In one of them there is a healing ointment which you must put on my chin to heal the wound ; then if I drink the contents of the second bottle it will make me well , and the third bottle will make me stronger than I ever was before . Then , when your brother comes back from the wood with his beasts you must go to him and say , `` Brother , you are very strong . If I were to fasten your thumbs behind your back with a stout silk cord , could you wrench yourself free ? '' And when you see that he can not do it , call me . ' When the brother came home , the step-sister did as the robber had told her , and fastened her brother 's thumbs behind his back . But with one wrench he set himself free , and said to her , ` Sister , that cord is not strong enough for me . ' The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts , and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with . But again he freed himself , though not so easily as the first time , and he said to his sister : ` Even that cord is not strong enough . ' The third day , on his return from the wood he consented to have his strength tested for the last time . So she took a very strong cord of silk , which she had prepared by the robber 's advice , and this time , though the prince pulled and tugged with all his might , he could not break the cord . So he called to her and said : ` Sister , this time the cord is so strong I can not break it . Come and unfasten it for me . ' But instead of coming she called to the robber , who rushed into the room brandishing a knife , with which he prepared to attack the prince . But the prince spoke and said : ` Have patience for one minute . I would like before I die to blow three blasts on my hunting horn -- one in this room , one on the stairs , and one in the courtyard . ' So the robber consented , and the prince blew the horn . At the first blast , the fox , which was asleep in the cage in the courtyard , awoke , and knew that his master needed help . So he awoke the wolf by flicking him across the eyes with his brush . Then they awoke the lion , who sprang against the door of the cage with might and main , so that it fell in splinters on the ground , and the beasts were free . Rushing through the court to their master 's aid , the fox gnawed the cord in two that bound the prince 's thumbs behind his back , and the lion flung himself on the robber , and when he had killed him and torn him in pieces each of the beasts carried off a bone .
Then the prince turned to the step-sister and said : ' I will not kill you , but I will leave you here XXXXX repent . '
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