From there he comes back here . ' She then told the Princess that she had asked about her hus-band , but that her son had replied that he knew nothing about him , and that her only hope was to go and inquire of the Wind . Before the Princess left the mother of the Sun gave her a roast chicken to eat , and advised her to take great care of the bones , which she did , wrapping them up in a bundle . She then threw away her second pair of shoes , which were quite worn out , and with her child on her arm and her staff in her hand , she set forth on her way to the Wind . In these wanderings she met with even greater difficulties than before , for she came upon one mountain of flints after another , out of which tongues of fire would flame up ; she passed through woods which had never been trodden by human foot , and had to cross fields of ice and avalanches of snow . The poor woman nearly died of these hardships , but she kept a brave heart , and at length she reached an enormous cave in the side of a mountain . This was where the Wind lived . There was a little door in the railing in front of the cave , and here the Princess knocked and begged for admission . The mother of the Wind had pity on her and took her in , that she might rest a little . Here too she was hidden away , so that the Wind might not notice her . The next morning the mother of the Wind told her that her husband was living in a thick wood , so thick that no axe had been able to cut a way through it ; here he had built himself a sort of house by placing trunks of trees together and fastening them with withes and here he lived alone , shunning human kind . After the mother of the Wind had given the Princess a chicken to eat , and had warned her to take care of the bones , she advised her to go by the Milky Way , which at night lies across the sky , and to wander on till she reached her goal . Having thanked the old woman with tears in her eyes for her hospitality , and for the good news she had given her , the Princess set out on her journey and rested neither night nor day , so great was her longing to see her husband again . On and on she walked until her last pair of shoes fell in pieces . So she threw them away and went on with bare feet , not heeding the bogs nor the thorns that wounded her , nor the stones that bruised her . At last she reached a beautiful green meadow on the edge of a wood . Her heart was cheered by the sight of the flowers and the soft cool grass , and she sat down and rested for a little . But hearing the birds chirping to their mates among the trees made her think with longing of her husband , and she wept bitterly , and taking her child in her arms , and her bundle of chicken bones on her shoulder , she entered the wood . For three days and three nights she struggled through it , but could find nothing . She was quite worn out with weariness and hunger , and even her staff was no further help to her , for in her many wanderings it had become quite blunted .
She almost gave up in despair , but made one last great effort , and suddenly XXXXX a thicket she came upon the sort of house that the mother of the Wind had described .
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