"Good morning, grandmother! Tell me, please, where to find my princess?"
"Wait awhile," said the fairy. "I will call all the winds and ask them. They blow all over the world, so they must know where she lives."
She went out upon the porch and called in a loud voice. Suddenly from all sides raging winds arose and blew, so that the hut trembled. "Be calmer!" cried she, and said, "O you, my raging winds, you blow all over the world; have you seen anywhere the beautiful princess?"
"No, we have not seen her, answered all the winds."
"Are you all here?"
"All but the South Wind."
After a short time the South Wind came. The old fairy asked him angrily, "Where were you until now? I have been waiting impatiently for you."
"Pardon me, grandmother! I went into a new kingdom where a beautiful princess lives. Her husband disappeared no one knows where. Now different kings and princes come to woo her."
"And how far is it to that kingdom?"
"It will take thirty years to walk thither, ten years to fly upon wings, and if I blow I can carry one over in three hours."