She kindled the fire , threw a potful of hemp seed among the ashes , and said to the girl : ` If you do not get this sorted , and all the seed back into the pot , I shall kill you ! ' The girl wept bitterly ; then she went to the birch tree , washed herself on one side of it and dried herself on the other ; and this time still finer clothes were given to her , and a very beautiful steed . She broke off a branch of the birch tree , struck the hearth with it , so that the seeds flew into the pot , and then hastened to the castle . Again the King 's son came out to meet her , tied her horse to a pillar , and led her into the banqueting hall . At the feast the girl sat next him in the place of honour , as she had done the day before . But the witch 's daughter gnawed bones under the table , and the Prince gave her a push by mistake , which broke her leg -- he had never noticed her crawling about among the people 's feet . She was VERY unlucky ! The good man 's daughter hastened home again betimes , but the King 's son had smeared the door-posts with tar , and the girl 's golden circlet stuck to it . She had not time to look for it , but sprang to the saddle and rode like an arrow to the birch tree . There she left her horse and her fine clothes , and said to her mother : ' I have lost my circlet at the castle ; the door-post was tarred , and it stuck fast . ' ` And even had you lost two of them , ' answered her mother , ' I would give you finer ones . ' Then the girl hastened home , and when her father came home from the feast with the witch , she was in her usual place behind the stove . 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 XXXXX home alone . '
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