‘But you have not completed your task,’ said the princess.
‘I think I have done a pretty good deal,’ answered the youth.
‘But there is that one who is yet undelivered.’
‘Oh, I can’t help about one. She must manage the best way she can.’
‘That won’t do,’ said the princess. ‘If you want to have me, you must complete your work.’
So he had to toil all the way up to the top of the mountain, and all the way down again, and at last the work was complete.
Then the princess married him, and all went wondrously well.[5]
[1] ‘Il Cicoriaro e la Principessa fatata.’ [↑]
[2] ‘Fa una zompa;’ ‘zompa’ for ‘zomba,’ properly a blow, a thump; here, ‘jumped down with a noise like a thump.’ [↑]