The mistress comes. The new servant had done all the work, and she was very well satisfied with her. So she said to her:
“Choose which you would like, a sack of charcoal or a bag of gold?”
“A sack of charcoal is the same to me.”
“A star for your forehead, or a donkey’s tail?”
“A donkey’s tail would be the same to me.”
Then she gives her a bag of gold, and a beautiful star on her forehead.[14] Then the servant goes home. She was so pretty with this star, and this bag of gold on her shoulders, the whole family was astonished at her. The eldest daughter says to her mother:
“Mother, I will go and be a servant too.”
And she says to her, “No, my child, you shall not do so.”
But as she would not leave her in peace (she assented), and she goes off like her sister. She comes into the city of the fairies, and meets the same fairy as her sister did. She says to her:
“Where are you going, my girl?”