Now the Prince had kept all the things the girl had lost , and he soon set about finding the owner of them . For this purpose a great banquet was given on the fourth day , and all the people were invited to the palace . The witch got ready to go too . She tied a wooden beetle on where her child 's foot should have been , a log of wood instead of an arm , and stuck a bit of dirt in the empty socket for an eye , and took the child with her to the castle . When all the people were gathered together , the King 's son stepped in among the crowd and cried : ` The maiden whose finger this ring slips over , whose head this golden hoop encircles , and whose foot this shoe fits , shall be my bride . ' What a great trying on there was now among them all ! The things would fit no one , however . ` The cinder wench is not here , ' said the Prince at last ; ` go and fetch her , and let her try on the things . ' So the girl was fetched , and the Prince was just going to hand the ornaments to her , when the witch held him back , saying : ` Do n't give them to her ; she soils everything with cinders ; give them to my daughter rather . ' Well , then the Prince gave the witch 's daughter the ring , and the woman filed and pared away at her daughter 's finger till the ring fitted . It was the same with the circlet and the shoes of gold . The witch would not allow them to be handed to the cinder wench ; she worked at her own daughter 's head and feet till she got the things forced on . What was to be done now ? The Prince had to take the witch 's daughter for his bride whether he would or no ; he sneaked away to her father 's house with her , however , for he was ashamed to hold the wedding festivities at the palace with so strange a bride . Some days passed , and at last he had to take his bride home to the palace , and he got ready to do so . Just as they were taking leave , the kitchen wench sprang down from her place by the stove , on the pretext of fetching something from the cowhouse , and in going by she whispered in the Prince 's ear as he stood in the yard : ` Alas ! dear Prince , do not rob me of my silver and my gold . ' Thereupon the King 's son recognised the cinder wench ; so he took both the girls with him , and set out . After they had gone some little way they came to the bank of a river , and the Prince threw the witch 's daughter across to serve as a bridge , and so got over with the cinder wench . There lay the witch 's daughter then , like a bridge over the river , and could not stir , though her heart was consumed with grief .
No help was near , so she cried XXXXX last in her anguish : ` May there grow a golden hemlock out of my body !
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