THE POOR MILLER’S BOY AND THE CAT
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Grimm, Jacob, Grimm, Wilhelm, Olcott, Frances Jenkins, and Cramer, Rie
Then the King’s Daughter said that they were to fetch him immediately.
So they brought him; and he had to hold his little smock together to cover himself.
Her servants unpacked splendid garments, and washed him and dressed him. And when it was done, no King could have looked more handsome.
Then the Princess desired to see the horses, which the other apprentices had brought home with them. One of them was blind and the other lame. So she ordered her servants to bring the seventh horse.
When the miller saw it, he said such a horse as that had never before entered his yard.
“And that is for the third miller’s boy,” said she.
“Then he must have the mill,” said the miller.
But the Princess said that the horse was for himself, and that he was to keep his mill as well. Then she took her faithful Hans, set him in the coach, and drove away with him.
They first drove to the little house, which he had built with the silver tools. Behold! it was a great castle! Everything inside it was of silver and gold!
Then she married him; and he was rich, so rich that he had enough for all the rest of his life.
After this, let no one say that any one who is silly can never become a person of importance.