`` Oh , '' cried the Prince , `` not one of you is good for anything at all ! There is a beggar-girl sitting outside the window , and I 'll be bound that she can wash better than any of you ! Come in , you girl there ! '' he cried . So she came in . `` Can you wash this shirt clean ? '' he cried . `` Oh ! I do n't know , '' she said ; `` but I will try . '' And no sooner had she taken the shirt and dipped it in the water than it was white as driven snow , and even whiter than that . `` I will marry you , '' said the Prince . Then the old troll-hag flew into such a rage that she burst , and the Princess with the long nose and all the little trolls must have burst too , for they have never been heard of since . The Prince and his bride set free all the Christian folk who were imprisoned there , and took away with them all the gold and silver that they could carry , and moved far away from the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Asbjornsen and Moe . THE YELLOW DWARF Once upon a time there lived a queen who had been the mother of a great many children , and of them all only one daughter was left . But then she was worth at least a thousand . Her mother , who , since the death of the King , her father , had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess , was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her , and never tried to correct any of her faults . The consequence was that this little person , who was as pretty as possible , and was one day to wear a crown , grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world . The Queen , her mother , by her caresses and flatteries , helped to make her believe that there was nothing too good for her . She was dressed almost always in the prettiest frocks , as a fairy , or as a queen going out to hunt , and the ladies of the Court followed her dressed as forest fairies .
And to make her more vain than ever the Queen caused her portrait to be taken by the cleverest painters and sent it XXXXX several neighboring kings with whom she was very friendly .
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