bride the third time. The king,
however, found one more excuse, and said he must have a ship that should
be able to sail on land or on water.

"So soon," said he, "as you come sailing along with it, you shall have
my daughter for your wife."

The Simpleton went straight to the forest, and there sat the little old
grey man with whom he had shared his cake, and he said,

"I have eaten for you, and I have drunk for you, I will also give you
the ship; and all because you were kind to me at the first."

Then he gave him the ship that could sail on land and on water, and when
the king saw it he knew he could no longer withhold his daughter. The
marriage took place immediately, and at the death of the king the
Simpleton possessed the kingdom, and lived long and happily with his
wife.

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Transcriber's Notes:

There are 225 illustrations and illustrated drop-caps in the original
book. In this text version, I have only indicated those illustrations
having captions. The html version contains many beautiful and intricate
drawings and woodcuts.

There are several inconsistencies in hyphenation. The following words
appear in the text both with and without a hyphen: bed-chamber,
bed-time, egg-shell, god-father, house-door, in-doors, mill-stone,
sea-side, step-mother, up-stairs.

I have changed or added wrong or missing punctuation in the following
phrases:

--"Little sister, let me out, I must go[added .]"

--stood a maiden more beautiful than any he had seen before[added .]

--put a cap on her, and laid her in the bed in the Queen's place.
[changed . to ,]

--So Kate went, and she thought to herself.[changed . to ,]

--as it weighed upon her heavily, she thought it must be the the
[deleted repeated word] dried apples, and she said,

--neck is in danger'[changed ' to ? and added "] answered the cat.

--"Father, let me go for once into the forest to cut wood;[added "]

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