. Household stories from the collection of the bros. Grimm . eliverance was near, and herheart beat for joy. The swans came close up to her withrushing wings, and stooped round her, so that she could throwthe shirts over them; and when that had been done the swan-skins fell off them, and her brothers stood before her in theiiown bodies quite safe and sound; but as one shirt wanted theleft sleeve, so the youngest brother had a swans wing insteadof a left arm. They embraced and kissed each other, and thequeen went up to the king, who looked on full of astonishment,and began to speak to him and t
. Household stories from the collection of the bros. Grimm . eliverance was near, and herheart beat for joy. The swans came close up to her withrushing wings, and stooped round her, so that she could throwthe shirts over them; and when that had been done the swan-skins fell off them, and her brothers stood before her in theiiown bodies quite safe and sound; but as one shirt wanted theleft sleeve, so the youngest brother had a swans wing insteadof a left arm. They embraced and kissed each other, and thequeen went up to the king, who looked on full of astonishment,and began to speak to him and to say, Dearest husband, now I may dare to speak and tell you thatI am innocent, and have been falsely accused, and she related THE SIX SWANS. 203 to him the treachery of the step-mother, who had taken awaythe three children and hidden them. And she was reconciledto the king with great joy, and the wicked step-mother wasbound to the stake on the pile of wood and burnt to ashes. And the king and queen lived many years with their sixbrothers in peace and
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