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130 GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES.
spindle, the very same that she had dropped in the well. And
then the door was shut again, and the girl found herself back
again in the world, not far from her mother’s house ; and as she
passed through the yard the cock stood on the top of the well
and cried,
"c Cock-a-doodle doo!
Our golden girl has come home too!”
Then she went in to her mother, and as she had returned
covered with gold she was well received.
So the girl related all her history, and what had happened
to her, and when the mother heard how she came to have such
great riches she began to wish that her ugly and idle daughter
might have the same good fortune. So she sent her to sit by
the well and spin; and in order to make her spindle bloody
she put her hand into the thorn hedge. Then she threw the
spindle into the well, and jumped in herself. She found her¬
self, like her sister, in the beautiful meadow, and followed the
same path, and when she came to the baker’s oven, the bread
cried out,
“Oh, take me out, take me out, or I shall burn; I am
quite done already !”
But the lazy-bones answered,
“T have no desire to black my hands,” and went on
farther. Soon she came to the apple-tree, who called out,
“Oh, shake me, shake me, we apples are all of us npe!”
But she answered,
“That is all very fine ; suppose one of you should fall on
my head,” and went on farther. When she came to Mother
Hulda’s house she did not feel afraid, as she knew beforehand
of her great teeth, and entered into her service at once. ‘The
first day she put her hand well to the work, and was industri¬
ous, and did everything Mother Hulda bade her, because of
the gold she expected; but the second day she began to be
idle, and the third day still more so, so that she would not get
up in the morning. Neither did she make Mother Hulda’s
bed as it ought to have been made, and did not shake it for
the feathers to fly about. So that Mother Hulda soon grew
tired of her, and gave her warning, at which the lazy thing was
well pleased, and thought that now the shower of gold was