But when it was morning , and the King and Queen were drinking tea , the Princess said that the night before she had had such a strange dream about a dog and a Soldier : she had ridden on the dog 's back , and the Soldier had kissed her . ` That is certainly a fine story , ' said the Queen . But the next night one of the ladies-in-waiting was to watch at the Princess 's bed , to see if it was only a dream , or if it had actually happened . The Soldier had an overpowering longing to see the Princess again , and so the dog came in the middle of the night and fetched her , running as fast as he could . But the lady-in-waiting slipped on india-rubber shoes and followed them . When she saw them disappear into a large house , she thought to herself : ` Now I know where it is ; ` and made a great cross on the door with a piece of chalk . Then she went home and lay down , and the dog came back also , with the Princess . But when he saw that a cross had been made on the door of the house where the Soldier lived , he took a piece of chalk also , and made crosses on all the doors in the town ; and that was very clever , for now the lady-in-waiting could not find the right house , as there were crosses on all the doors . Early next morning the King , Queen , ladies-in-waiting , and officers came out to see where the Princess had been . ` There it is ! ' said the King , when he saw the first door with a cross on it . ` No , there it is , my dear ! ' said the Queen , when she likewise saw a door with a cross . ` But here is one , and there is another ! ' they all exclaimed ; wherever they looked there was a cross on the door . Then they realised that the sign would not help them at all . But the Queen was an extremely clever woman , who could do a great deal more than just drive in a coach . She took her great golden scissors , cut up a piece of silk , and made a pretty little bag of it . This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains , and tied it round the Princess ' neck ; this done , she cut a little hole in the bag , so that the grains would strew the whole road wherever the Princess went . In the night the dog came again , took the Princess on his back and ran away with her to the Soldier , who was very much in love with her , and would have liked to have been a Prince , so that he might have had her for his wife .
The dog did not notice how the grains were strewn right from the castle to the Soldier 's window , where he ran up the wall with the XXXXX .
King Princess Soldier before first india-rubber ladies-in-waiting lady-in-waiting morning night