Both of them were brought to him , and he said , ' I wonder how you would look if I were to cut the point off your beak . ' With this he cut a piece off the beak , and there came a voice which said , ` Oh , oh , you cut my little finger ! ' Next moment Maiden Bright-eye stood there , as lovely and beautiful as he had seen her when he was home . This was his sister now , he said ; and the whole story now came out of how the other had behaved to her . The wicked sister was put into a barrel with spikes round it which was dragged off by six wild horses , and so she came to her end. : But the king was delighted with Maiden Bright-eye , and immediately made her his queen , while her brother became his prime minister . The Merry Wives From the Danish There lay three houses in a row , in one of which there lived a tailor , in another a carpenter , and in the third a smith . All three were married , and their wives were very good friends . They often talked about how stupid their husbands were , but they could never agree as to which of them had the most stupid one ; each one stuck up for her own husband , and maintained that it was he . The three wives went to church together every Sunday , and had a regular good gossip on the way , and when they were coming home from church they always turned into the tavern which lay by the wayside and drank half a pint together . This was at the time when half a pint of brandy cost threepence , so that was just a penny from each of them . But the brandy went up in price , and the taverner said that he must have fourpence for the half-pint . They were greatly annoyed at this , for there were only the three of them to share it , and none of them was willing to pay the extra penny . As they went home from the church that day they decided to wager with each other as to whose husband was the most stupid , and the one who , on the following Sunday , should be judged to have played her husband the greatest trick should thereafter go free from paying , and each of the two others would give twopence for their Sunday 's half-pint . Next day the tailor 's wife said to her husband , ' I have some girls coming to-day to help to card my wool there is a great deal to do , and we must be very busy . I am so annoyed that our watchdog is dead , for in the evening the young fellows will come about to get fun with the girls , and they will get nothing done . If we had only had a fierce watchdog he would have kept them away . ' ` Yes , ' said the man , ` that would have been a good thing . ' ` Listen , good man , ' said the wife , ` you must just be the watchdog yourself , and scare the fellows away from the house . ' The husband was not very sure about this , although otherwise he was always ready to give in to her . ` Oh yes , you will see it will work all right , ' said the wife .
And so towards evening she got the tailor dressed up XXXXX a shaggy fur coat , tied a black woollen cloth round his head , and chained him up beside the dog 's kennel . '
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