The Pretty but Idle Girl.[17]
Once upon a time there was a mother who had a very beautiful daughter. The mother was always bustling about, but the daughter would not do anything. So she gave her such a good beating that she sat down on a flat stone to cry. One day the young owner of the castle went by. He asks:
“What makes such a pretty girl cry like that?”
The woman answers him:
“As she is too pretty she will not work.”
The young man asks if she knows how to sew.
She answers, “Yes; if she liked she could make seven shirts a day.”
This young gentleman is much smitten with her. He goes home, and brings a piece of linen, and says to her:
“Here are seven shirts, and if you finish them by such a time we will marry together.”