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 Princess . 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 not exactly cheer him , and he had left his tinder-box in the inn . Next morning he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged . He heard the drums and saw the soldiers marching ; all the people were running to and fro . Just below his window was a shoemaker 's apprentice , with leather apron and shoes ; he was skipping along so merrily that one of his shoes flew off and fell against the wall , just where the Soldier was sitting peeping through the iron grating . ` Oh , shoemaker 's boy , you need n't be in such a hurry ! ' said the Soldier to him . ` There 's nothing going on till I arrive . But if you will run back to the house where I lived , and fetch me my tinder-box , I will give you four shillings . But you must put your best foot foremost . ' The shoemaker 's boy was very willing to earn four shillings , and fetched the tinder-box , gave it to the Soldier , and -- yes -- now you shall hear . Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected , and all round were standing the soldiers , and hundreds of thousands of people . The King and Queen were sitting on a magnificent throne opposite the judges and the whole council .
The XXXXX was already standing on the top of the ladder ; but when they wanted to put the rope round his neck , he said that the fulfilment of one innocent request was always granted to a poor criminal before he underwent his punishment .
Princess Queen Soldier fro left morning night right shoemaker tinder-box