"But I ate them all up."
"What!" said the mother, "You bad, bad girl!"
The woman could not stop thinking about those five pies.
As she sat at the door spinning, she kept mumbling to herself:
"My daughter ate five pies to‑day,
My daughter ate five pies to‑day."
The king was going by, and he heard the woman mumbling.
"What are you saying, woman?" asked the king.
The woman did not like to tell him about the pies, so she said:
"My daughter spun five skeins to‑day,
My daughter spun five skeins to‑day."
"Well, well, well!" said the king, "I didn't know that any one could spin so much as that!"