Kari begged for leave to go with it , but the others reminded her of what had happened last time , and scolded her for wanting to let the Prince see her when she was so black and so ugly in her wooden gown , but she would not give up asking until they gave her leave to go up to the Prince with the comb . When she went clattering up the stairs again , out came the Prince and took the comb and flung it at her , and ordered her to be off as fast as she could . After that the Prince went to church , and Kari also begged for leave to go . Again they all asked what she would do there , she who was so black and ugly , and had no clothes that she could be seen in by other people . The Prince or some one else might very easily catch sight of her , they said , and then both she and they would suffer for it ; but Kari said that they had something else to do than to look at her , and she never ceased begging until she got leave to go . And now all happened just as it had happened twice already . She went away to the rock and knocked at it with the stick , and then the man came out and gave her a gown which was very much more magnificent than either of the others . It was almost entirely made of pure gold and diamonds , and she also got a noble horse with housings embroidered with gold , and a golden bridle . When the King 's daughter came to the church the priest and people were all standing on the hillside waiting for her , and the Prince ran up and wanted to hold the horse , but she jumped off , saying : ` No , thank you , there is no need ; my horse is so well broken in that it will stand still when I bid it . ' So they all hastened into the church together and the priest got into the pulpit , but no one listened to what he said , for they were looking far too much at her and wondering whence she came ; and the Prince was far more in love than he had been on either of the former occasions , and he was mindful of nothing but of looking at her . When the sermon was over and the King 's daughter was about to leave the church , the Prince had caused a firkin of tar to be emptied out in the porch in order that he might go to help her over it ; she , however , did not trouble herself in the least about the tar , but set her foot down in the middle of it and jumped over it , and thus one of her gold shoes was left sticking in it . When she had seated herself on the horse the Prince came running out of the church and asked her whence she came . ` From Combland , ' said Kari . But when the Prince wanted to reach her her gold shoe , she said : ` Darkness behind me , but light on my way , That the Prince may not see where I 'm going to-day ! ' The Prince did not know what had become of her , so he travelled for a long and wearisome time all over the world , asking where Combland was ; but when no one could tell him where that country was , he caused it to be made known everywhere that he would marry any woman who could put on the gold shoe . So fair maidens and ugly maidens came thither from all regions , but there was none who had a foot so small that she could put on the gold shoe . After a long , long while came Kari Woodengown 's wicked stepmother , with her daughter too , and the shoe fitted her . But she was so ugly and looked so loathsome that the Prince was very unwilling to do what he had promised . Nevertheless all was got ready for the wedding , and she was decked out as a bride , but as they were riding to church a little bird sat upon a tree and sang : ' A slice off her heel And a slice off her toes , Kari Woodengown 's shoe Fills with blood as she goes ! ' And when they looked to it the bird had spoken the truth , for blood was trickling out of the shoe .
So all the waiting-maids , and all the womenkind in the castle had to come and try XXXXX the shoe , but there was not one whom it would fit .
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