After that she returned to her flock , but they were nowhere to be seen . She searched here and she searched there , but they had vanished completely ! Then she had to go home and confess to her master , who first scolded her and afterwards beat her . ` Now go , ' he ended , ` and look after the pigs ! ' So the next day she took out the pigs , and found them such good feeding grounds that they grew fatter every day . Another year passed by , and one morning when the maiden was out with her pigs she heard a groan which sounded quite human . She ran to see what it was , and found her old friend the lion , wounded through and through , fast dying under a tree . She fell on her knees before him and washed his wounds one by one , and laid healing herbs upon them . And the lion licked her hands and thanked her , and asked if she would not stay and sit by him . But the girl said she had her pigs to watch , and she must go and see after them . So she ran to the place where she had left them , but they had vanished as if the earth had swallowed them up . She whistled and called , but only the birds answered her . Then she sank down on the ground and wept bitterly , not daring to return home until some hours had passed away . And when she had had her cry out she got up and searched all up and down the wood . But it was no use ; there was not a sign of the pigs . At last she thought that perhaps if she climbed a tree she might see further . But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head . This was a handsome young man who was coming down the path ; and when he had almost reached the tree he pulled aside a rock and disappeared behind it . The maiden rubbed her eyes and wondered if she had been dreaming . Next she thought , ' I will not stir from here till I see him come out , and discover who he is . '
Accordingly she waited , and at dawn the next morning the rock moved XXXXX one side and a lion came out .
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