e silver leaf, and the golden apple. Close beside the rock a stick is
standing, and when you want me for anything you have only to knock at
the wall of rock with that.'

At first she would not do it, but when the Bull said that this was the
only reward that he would have for what he had done for her, she could
do no otherwise. So though she thought it very cruel, she slaved on and
cut at the great animal with the knife till she had cut off his head and
hide, and then she folded up the hide and laid it beneath the mountain
wall, and put the copper leaf, and the silver leaf, and the golden apple
inside it.

When she had done that she went away to the pig-sty, but all the way as
she went she wept, and was very sorrowful. Then she put on the wooden
gown, and walked to the King's palace. When she got there she went
into the kitchen and begged for a place, saying that her name was Kari
Woodengown.

The cook told her that she might have a place and leave to stay there
at once and wash up, for the girl who had done that before had just gone
away. 'And as soon as you get tired of being here you will take yourself
off too,' said he.

'No,' said she, 'that I shall certainly not.'

And then she washed up, and did it very tidily.

On Sunday some strangers were coming to the King's palace, so Kari
begged to have leave to carry up the water for the Prince's bath, but
the others laughed at her and said, 'What do you want there? Do you
think the Prince will ever look at such a fright as you?'

She would not give it up, however, but went on begging until at last
she got leave. When she was going upstairs her wooden gown made such a
clatter that the Prince came out and said, 'What sort of a creature may
you be?'

'I was to take this water to you,' said Kari.

'Do you suppose that I will have any water that you bring?' said the
Prince, and emptied it over her.

She had to bear that, but then she asked permission to go to church. She
got that, for the church was very near. But first she went to the rock
and knocked at it with the stick which was standing there, as the
Bull had told her to do. Instantly a man came forth and asked what she
wanted. The King's daughter said that she had got leave to go to church
and listen to the priest, but that she had no clothes to go in. So he
brought her a gown that was as bright as the copper wood, and she got
a horse and saddle too from him. When she reached the church she was so
pretty and