But to Prince Peerless and the Princess Sunbeam she gave the palace and garden of the Golden Branch , where , immensely rich and greatly beloved by all their subjects , they lived happily ever after . -LRB- 18 -RRB- -LRB- 18 -RRB- Le Rameau d'Or . Par Madame d'Aulnoy . THE THREE DWARFS THERE was once upon a time a man who lost his wife , and a woman who lost her husband ; and the man had a daughter and so had the woman . The two girls were great friends and used often to play together . One day the woman turned to the man 's daughter and said : ` Go and tell your father that I will marry him , and then you shall wash in milk and drink wine , but my own daughter shall wash in water and drink it too . ' The girl went straight home and told her father what the woman had said . ` What am I to do ? ' he answered . ` Marriage is either a success or it is a failure . ' At last , being of an undecided character and not being able to make up his mind , he took off his boot , and handing it to his daughter , said : ` Take this boot which has a hole in the sole , hang it up on a nail in the hayloft , and pour water into it . If it holds water I will marry again , but if it does n't I wo n't . ' The girl did as she was bid , but the water drew the hole together and the boot filled up to the very top . So she went and told her father the result . He got up and went to see for himself , and when he saw that it was true and no mistake , he accepted his fate , proposed to the widow , and they were married at once . On the morning after the wedding , when the two girls awoke , milk was standing for the man 's daughter to wash in and wine for her to drink ; but for the woman 's daughter , only water to wash in and only water to drink . On the second morning , water to wash in and water to drink was standing for the man 's daughter as well . And on the third morning , water to wash in and water to drink was standing for the man 's daughter , and milk to wash in and wine to drink for the woman 's daughter ; and so it continued ever after . The woman hated her stepdaughter from the bottom of her heart , and did all she could to make her life miserable . She was as jealous as she could possibly be , because the girl was so beautiful and charming , while her own daughter was both ugly and repulsive .
One winter 's day when there was a hard frost , and mountain and valley were covered with snow , the woman made a dress of paper , and calling the girl XXXXX her said : ` There , put on this dress and go out into the wood and fetch me a basket of strawberries ! '
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