climbed up along the wall with the princess. In the morning the king and the queen could easily see where their daughter had been, and so they took the soldier and put him in prison.
There he sat. Ugh, how dark and miserable it was! And the people said to him: "To-morrow you will be hanged." That was not pleasant to hear, and he had forgotten his tinder-box at home in the inn.
THE THREE DOGS DANCED IN FRONT OF CARRIAGE AND CRIED "HURRAH!"
Next morning he could see through the iron bars in the little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged. He heard the drums going and saw the soldiers marching. All the inhabitants were running about; amongst them was a shoemaker's boy with a leather apron and with slippers on his feet; he galloped past at such a rate, that one of his slippers flew off right against the wall, where the soldier sat peering out through the iron bars.