Then when you fight me you must try to hit my horse between the eyes , for when you have killed it you have conquered me . ' Next morning , therefore , he went to the market and bought the twelve buffalo hides which he wrapped round his horse . Then he began to fight with the black man , and when the combat had already lasted a long time , and eleven hides were torn , then the stranger hit the negro 's horse between the eyes , so that it fell dead , and the black man was defeated . Then said the king : ` Because you have solved the three problems I take you for my son-in-law . ' But the stranger answered : ' I have some business to conclude first ; in fourteen days I will return and bring the bride home . ' So he arose and went into another country , where he came to a great town , and alighted at the house of an old woman . When he had had supper he begged of her some water to drink , but she answered : ` My son , I have no water ; a giant has taken possession of the spring , and only lets us draw from it once a year , when we bring him a maiden . He eats her up , and then he lets us draw water ; just now it is the lot of the king 's daughter , and to-morrow she will be led forth . ' The next day accordingly the princess was led forth to the spring , and bound there with a golden chain . After that all the people went away and she was left alone . When they had gone the stranger went to the maiden and asked her what ailed her that she lamented so much , and she answered that the reason was because the giant would come and eat her up . And the stranger promised that he would set her free if she would take him for her husband , and the princess joyfully consented . When the giant appeared the stranger set his dog at him , and it took him by the throat and throttled him till he died ; so the princess was set free . Now when the king heard of it he gladly consented to the marriage , and the wedding took place with great rejoicings . The young bridegroom abode in the palace one hundred and one weeks . Then he began to find it too dull , and he desired to go out hunting . The king would fain have prevented it , but in this he could not succeed . Then he begged his son-in-law at least to take sufficient escort with him , but this , too , the young man evaded , and took only his horse and his dog . He had ridden already a long way , when he saw in the distance a hut , and rode straight towards it in order to get some water to drink . There he found an old woman from whom he begged the water .
She XXXXX that first he should allow her to beat his dog with her little wand , that it might not bite her while she fetched the water .
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