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 with it . ` What a wicked little girl you are ! ' said he ; ` but you shall be none the better of this . I shall give you three wishes , and choose them for you . First , I shall say , `` Ugly are you , but you shall become so ugly that there will not be an uglier one on earth . '' Next I shall wish that every time you open your mouth a big toad may fall out of it , and your voice shall be like the roaring of a bull . In the third place I shall wish for you a violent death . ' The girl went home in the evening , and when her mother saw her she was as vexed as she could be , and with good reason , too ; but it was still worse when she saw the toads fall out of her mouth and heard her voice . Now we must hear something about the stepson . He had gone out into the world to look about him , and took service in the king 's palace . About this time he got permission to go home and see his sister , and when he saw how lovely and beautiful she was , he was so pleased and delighted that when he came back to the king 's palace everyone there wanted to know what he was always so happy about . He told them that it was because he had such a lovely sister at home . At last it came to the ears of the king what the brother said about his sister , and , besides that , the report of her beauty spread far and wide , so that the youth was summoned before the king , who asked him if everything was true that was told about the girl .
He said it was quite true , for he had seen her beauty with his own eyes , and had heard XXXXX his own ears how sweetly she could sing and what a lovely voice she had .
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