"it will be a fine one!" hans went into the parlour, but the miller said he should not sit down to table, for he was so ragged and torn, that they would all be ashamed of him if any one came in. so they gave him a mouthful of food outside, and at night, when they went to rest, the two others would not let him have a bed, and at last he was forced to creep into the goose-house, and lie down on a little hard straw. in the morning when he awoke, the three days had passed, and a coach came with six horses and they shone so bright that it was delightful to see them! and a servant brought a seventh as well, which was for the poor miller’s boy. and a magnificent princess alighted from the coach and went into the mill, and this princess was the little tabby-cat whom poor hans had served for seven years. she asked the miller where the miller’s boy and drudge was? then the miller said, "we cannot have him here in the mill, for he is so ragged; he is lying in the goose-house."