. Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm . own, till atlast the kings daughter had to come and to beg as she so movingly prayed and promised to behavebetter, he raised her up and made peace with her. Then shegrew very kind to him, and seemed to love him very much,and he grew so deluded, that one day he confided to her thateven if he were deprived of his knapsack nothing could bedone against him as long as he should keep the old hat. Andwhen she knew the secret she waited until he had gone tosleep; then she carried off the hat, and had him driven outinto the streets
. Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm . own, till atlast the kings daughter had to come and to beg as she so movingly prayed and promised to behavebetter, he raised her up and made peace with her. Then shegrew very kind to him, and seemed to love him very much,and he grew so deluded, that one day he confided to her thateven if he were deprived of his knapsack nothing could bedone against him as long as he should keep the old hat. Andwhen she knew the secret she waited until he had gone tosleep; then she carried off the hat, and had him driven outinto the streets. Still the horn remained to him, and in greatwrath he blew a great blast upon it, and down came walls andfortresses, towns and villages, and buried the king and hisdaughter among their ruins. If he had not set down the hornwhen he did, and if he had blown a little longer, all the houseswould have tumbled down, and there would not have been leftone stone upon another. After this no one dared to withstandhim, and he made himself king over the whole RUMPELSTILTSKIN*
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