. The pink fairy book. ng billows like anut-shell. The princes had to hold fast by the seats tokeep from being thrown out of the boat. In the midst of all this they met a wonderful vessel —it was a dough-trough, in which there sat an old called to them, and said that they could still get toshore alive if they would promise her the son that wasnext to come to their mother the queen. We cant do that,shouted the princes; he doesntbelong to ?^9, so we cant give him away. Then you can rot at the bottom of the sea, both ofyou, said the old woman; and perhaps it may be thecase that your mot
. The pink fairy book. ng billows like anut-shell. The princes had to hold fast by the seats tokeep from being thrown out of the boat. In the midst of all this they met a wonderful vessel —it was a dough-trough, in which there sat an old called to them, and said that they could still get toshore alive if they would promise her the son that wasnext to come to their mother the queen. We cant do that,shouted the princes; he doesntbelong to ?^9, so we cant give him away. Then you can rot at the bottom of the sea, both ofyou, said the old woman; and perhaps it may be thecase that your mother would rather keep the two sonsshe has than the one she has nt got yet. Then she rowed away in her dough-trough, while thestorm howled still louder than before, and the waterdashed over their boat until it was almost sinking. Thenthe princes thought that there was something in what theold woman had said about tlieir mother, and being, ofcourse, eager to save their lives, they shouted to her, and 1 From the 240 THE WHITE DOVE promised that she should hiive their brother if she woulddeliver them from this danger. As soon as they had doneso the storm ceased and the waves fell. The boat droveashore below their fathers castle, and both princes werereceived with open arms by their father and mother, whohad sutfered great anxiety for them. The two brothers said nothing about what they hadpromised, neither at that time nor later on when tiiequeens third son came, a beautiful boy, whom she lovedmore than anything else in the world. He was brougiitup and educated in his fathers house until he was fullgrown, and still his brothers had never seen or heard any-thing about the witch to whom they had promised himbefore he was born. It happened one evening that there arose a ragingstorm, with mist and darkness. It howled and roaredaround the kings palace, and in the midst of it therecame a loud knock on the door of the hall where theyoungest prince was. He went to the door and fo
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