“To be a servant.”
“Come to us.”
And she takes her as servant. She tells her like the first one:
“You will dig up the kitchen, break the plates, smash the pitcher, give the children their breakfasts by themselves, and dirty their faces.”
There was some of the breakfast left over, and the little dog comes in, and he went:
“Tchow! tchow! tchow! I too, I should like something.”
And he follows her everywhere, and she gives him nothing; and at last she drove him off with kicks. The mistress comes home, and she finds the kitchen all dug up, the pitcher and all the plates broken. And she asks the servant:
“What do you ask for wages? A bag of gold or a sack of charcoal? a star on your forehead, or a donkey’s tail there?”
She chose the bag of gold and a star on her forehead; but she gave her a sack of charcoal, and a donkey’s tail for her forehead. She goes away crying, and tells her mother that she comes back very sorry. And the second daughter also asks permission to go.
“No! no!” (says the mother), and she stops at home.