then he came to the castle where the daughter was ill; he took her on his shoulders, for she could not walk, and carried her down the cellar-steps and pulled out the toad’s nest from beneath the lowest step and gave it into her hand, and she sprang off his shoulder and up the steps before him, and was quite cured. then were the father and mother beyond measure rejoiced, and they gave hans gifts of gold and of silver, and whatsoever else he wished for, that they gave him. and when he got to the other castle he went at once into the wood-house, and found the key under the log of wood behind the door, and took it to the lord of the castle. he also was not a little pleased, and gave hans as a reward much of the gold that was in the chest, and all kinds of things besides, such as cows, and sheep, and goats. when hans arrived before the king, with all these things—with the money, and the gold, and the silver and the cows, sheep and goats, the king asked him how he had come by them. then hans told him that the griffin gave every one whatsoever he wanted. so the king thought he himself could make such things useful, and set out on his way to the griffin; but when he got to the lake, it happened that he was the very first who arrived there after hans, and the man put him down in the middle of it and went away, and the king was drowned. hans, however, married the daughter, and became king.