“Found the princess sitting alone by her spinning wheel”
In a short time the magic spoon had all the flax spun into thread; then they grew tired and sleepy and went to bed. The next day they had no work to do as the spinning was all done, so they looked all over the tower and peeped into every closet and corner.
At last it was sundown and the little dwarf came as before and found the princess sitting alone by her spinning wheel.
He winked his eye and said,
“Did you spin all the flax I gave you yesterday?
Are you sure you’re quite ready to go away?”
Then the princess showed him all the thread, and the dwarf was so surprised that he hardly knew what to say. He began to gather up the thread to take away with him, and he said,
“You may laugh and shout, you can’t get out,
You have had help beyond a doubt!”