“Here is your home, Princess,” said the witch at last. “They will be waiting for you and your husband, for I sent word you had been rescued, and a feast is being made in honor of your marriage.”
Before Nicko or his bride could thank the witch she was far above their heads and flying away.
The King and the Queen were overjoyed to have their daughter again and gave Nicko such a welcome that he quite forgot his home by the river and never returned.
But this did not matter, as he was an orphan, but no one thought of him as being the cause of the ogre’s disappearance. The people in the river town knew the ogre had gone, and they cared not who brought it about.
Nicko and the Princess lived happily ever after, and one day became the King and Queen in the country where they lived.
THE GINGERBREAD ROCK
Once there lived near a forest a little boy named Hans and his sister, whose name was Lisbeth.
Their parents had died when they were tiny and their uncle had taken them because he thought they could do all the work and so save the money he would have to pay for a servant.
But this uncle was a miser and gave Hans and Lisbeth very little to eat, so very little that often they went to bed very hungry.