I will whistle outside the gate , and when you hear me , pay no heed to what your father or mother say , leave your dancing and feasting , and come to me at once ; for if I have to leave without you , you will never find your way back alone through the forests . ' When the princess was ready to start , she found that he had put on his white fur skin , and was changed back into the wolf ; and he swung her on to his back , and set out with her to her father 's palace , where he left her , while he himself returned home alone . But , in the evening , he went back to fetch her , and , standing outside the palace gate , he gave a long , loud whistle . In the midst of her dancing the princess heard the sound , and at once she went to him , and he swung her on his back and bore her away to his castle . Again , at the end of half a year , the prince came into her room , as the white wolf , and said : ` Dear heart , you must prepare for the wedding of your second sister . I will take you to your father 's palace to-day , and we will remain there together till to-morrow morning . ' So they went together to the wedding . In the evening , when the two were alone together , he dropped his fur skin , and , ceasing to be a wolf , became a prince again . Now they did not know that the princess 's mother was hidden in the room . When she saw the white skin lying on the floor , she crept out of the room , and sent a servant to fetch the skin and to burn it in the kitchen fire . The moment the flames touched the skin there was a fearful clap of thunder heard , and the prince disappeared out of the palace gate in a whirlwind , and returned to his palace alone . But the princess was heart-broken , and spent the night weeping bitterly . Next morning she set out to find her way back to the castle , but she wandered through the woods and forests , and she could find no path or track to guide her . For fourteen days she roamed in the forest , sleeping under the trees , and living upon wild berries and roots , and at last she reached a little house . She opened the door and went in , and found the wind seated in the room all by himself , and she spoke to the wind and said : ` Wind , have you seen the white wolf ? ' And the wind answered : ` All day and all night I have been blowing round the world , and I have only just come home ; but I have not seen him . ' But he gave her a pair of shoes , in which , he told her , she would be able to walk a hundred miles with every step , Then she walked through the air till she reached a star , and she said : ` Tell me , star , have you seen the white wolf ? ' And the star answered : ' I have been shining all night , and I have not seen him . ' But the star gave her a pair of shoes , and told her that if she put them on she would be able to walk two hundred miles at a stride . So she drew them on , and she walked to the moon , and she said : ` Dear moon , have you not seen the white wolf ? '
But the moon answered , ` All XXXXX long I have been sailing through the heavens , and I have only just come home ; but I did not see him . '
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