after the huntsman had washed his face, so that the transformed ones could recognize him, he went down into the courtyard, and said, "now you shall receive the wages of your treachery," and bound them together, all three with one rope, and drove them along until he came to a mill. he knocked at the window, the miller put out his head, and asked what he wanted. "i have three unmanageable beasts," answered he, "which i don’t want to keep any longer. will you take them in, and give them food and stable room, and manage them as i tell you, and then i will pay you what you ask." the miller said, "why not? but how am i to manage them?" the huntsman then said that he was to give three beatings and one meal daily to the old donkey, and that was the witch; one beating and three meals to the younger one, which was the servant-girl; and to the youngest, which was the maiden, no beatings and three meals, for he could not bring himself to have the maiden beaten. after that he went back into the castle, and found therein everything he needed.