Old Stories 257
{{hwe|rowful|sorrowful she broke the egg. It warn’t no common egg, and out of it come a little spinnin’-wheel as pretty as could be; and this little wheel would keep spinnin’ silk all by itself, without a hand touchin’ it.
Along in the afternoon the girl saw a bunch of ladies down by a spring, and she went down to see what they was doin’. They had a handkerchief with blood on it; and they was tryin’ to wash it clean, and none of ’em could do it. Then the girl said she would try it; and when she took it, the handkerchief came clean right off.
Now, the one that could make that handkerchief clean was to have the king's son for a husband. So they took the girl up to the palace, and she was married to the king’s son. But this prince was under an enchantment for seven years. In the daytime he was in the form of a bull, and it was only in the night that he was a man. For seven years the girl had to lead her husband every mornin’ away to the stable. At sunset he would come back again a man. But when the seven years was up, then they were all right.
Those other two girls that took the
