"Is it possible that this little man can kill TEN COMMANDERS at one blow?" thought the leader.
He turned his horse quickly and gave orders for the army to retreat.
The cobbler followed the enemy and soon overtook the leader, whom he made prisoner.
When the king saw the cobbler returning with the leader, he was delighted. But all at once he remembered the reward that he had promised to the victor.
The princess refused to become the bride of one so small and so ugly as the cobbler.
"What shall I do?" asked the king. "A king should never break his promise."
Then the princess whispered to the king, "Try to take the little man's girdle from him. He will then lose his power."
So the king said to the cobbler, "You may have the hand of the princess if you will give your girdle to me."
This made the cobbler very unhappy, for he knew what good fortune the girdle had brought to him.
But he smiled and answered in a cheerful voice.