , and that you will be a long time in getting to it , if ever you get there at all ; but you shall have the loan of my horse to an old woman who lives the nearest to me : perhaps she may know where the castle is , and when you have got to her you may just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again . '' Then she gave her the gold carding-comb , for it might , perhaps , be of use to her , she said . So the girl seated herself on the horse , and rode a wearisome long way onward again , and after a very long time she came to a great mountain , where an aged woman was sitting , spinning at a golden spinning-wheel . Of this woman , too , she inquired if she knew the way to the Prince , and where to find the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon . But it was only the same thing once again . `` Maybe it was you who should have had the Prince , '' said the old woman . `` Yes , indeed , I should have been the one , '' said the girl . But this old crone knew the way no better than the others -- it was east of the sun and west of the moon , she knew that , `` and you will be a long time in getting to it , if ever you get to it at all , '' she said ; `` but you may have the loan of my horse , and I think you had better ride to the East Wind , and ask him : perhaps he may know where the castle is , and will blow you thither . But when you have got to him you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear , and he will come home again . '' And then she gave her the golden spinning-wheel , saying : `` Perhaps you may find that you have a use for it . '' The girl had to ride for a great many days , and for a long and wearisome time , before she got there ; but at last she did arrive , and then she asked the East Wind if he could tell her the way to the Prince who dwelt east of the sun and west of the moon . `` Well , '' said the East Wind , `` I have heard tell of the Prince , and of his castle , but I do not know the way to it , for I have never blown so far ; but , if you like , I will go with you to my brother the West Wind : he may know that , for he is much stronger than I am . You may sit on my back , and then I can carry you there . ''
XXXXX she seated herself on his back , and they did go so swiftly !
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