And just then the cook’s ladle touched the shoulder of the smith, and at that moment Taper Tom said: “Hang on, if you care to come with us.”
And he turned and started back past the window of the Princess. And when the Princess saw the cook hanging on to the shoulder of the smith, with her ladle and her pot in her hand, and trying hard to get loose, and the smith hanging on with his bellows to the coat of the man, and the man hanging on with one foot to the goody, and the goody with her hands on the back of the golden goose, and the golden goose following Taper Tom, led by a string, she began to laugh and to laugh and to laugh.
Then the King proclaimed that Taper Tom should wed the Princess, and that half the kingdom would be her dowry.
THE BOY WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND
“Go you now to the safe and get some meal,” said the mother of the Boy. “And mind that you carry it carefully, for there is but little left.”
So the Boy went to the safe to get the meal, but as he came back with it the North Wind blew it away, and he went home empty-handed, and there was no meal in the house that day.
The next morning the mother sent the Boy to the safe again, and once more the North Wind came and took the meal.
On the third day it was as before. Then the Boy said: “I will go to the North Wind and demand that he give back my meal, for we have nothing to eat in the house.”
So the boy started and went far, far to the country where the North Wind abode; and when he had come there the North Wind said: