‘Take this cloth, and go to my eldest brother, and take his measure, so that it mayn’t be too wide, or too narrow, but just an exact fit. And sew it so that the thread mayn’t show.’
And he sewed it so that one couldn’t tell where the seam came. And in the morning he brought them to the tailor.
‘Carry them to them.’
And when they saw them, they asked the tailor, ‘Who made these clothes? For you never made so well before.’
‘I’ve a new prentice made them.’
‘Since the youngest would not have us, we’ll give her to him, that he may work for us.’
They went and got married. After the wedding they called the prentice, called too the maiden, and bade her go to him.
She said, ‘I will not,’ for she did not know him.
The emperor’s eldest son caught hold of her to thrash her.
She said, ‘Go to him I will not.’