The little fellow was quite willing , and she gave him the biggest share of her pancakes . They were not particularly good , but when one is hungry anything tastes well . After he had got them all eaten he said to her : ` Now , I shall give you three wishes , for you are a very nice little girl ; but I will choose the wishes for you . You are beautiful , and much more beautiful shall you be ; yes , so lovely that there will not be your like in the world . The next wish shall be that every time you open your mouth a gold coin shall fall out of it , and your voice shall be like the most beautiful music . The third wish shall be that you may be married to the young king , and become the queen of the country . At the same time I shall give you a cap , which you must carefully keep , for it can save you , if you ever are in danger of your life , if you just put it on your head . Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often , and drove home her sheep in the evening . By that time she had grown so beautiful that her people could scarcely recognise her . Her stepmother asked her how it had come about that she had grown so beautiful . She told the whole story -- for she always told the truth -- that a little man had come to her out on the moor and had given her all this beauty . She did not tell , however , that she had given him a share of her dinner . The stepmother thought to herself , ` If one can become so beautiful by going out there , my own daughter shall also be sent , for she can well stand being made a little prettier . ' Next morning she baked for her the finest cakes , and dressed her prettily to go out with the sheep . But she was afraid to go away there without having a stick to defend herself with if anything should come near her . She was not very much inclined for pulling the heather , as she never was in the habit of doing any work , but she was only a minute or so at it when up came the same little fellow with the red cap , and said : ` Who 's that pulling the roof off my house ? ' ` What 's that to you ? ' said she . ` Well , if you will give me a bit of your dinner I wo n't do you any mischief , ' said he . ' I will give you something else in place of my dinner , ' said she . '
I can easily eat it myself ; but if you will have something you can have a whack of my stick , ' and with that she raised it in the air and struck the bergman over the head XXXXX it .
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