Then the witch said to her : ` You poor thing ! what is there to see here compared with what WE have seen at the palace ? The King 's son carried my daughter from one room to another ; he let her fall , 't is true , and my child 's foot was broken . ' The man 's daughter held her peace all the time , and busied herself about the hearth . The night passed , and when the day began to dawn , the witch awakened her husband , crying : ` Hi ! get up , old man ! We are bidden to the royal banquet . ' So the old man got up . Then the witch gave him the child , saying : ` Take you the little one ; I will give the other girl work to do , else she will weary at home alone . ' She did as usual . This time it was a dish of milk she poured upon the ashes , saying : ` If you do not get all the milk into the dish again before I come home , you will suffer for it . ' How frightened the girl was this time ! She ran to the birch tree , and by its magic power her task was accomplished ; and then she rode away to the palace as before . When she got to the courtyard she found the Prince waiting for her . He led her into the hall , where she was highly honoured ; but the witch 's daughter sucked the bones under the table , and crouching at the people 's feet she got an eye knocked out , poor thing ! Now no one knew any more than before about the good man 's daughter , no one knew whence she came ; but the Prince had had the threshold smeared with tar , and as she fled her gold slippers stuck to it . She reached the birch tree , and laying aside her finery , she said : ` Alas I dear little mother , I have lost my gold slippers ! ' ` Let them be , ' was her mother 's reply ; ` if you need them I shall give you finer ones . ' Scarcely was she in her usual place behind the stove when her father came home with the witch . Immediately the witch began to mock her , saying : ` Ah !
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