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the castle to the Soldier’s window, where he ran up the wall with the Princess.
‘He was skipping along so merrily’
In the morning the King and the Queen saw plainly where their daughter had been, and they took the Soldier and put him into prison.
There he sat. Oh, how dark and dull it was there! And they told him: ‘To-morrow you are to be hanged.’ Hearing that did