Thereupon they both went to the wood with the child ; scarcely were they there when the reindeer appeared and nursed the child as before . Then the widow woman said to the reindeer : ` Since you are going far away to-morrow , and I shall not see you again , let me comb your head for the last time , as a remembrance of you . ' Good ; the young woman stript off the reindeer skin , and let the widow woman do as she wished . In the meantime the King 's son threw the reindeer skin into the fire unobserved . ` What smells of singeing here ? ' asked the young woman , and looking round she saw her own husband . ` Woe is me ! you have burnt my skin . Why did you do that ? ' ` To give you back your human form again . ' ` Alack-a-day ! I have nothing to cover me now , poor creature that I am ! ' cried the young woman , and transformed herself first into a distaff , then into a wooden beetle , then into a spindle , and into all imaginable shapes . But all these shapes the King 's son went on destroying till she stood before him in human form again . Alas ! wherefore take me home with you again , ' cried the young woman , ` since the witch is sure to eat me up ? ' ` She will not eat you up , ' answered her husband ; and they started for home with the child . But when the witch wife saw them she ran away with her daughter , and if she has not stopped she is running still , though at a great age . And the Prince , and his wife , and the baby lived happy ever afterwards . -LRB- 9 -RRB- -LRB- 9 -RRB- From the Russo-Karelian .
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK JACK SELLS THE COW ONCE upon a time there was a poor widow who lived in a little cottage XXXXX her only son Jack .
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